Sponsored by the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine’s Dunning Symposium Fund and the Health Resources and Services Administration (Grant D86HP24475)

Man Wai Ng

Dentist-in-Chief & DentaQuest Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oral Health and Dentistry, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Developmental Biology (Pediatric Dentistry), Harvard School of Dental Medicine


Learning Objectives

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BIO

Man Wai Ng, DDS, MPH is Dentist-in-Chief and the DentaQuest Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oral Health and Dentistry at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Developmental Biology (Pediatric Dentistry) at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Ng is committed to public health, policy, education, and advocacy to improve the oral health of children, especially the underserved. Since 2008, she has served as principal investigator and faculty chair on a multi-phased DentaQuest Institute-funded Early Childhood Caries Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative that has demonstrated the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a chronic disease prevention and management approach to treating dental caries in clinical practice. Dr. Ng utilizes quality improvement strategies with medical providers to integrate oral health into well child visits and primary pediatric medicine training. She has receiving HRSA training grant funding to develop, test, implement, and spread oral health curricula.

Dr. Ng is serving a six-year term as a member of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and is a member of the Review Committee of the Commission on Dental Accreditation. She previously served on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and was a past member of the Health Resources and Services Administration Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry.

Dr. Ng received her BA in Chemistry from Cornell University, DDS from Stony Brook University, and MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed residency training in general practice dentistry at Booth Memorial Medical Center in NY, fellowship training in special needs dentistry at Helen Hayes Hospital in NY, and residency training in pediatric dentistry at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ng practiced pediatric dentistry at Children’s National Medical Center for 10 years, serving as pediatric dentistry residency program director and Chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry during her tenure.

Interview

0:15 How did you come to be interested in the concept of disease management in dentistry?
2:09 What are the barriers to doing chronic disease management or adopting a medical approach?
3:28 How do you prepare faculty to teach this?
4:24 Are there social, behavioral, informatics forces that are helping to push this movement toward medical management?
5:04 What does it take to become an effective faculty member now to train people for the future?
5:37 If you were to prepare faculty to teach medical management of dental conditions, what’s unique to preparing them for that particular topic?
6:55 What is the primary take home message of your talk?