December 2018

Inside This Issue:President’s Message ................. 1

Conference Wrap-Up ................. 2

Conference Photo Gallery .......... 3

Award Winners ................ 10

New Board Members................11

Letter from the Executive Director ................. 12

NOHLI Cohort 6 ................ 13

NOTE: The NNOHA newsletter is for information sharing and discussion purposes. NNOHA does not endorse all included viewpoints or authors.

2018 Post-Conference Edition

THANK YOU to the following individuals for contributing articles, information, and/or photos: Amy Derrick, Leslie Franklin, Rachel Johnston, Chris Martinez, Candace Owen, Jodi Padilla, Debra Schmidt, and Phillip Thompson

EDITORS: Amy Derrick, Leslie Franklin, and Phillip Thompson

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Unmasked Potential in New OrleansScott A. Wolpin, DMDPresident, NNOHA Board of Directors

As I reflect upon this year’s Conference, the theme “Innovate, Integrate, and Celebrate” really remains at the forefront, as these terms have become the hallmark for NNOHA in developing the conference curriculum and experience for our members each year.

One of the first things I noticed about this year’s conference was the incredible energy… enthusiastic first-timers and faithful old-timers, donning their “NNOHA Tour” t-shirts, intermin-gled to create a terrific buzz.

A jam-packed agenda offered a broad range of tremendously exciting topics, addressing the opioid epidemic, scientific developments in cariology, and trauma-informed care. All of our plenaries and panels sessions were extremely well attended, and captivating high-profile speakers led the charge along with dozens of expert presenters.

Many, many great things stood out from the 2018 NNOHA Conference, without even mentioning the awesome culinary experi-ences we all enjoyed with New Orleans as our backdrop, but I will highlight three most important ones to me:

1. Commitment: The NNOHA Conference

Planning Committee, On Par Productions, and NNOHA staff are truly committed to making the annual NNOHA Conference a world-class event! Many thanks to everyone who took the time to contribute to this year’s conference.

2. Relevance and Innovative Approaches to Learning: The popularity and interest

of the keynote sessions were evidenced by each being a room full of 950 of us! Thanks to Hal Crossley, Brian Nový, and Allison Jackson — all fantastic plenary speakers who chal-lenged us, inspired us, and gave us more actionable information than I could ever list here.

And thanks to the coordinated efforts of Scott Miller, Steve Alouf, LSU faculty, and the Daughters of Charity Health System, a small Mission of Mercy denture clinic at the LSU School of Dentistry offered hands-on learning of an innova-tive new way to replace teeth for participat-ing health center dentists and 16 very thankful patients.

3. Excellence: Of course, I knew it already, but Conference reconfirmed the superb work being done by NNOHA as it contin-ues to fulfill its mission. NNOHA’s mission

New Orleans, with all its history, character, and charm, was a rich setting for the 2018 NNOHA Conference

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Conference Wrap-Up

Dr. Steve Geiermann

The NNOHA Board of Directors and the 2018 Conference Planning Committee are grateful that nearly 1,000 people joined us in New Orleans to unmask their potential through innovation, integration, and celebration.

Dr. Scott Wolpin, the current NNOHA president, continues to set a high expectation for diverse continuing education, ample net-working opportunities, and adequate time to visit with the knowledgeable and friendly exhibitors who help make our practices

more efficient, effective, and productive. Thank you for taking time to learn and share your experience with your fellow attendees. It was clear that the fruits of networking were as valuable as the multiple continuing education credits earned, not to mention the culinary jewels around every corner. I hope you returned home refreshed and rejuvenated. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas on October 13-16, 2019. It’s a safe bet that you will be a big winner!

Many Thanks to All InvolvedSteve Geiermann, DDSChair, NNOHA Annual Conference Planning Committee

is to improve the oral health of underserved populations and contribute to overall health through leadership, advocacy, and support to oral health providers in safety-net systems. Heartfelt thanks to all of the NNOHA members who attended and made this meeting another excellent one!

If you were unable to join us in New Orleans, I look forward to meeting you next year in Las Vegas, October 13-16, 2019 — should be a “full house!”

Dr. Scott Wolpin

There were 333 entries in this year's Passport to Prizes drawing, and these smiling faces were the lucky ones whose passports were randomly selected. NNOHA is grateful to everyone who made the Exhibit Hall a lively exchange of information and ideas, especially the exhibitors themselves.

Congratulations to all these 2018 Passport to Prizes winners!

Conference Photo Gallery

NNOHA Conference is NETWORKING

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With so many Conference attendees present, so many sessions offered, and so much going on, you can bet a lot of wonderful photographs were taken! A small sampling are shared with you here, which capture the essence of the Conference and showcase its various facets.

Conference photos courtesy of Chris Martinez Photography, New Orleans LA, NNOHA staff, and various Conference attendees

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On Saturday, attendees participated in an 8-hour course: "Making the Case for One Day Dentures"

Hands-on learning can be a lot of fun!

Self-serve kiosks make it quick and easy to check in

Many thanks to Hu-Friedy for their sponsorship of the stainless steel crowns sessions.

Tuesday afternoon's Stainless Steel Crowns hands-on ses-sions provided the opportunity to apply the techniques that were

described in the Pediatric Restora-tions lecture earlier that day.

16 endentulous patients were able to receive a new smile at the Saturday "One-Day Dentures" course. Special thanks to Henry Schein for helping make this happen.

NNOHA Conference is HANDS ON

The Exhibit Hall provided opportunities for learning about vendor products and services

Special treat for Holly Kingsbury: Getting her personal copy of Teeth

signed by author/ journalist Mary Otto

Fancy fingers from the Eh La Bas (translation: "at the bottom") jazz ensemble filled the foyer with tunes at the Welcome Reception

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Hal Crossley enlightened attendees with his plenary session on opiods and their impact on the oral health safety-net system

Allison Jackson gave a powerful plenary address on the rel-

evance of trauma to providers working with abuse victims

Hearing from longtime safety-net practitioners like Dr. Mark Koday is always a treat

NNOHA Conference is EXPERTISE

Prosthodontist Pamela Maragliano-Muniz shared her expertise on complex

direct restorations

Brian Nový is always a captivating plenary speaker

Brian Quinlan was one of the voices leading the conversation about incorporating a variety

of types of care providers on your dental team

The NNOHA Practice Manage-ment Committee "stacks it up" on the historic grand staircase at The Palace Café

Dr. Ernest Meshack-Hart was among the many presenters at the always popular "Fundamentals of Leading a Health Center Oral Health Program" half-day session on Sunday

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New board member Clifton Bush introduces himself to his new colleagues

Each day started out with a plenary session and a packed house

Q&A sessions offer a chance for attendees to ask the experts

Something to think about

The Poster Sessions allowed presenters to share cutting-edge research

Focused attention and hands-on exercises help new ideas take root

Ideas and inspiration abound

NNOHA Conference is INTENSIVE LEARNING

Listen, learn, and then

discuss: A proven

approach

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NNOHA staff sports the collectible 2018 "NNOHA in NOLA" t-shirts

Peninsula Community

Health Services of Alaska in

Kenai AK was honored by Safety Net

Solutions as a John Rossetti

Center of Excellence

NNOHA Conference is EXCELLENCE

Dr. Mark Doherty introduces this year's John Rossetti

Awards presentation

All four NNOHA award winners show off their commemo-rative plaques. See story on page 10.

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics in Santa Barbara CA were honored by Safety Net Solutions as a John Rossetti Center of Excellence

Award winners Dayna Brinckman and Sheela Tummala enjoy a top-notch meal with NNOHA President Elect

Tina Sopiwnik

The C.L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics in West Palm Beach FL were honored by Safety Net So-lutions as a John Rossetti Center of Excellence

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What's better: The bag of beignets or the painted fingernail with the NNOHA logo?

Dr. Domenic Calouri and Dr. Tina Sopiwnik

Colorful costumes, jazzy tunes, and bluesy lyrics from New Orleans band Eh La Bas

Smiles and hugs from grateful patients at the "One-Day Dentures" course at the LSU School of Dentistry

Learning is always something to smile about!

Mary Otto was honored to receive the NNOHA President's Award

NNOHA Conference is EXPERIENCES

Reecia Lovett is a happy Passport to Prizes prize winner

A toast to NNOHA!

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NNOHA Conference is OLD FRIENDS & NEW

A toast to NNOHA!

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Award Winners

The annual NNOHA Outstanding Contribution Awards were presented during the Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, November 13. NNOHA extends hearty congratulations to each of these award winners and applauds their contributions to oral health care.

Oral Health Champion In recognition of efforts in supporting oral health programs, commitment to patients and providers in the safety-net community, and continuing promotion of oral health as essential to overall good health for everyone

Claudia Cavazos, DDS, MPHChief Dental OfficerGateway Community Health CenterLaredo TX

In the mid-1990s, dental student Claudia Cavazos was the first clinician to rotate through the Gateway Community Health Center’s dental program; this past October, she celebrated 19 years as the Chief Dental Officer of that same clinic. Among many other responsibilities, Dr. Cavazos currently leads the UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry's collaborative that offers rotations for dental students in primary care and community-based dentistry.

Outstanding ClinicianIn recognition of outstanding commitment to patients, profession, and community

Sheela Tummala, DDS, MPHChief Dental OfficerCommunity Health Center IncMeriden CT

Dr. Sheela Tummala receives high praise for outstanding clinical expertise, patient satisfaction, productivity, and relationships with support staff. She brings a public health perspective to her clinical practice.

Among many accomplishments, Dr. Tummala led a team of student researchers from Wesleyan University in designing a study to examine the prevalence and impact of dental anxiety among medical patients and dental patients. She leads by example, participating in an annual statewide “Veterans Stand Down” service day and quarterly Mission of Mercy dental clinics. When she visits other CHC sites across the state, Dr.

Tummala doesn't just assess progress, she also provides clinical services so she can fully engage in the realities faced by her dental team.

John McFarland Leadership AwardWith sincere appreciation for exemplary leadership in improving the oral health of underserved populations in the community

Dayna Brinckman, DDS, CHCEFChief Dental OfficerHealth Partnership ClinicOlathe KS

Dr. Dayna Brinckman demonstrates an ability to effectively select the right leadership style in all situations. She exemplifies servant leadership with active listening, empathy, stewardship, and developing others’ potential, consistently serving the needs of her team. In one example, Dr. Brinckman spearheaded a visionary innovation effort that unified pedi-atric medical and dental services to provide a truly integrated pediatric department. The result improved not only access for children but also improved patient outcomes, which served as a model for team unity that inspired the adult medicine department as well.

NNOHA President’s AwardIn recognition of the inspiration provided to the NNOHA membership through outstanding presentations, visionary research, and per-sonal commitment to the underserved

Mary OttoJournalist, Author, Health Topic LeaderAssociation of Health Care JournalistsWashington DC

The tragic death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver in 2007 from complications of an untreated dental infection was shared with the world by then-Washington Post writer

Dr. Claudia Cavazos

Dr. Sheela Tummala

Dr. Dayna Brinckman

Ms. Mary Otto

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“New” Faces at NNOHA

These faces are certainly not new to NNOHA, but we welcome them as newly elected NNOHA Board members, whose three-year terms began at Conference:

Clifton Bush, MSM

Mr. Bush is the Chief Operating Officer for Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc. where he oversees the day to day operations of this Southwest Georgia organization with 28 locations.

2019 Board of Directors

PresidentScott Wolpin, DMD

President-ElectChristina Sopiwnik, DMD

SecretaryChris Shea, MUP

TreasurerAllen Patterson, CGMA, CPA,

FACMPE, MHAImmediate Past President

*Janet Bozzone, DMD, MPH, FAGD

Board MembersJay Anderson, DMD, MHSA

Lisa Bozzetti, DDS Clifton Bush, MSM

Domenic Calouri, DMD, FIOCIMark Doherty, DMD, MPH,

CCHPBeverly Foster, DDS, MHA

Michael J. Fox, DDS, MSAndrea Hight

Ethan Kerns, DDSKecia Leary, DDS, MS

An Nguyen, DDS, MPHErnest Meshack-Hart, DDS,

FAGDTena Springer, RDH, MA

Ryan Tuscher, DDS

Emeritus Board Members Juris Svarcbergs, DMD, MPH

Neal Demby, DMD, MPH*John McFarland, DDS

*NNOHA Past President

See you next year in Las Vegas!

Save the Date: October 13-16, 2019

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Caesars Palace

Domenic Calouri, DMD, FICOI

Dr. Dominic Calouri is a dentist with 30+ years of experience in the dental field. He is currently the Chief Dental Officer of the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and the Director of the NYU-Langone AEGD residency program in Santa Barbara. Dr. Calouri received the 2017 NNOHA Outstanding Clinician Award.

Mary Otto. Her reporting inspired legislators and state officials in Maryland to address inadequate access to oral health for lower income people.

Over the past 11 years, Ms. Otto has addressed numerous oral health coalitions and advocacy groups and has been interviewed on dozens of podcasts, radio shows and news broad-casts. She received ADEA’s Gies Award for

Outstanding Achievement in 2010 for her reporting on oral health issues.

In 2017 she published Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America. This book, which brings together history, policy, and painful personal realities about our nation's highly preventable epidemic of oral disease, was selected by National Public Radio as a top book of 2017.

A toast to NNOHA!

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Letter from the Executive Director

Phillip Thompson

When the NNOHA Annual Conference began on Monday morning, November 12, NNOHA president Scott Wolpin informed us there would be many stories shared throughout the meeting. Then he shared his moving story of how he became a community health center dentist and why he remains after 30 years. During the two and a half days that followed, I hope you heard many helpful or uplifting stories. The NNOHA Conference is not just about honing skills, collecting continuing education credits, and enjoying the host city — although these are im-portant and NNOHA works hard to provide these op-portunities — it is also about making new connections and strengthening old ones.

If we did our job, you now have new contacts with other safety-net oral health professionals, information from vendors of goods and services, and you know how to reach presenters whose stories piqued your interest. These stories informed us on the opioid crisis, adverse childhood experiences, dental homes for low income seniors, initiatives for maternal and infant oral health, integrating oral health with the other professions in your health center, and so much more.

The annual conference is also the time of year the NNOHA Board of Directors experiences the sadness of expiring terms for some longtime members and the excitement of welcoming new faces and expertise to our roster of volunteer leaders. We welcome to the Board Dr. Domenic Calouri and Mr. Clif-ton Bush. At the same time, the Board also

reluctantly said farewell to longtime members Dr. Steven Geiermann and Dr. Huong Le. President Wolpin has asked Dr. Geiermann to lend his expertise to the conference plan-ning committee for another year, and we thank him for his willingness to do so.

I would like to end my remarks with a per-sonal thank you to Dr. Le, who was NNOHA president when I was hired as executive director in 2014. I already knew something about community health centers, but not a lot about oral health. Dr. Le became a mentor as well as a boss. She introduced me to

people I needed to know, and she shared stories from NNOHA’s past that made its present under-standable. Along the way I learned something about her own story — the har-rowing childhood escape from a collapsing Vietnam, the diligent pursuit of higher education in a new land, the building of a family where it seems like everyone is a healthcare professional, and how she became dental director at Asian Health Services in

Oakland, where, last I checked, 12 different languages are spoken by providers.

So thank you Huong Le for what you have done for me, and all you have accomplished for NNOHA, as board member, president, conference planner, representative to the Dental Quality Alliance, and ambassador for oral health access.

It’s not goodbye, it’s just the next chapter of the story!

So Many Stories, So Little TimePhillip Thompson, NNOHA Executive Director

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The End is Just the Beginning

National Oral Health Learning Institute (NOHLI) graduated its 6th cohort of scholars in New Orleans at the 2018 NNOHA Annual Conference. A special reception for NOHLI scholars past and present, along with NOHLI faculty and sponsors, was hosted by NNOHA at the Bourbon House restaurant in New Orleans. Congratulations to Cohort 6, pictured below with NOHLI faculty.

NOHLI Celebrates and Advances

Stephanie Galvez, DMDLead DentistNorth County Health ServicesOceanside CA

Tonda Helton, DMDDental DirectorPark Duvalle Community HealthLouisville KY

Hillary Homburg, DDSDental DirectorCabin Creek Health SystemsClendenin WV

Jacquelin Johll, RDHDental Clinic ManagerFort Dodge Community Health CenterFort Dodge IA

David Kadar, DDSChief Dental OfficerParkTree Community Health CenterOntario CA

Loretta Morrissette, RDHDental Program ManagerCoos County Family Health Services IncBerlin NH

Janine Musheno, DMDDental Clinic ManagerProject HOMEPhiladelphia PA

Jamekia Bailey, DDSChief Dental OfficerCarevideRockwall TX

Tiffany Bass, DDSLead DentistCommunity Health CareOlympia WA

Sung Cho, DDSDental DirectorMetro Community Provider NetworkArvada CO

Pamela Cornett, RDHPractice ManagerUniversity of Kentucky North Fork ValleyDental Outreach ProgramHazard KY

Julastene Dyer-Moore, DDSChief Dental OfficerPecos Valley Medical and Dental CenterPecos NM

Rachelle Flores, DMDDental DirectorFather Joe's Villages St. Vincent DePaulSan Diego CA

Shreya Patel, DDSTeam LeaderCommunity Health Center of RichmondStaten Island NY

Sujatha Sivaraman, BDS, DMD, MPHDirector of Pediatric DentistryFamily Health CenterColumbia MO

Julia Smith, RDHDental DirectorCumberland Family Medical Center IncRussell Springs KY

James Stambaugh, DMDDirector of Dental ServicesBig Sandy Health Care IncPrestonburg KY

Eleanor Steel, DMD MPHLead Public Health DentistCabarrus Health AllianceKannapolis NC

Sheela Tummala, DDS, MPHChief Dental OfficerCommunity Health Center IncMeriden CT