Date:
Location:
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