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Practice Management
DEI Task Force Report
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Task Force
The Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists (PCSO)
Board of Directors formed a task force in NovemDr.
John Trotter
Redondo Beach, CA
DEI Task Force Chair
ber 2020 with the charge of reviewing the Mission
Statement and Core Values of the PCSO, with
an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion
(DEI). The Core Values and Mission Statement had
not been reviewed in more than 10 years, so an
analysis was timely and needed. I believe that the
PCSO Board of Directors was once again exceptionally
forward thinking in requesting that these
two documents be reexamined through the lens
of DEI.
The Task Force members include Drs. Nancy Gum,
Guneet Kohli Kainth, Clarice Law, Nehi Ogbevoen,
Mark Rashidi, Barbara Sheller, Isaac Tam, Mary
Gabrielle Thodas, and Adam Welmerink, with
me selected as chairman. Dr. Marie Lathrop (the
current PCSO president) and Ms. Callie Castro (the
PCSO executive director) are also included in the
meetings.
The Task Force had a number of conference calls
beginning in February 2021 and worked very hard
to ensure we adequately addressed the request
of the Board of Directors. The group has produced
revised documents that I believe will serve the
PCSO and its membership very well in the years
to come. Concurrently, the American Association
of Orthodontists (AAO) and the American Dental
Association have started DEI initiatives, so we
believe the PCSO is certainly on the right track.
The Task Force has proposed a new mission statement
along with a set of associated core values.
This mission statement will guide the PCSO in the
years to come and will provide a framework for
the future work of the Board of Directors and the
society at large. By examining these documents
through the lens of DEI, we can ensure that the
PCSO will continue to have the best interests of
the entire membership in focus. This new mission
statement and core values will be presented
to the Board of Directors, where they will be
reviewed, discussed, and voted on at their annual
meeting in October.
A review like the one that our Task Force has
undertaken is sometimes tough, but as one of the
members (Dr. Ogbevoen) of the Task Force said,
" We need to be comfortable being uncomfortable. "
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