Russell Phillips, MD, is the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine. Phillips is also the director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care. A graduate of MIT and Stanford Medical School (BIDMC), Phillips did his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care.

After becoming interested in the quality of patient care, Phillips began work on a national study aimed at improving care for seriously ill patients, and a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on the quality of care for Asian Americans. Phillips eventually became the director of the research program in the Division of General Medicine at BIDMC and led the Harvard Fellowship Program in General Medicine, even starting a new fellowship program on the investigation of complementary and integrative therapies. In 2002, Phillips became division chief of the Division of General Medicine at BIDMC. In 2012, he transitioned to the role of director at the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he met Dr. Bruce Donoff, DMD67, MD73, and first became interested in oral health integration into primary care.... Read more about Russell Phillips, MD, Brings His Expertise in Primary Care to Integration Efforts

Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH, has played an instrumental role in Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s efforts to be a champion of the integration of oral health and primary care. Riedy arrived at HSDM in 2013 and serves as the Delta Dental of Massachusetts Associate Professor in Oral Public Health and Epidemiology, as well as the department chair for Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology. On top of those distinctions, Riedy is a member of the Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine and the principal investigator for the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH). CIPCOH was established in July 2016 through a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration as one of six national centers supported by the Academic Units for Primary Care Training Enhancement (AU-PCTE) program. Riedy is also the principal investigator for the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders.... Read more about Meet Dr. Christine, Riedy, Principal Investigator for the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health

Robin Ann Harvan, EdD, EdM, FACE, FIAMSE, is currently a professor of Health Sciences, the director of the Health Sciences program, and co-chair of the Interprofessional Education Task Force at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University on the Boston campus. Harvan has been an academic affiliate with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine since 2014.  Starting in 2016, Harvan has served as investigator and lead evaluator on the HRSA cooperative agreement with Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine in partnership with University of Massachusetts Medical School, MCPHS University, and Stony Brook University School of Nursing to develop and operate an interinstitutional collaborative academic unit, the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH). 
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Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, is currently a professor in the department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Medical School, a position that he’s held since 2006. Silk is also a part-time lecturer at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine since 2015. He is a co-principal investigator for the Center for Integration of Oral Health and Medicine (CIPCOH). Silk also serves as the medical director at a primary care wellness center in western Massachusetts.

While Silk’s career has skewed toward the integration of oral health and primary care, this was not always the plan. After graduating from Harvard College in 1991, Silk went on to study medicine at McMaster University in Canada. He began his residency at UMass Memorial Medical Center Family Medicine in 1998, and it was there that he first began to notice the links between oral health and medicine. At the time, he observed many of his young patients suffering from poor oral health, most likely due to a lack of fluoridation in the local water supply. ... Read more about Get to Know Dr. Hugh Silk, and How He’s Advancing Integration Through His Work with CIPCOH