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Keynote Address: Expanding the Oral Health Team to Achieve Health Equity Friday, October 6, 2023 | 8:00 - 9:30 am (1 CDE) Presenter: Dr. Lisa Simon Since the founding of the first American dental school in the 1840s, the oral health care and medical systems have branched, with this separation compounded by policy, pay- ment, and educational structures. Yet this is not merely a historical curiosity; the sep- aration of dentistry and medicine continues to impact the health outcomes of millions of Americans today, especially those most at risk to health injustice. This keynote will explore the historical underpinnings of dentistry and medicine’s separation, as well as the current policy and practice innovations that may serve to better reunite the fields and improve the health of the American public. In addition to dental therapy, we will focus on the expansion of the dental team by including health care professionals, community health workers, and families and patients to achieve oral health equity. During this keynote address, attendees will learn how to describe the evidence base for expanding the oral healthcare team by including medical professionals, dental thera - pists, and others in the care of patients. Understand pressing health policy changes that can affect medical-dental integration and compare the role of medical team members including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to comparable roles in dentistry.
Intended Audience: All attendees
Lisa Simon MD DMD (she/her) is a physician, dentist, and health services researcher. She has been involved in the implementation of medical-dental integration projects in both the primary care, dental, and inpatient setting and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles on oral health policy and the separation of medicine and dentistry. She is an incoming faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Pri- mary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Page 30 “ H aving an oral health problem or expe- riencing dental suffering is something that only people who experience various forms of injustice in the United States actually experience. It’s simply not fair.” Dr. Lisa Simon
Annual Conference Guide 2023
Annual Conference Guide 2023
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