Training Grants

HRSA Grants

The Dental Home for Children Project
Contact: Lenora Colaruotolo

The goals of this project are to:

1. Improve the oral health of targeted children by changing their utilization of pediatric dental services at EDC and
2. Improve communication between the dental and primary pediatric care health systems, thereby improving both dental and primary medical care for impoverished, underserved children.

To achieve these goals a social work outreach system of care will be developed and implemented to respond to children’s urgent dental care needs. Family-centered, strength-based, culturally-sensitive interventions will be utilized by an outreach worker to successfully engage targeted families and a formal system of communication between EDC and the pediatric primary care community will be established to ensure that pediatricians are better informed of their patients’ oral health status and more directly engaged in the process to reduce oral health disparities.

Interdisciplinary Geriatric Fellowship Program
This is a two-year Fellowship that is intended to train those who will become leaders in geriatric dentistry. The program is interdisciplinary with geriatric medicine and psychiatry and includes training in clinical care, education, research, and administration relative to care of older adults.

Co-Director: Ralph H. Saunders, Jr., DDS, MS