Clinical Scholars is a leadership development program for interdisciplinary teams of health care providers leveraging their expertise and passion to improve health beyond the clinical setting. Applications open in January.
Poor oral health in low-income communities is a wicked problem that causes many burdens on children and adults alike. There is a wide disparity in untreated tooth decay and restricted activity days for children and adults alike. Frequently cited barriers to improving the dental health disparities and achieving these target outcomes include low Medicaid reimbursement rates, unwillingness of…
Children with special healthcare needs (SHCNs) live in all of our communities. They present with a diverse group of diagnoses including complex chronic conditions and diseases, physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities, sensory, behavioral, emotional, psychiatric, and social disorders, cleft and craniofacial birth defects, anomalies, and syndromes, and inherited conditions causing abnormal tooth development. These children are prone to…
Why Clinical Scholars?
“To be a true leader requires lifelong learning and an openness to understand those with different life experiences. I’ve been a leader for 20+ years and find the Clinical Scholars trainings continue to make me a better leader.”
“I use what I am learning in Clinical Scholars every day to be a better academic and hospital pediatric dentist, residency training director, and oral health advocate.”
