I am pleased to present the 2022 Annual Report. I want to thank our dental education community for your steadfast support, which made our successes possible.

As we are finally putting the pandemic in our proverbial rearview mirror, ADEA is surviving, thriving and enjoying the ability to think and act rather than simply having to react. And it made for a productive year. We’ve taken the lessons and innovations of a difficult time and integrated them so that, as an organization, we are stronger and more agile than ever.

You may have heard that 2023 marks ADEA’s 100th anniversary! In planning for this milestone, we aimed to honor the past, celebrate today and commit anew to the future of oral health education. For 100 years, ADEA has persisted as The Voice of Dental Education, dedicated to developing better scholars, faculty and leaders.

Now, we’re committing to staying at the forefront of new thinking and innovation to carry us into the next century. We initiated the New Thinking for the New Century project, spearheaded by Dr. Nader Nadershahi, 2022–23 Chair of the ADEA Board of Directors.

This year, ADEA completed its inaugural dental education-wide Climate Study. We measured perceptions of the climate at dental schools and allied dental education programs in the United States and Canada to help us develop initiatives to foster a more humanistic oral health education environment.

We launched our Men of Color Initiative in 2022—a source of great pride for me. The initiative involves a series of events addressing the shortage of men of color in the health professions.

Our recruitment efforts continue to flourish. We are streamlining the ADEA GoDental Recruitment Event registration portal to make it easier to capture relevant data. Also, our 2022 ADEA GoDental Virtual Fair was a big success. We’re really mastering the art of virtual engagement!

All of these efforts revolve around our desire to best serve you and identify solutions to the challenges facing oral health education, efforts you will see reflected in this Annual Report. In this moment, that means seeking innovative solutions that will carry us into the next 100 years.