Lindsey Yates, DDS
IPE Assistant Director; Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Dental Medicine
Lindsey Yates is a general dentist and Associate Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry at University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine. She also serves as Assistant Director for the CU Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Prior to moving to Colorado, Dr. Yates practiced interprofessionally in Chicago and directed the dental department within a large multi-specialty not-for-profit health center, and served as an attending in the Department of Dentistry at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description: Description of the Lightening Talk: Health professional students are adults and are thus at the post-conventional level of the Kohlberg model of moral development. But within this post-conventional stage, we find a wide variety of understanding and lived experience. As students clarify and connect their own personal values to their emerging understanding of the values of their chosen profession, a common educational method is to work through real-life case scenarios. At the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, students from dental medicine, medicine,…