UCCOH Awarded ICCA Grant to hold 2-day Interdisciplinary Conference!
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The UCLA Children’s Center for Oral Health (www.UCCOH.org) is a multidisciplinary initiative utilizing evidence-based research translated to clinical care in order to achieve policy developments and advocacy in the interest of improving children’s oral health for Los Angeles, California, the United States, and the world.
Led by Dr. Francisco Ramos-Gomez, the program builds, strengthens, and coordinates our activities in children’s oral health through developing and supporting interprofessional education in our pediatric training program with the UCLA Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and Public Affairs. Our 2-day conference would be the first of its kind: a cross-collaboration of five major UCLA departments to discuss and find solutions for combating Early Childhood Caries (ECC), and a pioneering event for systems-wide change in both the delivery of primary health and oral health care. We aim to achieve the following objectives through our collaborative 2-day conference:
Our 2-day forum will included an 8-hour day (full day) on Friday 10/05/2018 available for selected graduate students and invited residents of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health, and Public Affairs, as well as a 4-hour day (half-day) on Saturday 10/06/2018 open to the public (to include undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in the health fields).
Led by Dr. Francisco Ramos-Gomez, the program builds, strengthens, and coordinates our activities in children’s oral health through developing and supporting interprofessional education in our pediatric training program with the UCLA Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and Public Affairs. Our 2-day conference would be the first of its kind: a cross-collaboration of five major UCLA departments to discuss and find solutions for combating Early Childhood Caries (ECC), and a pioneering event for systems-wide change in both the delivery of primary health and oral health care. We aim to achieve the following objectives through our collaborative 2-day conference:
- Continue the dialogue regarding ECC as a serious public health concern and the need for interprofessional partnerships in order to create tangible, positive changes in the oral health status and ultimately lives of underserved, low-income children and families.
- Gather and mobilize a diverse stakeholder group of dental, medical, nursing, public health and public policy faculty in order to develop a strategic plan of action.
- Our collaborative strategic plan of action will include ways to:
- Meet the increasing need and demand for quality preventive oral healthcare among children in underserved, low-income populations.
- Expand the role of existing oral health care professionals to primary care providers and services of public health.
- Shape a responsive and wide-reaching interprofessional educational model.
- Mitigate the impacts of socioeconomic dynamics (i.e., social determinants of health) on oral health disparities.
- Identify at least three policy developments to be implemented in order to foster systemic changes that lead to social justice and health equity.
- Foster fundamental and translational interprofessional research to create system-wide change through establishment of quality improvement protocols. Additionally, we aim to further explore technology-based solutions for enhanced integration of medical and dental services, such as:
- We will also integrate dental information within health information technology (health IT) in order to improve both oral health and overall health outcomes. Health IT includes the use of electronic health records (EHRs) instead of paper medical records to maintain people’s health information (see: https://www.healthit.gov).
Our 2-day forum will included an 8-hour day (full day) on Friday 10/05/2018 available for selected graduate students and invited residents of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health, and Public Affairs, as well as a 4-hour day (half-day) on Saturday 10/06/2018 open to the public (to include undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in the health fields).