HSDM Initiative 2024 Forum Agenda

Public and Private Health System Integration: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Oral Health Experience


June 4, 2024: Day 1 —Medicare and Oral Health Integration: The Way Forward

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9:00 AM | Welcome
William Giannobile, DDS, MS, DMSc, Dean and Professor, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

9:15 AM | Medicare Advantage Growth, Success and Challenges
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Heath

10:15 AM | Oral Health Advancements: Update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service
Natalia Chalmers, DDS, MHSc, PhD, Chief Dental Officer, CMS

11:00 AM | Break

11:15 AM | Creating a Standard CMS Dental Benefit for Dual Eligible Individuals with Disabilities
Mary Foley, RDH, MPH, Executive Director, State Medicaid Programs

11:30 AM | Galvanizing Stakeholders and Policy Makers for Change
Ralph Fuccillo, MA, President, Santa Fe Group
David Lipschutz, JD, Associate Director/Senior Policy Attorney, Center for Medicare Advocacy
John McDonough, DrPH, MPA, Director, Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

12:15 PM | Lunch 

1:15 PM | Panel Discussion: Multiple Perspectives on Navigating Medicare Advantage Provider Perspective
Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, CEO, National Association of Community Health Centers, Provider Perspective
Megan O’Reilly, JD, VP Legislative Affairs, AARP, Patient Perspective
Solomon Brotman, DDS, VP, USAble Life, Payer Perspective

Moderator:  Andrew Dreyfus, Former President and CEO, Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield

2:45 PM |  Break

3:00 PM |  Panel Discussion: Health Policy Research and Evidence for More Integrated Dental Coverage and Care Health Improvements and Downstream Cost

Impact of Integrated Care on Health Outcomes and Costs
Sung Choi, PhD, SM, Assistant Professor, HSDM

Disparities in Medicare and MA Related to Dental Care
Darien Weatherspoon, DDS, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Dentistry

Spending on and Utilization of Dental Services in MA and Medicare
Lisa Simon, MD, DMD, Associate Physician, Mass General Brigham

Moderator: Catherine Hayes, DMD, SM, DMSc, Chair of the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology and Program Director of Dental Public Health, HSDM

5:00 PM |  Networking and Refreshments

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June 5, 2024: Day 2 — Integrated Care That Works: A Playbook for the Future

8:15 AM | Opening Remarks
Jane Barrow, MS, Executive Director for the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine, Director of Global and Community Health, Lecturer Part Time

8:30 AM | Building a Holistic Care Network for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries
David Kim, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Care CA
Steve Thorne, BA, MHA, CEO, PDS Health

Moderator:  Russ Phillips, MD, Director of the HMS for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS

9:30 AM | Panel Discussion: Experiments in Integrated Care

Integrating Dental Care into Protocols for Chronic Kidney Disease
Stefanie Park, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Hawaii Medical Services Association

Integrating Hygienists into PC Practices
Patricia Braun, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Integrating Behavioral Health Screenings into the Dental Office
Caleb Tam, DDS, InstructorChief Dental Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance

Moderator: John Da Silva, DMD, MPH, ScM, Professor, Prosthodontics, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Tufts

11:00 AM | Lunch

12:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Educating a Multidisciplinary Work Force for Oral Health

100 Million Mouths, Training Oral Health Champions in 50 States
Shenam Ticku, MPH, Instructor and Pre-doctoral Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Discipline Director, HSDM

An Oral Health Competency Module for Physician Trainees at UGHE
John Michael Ray, DDS, MPH, Faculty, Part Time, HSDM

Training Nurses in Oral Health Competencies: The NDA Model
Nicole Cheek, DDS, President, National Dental Association

Oral Health Curriculum for Promotoras
Josefine Wolfe, PhD, MPH, RDH, MBA, Education Specialist, CareQuest, Institute for Oral Health

Moderator: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Medical School, and Instructor, HSDM

1:30 PM | Panel Discussion: Thinking Differently About Holistic Care for Older Adults

MOTIVATE
Leonard Brennan, DMD, Co-Director of the HSDM Geriatrics Fellowship, Clinical Instructor, Part Time

MOTIVATE at Home
Labrini Nelligan, MS, Executive Director, Mass General Brigham

Hospital Acquired Aspirational Pneumonia and Oral Health
Michael Klompas, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Mass General Brigham

Moderator: Christine Riedy, PhD, MPH, Delta Dental of Massachusetts Associate Professor and Director of Oral Health Workforce Innovation and Population Health, HSDM

3:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Next Steps
Robert Lewando, DDS, MBA, Chair, HSDM Initiative Board, Executive Director, Specialty Benefits Professional Services, BCBSMA

3:15 PM | Networking