From the Bill to the Benefit: Expanding Medicare to Include Oral Health Care Webinar

Date: 

Friday, October 8, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

The HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine presents:

 From the Bill to the Benefit: Expanding Medicare to Include Oral Health Care 
Friday, October 8, 2021
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
ZOOM

Description

As Congress prepares to vote on the budget reconciliation, join our panelists for a discussion of the political, legislative, and stakeholder context surrounding Medicare expansion to include dental benefits. Our subject matter experts will also examine implications of Medicare’s inclusion of oral health benefits on the health care delivery system, promotion of healthy aging, and advancement of health equity.

Meet the Panel

Pamela S. Alston, DDS, MPP, FACD

President

National Dental Association

John McDonough, DrPH, MPA

Professor of Practice

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michael Monopoli, DMD, MPH, MS, FACD

Vice President for Grant Strategy

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health

Mary Otto

American Medical Journalist

Author of “Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the

Struggle for Oral Health in America"

Shenam Ticku, BDS, MPH (Moderator)

Investigator, HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine and Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH)

Instructor, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology

Harvard School of Dental Medicine