The Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine and the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health present:
A practical approach to clinical integration of primary care and oral health and launch of a peer-to-peer learning community
Featuring Keynote Speaker
Michaela Kerrissey, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor of Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
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Integration in Action Blog
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February 5, 2019 | Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health
A national study has found that while oral health is one of the greatest unmet healthcare needs for the elderly, geriatric medical fellowship programs provide little oral health training for future doctors who will provide care to the growing older adult population.
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Earlier this spring, the Initiative released a report on the Initiative's progress in 2018. The report summarizes research developments, staffing additions, new partnerships, and more.
To review the 2018 report, click here.
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In 2017, CIPCOH surveyed 13 primary care professions to assess the state of oral health curricula in their respective training programs. A recent session at the ADEA Annual Meeting in Chicago focused on these findings, bringing together Maria Dolce, PhD, RN, CNE, FACHE, and Anita Duhl Glicken, MSW, executive director of the National Inter-professional Initiative, to facilitate a peer-reviewed small group discussion session titled, Cultivating Inter-professional Partners in Oral Health and Primary Care Integration. The educational session explored ways that dental schools can engage physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other health profession programs in inter-professional learning activities around oral health. A diverse group of stakeholders participated in this active discussion sharing challenges and new strategies to foster institutional and organizational collaborations to integrate oral health into primary care education and practice.
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The Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine is excited to welcome Dentsply Sirona to its team of supporters. Dentsply Sirona will be represented by Terri Dolan and Nick Alexos. Please join us in welcoming Terri and Nick to the Initiative Board of Directors!
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Jay Nixon, former Governor of Missouri, visited HSDM in April and shared his insights on his political career and how it correlates to the world of public health. His talk, titled "Finding Bipartisan Solutions to Public Health Issues," touched on how public health professionals can impact policy and create lasting impact. He spent a week as the Visiting Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Lisa Simon was awarded a Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant from the Society of Hospital Medicine to conduct a needs assessment and develop an oral health curriculum for physicians and nurses caring for hospitalized patients. She will be working with Dr. Anita Vanka at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to complete this project. Lisa also presented at January's Yankee Dental Conference and ran a workshop at the ADEA Annual Meeting in Chicago this March. She will be presenting at the National Rural Health Association Conference this May, sharing the preliminary results of a qualitative study of rural primary care providers’ views on oral health integration.
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Recently, the Initiative and CIPCOH created and distributed a policy brief to state and federal legislators who are actively sponsoring or co-sponsoring legislation affiliated with oral health. The brief was sent to over 30 representatives in more than 20 states and highlighted the consequences of poor oral health and how providing dental care reduces complications and costs. View the brief here.
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Drs. Bruce Donoff, Quinn Dufurrena, Christine Riedy, and Kenneth Wright presented at the 2019 ADEA Annual Meeting in Chicago. The presentation focused on transforming health systems through integration and provided insight into the ways that integration can be accomplished in the classroom, in clinical settings, with benefits providers, and among other key shareholders. Attendees heard about medical-dental integration, current gaps in care and service, regulatory barriers that make integrating oral health and primary care a challenge, and more.
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April 17, 2019 | Associated Press
Health care experts say the changing, fragmented nature of care is precisely why people still need someone who looks out for their overall health, which is the traditional role of primary care physicians like family doctors and internists.
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April 2, 2019 | Health Care For All
For far too long, oral health has been kept separate from overall health. The truth of the matter is that an infection of the mouth can affect the rest of the body. Dental infections and disease can lead to significant long-term effects on a person’s general health such as pain, systemic infections, hospitalizations, worsening of other medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and pre-term births.
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April 1, 2019 | University of Maine at Augusta
Dr. Leonard Brennan, DMD, presented a lecture to a class of UMA Dental Health students at the invitation of Assistant Professor Nancy Foster last week. He spoke on the topics of oral health and older adults and the importance of inter-professional collaboration achieving successful and effective access to oral health care in nursing homes around Maine.
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During a routine check-up last year, Dr. Harlyn Susarla, ordered a panoramic X-ray for Hunter Rose Jones, then 4, when she noticed the child had several loose teeth, which was unusual for her age, ABC affiliate KOMO News reported. The Washington-based dentist then discovered a tumor growing in the child’s jaw.
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March 4, 2019 | Health Affairs
As health care evolves with advances in science, medicine, and greater awareness of disparities, philanthropy’s role continues to evolve, too. Many funders, though, remain directly involved in health care through supporting expanded access to services, training health professionals, convening thought leaders to explore and scale innovative models, and advocating to influence public policy. Yet, we know health benefits and access to care are an essential but insufficient step toward improving population health.
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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
Dentsply Sirona
Henry Schein, Inc.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest
Life and Specialty Ventures, LLC
Pacific Dental Services
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Philips Oral Healthcare
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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