Dental service organization Pacific Dental Services (PDS) said that Chief Enterprise Strategy Officer Daniel Burke has been selected to serve on the framework steering committee of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD).
Daniel Burke. Image courtesy of PDS.The 10-person committee will guide a national framework for expanding medical and dental integration programs throughout the U.S., according to PDS. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Oral Health asked the NACDD in September to develop this framework.
The national 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 the CDC. In the first year, the project will focus on examining current programmatic and clinical medical-dental integration strategies, the agency said.
