On November 5th, IOH presented "Cooperative Education Model for Oral Health and Primary Care Integration" in collaboration with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (MLCHC), Clinical Connections Summit: Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care. The MLCHC in...
Northeastern University School of Nursing and Harvard School of Dental Medicine collaborate on a $1.2 million HRSA-funded program that aims to bring primary care services into a dental care practice A $1.2 million cooperative agreement from Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and...
In August, Dr. Maria Dolce was invited to participate in the 6th annual Physician Assistant (PA) Leadership Summit in Oral Health, held in in Aspen, Colorado. Since the launch of the PA Oral Health Leadership Initiative, leaders in the PA profession have invited oral health champions and...
On June 17th, Innovations in Oral Health conducted an interactive, hands-on workshop for a class of 32 first-year physician assistant (PA) students at Northeastern University. The oral health topics covered in the workshop were informed by the Smiles for Life curriculum, which students had previously completed...
On May 6th, Innovations in Oral Health conducted a professional development workshop addressing the HRSA Oral Health Core Clinical Competencies for primary care practice. The purpose of this workshop was to teach students about common dental emergencies and providing palliative emergency treatment. This workshop was designed for cooperative education...
Dr. Emily Zimmerman, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a recipient of the 2014-2015 Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Curricular Innovation Awards. The goal of this award is to advance the integration of oral health across across all of Bouvé's academic programs. Dr. Zimmerman's project utilized 3D...
On March 25th Innovations in Oral Health conducted an Oral Health Risk Assessment Workshop at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP). An adapted Smiles for Life presentation and caries risk-assessment were taught to students as part of the oral health and primary care integration co-operative education...
On the morning of March 27th, Innovations in Oral Health (IOH) held a workshop for 43 direct entry nursing students at the Northeastern’s Burlington campus. The 90-minute session taught students about basic tooth anatomy, the etiology of tooth decay, how to screen patients for oral...
In February, Dr. Maria Dolce was invited, as Visiting Scholar, to participate in an international dialogue on advancing interprofessional education at the Institute of Nursing Science (INS), University of Basel; University Hospital Basel; University Hospital Bern; and University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Switzerland provided the perfect...
The IOH Team recently attended the 2015 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Annual Conference, held in Boston, MA. Dr. Maria Dolce presented two oral seminars: Teaching Oral Health to Physician Assistant Students through Interprofessional Learning, co-presented with Denise Rizzolo, a Physician Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University; and...