Daniel Burke, chief enterprise strategy officer at Irvine, Calif.-based Pacific Dental Services, has joined a 10-person committee charged with guiding a national framework for expanding medical and dental integration programs.
The CDC-funded National Association for Chronic Disease Directors has held one meeting of the Medical Dental Integration Steering Committee thus far. NACDD is the only membership association of its kind to serve and represent every chronic disease division, according to a March 4 PDS news release.
In September, the CDC asked the NACDD to develop a national framework for medical-dental integration. The framework "will outline opportunities to integrate medical and dental services in different healthcare and public health settings to support populations with unmet oral health needs and associated chronic diseases," according to an Oct. 15 announcement.