History Nancy Goorey became the first female president of ADEA in 1977. In 2006, ADEA instituted open membership, which increased the number of ADEA member institutions .
ADEA sections ADEA has 38 sections: academic affairs, anatomical sciences,
behavioral science, biochemistry, nutrition, and microbiology, business and financial administration,
cariology, clinic administration, community and preventative dentistry, comprehensive care and general dentistry,
continuing education, dental anatomy and occlusion, dental assisting education, dental hygiene education,
dental informatics, dental school admissions officers, development, alumni affairs, and public relations, educational research/development and curriculum,
endodontics,
gay-straight alliance, gerontology and geriatrics education, graduate and postgraduate education, minority affairs, operative dentistry and biomaterials, oral biology, oral diagnosis/oral medicine,
oral and maxillofacial radiology, orthodontics,
pediatric dentistry,
periodontics, physiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics, postdoctoral general dentistry,
practice management,
prosthodontics, student affairs and financial aid, and substance abuse, addiction and tobacco dependence education ADEA has ten
special interest groups: career development for the new educator, dental hygiene clinic coordinators, foreign-educated dental professionals, graduate dental hygiene education programs,
implant dentistry, lasers in dentistry, professional, ethical, and legal issues in dentistry,
scholarship of teaching and learning, and teaching and learning with emerging technologies. == Programs ==