Executive Director, National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH)
Anita Duhl Glicken MSW, Professor and Associate Dean Emerita at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, has over 30 years of administrative, research and education experience. She was a founding member of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH) and is now serving as Executive Director. The NIIOH provides backbone support, and is the national voice, for interprofessional integration of oral health into primary care. In 2009, Ms. Glicken launched the PA Leadership Initiative on Oral Health, creating a model systems change strategy that engages national organization leaders to work together to integrate oral health across professional education and practice. Ms. read more
Purpose:
To highlight efforts to combat health disparities through the integration of primary care and oral health training.
Objectives:
Provide an overview of oral health disparities
Discuss training opportunities to broaden oral health and primary care integration
Discuss the importance of evidence informing oral health training integration