Harvard School of Dental Medicine's Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine Hosts Third Leadership Forum in Boston.
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“You can find out so many things about someone’s health just by a dental visit. You can catch chronic diseases or things that are starting to develop. You come across things that bring all other aspects of health care into play. All of this needs to be looked at together. It needs to be a partnership among all kinds of providers."
- Steve Beshear, Former Governor of Kentucky
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Leaders in academia, business, and health care gathered for the third Leadership Forum, which was hosted by Harvard School of Dental Medicine’s Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine in late September. The two-day event, held at the Joseph B. Martin Center in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, offered a thought-provoking lineup of speakers and panels on the topic of “Achieving Quality and Value in Healthcare through Integration.” This year's Forum focused on innovations in how oral health care is taught, delivered, and funded.
For a full recap of the event, click here!
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CIPCOH has partnered with the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine to deliver timely and relevant news about medical dental integration.
 The Initiative is pleased to have played a role in launching the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH) and serves as part of its Community of Practice. Our work overlaps in many areas. By joining forces we hope to inform a wider audience about the issues, innovations, and challenges around integration. We look forward to engaging our many stakeholders—from academia, business, government and private foundations—in advancing medical dental integration across the healthcare continuum from education through policy.
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Integration in Action Blog
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Introducing Dr. Sung Choi
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine are excited to welcome Dr. Sung Eun Choi to both the faculty of HSDM and to the Initiative. Dr. Choi is originally from South Korea and received a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon, a Master of Science in Biostatistics from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering (Health Policy) from Stanford University.
View a profile of Dr. Choi here.
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Oral Oncology Fellowship Announced
This past year, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine was awarded a grant from DentaQuest to support and introduce a new fellowship opportunity titled, “Fellowship in Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology.” The fellowship program aims to provide in-depth training for community dentists so that they are adequately prepared to manage cancer patients throughout the course of their cancer treatment and post-cancer therapy. A goal of this new program is to contribute to an overall improvement in community health by increasing the knowledge, ability, and engagement of the general practitioner. Paolo Fantozzi, DDS, a dentist trained at Sapienza University of Rome, School of Dentistry, has been appointed as the first Oral Oncology Fellow of the HSDM/BWH Division of Oral Medicine.
Read more about Dr. Fantozzi and what his training will include.
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Dr. Lisa Simon received a grant from Rural PREP to evaluate rural primary care providers’ perspectives on oral health in the primary care setting. The grant is a microresearch grant for a qualitative study of primary care providers at an Indian Health Service hospital on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. She will be evaluating perceptions of whether oral health access impacts their practice and what their perceptions of barriers to oral health are for their patients.
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HSDM's Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine is excited to welcome Dr. Solomon Brotman, DDS, to the board of directors. Dr. Brotman is joining the board as the second representative for Life and Specialty Ventures. He is now serving as their Vice President of National Clinical Operations. Welcome, Dr. Brotman!
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Hawazin Elani, BDS, MSc,PhD, MMSc, instructor in Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, received a K99 Award from NIH-National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities entitled, “Health Reform and Oral Health Disparities: A Mixed Methods Evaluation.” For this K99 Award, Dr. Elani will investigate cost-related barriers to dental care which are a major contributor to oral health inequalities.
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Stanley and Marion Bergman hosted a special dinner on the connection between oral health and non-communicable diseases to celebrate the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly. The dinner took place at the Bergman’s home in New York City, and Initiative board members Steven Kess, Norton Travis, and Jane Barrow were all in attendance.
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A new study published by the Association of State & Territorial Dental Directors explores the case for integration of oral health and medicine.
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On September 28, many of the world’s leading policy experts gathered for a United Nations meeting on oral health and medicine. Drs. Brittany Seymour, Steffany Chamut Villarreal, and Donna Hackley from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine attended the event on behalf of HSDM and the Office of Global and Community Health.
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September 24, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
A new article from Kaiser Health News highlights a shift in dental offices utilizing medical insurance billing, rather than just dental insurance billing, to cover costs for procedures.
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"Key linkages have been found between many systemic diseases and oral health, both in their manifestation and treatment. Poor oral health can also negatively impact quality of life and cause significant pain and disability." Stephanie A. Gill, MD, MPH and Beat Steiner, MD, MPH, STFM Journals
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"To adapt to the changing health care landscape, health care leaders need to look beyond traditional boundaries of medical care to consider everything that might affect Americans’ collective health," said Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, in a Modern Healthcare op-ed.
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The HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine convenes academics, students, and leaders in the health care community to develop innovative ideas around the integration of oral health and primary care — a core academic mission of Harvard School of Dental Medicine. We thank the members of the Initiative for their generous support and continued collaboration in this important work.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts
Colgate Palmolive Company
DentaQuest
Henry Schein, Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
Life and Specialty Ventures, LLC
Pacific Dental Services
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Philips Oral Healthcare
United Concordia Companies
UnitedHealthcare
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health
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The Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH) serves as a national resource for systems-level research on oral health integration into primary care training. CIPCOH is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under grant number UH1HP29962, titled Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
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