Communicating in Our Second Century Theresa S. Gonzales, DMD, MS, MSS, FACD
Dr. Gonzales serves as the Executive Director of the American College of Dentists and is a Federal Health Care Executive.
Journal of the American College of Dentists
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ver the past one hundred years the American College of Dentists has leveraged every available technology in our ongoing efforts to communicate with the dental workforce community in our efforts to advance excellence, ethics, leadership and professionalism. From telegraph to telephone to television to electronic mail and podcasts, we have adopted and adapted to emerging technologies. Essential to our communication efforts has been the quarterly publication of the Journal of the American College of Dentists (JACD). The JACD is one of the oldest peer-reviewed dental journals. The JACD is a scholarly publication presenting proactive and informative perspectives on issues affecting the dental profession and society, together with enlightening features on areas such as leadership, ethics, governmental and private agencies, policy development, the American College of Dentists, and professional history. The journal has been continuously published since 1934 and its first editor was Dr. William John Gies. To fully understand the necessity for publishing this type of journal, one needs to look back at the issues that led to the founding of the American College of Dentists in the last century.
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