External Reviewers

This report benefited from the insights and expertise of several external reviewers. We appreciate the thoughtful
feedback that the following members of our case study advisory panel offered on early drafts: Howard Bailit, D.M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Caswell Evans Jr., D.D.S., M.P.H., associate dean for preventive and public health sciences, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois, Chicago; Todd Hartsfield, D.D.S., associate professor of clinical dentistry, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, A.T. Still University; Robert Isman, D.D.S., M.P.H., dental program consultant, California Department of Health Care Services; Jean Moore, B.S.N., M.S.N., director, Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York; Alex Narvaez, D.D.S., dental director, Sea Mar Community Health Centers, Seattle; Matt Niewald, D.D.S., owner-dentist, Lakewood Dental, Lee’s Summit, MO; Mark Schoenbaum, M.S.W., director, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Minnesota Department of Health; and Louis Sullivan, M.D., president emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine. Pew appreciates the very constructive comments on later drafts of the paper offered by Moore, Evans, Isman, Bailit, and Mike Helgeson, D.D.S., CEO, Apple Tree Dental, Minneapolis. Pew is also grateful for the constructive feedback on the Alaska case study provided by Mary Williard, D.D.S., director of dental health aide therapist training at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and on the Virtual Dental Home case study by Richard Niederman, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry at New York University. Particular appreciation goes to Mary Kate Scott, principal, Scott & Co., for her valuable advice on the report’s methodology as well as her very helpful feedback on the report as a whole. Although all of these individuals have reviewed the report, neither they nor their organizations necessarily endorse its findings or conclusions.