Russell Phillips, MD, Brings His Expertise in Primary Care to Integration Efforts
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Russell Phillips, MD, has long supported efforts to integrate oral health and primary care. As the director of the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School, Phillips played an important role in helping to establish the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH).
Phillips offers his take on the opportunities for integration during a pandemic, how he sees patient care changing as we shift to a more collaborative approach, and what the practice of the future may look like.
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The Leadership Forum has been rescheduled!
Data Driven Innovations and Integration:
The Case for Oral Health
July 20, 2021
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
Details to follow
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Members of the Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine, including Jane Barrow, MS, associate dean for Global and Community Health and executive director of the Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), recently collaborated with the FDI World Dental Federation and the International Consortium for Health Outcome Metrics (ICHOM) to develop a baseline standardized set of patient-centered outcomes for adult oral health. Titled, "Developing a standard set of patient‐centred outcomes for adult oral health – an international, cross‐disciplinary consensus," the article was published in July of 2020.
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Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH, principal investigator for the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health, and Delta Dental of Massachusetts Associate Professor in Oral Public Health and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Shenam Ticku, BDS, MPH, instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, were featured on a podcast called “Protecting our Public Health with Sharity Ludwig.” Drs. Riedy and Ticku discussed interprofessional education and practice. Listen to the podcast here.
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CIPCOH has launched a quarterly webinar series aimed at bringing together global leaders across different professions and backgrounds to discuss why integration of primary care and oral health addresses gaps and inequities in our health care system. The first webinar was moderated by Tien Jiang, DMD, MEd, co-investigator for CIPCOH. View the first webinar in the series.
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Hesham Alhazmi, DMSc21, a Doctor of Medical Science in Oral Biology candidate at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, recently won the American Public Health Association’s Caswell A. Evans Population Oral Health Post-Professional Student Award for his work with CIPCOH alongside Drs. Tien Jiang, Christine Riedy, and Shenam Ticku. His project was titled "Beyond the mouth: Integration of social determinants of health within AEGD and GPR curricula." The award recognizes students and residents who show a strong commitment to community-based dental public health and the importance of state, local and community-based public health action.
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The Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine is excited to announce that we will be welcoming a new research analyst. Emily Mo will join us in September. Emily will be responsible for managing and analyzing large electronic health record datasets, and conducting health outcomes research to guide the development, evaluation, and utilization of claims datasets and simulation models that improve quality and effectiveness of public health interventions.
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June 9, 2020 | Journal of Gerontological Nursing
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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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Arrail Group
Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts
Colgate Palmolive Company
DentaQuest
Dentsply Sirona
Henry Schein, Inc.
Life and Specialty Ventures, LLC
Pacific Dental Services
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Philips Oral Healthcare
ProHealth Dental
United Concordia Companies
UnitedHealthcare
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
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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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