Gateway Rural Health Webinar - Tools, Technology and Innovation: Rural Tele-dentistry and Future Thinking

Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health is hosting an upcoming webinar series event on Tuesday, October 6th, 2026, from 12 – 1 PM ET via ZOOM. The topic is “Tools, Technology and Innovation: Rural Tele-dentistry and Future Thinking.” This session will discuss rural technological infrastructure development, and health innovation in rural spaces with a special focus on dental care. 

For this discussion, we welcome several speakers. 
Ashleigh Weeden, MPA, PhD, is an award-winning rural futurist and critical public policy researcher whose work is focused on the dynamic relationship between place, power, and policy, with a particular emphasis on advancing "the right to be rural" and on storytelling as a critical policy lever. 

Dr. Veronica Lee, DDS, practices general family dentistry in Clinton, centrally located in rural Huron County, Ontario. Her practice philosophy has always placed a great emphasis on state-of-the-art instrumentation and continuing education to better serve her patients. A true family business, her husband Jay McFarlan coordinates the administration and digital side of dentistry. They will be talking about some of the recent advances in digital dentistry and the benefits to rural patient care.