Primary Care and Oral Health Delivery: What Have We Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Date: 

Thursday, December 17, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual

The Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine and the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute present:


Primary Care and Oral Health Delivery: What Have We Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic?


Thursday, December 17
12:00-1:00 p.m. EST


Moderator: 
Lisa Simon, MD, DMD, Fellow in Oral Health and Medicine Integration, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Resident in the Internal Medicine Residency program at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Speakers:
Jane Barrow, MS, Associate Dean, Global and Community Health; Executive Director, HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine; Lecturer, Oral Health Policy & Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine 

Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Russell S. Phillips, MD, Director of the Center for Primary Care; William Applebaum Professor of Medicine; Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Marko Vujicic, PhD, Chief Economist & Vice President, Health Policy Institute, American Dental Association (ADA)

Outpatient clinicians and practices across the country have had to adapt to unprecedented changes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic continues to rage but with the prospect of vaccination on the horizon, our panelists will explore how have primary care and dental care in the U.S. changed, and what has stayed the same. Join Associate Dean Jane Barrow from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, Dr. Russell Phillips of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and Chief Economist and Vice President of the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute Dr. Marko Vujicic as they explore the differences and similarities in each field’s adaptation to a changing healthcare landscape, and how the pandemic response will inform the future of oral health and primary care.

Register for this event here.