Research Issue - Harvard School of Dental Medicine

p olicy fo cusPolicy FocusHSDM Holds Leadership ForumLeaders from industry and academia convened to discuss the future of dental medicine.On December 8 and 9, HSDM hosted “Leadership ForumV: Oral Care 2025—A Multidisciplinary Approach.” The programbrought together more than 60 leaders from dentistry,academia, business, and health care to discuss the future ofdental medicine. Highlights included talks by noted healthcare experts Regina Herzlinger and Richard Bohmer; CaswellEvans, former director of the U.S. Surgeon General’s NationalOral Health Initiative; and Harvard Business School ProfessorRakesh Khurana. The forum closed with a presentation byHSDM Dean Bruce Donoff on Harvard’s vision for educatingoral care providers for the future.Following are the presentation titles (in alphabetical order byspeakers’ last names) and photographs from the event. Links toseveral of the presentations are available on the HSDM websiteat www.hsdm.harvard.edu/news/leadership_forum.HRoland Baron, Department Head and Professor of OralMedicine, Infection, and Immunity, HSDM“Medical Needs and Innovation in Bone Diseases: TheOsteoporosis Paradigm”Richard M.J. Bohmer, Professor of Management Practice,Harvard Business School“Levers for Change in Health Care Delivery Systems”Bruce Donoff, Dean, HSDM“Harvard’s Vision: Educating Oral Care Providers for 2025”Fay Donohue, President and CEO, Dental Service ofMassachusetts“Financing Dental Care or Oral Health”Catherine Dunham, Executive Director, Children’s DentalHealth Project“Connecting Oral Health to Wellness”Caswell Evans, Associate Dean of Prevention and Public HealthSciences, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry“Workforce Issues in Oral Health”Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPhersonProfessor of Business Administration,Harvard Business School“Consumer-Driven Oral Care”Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor ofLeadership Development, Harvard BusinessSchool“The Cost of Innovative Health Care”Robert Lewando, Clinical Dental Director,Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts“Oral Care 2025: Innovation/Finance/Delivery”Bjorn R. Olsen, Dean for Research andProfessor of Developmental Biology, HSDM“Moving Towards Cell-Based Treatment ofDisease”Michael Rosenblatt, Executive Vice Presidentand Chief Medical Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.“Current Challenges and Future Scenarios forthe Pharmaceutical Industry”Participants mingled and reconnected at the Leadership Forum reception.Gregory Serrao, Chair and CEO, AmericanDental Partners, Inc.; Member, HSDMLeadership Council“Winds of Change”continued on next page23