Agenda

THE BENEFITS OF INTEGRATING ORAL HEALTH INTO OVERALL HEALTH


DAY 1 – September 8, 2021


Welcome:  Steve Kess (President, Santa Fe Group)

12:00 − 1:30 PM EST – Virtual Salon: Session 1: The Imperative for Integration
Eliminating Health Disparities and Achieving Health Equity through Integration of Oral Health and Healthcare

This session will present the imperative for accelerating integration of oral health. There is mounting evidence for the impact of oral health on overall health, while profound disparities exist in oral health and access to care for underserved populations. These factors will be considered within our current societal context, including opportunities in the changing healthcare landscape. A reactor panel will reflect on how best to accelerate progress, with implications for training, practice, science, and policy.

Moderator Remarks:
Salon overview: Dushanka Kleinman, DDS, MScD (Associate Dean for Research and Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health)
Highlights from the SFG White Papers and Recent Reports: Wendy Mouradian, MD, MS (Professor Emerita, University of Washington School of Dentistry)

Presentations:
  • Oral Health for All: Realizing the Promises of Science
    • Rena D'Souza, DDS, MS, PhD (Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research)
  • The Integral Role of Oral Health in the Context of Overall Health and Well-Being
    • Tim Ricks, DDS, MPH (Chief Dental Officer, USPHS)
Panel Conversation:
  • Reimagining Equitable Healthcare with Oral Health
    • Harold Slavkin, DDS (Dean Emeritus, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, USC)
    • Joan Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA, (Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard School of Medicine)
    • Frederick Isasi, JD, MPH (Executive Director, Families USA)
Open Discussion:
  • What is needed to accelerate integration and achieve health equity?
    • Moderators, Presenters, and Panel (audience participation via submitted questions)
Break: 1:30 − 2:00 PM EST

2:00 − 3:30 PM EST –Virtual Salon: Session II:  The Face of Integration: From Science to Clinical Care and Back Again

In this session, scientific insights on oral health relationships with major clinical conditions illustrate the importance of integrating oral health across research and practice, and explore opportunities to accelerate change in these areas.

Moderators: Martha Somerman, DDS, PhD (Former Director, NIDCR), and Laurie McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD (Dean, University of Michigan School of Dentistry)

Presentations:
  • Oral Health & Healthy Aging
    • Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (Director, NIH Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program and the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging)
  • Inflammatory Adaptation of the Bone Marrow: A Central Hub Connecting Periodontitis with Systemic Comorbidities Including Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease
    • George Hajishengallis, DDS, PhD (Thomas W. Evans Centennial Professor, University of Pennsylvania) 
Reactor:
  • Laurie McCauley, DDS, PhD (Dean, University of Michigan School of Dentistry)
Open Discussion:
  • How can integration support the science? And how can we accelerate evidence-based findings into practice?
    • Moderators and Presenters (audience participation via submitted questions)
Break 3:30 − 4:00 PM EST

4:00 − 5:30 PM EST – Virtual Salon: Session III: Technology-Empowered Consumers: Important Force for Healthcare Integration

This session will consider the important role technology can play in helping consumers optimize their oral and overall health, as well as highlight the critical issue of interoperability of medical and dental electronic health records.

Moderators: Michael C. Alfano, DMD, PhD (Founder and Immediate Past President, Santa Fe Group), and Terri Dolan, DDS, MPH (Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Dentsply Sirona)

Presentations:
  • Connecting Consumers to Total Health with Technology-Enhanced Oral Health Products
    • Maria Ryan, DDS, PhD (Vice President and Chief Dental Officer, Colgate Palmolive, Inc.)
  • GOMO Technology: Outpatient Digital Therapeutics in Oral Oncology Care
    • Robert Gold, MS (Founder, CEO, and Chief Behavioral Technologist)
Panel Discussion
  • Moderator: Terri Dolan, DDS, MPH (Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Dentsply Sirona)
  • Health Record Interoperability: Linking Medical and Dental Providers for Optimal Patient Care
    • Michael Baird (CEO, Schein One)
    • Steven Thorne (Founder and CEO, Pacific Dental Services)
Open Discussion:
  • What practices and policies can accelerate technology-enhanced integration?
    • Moderators, Presenters, and Panel (audience participation via submitted questions)


DAY 2 – September 9, 2021


12:00 − 1:30 PM EST – Virtual Salon Session IV: The Face of Integration: Learning from State and Federal Health System Integration Initiatives
This session will feature two successful oral health care integration efforts at the state and federal levels, as well as provide perspectives about public health and patient safety implications of integration.

Moderators: Kathryn Atchison, DDS, MPH (Professor, UCLA School of Dentistry Public Health), and Judith Haber, PhD, APRN (Ursula Springer Professor in Nursing, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing)

Presentations:
  • Oral Health and the Prevention of Non-Ventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Lessons From the VA
    • Shannon Munro, PhD, APRN (Researcher, Department of Veterans Affairs) 
  • Oral Health: The Oregon Experience With Integrated Systems 
    • John Kitzhaber, MD (Former Governor of Oregon)
Reactors:   
  • How can integrated public health systems improve overall health and reduce health inequities?
    • Bob Russell, DDS, MPH, MPA, CPM, FACD, FICD (Dental Director and Bureau Chief, Oral and Health Delivery System Bureau, Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention / Iowa Department of Public Health)
  • How do we keep patients safe? Joint Commission’s Approach to Safety and Accreditation
    • David Baker, MD, MPH (Executive Director for Health Care Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission)
Open Discussion:
  • What are the accelerators for change in healthcare and health systems?
    • Moderators, Presenters, and Reactors (audience participation via submitted questions)
Break 1:30 − 2:00 PM EST

2:00 − 3:30 PM EST – Virtual Salon: Session V: The Business of Integration: Paying for Dental Care; Economics, Health Policy, and Integration

This session will highlight current research and industry examples of improved health outcomes and cost savings from provision of dental services, as well as discuss programs that advance integration through provision of primary care services in the dental office.

Moderator: Ira Lamster, DDS, MMSc (Dean Emeritus, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine)

Presentations:
  • Scoping Review of Data Linking Preventive Dental Services to Improved Health Outcomes
    • Steve Ullman, PhD (Professor and Chair Department of Health Management and Policy, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami)
  • When People Access Preventive Dental Care: Lessons from the New York State Medicaid
    • Ira Lamster, DDS, MMSc (Dean Emeritus, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine)
  • Provision of Primary Health Care in the Dental Office
    • Amit Acharya, BDS, MS, PhD, FAMIA (Chief Research Officer and System Vice President, Advocate Aurora Health)
Panel Discussion:
  • The Decision to Provide Enhanced Preventive Dental Benefits to Patients with Chronic Diseases
    • Robert Lewando, DDS, MBA (Executive Director, Specialty Benefits, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts)
    • Solomon Brotman, DDS, MAGD (Vice President, National Clinical Operations,  Life & Science Ventures)
    • Quinn Dufurrena, DDS, JD, (Chief Dental Officer, United Concordia Dental)
Reactor:
  • Ronald Inge, DDS (Chief Dental Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Vice President of Professional Services, Delta Dental Plan Missouri)
Open Discussion:
  • How do we build alignment to accelerate needed policy and practice changes?
    • Moderators, Presenters, Panel, and Reactor (Audience participation via submitted questions)
Break: 3:00 − 4:00 PM EST

4:00 − 5:30 PM EST – Virtual Salon: Session VI:  Collaborations to Accelerate Integration

Learning from Our Partners: The Many Faces of Integration

This session will highlight existing integration initiatives and successful collaborations across many sectors. An interactive format will include short presentations with moderated discussion to identify priority lessons to advance integration. Perspectives from many different sectors will be sought to inform a Call to Action. 

Moderators: Terri Dolan, DDS, MPH (Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Dentsply Sirona), and Ralph Fuccillo, MA (Principal, Cambridge Concord Associates)

Presentation:
  • Shared Principles for Primary Care Applied to Oral Health: The Value Proposition 
    • Ann Greiner, MA (President and CEO, Primary Care Collaborative)
Panel Discussion:
  • Priority Lessons to Advance Integration: Integration Initiatives, and Partnerships
    • Moderator: Judith Haber, PhD, APRN (Ursula Springer Leadership Professor, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing)
    • Russell Phillips, MD (Director and Professor for Center for Primary Care, William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
    • Cherae Farmer-Dixon, DDS, MSPH (Dean and Professor, School of Dental Medicine, Meharry Medical College)
    • Anita Glicken, MSW (Executive Director, National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health [NIIOH])
Reactor:
  • Priority Lessons to Advance Integration: Integration Initiatives and Partnerships
    • Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA (Chief Executive Officer CareQuest)
Open Discussion:
  • How do we accelerate change through collaborative and continuous engagement? What are the next steps?
    • Moderators, Presenters, and Panel (audience participation via submitted questions)
CLOSING REMARKS:
Terri Dolan, DDS, MPH (Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Dentsply Sirona), and Ralph Fuccillo, MA (Principal, Cambridge Concord Associates)