Building Collaborative Research Infrastructure to Reduce Oral Health Disparities Among Older Urban Adults

The speaker is professor and chair of the Division of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health, Department of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. She also is Associate Dean for Research of the dental school. Dr. Reisine received a doctorate in sociology from Yale University and has conducted research health related quality of life and factors contributing oral disparities. She was a contributing author to the Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health in America and she was a panel member on the NIH Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Management of Caries throughout the Lifetime (2001). Dr. Reisine has received several awards in recognition of her scholarly contributions in oral health and rheumatology, including the Distinguished Scientist Award in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research, International Association for Dental Research (2003). She is the author or coauthor of more than 135 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters and more than 100 abstracts.