1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,960 I'M JENNIFER WEBSTER SIRIAC, 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,400 HERE AT NIDCR, AND I CANNOT TELL 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:14,640 YOU HOW THRILLED I AM TO WELCOME 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,960 EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE TODAY FOR 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,040 THIS CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,360 CELEBRATION. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,000 WELCOME TO CELEBRATING THE PAST, 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:24,960 CHARTING THE FUTURE. 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,800 THIS IS OUR KICKOFF EVENT FOR 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,240 NIDCR'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY. 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:36,480 [APPLAUSE] 12 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:36,920 YES, 1948. 13 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,520 WE ARE SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE, AND 14 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,160 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. 15 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:44,160 SO, NOT TO DELAY, WE WILL BEGIN 16 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:47,760 BY STARTING WITH A QUICK VIDEO. 17 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,160 AND THIS WILL HELP SET THE TONE 18 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,680 FOR THIS MORNING'S SYMPOSIUM. 19 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,560 >>75 YEARS AGO, AN EPIDEMIC OF 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,800 TOOTH DECAY THREATENED THE 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,640 HEALTH AND SECURITY OF THE 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,080 NATION. 23 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,520 THE PROBLEM WAS SO SEVERE, THAT 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,480 IT DISQUALIFIED MANY MILITARY 25 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,000 RECRUITS FROM SERVING DURING 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,520 WORLD WAR II. 27 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:19,200 PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAS COMPELLED 28 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,600 TO SIGN LEGISLATION THAT LED TO 29 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,840 THE FOUNDING OF THE NATIONAL 30 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,160 INSTITUTE OF DENTAL RESEARCH IN 31 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,040 1948. 32 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,400 THE INSTITUTE WAS ENTRUSTED TO 33 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,760 LEAD THE NATION IN RESEARCH ON 34 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,720 THE CAUSES, PREVENTION, AND 35 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,120 TREATMENT OF DENTAL DISEASE. 36 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,240 THE INSTITUTE NOW KNOWN AS THE 37 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,120 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND 38 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,840 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH HAS STAYED 39 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,680 TRUE TO ITS MISSION. 40 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,320 TODAY, MORE ADULTS ARE KEEPING 41 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,400 THEIR NATURAL TEETH THAN EVER 42 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,600 BEFORE, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD 43 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,640 DECAY IS MARKEDLY REDUCED. 44 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:56,840 THE INSTITUTE SCIENCE IS 45 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,480 REVEALING LINKS BETWEEN ORAL 46 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,640 DISEASES AND CONDITIONS SUCH AS 47 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,720 HEART DISEASE, DIABETES, 48 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,040 HIV/AIDS, COGNITIVE DECLINE AND 49 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:07,320 ALZHEIMER'S. 50 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:08,880 NIDCR RESEARCHERS ARE SHEDDING 51 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,040 LIGHT ON CRANIOFACIAL CONDITIONS 52 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:13,920 SUCH AS CLEFT LIP, WITH AND 53 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:16,120 WITHOUT CLEFT PALATE, DEVELOPING 54 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,960 NEW BIOMATERIALS, FOCUSING ON 55 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,440 EARLY DETECTION OF HEAD AND NECK 56 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,120 CANCERS, AND SPEARHEADING 57 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,040 THERAPIES FOR BONE DISORDERS AND 58 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,400 SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE. 59 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,440 NOTABLE ARE TWO RESEARCHERS WHO 60 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,400 SHARED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 61 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,120 PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE FOR THEIR 62 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,440 NIDCR-SUPPORTED DISCOVERIES INTO 63 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,640 HOW OUR BODIES SENSE 64 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,680 TEMPERATURE, TOUCH AND PAIN. 65 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:41,880 NIDCR'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY GIVES 66 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,520 US A CHANCE TO CELEBRATE THESE 67 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,120 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND TO LOOK 68 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,840 FORWARD TO THE WORK THAT LIES 69 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,680 AHEAD. 70 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:51,680 THE 2021 ORAL HEALTH IN AMERICA 71 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,520 REPORT SHOWED THAT PEOPLE FROM 72 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:55,760 MARGINALIZED GROUPS FACE HIGHER 73 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,480 BURDENS OF ORAL DISEASE, AND 74 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,000 LACK ACCESS TO SAFE, HIGH 75 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,600 QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE DENTAL 76 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,000 CARE. 77 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,400 THEREIN LIES OUR CHALLENGE FOR 78 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,040 THE FUTURE. 79 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,440 WE MUST TRANSLATE SCIENTIFIC 80 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,960 DISCOVERIES INTO TREATMENTS AND 81 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,120 CARE THAT EVERYONE CAN ACCESS. 82 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,200 BUILDING A PATIENT-CENTERED 83 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,080 EVIDENCE BASE THAT GUIDES 84 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:17,840 SCIENCE-BASED PRACTICES FOR 85 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,920 HEALTH PROFESSIONS IS A GOAL 86 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,760 THAT NIDCR EMBRACES TODAY. 87 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,080 IN PARALLEL, WE MUST BUILD AN 88 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,680 ORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE THAT 89 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:28,680 REPRESENTS EVERYONE IN OUR 90 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,520 NATION. 91 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,920 NIDCR'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY COMES 92 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:35,360 AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT. 93 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,160 TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ARE 94 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,280 MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO SOLVE 95 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,720 PREVIOUSLY INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS. 96 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,480 NEW 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY WILL 97 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,000 MAKE CUSTOMIZED DENTURES AND 98 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,960 IMPLANTS MORE AFFORDABLE AND 99 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,280 ACCESSIBLE, AND STUDIES WILL 100 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,520 SHED LIGHT ON THE CAUSES OF 101 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,720 PERIIMPLANTITIS. 102 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,160 BY IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC 103 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,720 DENTAL AND MEDICAL RECORDS, 104 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,800 CLINICIANS ARE BEING EMPOWERED 105 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,560 TO PROVIDE MORE HOLISTIC 106 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:06,640 HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE. 107 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,200 THIS WILL HELP RESEARCHERS TRACK 108 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,600 ORAL DISEASE TRENDS AND 109 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:10,920 UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITIES MOST 110 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,600 AFFECTED. 111 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,200 TOGETHER, PASSIONATE AND 112 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,280 COMMITTED, WE CAN ACHIEVE BETTER 113 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:27,480 ORAL HEALTH FOR ALL. 114 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:37,640 [APPLAUSE] 115 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,400 >>HELLO, EVERYONE. 116 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,000 I HOPE THAT CAPTURED THE SPIRIT 117 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,760 OF THIS MORNING. 118 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,840 WE HAVE -- THIS IS A TIME TO 119 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:49,240 CELEBRATE OUR PAST, WHAT REALLY 120 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,080 ALL OUR PREVIOUS DIRECTORS AND I 121 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,520 MUST HONOR AND THANK THEM, THE 122 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:53,680 PREVIOUS EIGHT, AND THOSE WHO 123 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,480 WILL FOLLOW ME, THAT WOULD 124 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,960 ENSURE, IN FACT, THAT THE NEXT 125 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,520 25 YEARS ARE GOOD YEARS FOR THE 126 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,280 INSTITUTE AND FOR NIH. 127 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:04,760 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 128 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,840 I WANT TO SAY THAT THIS 129 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:09,600 PARTICULAR EVENT HAS A VERY 130 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,200 SPECIAL MEANING, AND THE ENTIRE 131 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,200 CELEBRATION THIS YEAR IS DEEP 132 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,920 AND PURPOSEFUL FOR REASON. 133 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,560 AS WE STAND TODAY AS AN 134 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,320 INSTITUTE, WE STAND TO BENEFIT 135 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,400 FROM THE PARTNERSHIPS AND THE 136 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,360 COLLABORATIONS, SO TODAY 137 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,560 ACTUALLY CELEBRATES OUR 138 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,440 STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS. 139 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,160 I THANK EACH ONE OF YOU FOR 140 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:28,960 BEING HERE. 141 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,480 ALL OUR OTHER DISTINGUISHED 142 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:31,800 GUESTS. 143 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,760 AS WE COME TOGETHER WITH THAT 144 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,200 COMMITMENT TO FORGE A PATH FOR 145 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,080 THE FUTURE. 146 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,960 SO NOW WE WILL LISTEN TO A 147 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:39,480 MESSAGE FROM OUR ACTING 148 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,320 DIRECTOR, DR. TABAK, WHO TRULY 149 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,520 IS A TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER OF 150 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:44,160 OUR TIMES. 151 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,000 HE COULDN'T BE HERE, HE WAS 152 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,880 CALLED AT SHORT NOTICE TO ATTEND 153 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,040 TO A RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY IN 154 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,040 KANSAS WITH SENATOR MORAN, SO 155 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,120 LARRY REGRETS AND HE MADE SURE 156 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,520 HE TOLD ME HE WOULD HAVE HAD 157 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,120 MORE FUN HERE, BUT -- SO DO 158 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,120 LISTEN TO THE VIDEO. 159 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,480 I THINK HE DOES HAVE A VISION 160 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:04,120 FOR THE FUTURE. 161 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,720 THANK YOU. 162 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,960 >>GOOD MORNING. 163 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,880 I'M LARRY TABAK, THE ACTING 164 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,160 DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL 165 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,480 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 166 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,360 AND I'M VERY GLAD TO BE ABLE TO 167 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,640 BE HERE WITH YOU VIRTUALLY ON 168 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,320 THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 169 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,640 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND 170 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,200 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH. 171 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,160 BEFORE BEGINNING, I WANT TO 172 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,480 ACKNOWLEDGE TWO THINGS. 173 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,920 THE FIRST IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE DR 174 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,920 DR. RENA D'SOUZA, THE DIRECTOR 175 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,480 OF NIDCR, WHO IS THE RECIPIENT 176 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:51,080 OF THE 2023IADR DISTINGUISHED 177 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,600 SCIENTIST AWARD IN CRANIOFACIAL 178 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:53,200 BIOLOGY RESEARCH. 179 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,560 [APPLAUSE] 180 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,760 RENA, BRAVA. 181 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,240 AND SECONDLY, I WANT TO 182 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,440 ACKNOWLEDGE THE VERY BROAD 183 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,960 COMMUNITY OF NIDCR-SUPPORTED 184 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,240 INVESTIGATORS, BOTH WITHIN THE 185 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,320 EXTRAMURAL PROGRAM AND THE 186 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,440 INTRAMURAL PROGRAM, PAST AND 187 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,280 PRESENT, FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO 188 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,440 RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND FOR 189 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,640 CONTINUOUSLY SHEPPARDING THE 190 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,080 GROWTH OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF 191 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,920 RESEARCHERS. 192 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,240 NOW IN THE TIME THAT I HAVE 193 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,920 AVAILABLE, I WOULD LIKE TO 194 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,240 CONVINCE YOU OF THREE THINGS, 195 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,720 THAT THE FUTURE OF SCIENCES' 196 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,600 DATA-DRIVEN TEAM SCIENCE, THAT 197 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,480 DIVERSITY STRENGTHENS TEAMS, AND 198 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,200 THAT DATA IS THE NEW OIL. 199 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:50,120 SO LET'S BEGIN FIRST WITH THE 200 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,200 FUTURE OF SCIENCE IS DATA-DRIVEN 201 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,720 TEAM SCIENCE. 202 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,560 NOW, NIH IS REALLY ON ITS WAY TO 203 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,400 BECOMING THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC 204 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,440 FUNDER TO BE ABLE TO PREDICT THE 205 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,240 OUTCOMES OF ITS INVESTMENTS 206 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,080 USING DATA ANALYTICS AND 207 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:11,080 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND 208 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,240 MACHINE LEARNING. 209 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,320 IN THIS WAY, WE ARE ATTEMPTING 210 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,720 TO IDENTIFY RESEARCH THAT IS 211 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,000 LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE A 212 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:22,800 BREAKTHROUGH. 213 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,360 WE'RE TRYING TO QUANTIFY THE 214 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:27,920 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INVESTMENTS 215 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,120 AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT OF 216 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,520 KNOWLEDGE, AND WE ARE USING DATA 217 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,680 TO PRIORITIZE SUPPORT AND 218 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,320 POTENTIALLY ACCELERATE DISCOVERY 219 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:43,880 IN BO THOSE MATURE AND EMERGING 220 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,360 FIELDS OF SCIENCE THAT REQUIRE 221 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,080 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT. 222 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,440 AND WE ARE TRACKING THE 223 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,160 PRODUCTIVITY OF 224 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,600 INTERDISCIPLINARY AND TEAM 225 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,240 SCIENCE TO ASSESS THEIR RELATIVE 226 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,880 CONTRIBUTIONS. 227 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,960 IN THIS NEXT SLIDE, WHAT YOU SEE 228 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,320 IS AN EXPERIMENT THAT WE 229 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,440 ACTUALLY CONDUCTED ON OURSELVES. 230 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,440 THE NIH OFFICE OF PORTFOLIO 231 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,360 ANALYSIS ANALYZED COLLABORATIONS 232 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,960 OF NIH INTRAMURAL INVESTIGATORS, 233 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,640 AND USING SOME 25,000 DIFFERENT 234 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,600 PUBLICATIONS THAT THIS COHORT 235 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,800 PRODUCED OVER A FOUR-YEAR 236 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:38,400 PERIOD, THEY BEND THE SCIENCE BY 237 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,000 INVESTIGATIONS THAT WERE 238 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,520 CONTRIBUTED BY SCIENTISTS FROM 239 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,880 ONE INSTITUTE OR CENTER ALONE, 240 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,200 SCIENCE THAT WAS CONTRIBUTED BY 241 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,560 AT LEAST SEVERAL INVESTIGATORS 242 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,000 WITHIN ONE INSTITUTE, TWO OR 243 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,240 MORE INSTITUTES OR CENTERS, 244 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,600 THREE OR MORE INSTITUTES OR 245 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,120 CENTERS AND GREATER THAN THREE 246 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:01,120 INSTITUTES OR CENTERS. 247 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,480 AND USING A RELATIVE CITATION 248 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,440 RATIO, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF 249 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,840 PUBLICATION IMPACT WITHIN A 250 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,920 GIVEN FIELD, YOU CAN SEE VERY 251 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,320 CLEARLY THAT WHEN YOU HAVE FEWER 252 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,440 COLLABORATIONS, COLLABORATIONS 253 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,440 IN THE SAME DISCIPLINES, THE 254 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,920 RELATIVE IMPACT OF THE EMERGING 255 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,320 PUBLICATIONS IS SUBSTANTIALLY 256 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,080 LESS THAN WHEN YOU HAVE 257 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,360 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THREE OR 258 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,160 GREATER INSTITUTES OR CENTERS. 259 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:42,760 MEANING THAT THE MORE 260 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,360 COLLABORATIVE WORK YOU HAVE FROM 261 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,800 THE TEAMS THAT ARE DIFFERENT 262 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,080 FROM ONE ANOTHER, THE GREATER 263 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,880 THE IMPACT. 264 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:55,800 SIMILARLY WHEN YOU ASK THE 265 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,720 QUESTION WHETHER THE WORK IS 266 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,760 CITED IN A CLINICAL ARTICLE TO 267 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,000 SEE IF IT HAS ANY CLINICAL 268 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,400 IMPACT, THE SAME TREND IS 269 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,320 OBSERVED. 270 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,760 THE GREATER THE NUMBER OF MULTI 271 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,160 OR INTERDISCIPLINARY 272 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:12,840 COLLABORATORS, THE GREATER THE 273 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:18,400 EFFECT. 274 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:19,400 FINALLY WHEN YOU ASK WHAT 275 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:20,400 PUBLICATIONS ARE ULTIMATELY 276 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,080 CITED BY A PATENT, CLEARLY, 277 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,440 THERE'S A TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE 278 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:26,800 TO THE WORK THAT WAS DONE IN 279 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:27,920 THREE OR MORE INSTITUTES OR 280 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:33,400 CENTERS. 281 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,120 NOW, THAT, OF COURSE, SUGGESTS 282 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,360 THAT THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY, 283 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:43,280 THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY OF THE 284 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,160 TEAMS IS IMPORTANT, AND INDEED, 285 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,960 I'D LIKE TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT 286 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:50,600 BY POSITING THAT DIVERSITY 287 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,120 ACTUALLY STRENGTHENS TEAMS IN A 288 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:58,360 VERY REAL AND SIGNIFICANT WAY. 289 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,360 MANY, MANY STUDIES, AND WE JUST 290 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,080 HAVE A FEW THAT ARE LISTED HERE, 291 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,440 HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT WHEN YOU 292 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,640 HAVE A DIVERSE RESEARCH TEAM, 293 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,920 THE PAPERS THAT THEY PRODUCE ARE 294 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:15,800 MORE NOVEL, THEY ARE MORE HIGHLY 295 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,520 CITED, THEY HAVE GREATER IMPACT, 296 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,160 AND THEY DISPLAY AND ENHANCE 297 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,080 CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION. 298 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,320 NOW AGAIN, WE DID SOME ANALYSIS, 299 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,280 AND THIS IS THE OFFICE OF 300 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,240 PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS AGAIN, WHICH 301 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,720 SHOWED THAT DEMOGRAPHICICALLY 302 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,280 DIVERSE CO-AUTHORSHIP INCREASES 303 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,240 THE IMPACT OF NIH-FUNDED 304 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,120 PUBLICATIONS. 305 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,120 SO IN THIS INSTANCE, THEY LOOKED 306 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:51,560 AT PAPERS FROM PRINCIPAL 307 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,360 INVESTIGATORS FROM NIH RPG FOR A 308 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:59,400 PERIOD OF SOME NINE YEARS, AND 309 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,040 THEY DIVIDED THE PUBLICATIONS 310 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,040 INTO TWO CATEGORIES, USING 311 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:05,480 DEMOGRAPHIC DATA THAT IS 312 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,880 SELF-REPORTED WITH REGARD TO 313 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,560 ETHNICITY, RACE AND GENDER. 314 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:15,640 NON-DIVERSE TEAMS SHOWN IN THE 315 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,520 BLUE TRACING ON THE LOWER 316 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:23,640 PORTION OF EACH OF THESE PANELS 317 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,080 ARE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 318 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:32,080 EFFECTIVELY MALE WHITE AUTHORS. 319 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,240 AND THE DIVERSE TEAMS, AGAIN, 320 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,440 THE UPPER TRACING OR YELLOW IN 321 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,200 EACH OF THE PANELS REPRESENT 322 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,880 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DIVERSE 323 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:50,280 TEAMS, AND THE INTERMEDIATE LINE 324 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,560 OR GREY JUST IS COMPILATION OF 325 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:53,440 ALL OF THE DATA. 326 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,720 AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS THAT BY 327 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,920 RELATIVE CITATION RATIO, OR 328 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,200 CLINICAL IMPACT OR TECHNICAL 329 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,120 IMPACT, IN ALL INSTANCES, THE 330 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,760 CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY DIVERSE 331 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,640 TEAMS FAR EXCEED THOSE MADE BY A 332 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,760 HOMOGENEOUS NON-DIVERSE GROUP OF 333 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:25,160 INVESTIGATORS. 334 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,720 NOW, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO 335 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,760 CONVINCE YOU OF IS THAT THE MOST 336 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,640 EXCITING ADVANCES, WHICH ARE 337 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,920 CERTAINLY BEING DRIVEN BY 338 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:42,440 INTERDISCIPLINARITY, 339 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:43,360 MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY, ARE BEING 340 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,640 MADE NOT AT TRADITIONAL 341 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,560 DISCIPLINES, BUT RATHER AT THE 342 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:49,840 INTERFACE OF THOSE DISCIPLINES. 343 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,880 NOW, THIS IS A DISCIPLINE MAP 344 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,240 WHICH BASICALLY PLOTS ALL THE 345 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,040 DIFFERENT CONTRIBUTIONS 346 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,120 PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE OVER A 347 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:11,720 PERIOD OF TIME, AND YOU CAN SEE 348 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,320 SOME VERY OBVIOUS DISCIPLINES. 349 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,520 FOR EXAMPLE, INFECTIOUS 350 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,360 DISEASES, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, 351 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,040 CLINICAL MEDICINE. 352 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,320 THESE ARE ALL VERY FAMILIAR TO 353 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,280 ALL OF YOU. 354 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,720 AND EACH NODE REPRESENTS A 355 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,520 SUBDISCIPLINE, AND THE LINES 356 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,760 BETWEEN THE NODES REPRESENT THE 357 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,760 STRENGTH OF THE SIMILARITY 358 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,560 BETWEEN THOSE NODES. 359 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,880 NOW WHAT I'D LIKE YOU TO DO IS I 360 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,600 WANT YOU TO FOCUS JUST FOR A 361 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:51,520 MOMENT OF A SUBSECTION OF THIS 362 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,240 PLOT BECAUSE MANY OF YOU HAVE 363 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,360 READ ABOUT OR INDEED MAYBE SOME 364 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,000 OF YOU HAVE STUDIED THE 365 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,600 POTENTIAL ROLE OF THE MICROBIOME 366 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,800 WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF HUMAN 367 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,880 HEALTH. 368 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:13,720 AND SO LET'S FOCUS ON JUST THIS 369 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,440 SUBSET OF THAT LARGER PLOT THAT 370 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,720 I SHARED WITH YOU. 371 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,800 TO LOOK AT THE INTERSECTION 372 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,640 AMONG INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 373 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,680 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, THINGS LIKE 374 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,040 BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR 375 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,240 BIOLOGY, CLINICAL MEDICINE, 376 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,040 COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND 377 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:34,600 PSYCHOLOGY. 378 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,200 IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE 379 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,520 INTERSECTION AMONG THESE THINGS, 380 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,840 AND THEN PARSE DOWN EVEN FURTHER 381 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,800 WFURTHER, WHAT YOU SEE IS AN 382 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,440 EMERGING AREA OF SCIENCE WHICH 383 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,200 REQUIRES A HIGHLY 384 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,800 INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH 385 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,600 INVOLVING MULTIPLE DIFFERENT 386 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:01,600 FIELDS OF SCIENCE WHEREBY THE 387 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,440 MICROBIOTA, IN THIS CASE, THE 388 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,520 GUT FLORA, BUT THIS COULD ALSO 389 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:08,720 BE THE FLOOR WHAT WITHIN THE 390 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:20,160 THE FLORA, OF COURSE, ISSOMEHOWE 391 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,560 ENDOCRINE SYSTEM ULTIMATELY 392 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:23,200 HAVING INFLUENCE ON LIMBIC 393 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,520 SYSTEM AND ULTIMATELY THINGS 394 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,560 LIKE COGNITION, OR THE REVERSE. 395 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,840 EMOTION AND STRESS VIA THE 396 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,440 LIMBIC SYSTEM INFLUENCING THE 397 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,120 ENDOCRINE SYSTEM, INFLUENCING 398 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,760 TARGETS IN THE G.I. TRACT, 399 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:38,480 INFLUENCING THE MICROBIOTA. 400 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,720 SO THIS IS A FORWARDS AND 401 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,680 BACKWARDS POTENTIAL AXIS. 402 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,840 AND THIS SHOWS YOU HOW 403 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:53,080 INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES 404 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,160 FOSTER THE EMERGENCE OF BRAND 405 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,280 NEW NOVEL SCIENCE. 406 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,320 AND REALLY JUST SUCH AN EXCITING 407 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:08,640 OPPORTUNITY GOING FORWARD. 408 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,360 NOW FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO 409 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,240 CONVINCE YOU, AND I HOPE I HAVE 410 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,280 BY NOW, BUT DATA IS THE NEW OIL. 411 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:23,880 OVER THE PAST DECADE, ADVANCED 412 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:24,760 TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPUTATIONAL 413 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,120 PROCESSING INCLUDING ARTIFICIAL 414 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,600 INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE 415 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,560 LEARNING HAVE ENABLED 416 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:30,520 INVESTIGATORS TO GENERATE 417 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,880 ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF DATA, BUT 418 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,200 WHAT WE'RE NOW DOING IS WE'RE 419 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,000 FIGURING OUT HOW TO BOTH STORE 420 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,080 BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY COMPUTE ON 421 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:43,600 THOSE DATA, OFTEN TO DERIVE FROM 422 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,680 DISPARATE FIELDS OF SCIENCE. 423 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,280 NIH HAS REALLY MADE TREMENDOUS 424 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:50,080 PROGRESS IN THIS REGARD. 425 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:55,240 AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVER 200 426 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,920 200PETABYTES OF DATA AND THE 427 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,200 CONTENT OF THESE DATA ARE VERY 428 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:05,360 BROAD. 429 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:07,680 FROM GENETIC EXPRESSION AND 430 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,080 VARIATION ANALYSIS ALL THE WAY 431 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,040 TO CLINICAL ANALYTICS AND SO 432 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:13,400 FORTH. 433 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,240 AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. 434 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:21,360 AND INDEED, ACQUIRING THE DATA, 435 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,720 STORING THE DATA IN A PLACE 436 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,960 WHERE IT CAN BE EASILY COMPUTED 437 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,040 UPON, AND FIGURING OUT NOVEL 438 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,080 APPROACHES TO DO CROSS-PLATFORM 439 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:33,200 COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS IS REALLY 440 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,000 WHERE ALL THE ACTION IS GOING 441 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:36,240 FORWARD. 442 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,920 AND I JUST WANT TO CLOSE BY 443 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,120 POINTING OUT TO YOU THAT INDEED, 444 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:45,440 NIDCR IS MAKING ITS VERY 445 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,640 IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION IN THIS 446 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:48,840 DATA-RICH SPACE, AND I'M USING 447 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:53,880 THIS AS ONE EXAMPLE, THE SO-C 448 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,920 SO-CALLED FACEBASE INITIATIVE, 449 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,680 WHICH DR. D'SOUZA HAS BEEN 450 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,840 LEADING MOST RECENTLY, AND AS 451 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,520 YOU CAN SEE, THIS VERY IMPORTANT 452 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,840 DATA AND ANALYSIS HUB IS REALLY 453 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,520 SUPPORTING CRANIOFACIAL AND 454 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,880 DENTAL RESEARCHERS IN A WHOLE 455 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:14,760 RANGE OF WAYS. 456 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,280 AND WE CERTAINLY APPLAUD THIS 457 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,080 AND LACK FORWARD -- AND LOOK FOO 458 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,280 THE MANY NEW FINDINGS THAT THIS 459 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,600 TYPE OF DATA AND OTHERS LIKE IT 460 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,880 WILL SPAWN IN THE FUTURE. 461 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,360 SO WITH THAT, AGAIN, I WOULD 462 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:32,400 LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR 463 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,320 ATTENTION, AND I DO HOPE THAT 464 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,800 THE REMAINDER OF THE SYMPOSIUM 465 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,520 IS REALLY WONDERFUL FOR YOU. 466 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:39,640 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 467 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:45,680 [APPLAUSE] 468 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,600 >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LARRY. 469 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,560 YOU MISSED AT THIS VERY SPECIAL 470 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,280 EENT, EVENT, BUT YOUR WORDS OF M 471 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:55,960 GUIDE US. 472 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,680 AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IN THE 473 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,040 75 YEARS THAT AS A PROFESSION OF 474 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,760 THE ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, YOU 475 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,520 HAVE DISTINGUISHED YOURSELF AND 476 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:03,080 US. 477 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,360 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 478 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,960 AND OBVIOUSLY NOW FOR ME TO 479 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,400 INTRODUCE DR. FRANCIS COLLINS IS 480 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,720 A DAUNTING TASK. 481 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,560 FRANCIS, I'M SO GRATEFUL AND NOT 482 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,960 JUST BECAUSE YOU HIRED ME AT NIH 483 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,160 IN A VIRTUAL SETTING, BUT 484 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:19,680 BECAUSE YOU ARE A MAN OF YOUR 485 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,000 TIMES. 486 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,760 YOU ARE A REMARKABLE INDIVIDUAL. 487 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,960 YOU INTRODUCED TO US AND SOCIETY 488 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,680 THE HUMAN GENOME. 489 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,200 THAT GENOMIC ERA, THAT PROJECT 490 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,280 THAT YOU SPEARHEADED ALONG WITH 491 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,680 COLLEAGUES IN 2003 WAS 492 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:34,800 COMPLETED, AND ACTUALLY OPENED 493 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,760 UP FOR ALL OF US AND NOT JUST AT 494 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,800 NIDCR BUT THE GENERAL FIELD OF 495 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,680 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH HOPE AND 496 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:43,440 PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE. 497 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,720 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 498 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,080 YOUR PRESENCE, BOTH NOW ON THE 499 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,320 HILL AND AT THE WHITE HOUSE IS 500 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,720 ALSO VERY IMPACTFUL. 501 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,400 BEING A MEMBER, AN ELECTED 502 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,120 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF 503 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,600 MEDICINE AND THE NATIONAL 504 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,440 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, YOU RECEIVED 505 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,680 THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF 506 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,880 FREEDOM IN NOVEMBER 2007, AND 507 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,720 ALSO THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF 508 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,120 SERVICE IN 2009. 509 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,480 VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR PRESENCE. 510 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,120 LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR WORDS. 511 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:10,600 THANK YOU. 512 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:18,080 [APPLAUSE] 513 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,960 >>WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 514 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:21,480 DR. D'SOUZA. 515 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,320 ALSO THANKS TO DR. WEBSTER 516 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,120 SIRIAC AND TO MY FRIEND, LARRY 517 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,600 TABAK, WHO I'M QUITE SURE HE WAS 518 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:30,560 SPEAKING HONESTLY WHEN HE SAID 519 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,560 HE WOULD HAVE MORE FUN IF HE WAS 520 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,160 HERE, BUT HE IS DOING WHAT AN 521 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,120 ACTING DIRECTOR SHOULD DO WHEN 522 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:38,840 INVITED BY A SENATOR TO GO AND 523 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,880 TAKE PART IN THE CELEBRATION OF 524 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,480 THE OPENING OF A NEW CANCER 525 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,680 CENTER IN KANSAS. 526 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,120 SO WE WILL ALL HAVE TO GIVE HIM 527 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,440 A RUNDOWN ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 528 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,640 HE RETURNS, BECAUSE I KNOW HE 529 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,800 WILL WANT TO KNOW. 530 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,240 AND ALSO, GLAD TO SEE IN THE 531 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,520 FRONT ROW ALL OF THESE 532 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,960 STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTNERS WHO 533 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,120 HAVE COME FOR THIS SPECIAL DAY 534 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,880 AS WELL, BECAUSE NIH REALLY ONLY 535 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,560 SUCCEEDS BECAUSE OF THOSE 536 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,400 RELATIONSHIPS AND GLAD THAT YOU 537 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,360 ARE PART OF THIS CELEBRATION 538 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,560 WHERE WE'RE BOTH LOOKING BACK 539 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:07,240 AND LOOKING FORWARD. 540 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,560 IT DOES SEEM TO BE SORT OF A 541 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,640 YEAR OR MAYBE A SEASON OF 542 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,400 ANNIVERSARIES. 543 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,480 JUST IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS, 544 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,200 WE'VE CELEBRATED THE 70TH 545 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,920 ANNIVERSARY OF THE DNA DOUBLE 546 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,560 HELIX, PUBLISHED IN 1953 BY 547 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,120 WATSON AND CRICK. 548 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:25,320 TOMORROW, I WILL SPEAK FROM THIS 549 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,600 VERY PODIUM ABOUT THE 70TH 550 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,920 ANNIVERSARY OF THE NIH CLINICAL 551 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,400 CENTER, WHERE YOU ARE LOCATED 552 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,200 RIGHT NOW. 553 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,520 SEVEN DECADES OF REMARKABLE 554 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,600 ACHIEVEMENTS. 555 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,000 IN THIS LARGEST RESEARCH 556 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,720 HOSPITAL IN THE WORLD. 557 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,600 IT IS ALSO THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY 558 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,720 OF THE COMPLETION OF ALL THE 559 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,040 ORIGINAL GOALS OF THE HUMAN 560 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,560 GENOME PROJECT, AND THANK YOU, 561 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,000 RENA, FOR REFERRING TO THAT AS 562 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:47,720 HAVING BEEN IMPORTANT. 563 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,160 I THINK IT WAS. 564 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:51,720 AND IT'S CERTAINLY HAD A BIG 565 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,600 IMPACT ON ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT 566 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,120 WE DO BOTH IN THE BASIC SCIENCE 567 00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:56,960 LAB AND INCREASINGLY IN THE 568 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,840 CLINICAL SETTING AS WELL. 569 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,760 AND OKAY, JUST ONE MORE FOR ME, 570 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,760 IT'S MY 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF 571 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,400 COMING HERE TO NIH FROM THE 572 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:05,920 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 573 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,560 [APPLAUSE] 574 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,680 AND IT'S BEEN JUST AN AMAZING 575 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:13,880 OPPORTUNITY INCLUDING THOSE 12 576 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,480 YEARS WHERE I WAS PRIVILEGED TO 577 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,040 SERVE AS NIH DIRECTOR UNDER 578 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,120 THREE PRESIDENTS, AND NOW 579 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,640 WRITING MY RESEARCH LAB OVER IN 580 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,720 BUILDING 50, AS WELL AS 581 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,480 PROMOTING A REALLY IMPORTANT 582 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,800 PROJECT TO TRY TO ELIMINATE A 583 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,720 DISEASE CALLED HEPATITIS C IN 584 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,920 THE UNITED STATES, A DISORDER 585 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,680 WHICH IS FAMILIAR, CERTAINLY, TO 586 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,200 DENTISTS, AND ONE WHICH WE HAVE 587 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,160 THE OPPORTUNITY NOW TO DO 588 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,600 SOMETHING TRULY HISTORIC. 589 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,200 I DID ASK A FEW PEOPLE IN MY 590 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,720 LAB, WHAT INSTITUTE WOULD BE 591 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,560 HAVING ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY AT 592 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,120 THIS POINT? 593 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:50,760 AND THESE ARE POSTBACS WHO 594 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,160 HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR VERY LONG, 595 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,480 SO THEY'RE SCRATCHING THEIR HEAD 596 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,200 GOING, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN 1948, 597 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,720 UM, GOSH, THAT WAS PRETTY EARLY 598 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:58,720 DAYS. 599 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,920 WAS IT HEART? 600 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:01,240 NO. 601 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,000 WAS IT CANCER? 602 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,360 NO. 603 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:05,440 IT WAS DENTAL. 604 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,960 AND THEY'RE LIKE, REALLY? 605 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,600 WOW! 606 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,360 OKAY. 607 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,560 I THINK THE DENTAL INSTITUTE 608 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:13,600 PROBABLY HAS NOT GOTTEN THE 609 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,440 RESPECT IT DESERVES FOR THESE 7E 610 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,560 GOING TO TRY TO REALLY SEE WHAT 611 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:18,680 WE CAN DO TO CORRECT THAT. 612 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:24,280 [APPLAUSE] 613 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,440 LARRY TABAK DOES A PRETTY GOOD 614 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,600 IMITATION OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD 615 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,120 BUT I DON'T THINK WE OUGHT TO 616 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,680 TRY TO OVERDO THAT ISSUE ABOUT 617 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,160 NOT GETTING RESPECT. 618 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,080 THIS INSTITUTE HAS BEEN AN 619 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:35,840 AMAZING CONTRIBUTOR TO 620 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,360 EVERYTHING THAT NIH HAS 621 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,200 ACCOMPLISHED, AND I THINK MOST 622 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,400 PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW 623 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,320 FOUNDATIONAL THAT HAS BEEN. 624 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,040 I LOOKED BACK ON THIS AND 625 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,080 DISCOVERED THAT THAT FIRST 626 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,200 COMMUNITY FLUORIDATION PROJECT 627 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,600 IN GRAND RAPIDS IN 1945 WAS KIND 628 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,680 OF CONTROVERSIAL AND WAS ONE OF 629 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,520 THE REASONS WHY IT WAS SEEN 630 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,600 NECESSARY TO HAVE A REALLY WELL 631 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,040 ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT EFFORT TO 632 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,760 STUDY DENTAL PRACTICE AND 633 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:03,880 RESEARCH, AND IT WAS A GOOD 10 634 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,760 YEARS LATER WHERE THE RESULTS OF 635 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,640 THE GRAND RAPIDS TRIAL CAME 636 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,200 FORWARD AND WOS OBVIOUSLY QUITE 637 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:10,640 CONVINCING. 638 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,280 I MIGHT SAY ON A PERSONAL NOTE, 639 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,360 I DID NOT BENEFIT FROM THAT, 640 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,320 GROWING UP ON A SMALL FARM ABOUT 641 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,800 2 1/2 HOURS FROM HERE, WHERE OUR 642 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,640 WATER CAME FROM A HAND-PUMPED 643 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,400 CISTERN, WATER THAT WAS 644 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,320 COLLECTED OFF OF THE ROOF OF THE 645 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,200 HOUSE WHEN IT RAINED. 646 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,160 SO I DIDN'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF 647 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,240 WHAT GRAND RAPIDS HAD TOLD US 648 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,280 WAS GOING TO BE A GOOD THING. 649 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,800 AND MY DENTIST IS SENDING HIS 650 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,080 CHILDREN TO COLLEGE AS A RESULT. 651 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,520 [LAUGHTER] 652 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,360 BUT CERTAINLY THAT WAS THE FIRST 653 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,880 AND MOST PROMINENT PART OF WHAT 654 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,760 WAS THEN NIDR'S MISSION, BUT 655 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,360 MUCH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN. 656 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,120 IN STRETCHING THIS INTO MANY 657 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:49,720 DIFFERENT AND IMPORTANT AREAS 658 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,320 THAT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO RUN 659 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,600 THROUGH, BUT WHICH THERE'S A 660 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:53,680 NICE SUMMARY ON THE WEB IF YOU 661 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,000 WANT TO GO AND E EDUCATE YOURSEF 662 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,080 AS I'VE TRIED TO DO IN THE LAST 663 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,520 COUPLE OF DAYS. 664 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,880 THERE WAS THAT NATIONAL CARE CAS 665 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,160 PROGRAM STARTED IN 1971. 666 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,800 THERE WAS OF COURSE ALSO AN 667 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,120 ENLARGEMENT INTO UNDERSTANDING 668 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,640 THINGS LIKE CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT 669 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,720 PALATE, THE FIRST 670 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,480 MULTIDISCIPLINARY GRANT ON CLEFT 671 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,480 PALATE IN 1962, AND THEN ONLY IN 672 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,800 1998 DID NIDR BECOME NIDCR, 673 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:21,880 ADDING CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH 674 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,120 FORMALLY TO THE MISSION OF THIS 675 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:25,280 INSTITUTE IN A WAY THAT I THINK 676 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,800 HAS REALLY MOVED THAT FIELD 677 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:29,920 FORWARD IN DRAMATIC WAYS. 678 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,320 LOTS OF REORGANIZATIONS ALONG 679 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,760 THE WAY. 680 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:34,360 ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONNECTION 681 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,840 HERE THAT I THINK OUGHT TO BE 682 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,680 HIGHLIGHTED AS A REALLY 683 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,600 IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION OF NIDCR 684 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,720 IS RESEARCH ON PAIN. 685 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,920 AND THE FIRST MULTIDISCIPLINARY 686 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,680 PAIN CLINIC THAT WAS FOCUSED ON 687 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,360 RESEARCH WAS FOUNDED BY NIDR IN 688 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:52,040 1983. 689 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,200 AND NOW NIDCR BECOMES ONE OF THE 690 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,960 MOST SIGNIFICANT LEADERS IN OUR 691 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,960 PAIN RESEARCH EFFORTS AS PART OF 692 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,480 THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 693 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,800 WE ALL WOULD AGREE THAT WHAT HAS 694 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,640 HAPPENED WITH THE OPIOID CRISIS 695 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,840 IN THIS COUNTRY IS ONE OF THE 696 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,800 GREAT TRAGEDIES OF OUR TIME WITH 697 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,280 MORE THAN 100,000 LIVES BEING 698 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,440 LOST EVERY YEAR TO OVERDOSES, 699 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,240 MOSTLY OF OPIOIDS. 700 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:15,760 AND OF COURSE PEOPLE HAVE 701 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,520 VARIOUS WAYS OF GETTING 702 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,280 ADDICTED, AND ONE OF THEM 703 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,480 UNFORTUNATELY HAS BEEN 704 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,440 PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OPIOIDS WITH 705 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:23,720 GOOD INTENTIONS BUT NOT ALWAYS 706 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:24,960 GOOD OUTCOMES. 707 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,520 AND CERTAINLY THE DENTAL 708 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,680 PROFESSION HAS TAKEN THIS ON IN 709 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,360 A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAY AND NEEDS 710 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,400 TO CONTINUE TO DO SO. 711 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,760 BUT NIDCR IS ALSO INVOLVED IN 712 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,600 TRYING TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE 713 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,920 TO IDENTIFY OTHER ALTERNATIVES, 714 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,160 NON-ADDICTING PAIN MEDICINES 715 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,080 THAT COULD TAKE THE PLACE OF 716 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,440 OPIOIDS AND WOULD NOT CARRY THE 717 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,320 SAME RISK, WHICH IS A BIG PART 718 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:46,240 OF THE HEAL INITIATIVE. 719 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,280 AND THERE IS SOME REAL PROGRESS 720 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,600 GOING ON THERE. 721 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,120 I THINK NIDCR HAS ALSO TAKEN A 722 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,480 NATIONAL ROLE IN TRYING TO 723 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,840 ADVOCATE FOR ORAL HEALTH AND 724 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,440 SEEKING OUT PARTNERS TO DO SO, 725 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,360 AND A PARTICULAR INSTANCE IN 726 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,760 2000, THAT WAS DAVID SATCHER, 727 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,160 THE CDC SURGEON GENERAL AT THE 728 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,000 TIME, WHO TOGETHER WITH NIDCR 729 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,200 PUT OUT THIS CALL TO ACTION FOR 730 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,280 ORAL HEALTH. 731 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,880 AND THEN MORE RECENTLY, JUST TWO 732 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,880 YEARS AGO IN A DOCUMENT WHICH 733 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,960 WAS CO-SPONSORED BY NIH AND 734 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,040 SURGEON GENERAL VIVEK MURTHY, AN 735 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,560 UPDATE ON THAT ORAL HEALTH IN 736 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,760 AMERICA, MAKING IT CLEAR THAT WE 737 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,600 HAVE NOT SOLVED ALL OF THE 738 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,800 THINGS THAT WE'RE CALLED UPON TO 739 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,160 DO BACK IN 2000, ALTHOUGH 740 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,200 PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, AND 741 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,360 AGAIN, THAT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A 742 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:40,840 COVER LETTER ASSIG SIGNED BY 743 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,040 DR. D'SOUZA, DR. MURTHY AND 744 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,600 MYSELF AND PROVIDES A PRETTY 745 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,680 IMPORTANT ADVOCACY DOCUMENT FOR 746 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,000 WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT ORAL 747 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,320 HEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY. 748 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,440 FINALLY, I WOULD SAY I SAW IN 749 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,600 THE OPENING VIDEO THE COVER OF 750 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,000 THE MOST RECENT STRATEGIC PLAN. 751 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,080 THAT'S FROM TWO YEARS AGO, FROM 752 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:55,280 NIDCR. 753 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,840 THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD 754 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,160 DOCUMENT. 755 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,760 A LOT OF STRATEGIC PLANS THAT 756 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:01,880 NIH INSTITUTES PUT TOGETHER TEND 757 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,880 TO BE SO HIGH LEVEL THAT YOU 758 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,960 CAN'T REALLY TELL WHAT'S IN 759 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,480 THERE. 760 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,200 THESE FOLKS WERE MUCH MORE 761 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,200 SPECIFIC IN THEIR VARIOUS 762 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,200 COMPONENTS OF THE PLAN, AND EVEN 763 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,480 HAS A COMPONENT OF THIS PLAN 764 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,240 WHICH I PARTICULARLY LIKE AND 765 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,320 WHICH I'VE ADVOCATED ALL OF THE 766 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:17,600 ICs OUGHT TO STRIVE FOR AS 767 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,920 SORT OF A LIST OF THINGS THAT 768 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,360 IMAGINE YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO 769 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,000 THIS. 770 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,320 THINGS THAT YOU AREN'T REALLY 771 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,960 QUITE SURE ARE ACHIEVABLE BUT 772 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,040 MAYBE WILL INSPIRE PEOPLE IF 773 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,880 THEY THINK ABOUT IT. 774 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,520 SO ANY WAWAY, THAT IS A VERY QUK 775 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,760 ROMP THROUGH 75 YEARS BUT HOW 776 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,320 ABOUT THE NEXT 75? 777 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,600 WELL, I'M GOING TO ADVOCATE, 778 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,880 BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I GENERALLY 779 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,280 THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO DO AND I 780 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,160 CAN'T HELP MYSELF ANYWAY, IS TO 781 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,880 BE BOLD, TO BE VISIONARY, TO 782 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,480 TAKE SOME RISKS, DO SOME 783 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,480 FABULOUS BASIC SCIENCE BUT 784 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,600 ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE 785 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,000 PATIENTS WHO ARE WAITING FOR 786 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,880 ANSWERS. 787 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,000 AGAIN, LOOKING AT THAT STRATEGIC 788 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:55,840 PLAN AND BRAINSTORMING ABOUT A 789 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,040 FEW OTHER THINGS, WHAT ARE SOME 790 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,160 OF THE THINGS MAYBE IN THE NEXT 791 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,760 FEW YEARS, AND I'M NOT GOING TO 792 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,280 TRY FOR 75, MAYBE FOR THE NEXT 793 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,720 FIVE OR 10, THAT SEEM 794 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,760 PARTICULARLY PROMISING. 795 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:07,680 CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENTAL 796 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,520 PATHWAYS ARE GOING TO GET SORTED 797 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,400 OUT AT A LEVEL OF MOLECULAR 798 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:13,720 SPECIFICITY, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE 799 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,480 TOOLS TO DO THAT NOW WITH STEM 800 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,120 CELL RESEARCH, WITH THE ABILITY 801 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,000 TO LOOK AT SINGLE CELLS AND ASK 802 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,280 THEM WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHAT 803 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,600 GENES ARE THEY EXPRESSING, 804 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,440 WHAT'S THE STATE OF THEIR 805 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,120 CHROMATIN, AND A WHOLE HOST OF 806 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,200 OTHER THINGS THAT ONE CAN DO 807 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480 WITH TISSUE CHIPS. 808 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,800 THE ABILITY THEN TO UNDERSTAND 809 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,320 THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENTAL 810 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,080 PATHWAYS AND HOW GENETIC 811 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,400 VARIATIONS INTERSECT WITH THAT, 812 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,320 IT SEEMS TO ME, IS ON AN EVEN 813 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,120 STRONGER COURSE THAN I WOULD 814 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,320 HAVE THOUGHT POSSIBLE A FEW 815 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,920 YEARS AGO, AND I EXPECT A LOT OF 816 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,720 INTERESTING THINGS WILL HAPPEN 817 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,160 THERE. 818 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,920 MAYBE INCLUDING INTERVENTIONS 819 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,120 WITH REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, 820 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,280 THINGS LIKE 3D PRINTING THAT ARE 821 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:50,160 ALREADY EXCITING BUT ARE GOING 822 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,640 TO GET EVEN MORE SO. 823 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,840 MENTIONED ALSO BY DR. TABAK IN 824 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,680 HIS VERY NICE VIDEO THE 825 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:58,800 MICROBIOME AS A WAY OF BRINGING 826 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,960 A WHOLE LOT OF SCIENCE TOGETHER. 827 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,160 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STUDYING 828 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,880 THAT G.I. TRACT FOR ITS 829 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:06,560 MICROBIOME. 830 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,200 THE ORAL MICROBIOME, GOT TO BE 831 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,800 AT LEAST AS IMPORTANT AND HAS 832 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,520 PROBABLY GOTTEN LESS ATTENTION. 833 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:13,720 AND THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND 834 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,760 HOW THAT PLAYS OUT IN HEALTH AND 835 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,840 DISEASE AND HOW THAT MIGHT 836 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,960 INFLUENCE THE CHOICE OF TRULY 837 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:22,640 SCIENCE-DRIVEN PROBIOTICS AS 838 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,280 OPPOSED TO THE HAND WAVING 839 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,720 PROBIOTICS THAT WE LARGELY SEE 840 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,160 AROUND US RIGHT NOW HAS GOT TO 841 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,560 BE PRETTY INTERESTING. 842 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,640 I WAS ALSO APPRECIATIVE THAT HE 843 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,640 WAS MAKING THE CASE ABOUT THE 844 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,360 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GUT AND 845 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,440 THE BRAIN, AND THAT IS CERTAINLY 846 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,000 SOMETHING THAT'S ALSO GOING TO 847 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,280 INVOLVE THE ORAL CAVITY. 848 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,360 IF YOU DON'T THINK THE GUT AND 849 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,120 THE BRAIN ARE CONNECTED, LOOK 850 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,320 WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT NOW IN 851 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:45,960 DIABETES. 852 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,960 I WAS, ON FRIDAY, AT A MEETING 853 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,800 OF THE OTHER ADA, THE AMERICAN 854 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:51,920 DIABETES ASSOCIATION, WHERE 855 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,440 THERE WERE NO LESS THAN FOUR 856 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,760 CLINICAL TRIALS BEING PUT 857 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,680 FORWARD ABOUT THE ADVANCES IN 858 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,600 THESE INCRETIN AGONISTS THAT DO 859 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,400 THINGS THAT ARE AGONISTS FOR 860 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,360 THINGS LIKE GLP1 RECEPTOR AND GI 861 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,080 RECEPTOR WITH JUST DRAMATIC 862 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:14,520 CONSEQUENCES FOR KI DIKES WHO S 863 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,080 WHO ARE ALSO OBESE. 864 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,840 REDUCING YOUR A1C IN 4 MONTHS, 865 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,600 THE AVERAGE WEIGHT LOSS IN MANY 866 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,440 OF THESE PROTOCOLS, 15 TO 20% OF 867 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,800 BODY WEIGHT, ALL HAPPENING IN 868 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,560 FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AND NOT MUCH 869 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,000 IN THE SHORT TERM ANYWAY OF 870 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:30,680 APPARENT SIDE EFFECTS. 871 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,000 SO THERE IS THE GUT AND THE 872 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,480 BRAIN IN PROFOUNDLY INTERESTING 873 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,360 WAYS BECAUSE THESE ARE ENDOCRINE 874 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,400 HORMONES THAT ARE PRODUCED BY 875 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,520 THE GUT AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE A BIG 876 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:40,400 EFFECT ON SATIETY. 877 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,920 SO BRINGING THAT ALL TOGETHER, 878 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,560 AND THE EMPHASIS THAT LARRY MADE 879 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,280 ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS IS GOING TO 880 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,560 BE CRITICAL HERE SO I'D LOVE TO 881 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,480 SEE MORE AND MORE OF THOSE 882 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:51,680 HAPPENING BETWEEN DENTAL 883 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,000 RESEARCHERS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE 884 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,520 INVOLVED IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND 885 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,720 PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN 886 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:57,600 NEUROSCIENCE. 887 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,360 CANCER, OF COURSE, IS A CRITICAL 888 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,160 AREA OF INTEREST FOR NIDCR, 889 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,040 CANCERS OF THE HEAD AND NECK. 890 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,680 THOSE ARE TOUGH PROBLEMS BUT YOU 891 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,800 KNOW, WITH THE WAY IN WHICH WE 892 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,360 ARE SEEING ADVANCES IN VACCINES 893 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,080 FOR CANCERS, MUCH OF IT IS 894 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,840 STIMULATED BY THE MRNA 895 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:16,200 TECHNOLOGY. 896 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,920 I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A WHOLE LOT 897 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,480 OF INTERESTING ACTIVITY THERE, 898 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,640 WHERE YOU CAN, BECAUSE THE CYCLE 899 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,680 TIME FOR DEVELOPING A CANCER 900 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,280 VACCINE IS GREATLY REA DUED BY - 901 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,360 REDUCED BY THE ABILITY TO USE 902 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,360 THE MRNA APPROACH. 903 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,920 YOU CAN ACTUALLY IMAGINE HAVING 904 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,200 SOMEBODY WHOSE CANCER HAS BEEN 905 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,800 DIAGNOSED, WHERE THE CANCER HAS 906 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:37,840 BEEN SEQUENCED TO DETERMINE WHAT 907 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,600 ARE THE DRIVER MUTATIONS AND 908 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,200 THEN YOU GENERATE A SORT OF 909 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,160 PERSON-SPECIFIC BESPOKE VACCINE 910 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,360 FOR THAT PARTICULAR TARGET, AND 911 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,600 SEE WHAT YOU COULD DO TO 912 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,200 ACTIVATE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO GO 913 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,840 AFTER THE CANCER THAT IT SOMEHOW 914 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,040 HAS NOT MANAGED TO RECOGNIZE. 915 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,080 ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO 916 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,880 BECOME MUCH MORE POSSIBLE WITH 917 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:04,640 THESE ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY. 918 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:05,440 PRECISION DENTAL HEALTH IS ALSO 919 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,520 MENTIONED IN YOUR STRATEGIC 920 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:06,840 PLAN. 921 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,800 I'M A BIG FAN OF PRECISION 922 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,560 EVERYTHING, AND PRECISION DENTAL 923 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,560 HEALTH CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE 924 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,040 SOMETHING WE WOULD ALL WANT TO 925 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,280 SEE GO FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS 926 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,680 POSSIBLE, WHERE WE GET AWAY FROM 927 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,880 ONE SIZE FIT ALL IN TERMS OF 928 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,240 PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AND 929 00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:19,640 REALLY TRY TO OPTIMIZE THAT FOR 930 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,640 THE INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE WE'RE 931 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,600 ALL DIFFERENT. 932 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,560 OUR GENETICS ARE DIFFERENT, OUR 933 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,240 ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES ARE 934 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:26,720 DIFFERENT OW MEDICAL HISTORY IS 935 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:28,280 DIFFERENT, OUR DENTAL HISTORY IS 936 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,280 DIFFERENT, OUR HEALTH BEHAVIORS 937 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:29,680 ARE DIFFERENT. 938 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,320 WHY DON'T WE TRY TO USE THAT 939 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,200 INFORMATION IN THE MOST RIGOROUS 940 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,400 WAY POSSIBLE TO TRY TO DRIVE 941 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,520 OUTCOMES TO BE BETTER. 942 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,760 AND I KNOW DR. D'SOUZA IS ALSO 943 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,440 LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITIES 944 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,280 IN THIS CASE OF HOW WE MIGHT 945 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,120 UTILIZE THIS LARGEST EVER NIH 946 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,040 LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY CALLED 947 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,680 ALL-OF-US, TO BE ABLE TO TAP IN 948 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,880 TO SOME OF THAT INFORMATION. 949 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,320 IF YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO 950 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,960 UNDERSTAND PRECISION HEALTH AND 951 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,520 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PEOPLE, 952 00:35:58,520 --> 00:35:59,520 YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A LOT OF 953 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:00,920 PEOPLE TO STUDY SO THAT THOSE 954 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,480 DIFFERENCES ARE REPRESENTED. 955 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,120 ALL-OF-US IS NOW INITY FO IN --S 956 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,520 FOURTH OR FIFTH YEAR. 957 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,480 IT HAS ALREADY ENROLLED 610,000 958 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:10,960 PARTICIPANTS. 959 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:11,880 THEY'RE HIGHLY DIVERSE. 960 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,400 50% OF THEM ARE OF RACIAL AND 961 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,280 ETHNIC DIVERSE GROUPS AND THEY 962 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,720 HAVE ALSO DIVERSITY IN 963 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,480 SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, IN RURAL 964 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:26,840 VERSUS UR BAN, IN GENDER AND 965 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,400 AGE. 966 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:28,520 THEY'VE ALL CONSENTED TO ACCESS 967 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,040 TO THEIR MEDICAL RECORDS AND ALL 968 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,360 ARE HAVING THEIR GENOMES 969 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,200 COMPLETE THELY SEQUENCED. 970 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,880 THERE'S ALREADY 245,000 WHOLE 971 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:35,800 GENOME SEQUENCES THAT HAVE BEEN 972 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,640 DETERMINED AND ARE AVAILABLE TO 973 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:39,280 RESEARCHERS WHO ARE INTERESTED 974 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,920 IN STARTING TO LOOK. 975 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,120 SO GETTING THIS A LITTLE CLOSER 976 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,040 TO DENTAL ISSUES SEEMS LIKE A 977 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,680 REALLY TIMELY THING TO DO. 978 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,000 THIS IS THE MOMENT TO TRY TO 979 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:55,920 BUILD THAT CONNECTION. 980 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,800 DIAGNOSTICS, SOMETHING I'VE BEEN 981 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,000 VERY ENGAGED IN WITH COVID, 982 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,280 WHERE SALIVARY DIAGNOSTICS ARE 983 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,800 AWFULLY APPEALING IN 984 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:04,520 CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE YOU DON'T 985 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,440 WANT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH 986 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,760 PHLEBOTOMY AND YOU DON'T WANT TO 987 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,280 HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEASY ABOUT 988 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,680 HAVING TO GIVE A BLOOD SAMPLE, 989 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,800 SALIVARY DIAGNOSTICS, I THINK 990 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,960 ARE STILL AN UNTAPPED AREA OF 991 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,520 OPPORTUNITY. 992 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,600 CERTAINLY I MENTIONED A MINUTE 993 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,120 AGO MY OBSESSION ABOUT HEPATITIS 994 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,680 C, A DISEASE THAT'S KILLING 995 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,520 15,000 PEOPLE EVERY YEAR IN THE 996 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,920 UNITED STATES, FOR WHICH WE HAVE 997 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,560 A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE CURE, ONE 998 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,600 PILL A DAY FOR 12 WEEKS, NO SIDE 999 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,160 EFFECTS, 98% CURE, AND YET IT IS 1000 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,360 NOT GETTING TO THE PEOPLE WHO 1001 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,680 NEED IT BECAUSE HEPATITIS C 1002 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,080 OFTEN HAS NO SYMPTOMS FOR A 1003 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,080 DECADE OR MORE. 1004 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,120 AND ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE 1005 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,280 PEOPLE WHO HAVE IT EVEN KNOW 1006 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,240 THEY HAVE IT. 1007 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,120 AND AGAIN, GETTING THE DIAGNOSIS 1008 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,960 RIGHT NOW IS KIND OF CLUMSY. 1009 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,080 IT TAKES LIKE THREE VISITS 1010 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,560 BEFORE YOU GET AN ANSWER, 1011 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,760 REQUIRES BIG LABORATORIES AND A 1012 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,160 LOT OF DELAY. 1013 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,000 SUPPOSE WE HAD A SALIVARY TEST 1014 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,160 POINT OF CARE FOR HEPATITIS C 1015 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,400 THAT WOULD BE TRANSFORMATIVE. 1016 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,440 PEOPLE HAVE WORKED AT THAT, AND 1017 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040 CAN YOU CLEARLY -- YOU CAN 1018 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,320 CLEARLY SEE SUCCESS IF THE VIRAL 1019 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,640 LOAD IS AT A CERTAIN LEVEL BUT 1020 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,000 NOT QUITE SENSITIVE ENOUGH, 1021 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,280 SOMEBODY OUGHT TO FIGURE OUT HOW 1022 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,440 TO KNOCK THAT SENSITIVITY 1023 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,080 PROBLEM OUT AND SEE IF WE COULD 1024 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,840 DO SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES. 1025 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,120 THE ADMINISTRATION IS STRONGLY 1026 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,880 SUPPORTING A MAJOR INITIATIVE 1027 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,080 HERE IN THE CONGRESS, WE HOPE 1028 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,960 WILL FOLLOW UP ON THAT TO FIND 1029 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,520 AND CURE THOSE 2 1/2 MILLION 1030 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,560 PEOPLE IN THE U.S., PREERCHTING 1031 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,000 PREVENTINGTHEM FROM A DOWNSTREAM 1032 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,160 CONSEQUENCE OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS, 1033 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,160 LIVER FAILURE, LIVER CANCER 1034 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:37,600 THAT'S GOING TO COST A LOT OF 1035 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,880 LIVES AND A LOT OF HEALTHCARE 1036 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:39,760 MONEY THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO 1037 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,200 SPEND IF WE BASICALLY FIND THESE 1038 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,680 PEOPLE AND CURE THEM FIRST. 1039 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,840 PAIN, AGAIN I MENTIONED EARLIER, 1040 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,800 I THINK AGAIN ANYTHING THAT 1041 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,080 NIDCR CAN DO GIVEN THAT PAIN IS 1042 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,160 A LONG TERM AREA OF INTEREST 1043 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,720 WITH A LOT OF EXPERTISE, THE 1044 00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:55,480 MORE OF THAT WE CAN BRING TO 1045 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,640 BEAR ON THE HEAL INITIATIVE AND 1046 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,960 FINDING ALTERNATIVES FOR PEOPLE 1047 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,080 WITH CHRONIC PAIN IS A REALLY 1048 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,400 GOOD THING. 1049 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,000 AND FINALLY, A COUPLE THINGS 1050 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,080 THAT LARRY MENTIONED, 1051 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,200 DATA-DRIVEN TEAM SCIENCE WITH 1052 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,200 APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL 1053 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:09,960 INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE 1054 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,480 LEARNING ARE SO RIPE FOR ALL 1055 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000 KINDS OF APPLICATIONS, FACEBASE 1056 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,240 HE MENTIONED WAS JUST ONE OF 1057 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,640 THEM, AND THEN DIVERSITY. 1058 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,720 I WAS GLAD TO SEE THE DATA THAT 1059 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:19,640 HE PUT FORWARD. 1060 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,720 WE INCREASINGLY HAVE THAT DATA. 1061 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:23,760 I THINK SOME PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT 1062 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,040 OUR EMPHASIS ON DIVERSITY IN THE 1063 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,080 WORKFORCE WAS JUST A NICE THING 1064 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,360 TO HAVE, AND IT IS A NICE THING 1065 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:29,680 TO HAVE, BUT IF YOU REALLY ARE 1066 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:30,960 LOOKING AT PRODUCTIVITY, IT'S 1067 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,400 ALSO AN ESSENTIAL THING TO HAVE, 1068 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,960 AND WE NEED TO MAKE THAT CASE 1069 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,720 EVERY CHANCE WE HAVE. 1070 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,160 ESPECIALLY AT A TIME LIKE THIS, 1071 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,800 WHERE THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME 1072 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,560 RESISTANCE TO SOME OF THOSE 1073 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,280 IDEAS COMING FROM SOME QUARTERS. 1074 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,360 FINALLY, I WOULD SAY ONE MORE 1075 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,000 THING THAT EVERY INSTITUTE AT 1076 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,400 NIH AND EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY 1077 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,000 AND EVERY SCIENCE ORGANIZATION 1078 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,640 NEEDS TO FOCUS ON RIGHT NOW IS 1079 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,280 OUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS. 1080 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,360 IT IS DEEPLY TROUBLING TO SEE IN 1081 00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,560 THE CONTEXT OF WHAT HAS BEEN ONE 1082 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,000 OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1083 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,760 SCIENCE IN THE HISTORY OF 1084 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:02,920 HUMANITY THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1085 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,040 HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AND SAFE COVID 1086 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,760 VACCINES IN 11 MONTHS, THAT 1087 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,120 PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN SCIENCE HAS 1088 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,400 ACTUALLY DROPPED, DRIVEN BY A 1089 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,160 GREAT DEAL OF MISINFORMATION AND 1090 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,600 UNFORTUNATELY SOME REALLY BAD 1091 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,200 POLITICS MIXED IN WITH IT. 1092 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,040 WE DO NOT WANT TO GO AND HIDE IN 1093 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,640 THE LAB AS A RESULT OF THIS. 1094 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,000 WE ALL HAVE TO SOMEHOW INCREASE 1095 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,600 OUR ABILITIES TO BE WINSOME, 1096 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:29,840 THOUGHTFUL, GOOD LISTENERS, BUT 1097 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,440 ALSO WILLING TO PUT OUT THERE 1098 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,800 WHAT ARE THE ACTUAL FACTS BASED 1099 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:33,880 UPON RIGOROUS SCIENCE SO THAT 1100 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,600 PEOPLE CAN MAKE WISE DECISIONS 1101 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:36,720 ABOUT THEIR OWN CARE. 1102 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,360 WE'VE GOT SOME WORK TO DO TO 1103 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:40,680 TURN THIS CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCE 1104 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:41,760 AROUND, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE 1105 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,160 UP TO ALL OF US. 1106 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,040 SO WITH THAT, I SIMPLY WANT TO 1107 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,120 CONCLUDE BY SAYING DELIGHTED TO 1108 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,400 BE HERE TO TAKE PART IN A VERY 1109 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,160 SPECIAL DAY, THIS 75TH 1110 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,160 ANNIVERSARY OF NIDCR. 1111 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,080 YOU HAVE DONE GREAT THINGS. 1112 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,000 I'M ASKING YOU TO CONTINUE AND 1113 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,520 EVEN EXPAND THAT GREATNESS BY 1114 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,720 THE NEXT 75 YEARS. 1115 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:01,520 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 1116 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:10,800 [APPLAUSE] 1117 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,560 >>WOW. 1118 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,880 WOULD YOU AND LARRY HAVE 1119 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,520 EMPHASIZED, FRANCIS, OUR THEMES 1120 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,720 AND REALLY VISIONS THAT NIDCR 1121 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,000 EMBRACES VERY, VERY DEEPLY. 1122 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,600 JUST TO ADD TO THAT LIST OF 1123 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,440 FACTOIDS, IT WAS KLEINMAN'S WORK 1124 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,560 AND THE INTRAMURAL PROGRAM THAT 1125 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,560 LED TO THE CREATION OF MIXAGEL. 1126 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,520 IT WAS THE WORK OF PAM ROBE 1127 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,680 WHO'S HERE AND HER TEAM THAT 1128 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,480 FORGED THE STEM CELL BIOLOGY 1129 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,520 FIELD AND REALLY, I THINK, IS SO 1130 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,720 CRITICAL FOR REGENERATIVE 1131 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,000 MEDICINE, AND I CAN GO ON AND 1132 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:45,240 ON. 1133 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:47,440 THROUGH THE YEAR, THE EMPHASIS 1134 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,760 IS ON THE SCIENCE. 1135 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,760 WE CHOSE NOT TO HAVE A GALA 1136 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:51,960 EVENT BUT TO ACTUALLY FOCUS ON 1137 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,400 THE SCIENCE OF THE PAST THAT GOT 1138 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,320 US HERE TO THE PRESENT, AND WHAT 1139 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,640 WE AS A COMMUNITY WANT FOR THE 1140 00:41:58,640 --> 00:41:59,840 FUTURE. 1141 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,480 SO WITH THAT, IT'S A GREAT 1142 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,000 PLEASURE FOR ME TO INTRODUCE A 1143 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,080 TRULY TRANSFORMATIVE LEADER OF 1144 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,480 OUR PROFESSION, DR. LA LAURIE 1145 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,040 MCCAULEY. 1146 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:12,720 I'VE KNOWN LAURIE AS A FRIEND 1147 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,200 AND A COLLEAGUE FOR DECADES ON 1148 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:15,880 THE FIRST GORDON CONFERENCE ON 1149 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,320 BONES AND TEETH. 1150 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,960 LAURIE NOW SERVES AS A PROVOST 1151 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,040 AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR 1152 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:21,960 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AT THE 1153 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,800 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND SHE 1154 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:24,920 OVERSEES THE UNIVERSITY'S 1155 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,200 ACADEMIC AND BUDGETARY AFFAIRS. 1156 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,720 SO IT'S A WONDERFUL POSITION TO 1157 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,440 TRANSFORM NOT JUST ITS EDUCATION 1158 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:35,640 AND SCIENCE AT THE SAME TIME, 1159 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:36,640 THERE COULDN'T BE A BETTER 1160 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,720 PERSON TO LEAD THE UNIVERSITY OF 1161 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:39,280 MICHIGAN AT THIS TIME. 1162 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,680 BEFORE THIS, SHE SERVED AS A 1163 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,600 VERY SUCCESSFUL DEAN AT THE 1164 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,280 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF 1165 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,040 DENTISTRY FOR 10 YEARS AND CAME 1166 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,120 THROUGH AS ALSO VERY PRODUCTIVE, 1167 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,760 EFFECTIVE LEADER OF A DEPARTMENT 1168 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,040 AND VERY LARGE INTEGRATIVE 1169 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:55,720 DEPARTMENT IN THE SCHOOL OF 1170 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:56,160 DENTISTRY. 1171 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,880 AS AN ACTIVE RESEARCHER, LAURIE 1172 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,080 HAS BEEN FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL 1173 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,680 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH FOR MORE 1174 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,000 THAN 25 YEARS, RECEIVING HER 1175 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,320 FUNDING FROM NOT JUST THE NIDCR 1176 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,360 BUT FROM NIEMS AND THE NATIONAL 1177 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:09,680 CANCER INSTITUTE, AND SHE 1178 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:10,800 MAINTAINS AN ACTIVE RESEARCH 1179 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:11,320 LAB. 1180 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,080 THAT'S INCREDIBLE, LAURIE. 1181 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,880 SHE'S HELD SEVERAL APPOINTMENTS 1182 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,720 AT THE BIOLOGY MOLECULAR AND 1183 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:27,000 CELLULAR -- SUPERIOR DELEON AND 1184 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,440 THE CENTER FOR EXPERIMENTAL 1185 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,960 THERAPEUTICS AND REPERFUSION 1186 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,960 INJURY AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S 1187 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,400 HOSPITAL, HARVARD MEDICAL 1188 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:35,960 SCHOOL, PART OF HER MANY 1189 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:36,480 AFFILIATIONS. 1190 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,320 SHE WAS ALSO AWARDED THE 1191 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:40,760 DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD 1192 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:41,240 FROM THE INTERNATIONAL 1193 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:42,200 ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH, 1194 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,600 AND I'M GLAD THAT CHRIS FOX IS 1195 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,920 HERE REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN 1196 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,600 ASSOCIATION AND THE 1197 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,200 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 1198 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,640 DENTAL RESEARCH. 1199 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,120 LAURIE IS ALSO A DISTINGUISHED 1200 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,240 ALUMNI AWARD, RECEIVED THAT FROM 1201 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:56,200 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AND 1202 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,320 THE NORTON M. ROSS AWARD FOR 1203 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,160 EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL RESEARCH 1204 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,160 FROM THE AMERICAN DENTAL 1205 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:02,440 ASSOCIATION. 1206 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,760 SHE'S A FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN 1207 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,560 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 1208 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,640 OF SCIENCE, AND A MEMBER OF THE 1209 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,960 NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF MEDICINE, 1210 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,160 WHERE SHE SERVES AS SECTION 1211 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,880 CHAIR. 1212 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,240 DR. MCCAULEY HOLDS FOUR DEGREES 1213 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:17,240 FROM THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 1214 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:19,280 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 1215 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,040 EDUCATION, DOCTOR OF DENTAL 1216 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,240 SURGERY, MASTER OF SCIENCE IN 1217 00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,080 DENTISTRY AND A PH.D. IN 1218 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,000 VETERINARY PATHOLOGY. 1219 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,720 ALL OF THESE DEGREES, I THINK, 1220 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,480 HAVE CHARTED LAURIE'S CAREER SO 1221 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,320 WELL AND SO EFFECTIVELY, AND WE 1222 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,360 ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOU BEING HERE, 1223 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:33,560 LAURIE. 1224 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:34,120 THANK YOU. 1225 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:44,280 [APPLAUSE] 1226 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,040 >>THANK YOU, RENA. 1227 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,200 AND WHAT AN HONOR TO BE HERE! 1228 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,520 IT'S JUST REALLY A DELIGHT TO BE 1229 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,280 HERE ON THE OCCASION OF THE 75TH 1230 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,880 ANNIVERSARY OF THE NIDCR. 1231 00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,200 I'LL JUST START AND SAY FRANCIS 1232 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,040 COLLINS IS A TOUGH ACT TO 1233 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:02,800 FOLLOW. 1234 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,840 WE OVERLAPPED FOR ONE YEAR AT 1235 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:07,280 MICHIGAN. 1236 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,720 BUT FROM THERE, I WILL TELL YOU 1237 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:12,040 THIS PRESENTATION WILL DIFFER 1238 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,320 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT I HOPE 1239 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,400 TO BRING, AND THAT IS FOR MANY 1240 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,280 DIMENSIONS, BEING A DAUGHTER OF 1241 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,920 A DENTIST, HAVING WORKED AS A 1242 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,440 DENTAL ASSISTANT, A DENTAL 1243 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,520 HYGIENIST, A DENTIST, A 1244 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:26,840 PERIODONTIST, A PROFESSOR, A 1245 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:27,920 SCIENTIST, A DEPARTMENT CHAIR, A 1246 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,240 DEAN, AND NOW PROVOST, AND 1247 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:31,920 IMPORTANTLY, AS A DENTAL 1248 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,880 PATIENT. 1249 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:42,560 SO LET ME MOVE THIS FORWARD. 1250 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,000 I THINK IN CELEBRATION OF 1251 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,880 75 YEARS, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT OUR 1252 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,400 PROFESSION AS A WHOLE AND REMIND 1253 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,520 OURSELVES HOW IMPORTANT THE 1254 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,360 SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION OF 1255 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:54,120 DENTISTRY IS, AS WELL AS IT 1256 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,080 BEING DEVELOPED AS A HEALTHCARE 1257 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:02,760 AND A CARING PROFESSION, AND WE 1258 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,520 ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DENTISTRY 1259 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,720 IS A VERY TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN 1260 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:07,640 PROFESSION, SO YOU SEE THAT IN 1261 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,280 SOME OF THE HISTORY. 1262 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,440 I WAS THRILLED THAT FRANCIS 1263 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,760 ACKNOWLEDGED THE FLUORIDATION 1264 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,080 STUDIES THAT TOOK PLACE IN 1265 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,160 MICHIGAN AND THAT GRAND RAPIDS 1266 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,440 WAS THE FIRST CITY IN THE UNITED 1267 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,000 STATES TO HAVE FLUORIDE IN ITS 1268 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,200 PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM, AND I THINK 1269 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,600 THAT THAT HAPPENED IN 1945 AND 1270 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,640 THE NIDCR WAS FOUNDED IN 1948. 1271 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,120 I TAKE THAT AS ASSOCIATION AS 1272 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,680 MICHIGAN BEING DIRECTLY 1273 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,080 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOUNDING OF 1274 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:44,080 THE NIDCR. 1275 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,480 AND THAT'S MY STORY. 1276 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,200 [LAUGHTER 1277 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:49,560 [LAUGHTER] 1278 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,160 BUT IT REALLY, STILL TO THIS 1279 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,400 DAY, IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE 1280 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:53,400 TOP PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES KNOWN 1281 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,920 TO MANKIND, AND I THINK AS A 1282 00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:57,320 PROFESSION, WE CAN TAKE GREAT 1283 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,040 PRIDE IN THAT. 1284 00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,120 SO THIS WAS -- IT'S JUST TO KIND 1285 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:06,240 OF SET THE STAGE, AND THIS YOUNG 1286 00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:08,640 MAN WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE MY 1287 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,360 FATHER GRADUATED FROM DENTAL 1288 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:12,440 SCHOOL -- OR WAS IN DENTAL 1289 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,480 SCHOOL WHEN THE NIDCR WAS 1290 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:15,000 FOUNDED. 1291 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,520 HE GRADUATED IN 1950. 1292 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,000 AND I DON'T HAVE TO EMPHASIZE TO 1293 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,520 YOU THAT THE PRACTICE OF 1294 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,280 DENTISTRY HAS CHANGED 1295 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,800 DRAMATICALLY SINCE THAT TIME, 1296 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,920 AND THE QUESTION IS, WHAT WILL 1297 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,360 IT BE LIKE TOMORROW. 1298 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,520 AND WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE SOME 1299 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:33,720 OF THE TIME IN BETWEEN YESTERDAY 1300 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:37,560 AND TOMORROW. 1301 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,440 I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY BASED ON 1302 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,400 WHAT YOU HEARD FROM LARRY AND 1303 00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,120 FRANCIS AND JUST OUR JOINT 1304 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,280 KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR PROFESSION IS 1305 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,360 IN A PERIOD OF REAL REVOLUTION 1306 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:52,880 FROM A TECHNOLOGICAL STANDPOINT, 1307 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,320 AS WELL AS FROM A SCIENTIFIC 1308 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:59,400 STANDPOINT, BOTH IN THE 1309 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,560 DEVELOPMENT, THE EE M EMERGENCEF 1310 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,560 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 3D 1311 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,080 PRINTING, AND YOU HEARD LARRY 1312 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,640 EMPHASIZE AND I WILL AS WELL, 1313 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,800 DATA SCIENCE. 1314 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,480 I HAD THE GREAT FORTUNE TO BE 1315 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,880 INVOLVED IN ORAL HEALTH IN 1316 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,640 AMERICA, AND I WOULD JUST SAY 1317 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:23,320 KUDOS TO NIDCR FOR ITS FORESIGHT 1318 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,240 IN BRINGING THIS TO FRUITION, AS 1319 00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:27,720 WE KNOW IT WAS REALLY A 1320 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:29,120 FOLLOW-UP OF THE SURGEON 1321 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,960 GENERAL'S REPORT IN THE YEAR 1322 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,480 2000, AND LOOKED AT THE 1323 00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:36,560 COMPARISON OVER 20 YEARS. 1324 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,080 I HAVE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO 1325 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,200 MARTHA SOMERMAN WHO HAD THE 1326 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,600 INSIGHT TO SAY THAT WE NEED A 1327 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,800 SECTION ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO 1328 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,880 SCIENCE, WHICH WAS NOT AS WELL 1329 00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,480 ATTENDED TO IN THE SURGEON 1330 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,120 GENERAL'S REPORT, AND THEN 1331 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,600 OBVIOUSLY LARRY AND RENA FOR 1332 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:54,560 CARRYING THROUGH ON THAT AND 1333 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,960 BRINGING THIS TO FRUITION. 1334 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,840 THIS IS THE CALL TO ACTION FROM 1335 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,280 THIS SECTION 6 THAT I HAD THE 1336 00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,240 GREAT FOOR T FORTUNE TO BE INVO, 1337 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:07,880 AND I THINK IT'S JUST SO 1338 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,120 CRITICAL AND SUCH AN IMPORTANT 1339 00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:10,880 MESSAGE, AND THAT IS ABOUT THE 1340 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,840 TRAINING AND SUPPORT OF OUR 1341 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,520 FUTURE WORKFORCE. 1342 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,440 AND YOU'LL HEAR ME TOUCH ON THIS 1343 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:20,160 MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE NEXT -- IN 1344 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:25,120 THE NEXT 30 -- 29 MINUTES OR 1345 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:29,280 WHATEVER, 24. 1346 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:30,800 I HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE 1347 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:31,960 FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCES. 1348 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,680 THE SCIENCE IS ABSOLUTELY 1349 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:34,360 FOUNDATIONAL TO THE CLINICAL 1350 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,760 WORK THAT WE DO, AND I KNOW NIH 1351 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,280 AND NIDCR IS SO RESPECTFUL AND 1352 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,720 THOUGHTFUL AND INVESTS IN THE 1353 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:45,440 FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCES THAT SOME 1354 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,240 PEOPLE SEE AS PERHAPS A BIT FAR 1355 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,760 AWAY FROM CLINICAL WORK, BUT AS 1356 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,240 WE NO IS SO ESSENTIAL AND 1357 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:53,560 CRITICAL. 1358 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,520 THE WORK IN OMICS IN SINGLE CELL 1359 00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,920 TECHNOLOGIES THAT FRANCIS 1360 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,360 MENTIONED AND I'LL JUST 1361 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:03,560 HIGHLIGHT THAT THE DATA THAT IS 1362 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,200 SHOWN THERE IS WORK FROM MY 1363 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:06,680 LABORATORY, WHICH I DO HAVE THE 1364 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,320 GREAT FORTUNE TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO 1365 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,640 ARE CARRYING IT FORWARD WITH ME 1366 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:13,680 IN THE SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT 1367 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,120 I HAVE TO DEVOTE. 1368 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,320 WE HEARD ABOUT THE MICROBIOME, 1369 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,840 AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT 1370 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,240 INFLAMMATION, THE WORK ON 1371 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,680 INFLAMMATION WORLDWIDE IS SO 1372 00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,480 MUCH BUILT ON WORK THAT HAS BEEN 1373 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,080 DONE THROUGH NIDCR. 1374 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,280 VIROLOGY AS WELL, AND WE CAN'T 1375 00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,800 OVEREMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF 1376 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,200 THE WORK OF VIROLOGY IN THE 1377 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,320 DEVELOPMENT OF VACCINES THAT WE 1378 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,960 NOW KNOW AND ENJOY. 1379 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,560 THE ORAL MICROBIOME, WHICH HAS 1380 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,640 BEEN A CRITICAL PART OF NIDCR'S 1381 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,360 PORTFOLIO FOR PROBABLY ITS 1382 00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,840 ENTIRE 75 YEARS, AND AS WE KNOW, 1383 00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:57,040 IT'S EVOLVING. 1384 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,560 YOU HEARD FRANCIS TALK ABOUT THE 1385 00:50:58,560 --> 00:50:59,800 RELATIONSHIPS WITH SYSTEMIC 1386 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:00,480 DISEASE. 1387 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:01,800 WE'VE KNOWN THESE ASSOCIATIONS 1388 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,640 FOR A LONG TIME. 1389 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:06,800 WE ARE NOW BEING ABLE TO 1390 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,800 ACTUALLY DEPLOY MORE ADVANCED 1391 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:09,480 TECHNOLOGIES IN MACHINE LEARNING 1392 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,160 TO REALLY START TO DISCERN AND 1393 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,920 GET AT THE CAUSATIVE NATURE 1394 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,400 VERSUS ASSOCIATIVE NATURE FOR 1395 00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,480 THESE CONDITIONS, AND TO BE ABLE 1396 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,880 TO DEPLOY EXTREMELY SENSITIVE 1397 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,960 MEASURES TO BE ABLE TO PREVENT 1398 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,200 DISEASE BEFORE IT GETS TO A 1399 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,520 POINT WHERE IT'S DEBILITATING. 1400 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:38,240 SO THE FIELDS OF OMICS GOING 1401 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:41,520 ACROSS GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS, 1402 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,920 METABOLOMICS, AND THESE NOW ALL 1403 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:45,840 COALESCING TO MULTI-OMICS AND 1404 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,600 HIGHLIGHTING, AGAIN, NOT ONLY 1405 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,600 THE REALLY IMPORTANT FUNDAMENTAL 1406 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,640 DISCOVERIES, BUT NOW THE HUGE 1407 00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:58,400 DATASETS THAT WE ARE APPROACHING 1408 00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,440 AND BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH, AND 1409 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,720 I'M GOING TO COME BACK TO DATA 1410 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:09,520 SCIENCE AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT, O 1411 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,280 HIGHLIGHT THE WORK NIDCR HAS 1412 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,840 DONE IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE. 1413 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:17,240 THIS IS TRADITIONALLY KNOWN AS 1414 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:21,080 BIOMATERIALS, NANOTECHNOLOGY, 1415 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,080 BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS, 1416 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:24,160 PERIODONTAL, REGENERATIVE 1417 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,600 MEDICINE HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO SO 1418 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,000 MANY FIELDS OF STUDY, EVEN FAR 1419 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,640 AFIELD OF DENTISTRY, AS WELL AS 1420 00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:33,760 STEM CELL BIOLOGY. 1421 00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,520 THIS HIGHLIGHTS WORK OF AN 1422 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,400 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ANNE DECKER 1423 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,560 OF MICHIGAN, WHO NOT ONLY IS 1424 00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,080 LOOKING AT USING MATERIALS TO 1425 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,760 REGENERATE, BUT REALLY CAPTURING 1426 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,760 THE UNDERLYING FUNDAMENTALS OF 1427 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,800 THE HOST IMMUNE -- UNDERLYING 1428 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:51,920 HOST IMMUNE SYSTEM AND ITS 1429 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,760 ABILITY TO SUPPORT REGENERATION, 1430 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,800 A CRITICAL COMPONENT IN 1431 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,240 REGENERATIVE MEDICINE. 1432 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:03,400 THE REGENERATIVE MEDICINE 1433 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,800 RESOURCE CENTER THAT HAS BEEN 1434 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,120 SUPPORTED BY NIDCR AT MICHIGAN, 1435 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,440 WHICH SPANS MICHIGAN, PITTSBURGH 1436 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,480 AND THE VICE INSTITUTE LED BY 1437 00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,480 DAVE KOHN AT MICHIGAN HAS HAD 1438 00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:19,720 ALREADY INITIAL IMPACT IN 1439 00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:23,000 SHOWING HOW DISCOVERY IN 1440 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,400 ACADEMIA CAN HELP DISBAND THIS 1441 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,840 WHAT IS CALLED THE VALLEY OF 1442 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,800 DEATH TO START TO REALLY MOVE 1443 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:35,080 SOME THERAPIES FORWARD TO FDA 1444 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:35,600 APPROVAL. 1445 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,960 AGAIN, KUDOS TO MARTHA SOMERMAN 1446 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,600 FOR LAUNCHING THIS AND FOR RENA 1447 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,000 TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS TO 1448 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,560 ACTUALLY MOVE TO CLINICAL 1449 00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,200 REALITY. 1450 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:48,920 I'LL JUST SHARE WITH YOU FROM 1451 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:53,240 DAVE KOHN'S PERSPECTIVE THE 1452 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:54,520 FUTURE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE 1453 00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,520 AND THAT IS IN IDENTIFYING THESE 1454 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,200 COMPLEX PATTERNS IN THE TISSUES, 1455 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,440 THE UNDERLYING HOST IMMUNE 1456 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,080 RESPONSE, HOW THIS CAN 1457 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:02,960 INCORPORATE WITH INFORMATION IN 1458 00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,440 THE MOST APPROPRIATE 1459 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,000 BIOMATERIALS TO ULTIMATELY 1460 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,000 RESULT IN A MORE EFFECTIVE 1461 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,680 REGENERATION PROFILE. 1462 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,160 THIS CONCEPT OF REGENERATIVE 1463 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,760 MEDICINE PARTNERS VERY WELL WITH 1464 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,280 THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WE 1465 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,320 HAVE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE. 1466 00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,840 WORK BY MARCOUX BOTTINO AT THE 1467 00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,920 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IN 1468 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,040 TISSUE-SPECIFIC SCAFFOLDS 1469 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,360 DESIGNED, AND AGAIN OPTIMIZING 1470 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,200 THE UNDERLYING BIOLOGY WITH THE 1471 00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,240 BIOMATERIALS TO EVOKE A CLINICAL 1472 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:44,680 RESULT. 1473 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,240 THIS IN PARTNERED WITH THE WIDE 1474 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:48,760 VARIETY OF GENETICS GENOMICS 1475 00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,960 PRECISION-BASED MEDICINE, LIGHT, 1476 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:55,680 LLASER IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES, 1477 00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:56,960 DIGITAL DENTISTRY, WHICH IS NOW 1478 00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,120 REALLY CONSIDERED STANDARD OF 1479 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,920 CARE IN MOST PRACTICES, 3D 1480 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,400 PRINTING, AND THE DEVELOPMENT 1481 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,920 AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF KEEMO 1482 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,960 THERAPEUTICS AND/OR DRUGS FOR 1483 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,040 THE TREATMENT OF DENTAL 1484 00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,400 DISEASES. 1485 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,960 WHEN YOU PARTNER THIS 1486 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:18,240 FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCE WITH THE 1487 00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:21,160 CLINICAL DEPLOYMENT OF DATA, 1488 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,040 WHICH WE KNOW AS OUR ELECTRONIC 1489 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,880 HEALTH RECORDS, AND THIS IS AN 1490 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,720 IMAGE FROM ORAL HEALTH IN 1491 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:31,360 AMERICA, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A 1492 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,120 HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT WAS 1493 00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,600 STARTED PRIMARILY JUST FOR 1494 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,200 BILLING PATIENTS, BUT CAN BE 1495 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,440 HARNESSED TO CAPTURE IMPROVED 1496 00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:43,880 CARE FOR OUR PATIENTS, AND 1497 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,280 THERE'S SO MUCH EFFORT AND WORK 1498 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,840 AND OPPORTUNITY IN THIS SPACE. 1499 00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,040 THIS PARTNERS WITH THE CONCEPT 1500 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,600 OF LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEMS, 1501 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,000 WHICH WAS FIRST DESCRIBED WITH 1502 00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,280 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 1503 00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,840 WORK HERE IN D.C. , AND HAS BEEN 1504 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,520 SHEPHERD ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 1505 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:11,040 CHUCK FREELD M FRIEDMAN, THE CHF 1506 00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,680 HEALTH LEARNING SCIENCES IS A 1507 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:14,680 HUGE ADVOCATE FOR THIS WORK. 1508 00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:15,880 YOU CAN SEE THIS CYCLE FOLLOWS 1509 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,000 WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY IS A FAIRLY 1510 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,200 TRADITIONAL ASPECT OF LOOKING AT 1511 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,560 A HEALTH PROBLEM OF INTEREST, 1512 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,360 CAPTURING THE DATA, ANALYZING 1513 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,560 THE DATA, INTERPRETING RESULTS, 1514 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,040 BUT TYPICALLY HERE IS WHERE 1515 00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,560 SCIENTISTS THEN SIMPLY PUBLISH 1516 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,560 THEIR PAPERS, BUT IN THIS 1517 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:42,240 LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEM, THIS IS 1518 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:44,120 NOT A TERMINAL ASPECT OF THE 1519 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:45,560 CYCLE, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY 1520 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,760 CRITICAL TO TAKE THIS KNOWLEDGE 1521 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:48,840 TO PERFORMANCE WITH 1522 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,040 IMPLEMENTATION AND TAKING ACTION 1523 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,520 TO COMPLETE THIS CYCLE SO THAT 1524 00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,440 THE DATA CAN ACTUALLY BE APPLIED 1525 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,400 AND USED TO IMPROVE HUMAN 1526 00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:01,600 HEALTH. 1527 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,040 THAT LEADS TO US HAVING A HUGE 1528 00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:07,240 AMOUNT OF DATA, AS FRANCIS 1529 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:10,200 MENTIONED, AND THIS GRAPH FROM 1530 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,320 THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM SHOWS. 1531 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,320 THIS IS DATA ACROSS ALL SECTORS, 1532 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,880 NOT JUST HEALTH. 1533 00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:21,200 BUT WE'RE NOW IN A PERIOD WHERE 1534 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,160 WE'VE BEEN CAPTURING DATA FOR 1535 00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,520 YEARS AND YEARS AND IT'S TIME 1536 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,720 FOR US TO FIND THE BEST 1537 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:30,240 STRATEGIES TO ASSEMBLE IT, 1538 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,880 INTERPRET IT, AND APPLY TO 1539 00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:36,000 EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING 1540 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,000 IN HEALTHCARE. 1541 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,920 SO NOW WE'RE AT A POINT OF 1542 00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,360 REFINING OUR ABILITY TO PROCESS 1543 00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,920 AND UTILIZE DATA. 1544 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:48,280 AND I'LL JUST SAY A PLEA IS THAT 1545 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,320 WE NEED AS A PROFESSION TO BE 1546 00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,520 ABLE TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS TO 1547 00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:58,960 HAVE THE BASIC SKILLS OF HOW TO 1548 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,680 ANALYZE, INTERPRET, AND DEPLOY 1549 00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:02,480 DATA. 1550 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:03,920 AND I THINK WE COULD DO MUCH 1551 00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,040 BETTER AND I'M SAYING THIS FROM 1552 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:10,840 AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION, IT'S AN 1553 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,400 AREA THAT WE NEED TO INVEST MORE 1554 00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,840 IN. 1555 00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:15,800 WHEN WE START TO LOOK AT THE 1556 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,880 IMPACT OF DATA IN OUR CLINICAL 1557 00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:21,240 SETTINGS, THE TERM DATA 1558 00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:22,480 DENTISTRY HAS ALREADY BEEN 1559 00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:23,840 COINED AND YOU CAN LOOK AT A 1560 00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,800 WIDE VARIETY OF PLACES IN A 1561 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,280 CLINICAL WORKFLOW WHERE DATA CAN 1562 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,200 BE ASSEMBLED, COLLECTED, AND 1563 00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,320 UTILIZED TO FURTHER IMPROVE 1564 00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:36,880 PATIENT CARE. 1565 00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,040 I'LL JUST HIGHLIGHT ON THE LOWER 1566 00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,600 RIGHT CORNER THE WEARABLES THAT 1567 00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,520 YOU SEE IDENTIFIED THERE. 1568 00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,480 I THINK THIS IS AN AREA WITH 1569 00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:49,440 HUGE POTENTIAL AND I'LL JUST 1570 00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,520 SHARE WITH YOU ONE STUDY AT THE 1571 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:57,600 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BY KEN 1572 00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,160 KOZLOFF WHO SHOWED IN THE 1573 00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:00,240 CONTEXT OF STUDENT WELL-BEING 1574 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,680 AND MENTAL HEALTH, HE'S ABLE TO 1575 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,160 TRACK OVER ACADEMIC TERM THE 1576 00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,000 PHYSIOLOGIC ASPECTS THAT MAY BE 1577 00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:08,440 PREDICTORS FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE 1578 00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,560 AT HIGHER RISK FOR MENTAL HEALTH 1579 00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,720 ISSUES. 1580 00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,040 SO THE -- REALLY THE QUESTIONS 1581 00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,040 ARE ENDLESS AND THE 1582 00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,800 OPPORTUNITIES ARE HUGE. 1583 00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,080 MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA 1584 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,600 ANALYTICS HAVE ALREADY BEEN 1585 00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,320 DEPLOYED FOR DENTAL IMAGE 1586 00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,720 ANALYSES, FOR MULTIMODAL DATA 1587 00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:33,080 ANALYSES, FOR PREDICTING RISKS, 1588 00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:34,360 DIAGNOSES AND PROGRESS KNOW 1589 00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:45,800 PROGRESS PROGNOSE SE., FORTRACK. 1590 00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,640 THIS IS AN APPROACH USED BY PAUL 1591 00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:53,640 JENSEN WHO IS A PROFESSOR IN 1592 00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:54,520 BIOENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY 1593 00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:55,600 OF MICHIGAN ALSO SUPPORTED BY 1594 00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:56,840 NIDCR WHERE HE HAS DEVELOPED A 1595 00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:58,160 MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO 1596 00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,680 LOOKING AT THE NUTRIENTS THAT A 1597 01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,960 VARIETY OF DIFFERENT 1598 01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,520 MICROORGANISMS, IN HIS CASE, 1599 01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,320 MANY OF WHICH ARE ORAL 1600 01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:08,760 MICROORGANISMS, IN THE EXACT 1601 01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,360 COMBINATIONS OF NUTRIENTS AND 1602 01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,080 METABOLITES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR 1603 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,400 A VARIETY OF MICROORGANISMS TO 1604 01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:15,920 GROW. 1605 01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,040 AND THESE ARE EXPERIMENTS THAT 1606 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:24,720 HE CAN DO IN HOURS, WHICH WE -- 1607 01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:25,720 WHICH WOULD PREVIOUSLY TAKE 1608 01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:29,960 YEARS TO COMPLETE. 1609 01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:35,320 WORK FROM LUCIA SEVADONES AT 1610 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:36,440 MICHIGAN, GWENDY EMPLOYING DATA 1611 01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,880 TO REALLY START TO IDENTIFY RISK 1612 01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,520 FACTORS AND INTERACTIONS WITH 1613 01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,520 TMJ OSTEOARTHRITIS LOOKING AT 1614 01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,160 HUGE NUMBERS OF DATASETS, IN 1615 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,000 THIS CASE, 92 PATIENTS, HALF OF 1616 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,840 WHICH HAVE TMJ OSTEOARTHRITIS, 1617 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,840 AND USING MICHIGAN -- OR MACHINE 1618 01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,440 LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO DETECT 1619 01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,760 EARLY MARKERS OF DISEASE. 1620 01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:03,480 AGAIN, IDENTIFYING PATIENTS AT 1621 01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,160 RISK BEFORE THEY HAVE THE 1622 01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:06,120 DETRIMENTAL ASPECTS OF THESE 1623 01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,520 CONDITIONS. 1624 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,960 THERE'S BEEN EMERGENCE OF 1625 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:14,040 COMPANIES NOW THAT ARE STARTING 1626 01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,600 TO LATCH ON TO THESE APPROACHES. 1627 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,600 ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE A.I. 1628 01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:22,200 DENTAL, WHICH HAS BOTH DESIGN 1629 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,200 FOR REMOVAL OF PARTIAL DENTURES 1630 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:25,840 AND FOR PERIODONTAL 1631 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,520 APPLICATIONS. 1632 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,520 THE RPDs, BASICALLY ALL YOU 1633 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,400 NEED TO DO IS GO IN AND SHOW 1634 01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,040 WHICH TEETH ARE MISSING AND IT 1635 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,080 WILL IMMEDIATELY DESIGN AN RPD 1636 01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:36,480 FOR YOU. 1637 01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,480 YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, REMOVAL OF 1638 01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:39,640 PARTIAL DENTURES MAYBE ARE NOT 1639 01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,120 THE STANDARD OF CARE ANYMORE, 1640 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:45,960 BUT THERE ARE -- THEIR OTHER 1641 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,240 MODULE IS OF PERIODONTAL 1642 01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:48,880 DISEASE, AND SIMPLY PUTTING IN A 1643 01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:50,200 PERIODONTAL CHART OF PROBING 1644 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,720 DEPTHS AND ATTACHMENT LEVELS, 1645 01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:53,760 AND IT WILL IMMEDIATELY DESIGN A 1646 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:54,400 TREATMENT PLAN FOR YOU. 1647 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:58,680 SO THESE ARE TOOLS THAT WILL BE 1648 01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:01,400 USED BY CLINICIANS. 1649 01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,920 YOU ALSO SEE WORK FROM OVERJET 1650 01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,960 AT DIAGNOSING PERIODONTAL 1651 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,120 DISEASE AND CARIES IMAGES, AND 1652 01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:11,400 AGAIN, THESE ARE TECHNIQUES THAT 1653 01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,240 ARE RAPIDLY EVOLVING AND HAVE 1654 01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:20,440 HUGE DATASETS BEHIND THEM. 1655 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,520 THIS TAPS INTO WORK IN PRECISION 1656 01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:23,800 HEALTH, AS FRANCIS MENTIONED, 1657 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,240 AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE 1658 01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:26,200 IMPORTANCE IN PRECISION HEALTH 1659 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:30,240 OF THIS BEING NOT SINGULAR 1660 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:31,120 INVESTIGATORS WHO ARE EXPLORING 1661 01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,880 A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS, BUT 1662 01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:34,920 THAT THE WORK IS MORE 1663 01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:37,240 EFFECTIVELY DONE WHEN YOU HAVE 1664 01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:41,160 INVESTIGATORS ACROSS THESE MANY 1665 01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,680 FIELDS AS YOU'VE HEARD BY THE 1666 01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,480 TWO FORMER SPEAKERS, OUR 1667 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:46,480 PRECISION HEALTH EFFORT AT 1668 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,720 MICHIGAN INCLUDES 15 SCHOOLS AND 1669 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,840 COLLEGES IN INSTITUTES ACROSS 1670 01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,200 OUR CAMPUS, AND I WOULD JUST SAY 1671 01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,440 OUR CAMPUS BENEFITS FROM BEING A 1672 01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:00,680 LARGE COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH 1673 01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:02,000 UNIVERSITY, WHERE A DENTAL 1674 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:03,680 SCHOOL IS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT 1675 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:09,960 OF THE CAMPUS. 1676 01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,480 THIS HIGHLIGHTS TEAM SCIENCE. 1677 01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,880 I LOVE LARRY'S GRAPH OF THE 1678 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,840 CITATIONS OF TEAM SCIENCE. 1679 01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,880 THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE. 1680 01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:27,600 LEO LEI IS FROM THE UNIVERSITY 1681 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:29,240 OF MICHIGAN STUDYING HEAD AND 1682 01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:29,680 NECK CANCER. 1683 01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,040 THIS HIGHLIGHTS HOW IMPORTANT 1684 01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:32,800 INTERDISCIPLINARITY IS AND HOW 1685 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,120 CRITICAL IT IS FOR US TO 1686 01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:35,880 PARTNER. 1687 01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,880 HE HAS COLLEAGUES, YOU SEE THE 1688 01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,640 LIST OF AUTHORS HERE, FROM FOUR 1689 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,160 DIFFERENT FIELDS: DENTISTRY, 1690 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:44,520 MEDICINE, ENGINEERING AND 1691 01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:45,640 PHARMACY. 1692 01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:50,240 AND FROM FIVE DIFFERENT 1693 01:03:50,240 --> 01:03:51,880 EDUCATION FALL INSTITUTIONS. 1694 01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,840 THIS IS TEAM SCIENCE, AND THIS 1695 01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,600 IS HOW WE HAVE TO, I THINK, 1696 01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,240 THINK IN THE FUTURE HOW WE CAN 1697 01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:04,360 MOVE OUR WORK TO A HIGHER LEVEL. 1698 01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,560 I'LL FINISH BY TALKING ABOUT 1699 01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,240 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES AS 1700 01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,000 I SEE THEM, JUST TO HIGHLIGHT 1701 01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:14,240 SOME DIFFERENT ASPECTS. 1702 01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:15,360 AND THE FIRST, BEING RESPONSIBLE 1703 01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,400 FOR BUDGETARY AFFAIRS ON MY 1704 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,960 CAMPUS, I HAVE TO NOTE THE COST 1705 01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:20,440 OF SCIENCE. 1706 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,520 THE COST OF DOING SCIENCE AND 1707 01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,320 THE COST OF EDUCATION HAS 1708 01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,360 INCREASED DRAMATICALLY, 1709 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,600 ESPECIALLY POST PANDEMIC. 1710 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:31,920 OUR WORKFORCE COSTS HAVE 1711 01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,360 INCREASED, THE INCREASE OF 1712 01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:35,680 SUPPLIES, METHODS AND MATERIALS 1713 01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,400 HAS ALSO INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. 1714 01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,160 COMPLIANCE AND REGULATORY ISSUES 1715 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,360 HAVE ALSO INCREASED DRAMATIC 1716 01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:46,080 DRAMATICALLY. 1717 01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:47,040 I'M NOT HERE AT ALL TO SAY 1718 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:47,880 THEY'RE NOT VALUABLE. 1719 01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:49,320 THESE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT 1720 01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,240 THINGS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO 1721 01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:54,000 DEPLOY SAFE, EFFECTIVE AND 1722 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:55,880 REALLY MEANINGFUL RESEARCH. 1723 01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,560 BUT THERE'S COSTS INVOLVED, AND 1724 01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:58,760 THEY'RE NOT JUST FINANCIAL 1725 01:04:58,760 --> 01:04:59,400 COSTS. 1726 01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:03,720 THEY'RE COSTS OF TIME TAKEN FROM 1727 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,960 INVESTIGATORS, FROM THEIR 1728 01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:07,960 CREATIVE TIME TO HAVE TO BE 1729 01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:11,560 SPENT ON ISSUES AROUND 1730 01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:12,960 REGULATORY AFFAIRS. 1731 01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,000 WORKFORCE AND AGAIN I'M GOING TO 1732 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:17,400 TALK ABOUT THAT BOTH AS A 1733 01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,320 CHALLENGE AND AN OPPORTUNITY, AS 1734 01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:23,120 A CHAL ECK, IT'S JUST EXCITING, 1735 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,560 THE NEXT GENERATION TO WANT TO 1736 01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:25,840 JOIN US IN THE WORK THAT WE'RE 1737 01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:30,280 DOING, AND I THINK WE COULD DO 1738 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,120 BETTER THERE. 1739 01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:32,920 GENERATIVE A.I. 1740 01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,560 JUST THE LAST SIX MONTHS IN OUR 1741 01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,240 WORLD IN GENERATIVE A.I., AND I 1742 01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,000 KNOW I DON'T HAVE TO TELL THOSE 1743 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,960 OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE, IF I ASK 1744 01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:42,720 FOR A RAISE OF HANDS, PROBABLY 1745 01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:44,160 90% OF YOU WOULD SAY THAT YOU'VE 1746 01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,720 BEEN ON CHATGPT OR CHATGPT 4. 1747 01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,520 I MEAN, IT HAS REALLY 1748 01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:54,120 DRAMATICALLY CHANGED OUR WORLD. 1749 01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:58,360 DENTISTRY AN IN THE LARGER 1750 01:05:58,360 --> 01:05:59,040 LANDSCAPE. 1751 01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:00,240 DENTISTRY AS A PROFESSION 1752 01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:01,880 OFTENTIMES SILOS ITSELF. 1753 01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,080 WHEN YOU CONSIDER HOW IMPORTANT 1754 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:05,000 DISCIPLINARITY IS AND TEAM 1755 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,320 SCIENCE IS, IT'S NOT GOING TO 1756 01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:07,520 CUT IT IN THE FUTURE. 1757 01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:09,200 WE HAVE TO BE COLLABORATIVE TO 1758 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:13,160 BE ABLE TO DEPLOY THE BEST 1759 01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:13,480 SCIENCE. 1760 01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,680 WHAT ARE THE METRICS FOR 1761 01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:15,960 SUCCESS? 1762 01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:17,960 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ON OUR 1763 01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:19,680 CAMPUS WE ASK OURSELVES AGAIN 1764 01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:22,120 AND AGAIN. 1765 01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,640 IS IT EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCH? 1766 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:26,680 THIS IS ONE OF THE METRICS THAT 1767 01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:27,440 IS TRACKED. 1768 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,640 IS IT CITATION INDEX? 1769 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:30,760 IS IT H FACTOR? 1770 01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,120 WHAT ARE THE THINGS, YOU KNOW, 1771 01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,320 HERE WE ARE AS SCIENTISTS, WE 1772 01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:36,840 WANT TO HAVE METRICS TO SHOW 1773 01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,400 THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SUCCESSFUL, 1774 01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,720 AND I WOULD 16 TREUR TO SAY THAT 1775 01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:45,320 WE COULD SAY IT'S CLINICAL 1776 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:46,520 IMPACT AND EVEN THAT SOMETIMES 1777 01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:47,960 IS DIFFICULT TO MEASURE. 1778 01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:49,280 AND THEN ARE WE SUPPORTING 1779 01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:52,600 HEALTH FOR ALL? 1780 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:54,880 WE OFTEN, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1781 01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:59,720 TECHNOLOGIES, THESE TECHNOLOGIES 1782 01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:01,040 MAY FAVOR CERTAIN POPULATIONS 1783 01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:02,360 AND THEY MAY BE MORE AVAILABLE 1784 01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,720 TO PEOPLE WITH A HIGHER 1785 01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:06,040 SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. 1786 01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,360 WE HAVE TO THINK VERY CAREFULLY 1787 01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:11,400 ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE 1788 01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:12,880 MOST CARE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO 1789 01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:14,680 ARE NOT BEING SERVED, AND ARE 1790 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:15,960 OUR TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEPLOYED 1791 01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:17,720 TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THEM FOR 1792 01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:18,680 BETTER HEALTH? 1793 01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,400 WE NEED TO THINK ACROSS THE 1794 01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:23,920 ENTIRE LIFESPAN HOW WE'RE 1795 01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:25,960 FOCUSED ON AN AGING POPULATION, 1796 01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,480 AND BEING ABLE TO DEPLOY OUR 1797 01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:30,480 ABILITY TO DELIVER HEALTH TO 1798 01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,640 ALL. 1799 01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:37,480 SO IN THE AREA OF CHALLENGES, 1800 01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,880 FROM AN ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE, 1801 01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,200 THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE HAS 1802 01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:42,720 HUGE COSTS. 1803 01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:44,880 THE CORES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR 1804 01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:46,640 FACULTY, WHICH WE KNOW HELPS 1805 01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:51,200 THEM BE MORE EFFECTIVE, CONTINUE 1806 01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,720 TO INCREASE IN THE EXPENSES IN A 1807 01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,200 UNIVERSITY. 1808 01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,160 WE ARE, AS A UNIVERSITY, QUITE 1809 01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,480 DEDICATED TO THE GENERATION OF 1810 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,600 NEW KNOWLEDGE, AND WE ARE 1811 01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:04,400 INCREDIBLY APPRECIATIVE TO 1812 01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,840 SUPPORT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 1813 01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:08,480 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH IN 1814 01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:11,320 BEING ABLE TO DO THIS. 1815 01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:12,840 AND YOU CAN SEE JUST SOME OF THE 1816 01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:14,680 STATISTICS FROM OUR CAMPUS AND 1817 01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,480 OUR REALLY UNDYING COMMITMENT TO 1818 01:08:18,480 --> 01:08:20,800 PARTNER WITH NIH AND TO FURTHER 1819 01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,080 THE SCIENCE TO IMPROVE HUMAN 1820 01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:25,240 HEALTHMHEALTH. 1821 01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,440 SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT DENTISTRY 1822 01:08:27,440 --> 01:08:29,880 AND ONE OF THE METRICS THAT'S 1823 01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:31,480 USED, WHICH IS RESEARCH 1824 01:08:31,480 --> 01:08:33,000 EXPENDITURE, YOU CAN SEE THE PIE 1825 01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:37,480 CHART FOR OUR CAMPUS OF RESEARCH 1826 01:08:37,480 --> 01:08:38,560 EXPENDITURES, AND SOMETIMES MY 1827 01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:39,760 COLLEAGUES SAY, ISN'T THAT 1828 01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:40,280 GREAT? 1829 01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:43,120 DENTISTRY IS ON THE PIE CHART? 1830 01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:44,760 BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY -- BUT 1831 01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:45,840 SERIOUSLY, NOT EVERYBODY ON OUR 1832 01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,480 CAMPUS IS ON THIS PIE CHART. 1833 01:08:48,480 --> 01:08:51,080 YOU COULD ALSO LOOK AT IT AS 1834 01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:55,200 WHAT WOULD A 2% CUT LOOK LIKE? 1835 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,920 AND FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT, 1836 01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,560 A 2% CUT ISN'T MUCH, AND IT JUST 1837 01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:02,520 FURTHER EMPHASIZES THAT TO ME, 1838 01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,920 OUR IMPACT GOES FAR BEYOND 1839 01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,520 EXPENDITURES, AND IT SHOULD BE 1840 01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:10,360 HOW WE'RE PARTNERING ACROSS 1841 01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:11,440 DISCIPLINES, AND IN OUR CASE, 1842 01:09:11,440 --> 01:09:12,560 ACROSS OUR CAMPUS. 1843 01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:16,120 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT -- YOU KNOW, 1844 01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:17,760 I MENTIONED THE FOUNDATIONAL 1845 01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:18,040 SCIENCES. 1846 01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:20,520 I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE 1847 01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:22,280 CLINICAL WORK THAT WE DO AND THE 1848 01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,920 WORK THAT'S SUPPORTED BY NIH. 1849 01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,520 THIS IS NOT ALL OF THE 1850 01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:28,600 INVESTIGATORS, BUT THESE ARE 1851 01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:29,840 JUST FIVE INVESTIGATORS THAT 1852 01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,840 I'VE HIGHLIGHTED FROM THE 1853 01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:33,120 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF 1854 01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,680 DENTISTRY. 1855 01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:39,720 LUCIA CEVIDANES, AN 1856 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,280 ORTHODONTIST, I'VE MENTIONED HER 1857 01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:45,440 WORK IN TMJ AND SHE IS JUST A 1858 01:09:45,440 --> 01:09:48,760 PHENOMENAL INVESTIGATOR. 1859 01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,760 DARNELL KAIGLER, WHO HAS 1860 01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:52,440 SPEARHEADED REGENERATIVE 1861 01:09:52,440 --> 01:09:54,680 MEDICINE WITH A VERY DIRECT 1862 01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:56,000 CLINICAL APPLICATION IN 1863 01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:56,960 PERIODONTAL DISEASE. 1864 01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:01,320 ALEX DASILVA, STUDYING PAIN, 1865 01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:04,080 NEUROIMAGING AND BRINGING 1866 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:05,280 NEUROIMAGING TECHNIQUES INTO 1867 01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:09,080 CLINICAL USE. 1868 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,600 MARGHERITA FONTANA, STUDYING 1869 01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,000 EARLY CHILDHOOD CARIES, A REALLY 1870 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,240 CLINICAL AND LARGE SCALE BASIS, 1871 01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:19,200 AND ALBERT CHAN, WHO IS ACTUALLY 1872 01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:20,840 A CLINICAL FACULTY MEMBER, 1873 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,800 SUPPORTED BY NIH, FOR ULTRASOUND 1874 01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,760 WORK AND BRINGING IT AS A 1875 01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:26,840 DIAGNOSTIC INTO PERIODONTAL 1876 01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:27,840 DISEASE. 1877 01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,440 I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT FOUR OUT 1878 01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:32,840 OF FIVE OF THESE INVESTIGATORS 1879 01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:36,320 WERE TRAINED IN DENTISTRY NOT IN 1880 01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:37,080 THE UNITED STATES. 1881 01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:39,960 AND I THINK IT HIGHLIGHTS HOW 1882 01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:41,760 IMPORTANT IT IS, OUR PARTNERSHIP 1883 01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:43,520 WITH BRINGING COLLEAGUES FROM 1884 01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:46,440 OTHER COUNTRIES TO ADDRESS THE 1885 01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:50,840 HEALTH ISSUES THAT WE HAVE. 1886 01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,440 SO OPPORTUNITIES. 1887 01:10:53,440 --> 01:10:54,840 I THINK -- AND I'VE BEEN 1888 01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:55,720 ALLUDING TO MANY OF THESE 1889 01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,120 ALREADY, BUT IT'S LEVERAGING 1890 01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:00,880 PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS UNITS AND 1891 01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:02,120 INSTITUTES, AND EXPANDING BEYOND 1892 01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:03,560 WHAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER 1893 01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:04,440 TRADITIONAL BORDERS. 1894 01:11:04,440 --> 01:11:08,360 WE'RE FOCUSED A LOT ON OUR 1895 01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,800 CAMPUS AT INTEGRATING THE ARTS 1896 01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:11,480 AND SCIENCES AND THE IMPORTANCE 1897 01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:13,960 OF THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS IN 1898 01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,080 THE STUDIES, IN THE DEPLOYMENT 1899 01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:17,160 OF HUMAN HEALTH, AND YOU SAW 1900 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:21,880 THAT IN LARRY'S DIAGRAM OF 1901 01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:22,880 CROSSING BORDERS. 1902 01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,920 I ALREADY MENTIONED GENERATIVE 1903 01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:30,280 A.I., AND ITS IMPACT, WHICH IS A 1904 01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:31,480 WORLD WE NEED TO GRAPPLE WITH 1905 01:11:31,480 --> 01:11:33,320 AND WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER ON 1906 01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:34,480 THE OPPORTUNITIES OF IT, THE 1907 01:11:34,480 --> 01:11:35,520 ETHICS AROUND IT, THE 1908 01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,440 CHALLENGES. 1909 01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:40,520 PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. 1910 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,560 THE FORD ROBOTICS BUILDING IS 1911 01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:43,800 ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT 1912 01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,320 EXAMPLES ON OUR CAMPUS OF A NEW 1913 01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,600 BUILDING THAT WAS BUILT FOR 1914 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,160 ENGINEERING IN ROBOTICS AND HAS 1915 01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,520 FORD MOTOR COMPANY EMPLOYEES 1916 01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,200 CO-LOCALIZED IN THE BUILDING TO 1917 01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,000 FOSTER THIS RELATIONSHIP OF 1918 01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,600 TAKING NEW DISCOVERIES INTO THE 1919 01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:05,200 WORLD. 1920 01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:06,360 WE ALSO NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE 1921 01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:07,680 IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ORAL 1922 01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:08,240 HEALTH. 1923 01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,160 THERE'S A MYRIAD OF MEDICATIONS 1924 01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:11,560 THAT PATIENT ARE TAKING IN 1925 01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:13,680 RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN CLIMATE 1926 01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:14,880 THAT HAVE EFFECTS IN THE ORAL 1927 01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:15,400 CAVITY. 1928 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:17,680 AND I THINK THIS IS AN AREA 1929 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,600 WHERE WE JUST HAVE REALLY NOT 1930 01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:24,240 EVEN HIT A FRACTION OF THE 1931 01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,680 POTENTIAL IMPACT. 1932 01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,800 I ALSO JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT 1933 01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,200 OUT TO NIDCR FOR THE 1934 01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,400 PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH 1935 01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:33,280 INTEGRATING MULTIDISCIPLINARY 1936 01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:39,720 EXPERIENCES IN DENTAL SCHOOLS. 1937 01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,680 NIDCR SUPPORTS SCIENCE TO 1938 01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,000 IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH. 1939 01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:45,760 AND I KNOW MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES 1940 01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:48,680 THINK IT SHOULD DIRECTLY SUPPORT 1941 01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:50,440 DENTAL SCHOOLS, AND IT DOES 1942 01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:52,720 SUPPORT DENTAL SCHOOLS, BUT MORE 1943 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,160 IMPORTANTLY, IT SUPPORTS ORAL 1944 01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:57,280 HEALTH. 1945 01:12:57,280 --> 01:12:58,800 AND DOING THAT THROUGH DENTAL 1946 01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,440 SCHOOLS, TO ME, IS REALLY AN 1947 01:13:00,440 --> 01:13:02,720 ADDED AND HUGE BENEFIT, AND THIS 1948 01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:05,360 PROGRAM, I THINK, HAS HUGE 1949 01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:06,560 OPPORTUNITY, NOT ONLY TO 1950 01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,920 ACCOMPLISH IMPROVED ORAL HEALTH, 1951 01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:13,720 BUT TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN AND 1952 01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:14,320 PROVIDE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING 1953 01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:15,600 FOR A WORKFORCE WHO, REGARDLESS 1954 01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:16,880 OF WHETHER THEY BECOME 1955 01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:18,240 SCIENTISTS, WILL BE MORE 1956 01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,160 SUPPORTIVE OF SCIENCE IN THE 1957 01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:22,960 PUBLIC, IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. 1958 01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,520 SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT 1959 01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:26,880 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT RENA 1960 01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,360 IS GOING TO BRING FORWARD WITH 1961 01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,320 PRIMED. 1962 01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:32,640 SYSTEM. 1963 01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,960 A WORD ABOUT DIVERSIFYING THE 1964 01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:36,400 WORKFORCE, AND YOU HEARD FRANCIS 1965 01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:38,400 MENTION THIS, YOU HEARD LARRY 1966 01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:39,000 MENTION THIS. 1967 01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:42,200 I'M SO PROUD TO SAY THAT THE 1968 01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:43,320 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JUST THIS 1969 01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:47,160 WEEK WAS AWARDED A M-P ACT 1970 01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:47,560 PROGRAM. 1971 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,880 THIS IS THE NIH FIRST AWARD 1972 01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:50,880 FACULTY INSTITUTIONAL 1973 01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:52,280 RECRUITMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE 1974 01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:52,640 TRANSFORMATION. 1975 01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:56,000 THIS IS TO RECRUIT 30 JUNIOR 1976 01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,520 FACULTY, AND THE SCHOOL OF 1977 01:13:58,520 --> 01:13:59,480 DENTISTRY IS A PARTICIPATING 1978 01:13:59,480 --> 01:14:00,360 MEMBER OF THIS. 1979 01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:05,760 THIS IS FUNDED BY THE NIH COMMON 1980 01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:07,040 FUND, AND I HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT 1981 01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:11,320 THAT THIS OVERALL PROJECT IS 1982 01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,040 $79 MILLION, OF WHICH 1983 01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:15,360 $16 MILLION IS FROM THE NIH. 1984 01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,320 THAT MEANS 80% OF THIS IS FUNDED 1985 01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:18,960 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1986 01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:20,920 BUT I'LL TELL YOU THAT 20% FROM 1987 01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:25,920 NIH IS SO CRITICAL BECAUSE IT 1988 01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,800 LEVERAGES THE BRAND, THE 1989 01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:31,160 IMPORTANCE OF THE NIH IN THIS 1990 01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,720 WORK, AND WE REALLY ARE 1991 01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:34,560 APPRECIATIVE OF THAT 1992 01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:34,920 PARTNERSHIP. 1993 01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:36,120 I'LL JUST FINISH BY SAYING THIS 1994 01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:39,480 IS THE WORKFORCE FROM WHEN THE 1995 01:14:39,480 --> 01:14:41,000 NIDCR WAS ESTABLISHED. 1996 01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,960 AND I DON'T HAVE TO CONVINCE YOU 1997 01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:47,360 THAT THE WORKFORCE HAS CHANGED 1998 01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:47,680 DRAMATICALLY. 1999 01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,080 WE NEED TO CHANGE, WE NEED TO BE 2000 01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:53,800 ABLE TO ADDRESS AND FOCUS ON THE 2001 01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:54,760 FUTURE WORKFORCE AS WELL. 2002 01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:57,280 AND WITH THAT, I'LL JUST AGAIN 2003 01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,440 SAY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, AND I'D 2004 01:14:59,440 --> 01:15:02,400 LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THIS WORK BY 2005 01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:04,920 RICK GIODOTI, WHO IF YOU ARE NOT 2006 01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:06,520 FAMILIAR WITH HIS WORK ON 2007 01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,640 POSITIVE EXPOSURES, HIGHLIGHTS 2008 01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:14,200 THE BEAUTY OF DIVERSITY, AND THE 2009 01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:16,600 IMPORTANCE OF ALL OF US TO 2010 01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,240 SUPPORT THE ENTIRE DIVERSITY OF 2011 01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,160 INDIVIDUALS THAT WE SERVE. 2012 01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:23,600 SO CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN, AND 2013 01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:23,920 THANK YOU. 2014 01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:34,120 [APPLAUSE] 2015 01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:38,560 >>THAT WAS AWESOME, WASN'T IT? 2016 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,520 [APPLAUSE] 2017 01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,640 THANK YOU SO MUCH, LAURIE, FOR 2018 01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,720 SHARING FINDINGS, FOR SHARING 2019 01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:52,400 OPPORTUNITIES, FOR HIGHLIGHTING 2020 01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:52,960 CHALLENGES. 2021 01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:54,360 IT'S GOING TO TAKE A GREAT DEAL 2022 01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:56,240 OF WORK FOR ALL OF US TO MOVE 2023 01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:57,560 THINGS FORWARD, AND TO ENSURE 2024 01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:01,160 ORAL HEALTH FOR ALL. 2025 01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:02,680 AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE A 2026 01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:03,880 DIVERSITY OF GROUPS AND 2027 01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,080 ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS AS WE 2028 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:07,720 PARTNER AND COLLABORATE. 2029 01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,320 THAT'S THE RESOUNDING THEME AS 2030 01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:10,880 PART OF OUR STRATEGIC INITIATIVE 2031 01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:11,200 HERE. 2032 01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:15,560 I AM SO HAPPY THAT WE HAVE KEY 2033 01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:16,640 STAKEHOLDERS HERE, WE HAVE OUR 2034 01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:18,520 FEDERAL PARTNERS AND OUR OTHER 2035 01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,400 KEY STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS, 2036 01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:21,440 AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM 2037 01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:23,800 THOSE LEADERS RIGHT NOW. 2038 01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:29,080 WE WILL HEAR FROM EDUCATORS, 2039 01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:32,600 WE'LL HEAR FROM CLINICIANS, 2040 01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:37,200 WE'LL HEAR FROM RESEARCHERS, 2041 01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:40,120 WE'LL HEAR FROM LEADERSHIP 2042 01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:42,280 THAT'S FOCUSED ON PROVIDING CARE 2043 01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:43,400 TO DIVERSE POPULATIONS. 2044 01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,040 ALL OF THESE GROUPS ARE CRITICAL 2045 01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:47,360 TO SUPPORTING THE NIDCR MISSION, 2046 01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,200 AND LOOK, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE 2047 01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,560 ABLE TO SOLVE ORAL HEALTH FOR 2048 01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:53,880 ALL UNLESS WE ALL WORK TOGETHER. 2049 01:16:53,880 --> 01:17:00,000 SO I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT WE WILL 2050 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,840 HAVE THE AMERICAN DENTAL 2051 01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:03,040 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 2052 01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:05,560 REPRESENTED, THE AMERICAN DENTAL 2053 01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:06,680 ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN 2054 01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,160 ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL AND ORAL 2055 01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,680 AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH, AND 2056 01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:15,080 THE DIVERSE DENTAL SOCIETY. 2057 01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:16,720 WE'LL FIRST START -- I'D FIRST 2058 01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,560 LIKE TO INVITE DR. GEORGE 2059 01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,680 SHEPLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE 2060 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:21,520 AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION, TO 2061 01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,480 START US OFF. 2062 01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:25,560 AND TO THANK ALL OF THESE GROUPS 2063 01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,280 FOR BEING SO INSTRUMENTAL IN 2064 01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:29,160 SUPPORTING THE MISSION AND 2065 01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:30,680 VISION OF NIDCR OVER THE YEARS. 2066 01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:32,000 THANK YOU. 2067 01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:42,200 [APPLAUSE] 2068 01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:48,760 >>WELL, THANK YOU FOR INVITING 2069 01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:49,160 ME HERE. 2070 01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:50,920 GOOD MORNING AND GREETINGS FROM 2071 01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:51,920 THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION! 2072 01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,760 I'M DR. GEORGE SHEPLEY. 2073 01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:55,360 I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE 2074 01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:56,240 AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION. 2075 01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:57,920 AND IT'S MY PRIVILEGE AND HONOR 2076 01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:00,800 TO JOIN YOU HERE TODAY AT 2077 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:01,600 TODAY'S SYMPOSIUM AS WE KICK 2078 01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:04,120 THIS OFF. 2079 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:05,240 ON A PERSONAL NOTE, I'VE JUST 2080 01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,040 GOT TO SAY, THIS IS AWESOME, 2081 01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:08,520 WHAT I HEARD HERE TODAY. 2082 01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:12,840 IT'S AWESOME, IT'S OVERWHELMING, 2083 01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:13,720 AND IT'S INSPIRING. 2084 01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,560 AND I HEARD EARLIER TODAY 2085 01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,200 CONVERSATION ABOUT 2086 01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:18,160 COMMUNICATION, AND WHAT I WISH 2087 01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:19,400 IS THAT ALL THE DENTISTS IN 2088 01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:20,800 AMERICA COULD HEAR WHAT I'M 2089 01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,720 HEARING HERE TODAY. 2090 01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,280 SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU 2091 01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:25,840 ALL FOR THAT. 2092 01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:26,840 IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE. 2093 01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:29,240 [APPLAUSE] 2094 01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:30,960 ON BEHALF OF THE 159,000 2095 01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:32,280 COLLEAGUES AT THE ADA, IT'S AN 2096 01:18:32,280 --> 01:18:33,800 HONOR TO STAND BEFORE YOU AND 2097 01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:36,080 COMMEMORATE THIS INSTITUTION'S 2098 01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:37,240 EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS AND 2099 01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,920 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF 2100 01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:41,440 DENTISTRY, AND TO JUST IMAGINE 2101 01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:43,040 THE HORIZONS OF WHAT DENTISTRY 2102 01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:46,360 CAN BE IN THE FUTURE. 2103 01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,000 OVER THE PAST 7 1/2 DECADES, 2104 01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,520 YOU'VE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN 2105 01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,400 ADVANCING OUR KNOWLEDGE IN ORAL 2106 01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:53,920 HEALTH, AND REALLY DRIVING 2107 01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:54,760 DENTISTRY FORWARD. 2108 01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:57,720 SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE 2109 01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:58,720 DISCOVERY STEMMING FROM YOUR 2110 01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,560 RESEARCH HAS REDUCED THE BURDEN 2111 01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:02,160 OF ORAL DISEASE, IT'S LED TO 2112 01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:04,160 BETTER ORAL HEALTH FOR TENS OF 2113 01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,320 MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, AND IT'S 2114 01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,000 DOCUMENTED THE IMPORTANT 2115 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,560 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORAL AND 2116 01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:12,200 SYSTEMIC HEALTH. 2117 01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:13,720 NOT ONLY HAVE YOU PLAYED A 2118 01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,240 PIVOTAL ROLE IN SHAPING 2119 01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:17,000 EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES THAT 2120 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,040 IMPROVE PATIENT CARE, BUT YOU'VE 2121 01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:19,920 DEMONSTRATED A REMARKABLE 2122 01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,280 ABILITY TO TRANSLATE RESEARCH 2123 01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,760 INTO MEANINGFUL OUTCOMES. 2124 01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:26,600 FOR MITIGATING DISPARITIES IN 2125 01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:27,840 ORAL HEALTH, TO ADVANCING THE 2126 01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:30,520 USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN DENTAL 2127 01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:31,080 PRACTICE. 2128 01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:34,240 YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE ALSO 2129 01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:35,160 EXTENDED FAR BEYOND THE 2130 01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:36,360 LABORATORY WALLS. 2131 01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,960 YOUR DEDICATION OF TRAINING THE 2132 01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,800 NEXT GENERATION OF DENTAL 2133 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:42,920 RESEARCHERS REMAINS OUR FIELD 2134 01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:44,840 REMAINS AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF 2135 01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:46,080 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 2136 01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:47,400 SO IMPORTANT TO BRING THE NEXT 2137 01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,360 GENERATION ALONG. 2138 01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:50,880 YOU HAVE ALSO FOSTERS THE GROWTH 2139 01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:52,760 OF COUNTLESS SCIENTISTS, 2140 01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:54,280 CLINICIANS AND A HOST OF OTHER 2141 01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:55,720 DENTAL PROFESSIONALS, WHO 2142 01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,480 CONTINUE TO THE FOREFRONT AND TO 2143 01:19:58,480 --> 01:19:59,880 BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THESE 2144 01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:01,600 GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH, CUTTING 2145 01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:05,760 EDGE DISCOVERIES, AND INNOVATIVE 2146 01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,000 SOLUTIONS THAT HAVE TRANSFORMED 2147 01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,040 THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PROFESSION. 2148 01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:11,360 SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU 2149 01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:11,760 DO. 2150 01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:15,360 AND AS WE CELEBRATE, I'D LIKE TO 2151 01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:16,240 COMMEMORATE THE RELATIONSHIP 2152 01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,640 THAT NIDCR HAS WITH THE ADA, 2153 01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,080 WITH THE ADA OVER THE YEARS. 2154 01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,680 WE'VE BUILT A VIBRANT ECOSYSTEM. 2155 01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:25,880 IT NURTURES -- THAT WE'VE 2156 01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,720 NURTURED INOWE VARI INNOVATION,E 2157 01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,280 PROGRESS, AND WE ULTIMATELY 2158 01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,080 IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH AND THE 2159 01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,520 WELL-BEING OF OUR NATION. 2160 01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,240 AND AS A SCIENCE-BASED 2161 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,320 ORGANIZATION, ADA HAS A VESTED 2162 01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:40,280 INTEREST IN ENSURING THAT 2163 01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,560 FEDERAL RESEARCH AGENCIES LIKE 2164 01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:44,200 NIDCR ARE WELL-FUNDED, THAT THE 2165 01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,320 RESEARCH INVESTMENTS REFLECT THE 2166 01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:47,800 NEEDS OF THE DENTAL PROFESSION, 2167 01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:51,120 AND THAT THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED, 2168 01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:52,560 ADVANCES THE ORAL HEALTH OF THE 2169 01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:55,240 AMERICAN PUBLIC. 2170 01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:59,120 THE WORK YOU DO HAS ADD VNSED 2171 01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:00,240 THESE GOALS AND IS TRULY 2172 01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:01,480 IMPORTANT TO PRACTICING DENTISTS 2173 01:21:01,480 --> 01:21:02,680 EVERY DAY AND TO THE PATIENTS 2174 01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:03,600 THAT WE SERVE. 2175 01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:05,240 AND AS WE CONTINUE OUR 2176 01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,960 PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER, LET'S 2177 01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:08,720 IMAGINE THE NEW POSSIBILITIES 2178 01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,360 THAT WE COLLABORATE WHEN WE GO 2179 01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:11,600 FORWARD. 2180 01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,120 WE'RE LIVING AND WORKING AT A 2181 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:14,880 TIME THAT ONLY EXISTED AT ONE 2182 01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:16,400 TIME IN OUR IMAGINATIONS. 2183 01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:18,760 THTHE DENTAL PROFESSION CONTINUS 2184 01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:21,200 TO EVOLVE BEYOND WHAT MANY OF US 2185 01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,160 COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. 2186 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,120 I'M JUST THINKING I TRAINED IN A 2187 01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:27,120 TIME WHERE MY INSTRUCTOR SMOKED 2188 01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:28,840 RIGHT IN THE CLINIC. 2189 01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:32,160 SO WE'VE COME A LONG WAY. 2190 01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:33,880 WE'VE WEATHERED PUBLIC HEALTH 2191 01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:35,640 CRISES LIKE COVID-19. 2192 01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,520 A TIME WHEN THE DEFENSE AGAINST 2193 01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:39,680 THE VIRUS WERE THE RESULTS OF 2194 01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:41,360 DECADES OF CAREFUL AND STRATEGIC 2195 01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:42,680 PLANNING BY THE NATIONAL 2196 01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:44,920 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 2197 01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:46,680 THE PANDEMIC ALSO HELPED US 2198 01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:48,080 SOLIDIFY THAT WE'VE KNOWN TO BE 2199 01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:50,360 TRUE, THE UNDENIABLE IMPORTANCE 2200 01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,880 OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 2201 01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:55,760 WE'RE ALSO SEEING CHANGES IN THE 2202 01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:56,200 DENTAL LANDSCAPE. 2203 01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:57,800 IN THE BUSINESS, AND THE 2204 01:21:57,800 --> 01:21:58,360 PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY. 2205 01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:00,000 IT'S CHANGING DRAMATICALLY FROM 2206 01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:02,640 NEW PRACTICE MODALITIES, 2207 01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:04,600 TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS, TO 2208 01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:05,680 CHANGING PROFESSIONAL NEEDS, 2209 01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:08,320 DIFFERENT CONSUMER ASPECTS. 2210 01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:09,080 DIFFERENT DIVERSITY IN OUR 2211 01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,720 POPULATION. 2212 01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:14,120 BUT IF YOU'VE WORK THED IN 2213 01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:15,120 DENTISTRY LONG ENOUGH, YOU KNOW 2214 01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:16,520 THAT CHANGE IS CONSTANT, AND 2215 01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:17,920 THAT DESPITE THE CHANGE, WHETHER 2216 01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:18,920 AMID PUBLIC HEALTH CRISES OR 2217 01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:21,760 CHANGES IN THE MARKET, OUR 2218 01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:23,600 PROFESSION WILL CONTINUE TO 2219 01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:24,800 EVOLVE. 2220 01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,880 AND THROUGH IT ALL, WE'VE 2221 01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:29,520 LEARNED, WE'VE GROWN AND WE'VE 2222 01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:30,360 ADAPTED. 2223 01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:32,680 WE CONTINUE TO GO FROM STRENGTH 2224 01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:35,800 TO STRENGTH. 2225 01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,200 SOME THINGS ABOUT THIS -- AND AS 2226 01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:39,840 WE CHANGE, WE KNOW SOME THINGS 2227 01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:40,680 NEVER REALLY CHANGE. 2228 01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:42,440 WHETHER WE'RE CLINICIANS, 2229 01:22:42,440 --> 01:22:44,720 EDUCATORS, RESEARCHER, STUDENTS, 2230 01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:47,360 LEADERS, WE ALL MEET ON THAT 2231 01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:51,080 COMMON GROUND OF HELPING EACH 2232 01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:52,520 OTHER SUCCEED IN ADVANCING THE 2233 01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:56,360 HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC. 2234 01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:57,520 OUR STEADY AND COLLECTIVE 2235 01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:58,760 PURPOSE IS WHAT KEEPS US STRONG 2236 01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:00,040 IN THIS NEW DAY. 2237 01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,120 AND AS WE CONFRONT THE NEW 2238 01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:03,520 CHALLENGES AND THE EMERGING 2239 01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,800 TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS, WE 2240 01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:07,800 MUST HAVE SCIENCE, ALL OF YOU, 2241 01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,640 TO GUIDE US THROUGH THAT. 2242 01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:13,120 IN FACT, THE NIDCR'S 2021 REPORT 2243 01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:14,880 ON ORAL HEALTH STANDS AS A 2244 01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:16,000 SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE CAN 2245 01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,920 ACHIEVE WHEN WE PLACE SCIENCE 2246 01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:19,600 AND PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE 2247 01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:22,320 FOREFRONT OF OUR PRIORITIES. 2248 01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,400 IT'S A VERY EXCITING TIME IN 2249 01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:25,960 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL 2250 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:26,520 ADVANCEMENT. 2251 01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,560 OUR FUTURE IS RICH WITH PROMISE 2252 01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:30,680 AND POSSIBILITY. 2253 01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:31,800 AND EVERYBODY HERE HAS A FINGER 2254 01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,760 ON WHAT THAT POSSIBILITY IS 2255 01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:35,840 BECOMING. 2256 01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:37,680 IT IS A FUTURE WHERE WE'RE 2257 01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:38,600 SPARKING MEANINGFUL CHANGE 2258 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:41,640 THROUGH OUR LEGISLATIVE ADVOC 2259 01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:41,920 ADVOCACY. 2260 01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:43,440 NOW IS WHEN WE NEED TO SPEAK, 2261 01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:45,240 WITH A UNITED VOICE. 2262 01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:46,800 ON BEHALF OF THE PROFESSION AND 2263 01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:48,720 FOR THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC. 2264 01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,280 IT'S A FUTURE WHERE WE ELEVATE 2265 01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:52,560 DENTISTRY AND AFFIRM ITS ROLE AS 2266 01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:54,520 A VITAL PART OF OVERALL HEALTH 2267 01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:55,720 AND WELL-BEING, WHERE WE TAKE A 2268 01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:57,480 STAND ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT 2269 01:23:57,480 --> 01:23:59,320 ORAL AND SYSTEMIC HEALTH. 2270 01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,760 WHERE WE SET THE GLOBAL STANDARD 2271 01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:03,840 FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ORALLY 2272 01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:04,680 HEALTHY. 2273 01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:06,440 AND WHERE WE COLLABORATE WITH 2274 01:24:06,440 --> 01:24:09,160 OUR MEDICAL COLLEAGUES, AS 2275 01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:12,400 CHAMPIONS OF OPTIMAL HEALTH. 2276 01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,720 ULTIMATELY, THE ADA'S FUTURE AND 2277 01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:16,440 THAT OF OUR ENTIRE PROFESSION IS 2278 01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:20,320 ONE THAT IS DRIVEN BY ONE SIMPLE 2279 01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:24,360 MISSION: WE MAKE PEOPLE HEAL 2280 01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:24,600 HEALTHY. 2281 01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:27,520 IT'S A FUTURE WE ENVISION, A 2282 01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:28,840 FUTURE WE'RE CREATING, AND A 2283 01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:31,600 FUTURE WE HOPE TO BUILD WITH 2284 01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:33,320 YOU, AS SOME OF THE BEST AND THE 2285 01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:34,960 BRIGHTEST IN OUR PROFESSION. 2286 01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,960 SO THANK YOU, NIDCR, FOR SERVING 2287 01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:40,160 AS A BEACON OF EXCELLENCE, AND 2288 01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:41,360 HELPING TO TRANSFORM THE 2289 01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,840 LANDSCAPE OF ORAL HEALTH IN THE 2290 01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:45,160 21ST CENTURY. 2291 01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:48,680 YOU ARE TAKING WHAT YOU LEARN 2292 01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:50,880 AND MAKING US ALL STRONGER IN 2293 01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:52,160 THE PURSUIT OF OPTIMAL HEALTH 2294 01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:52,840 FOR ALL. 2295 01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:53,960 AND THANK YOU FOR THE COUNTLESS 2296 01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:55,080 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DEDICATED 2297 01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:56,520 THEIR CAREERS TO DENTAL 2298 01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:57,960 RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND 2299 01:24:57,960 --> 01:24:58,960 CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2300 01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,040 IT'S YOUR PASSION, YOUR 2301 01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,680 EXPERTISE, AND YOUR TIRELESS 2302 01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:04,880 PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE THAT HAVE 2303 01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:06,520 PROPELLED THIS PROFESSION 2304 01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:07,120 FORWARD. 2305 01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:08,560 AND AS WE CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY 2306 01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:09,680 TOGETHER, KNOW THAT WE STAND 2307 01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:11,240 WITH YOU, ADA STANDS WITH YOU AS 2308 01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:13,720 A PARTNER IN YOUR PURPOSE, AND 2309 01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:14,800 IT COMMITTED TO WORKING 2310 01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:16,280 ALONGSIDE YOU FOR A HEALTHIER 2311 01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,520 FUTURE FOR ALL OF US. 2312 01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:22,360 SO LET'S UNLOCK NEW INSIGHTS, 2313 01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:23,640 ILLUMINATE NEW FRONTIERS OF 2314 01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:25,520 DISCOVERY, AND ENSURE THAT ORAL 2315 01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:27,160 HEALTH IS NOT ONLY A PRIORITY, 2316 01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:30,680 BUT AN ESSENTIAL PILLAR OF 2317 01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,760 OVERALL WELL-BEING. 2318 01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,680 CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS 2319 01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:35,720 MILESTONE ANNIVERSARY, AND MAY 2320 01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,680 THE NEXT 75 YEARS BE FILLED WITH 2321 01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:39,960 EVEN GREATER ACHIEVEMENTS, 2322 01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,080 ADVANCEMENTS AND COLLABORATION 2323 01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,920 ON BEHALF OF OUR PROFESSION, OUR 2324 01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,200 PATIENTS, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. 2325 01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,600 SO AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK ALL OF 2326 01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,920 YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. 2327 01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:52,800 THIS JUST IS SO INSPIRING. 2328 01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:55,720 I'VE ALWAYS BEEN MOTIVATED AND 2329 01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:57,160 INSPIRED BY PEOPLE THAT ARE 2330 01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:58,440 DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES 2331 01:25:58,440 --> 01:25:58,880 OF OTHERS. 2332 01:25:58,880 --> 01:25:59,880 AND YOU ALL DO IT, YOU'RE THE 2333 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:00,760 BEST. 2334 01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:02,280 I JUST WISH ALL OUR DENTAL 2335 01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:03,120 COMMUNITY KNEW EVERYTHING THAT 2336 01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:03,800 I'VE HEARD TIER TODAY. 2337 01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,520 SO -- HEARD HERE TODAY. 2338 01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:08,160 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL SO 2339 01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:08,440 MUCH. 2340 01:26:08,440 --> 01:26:12,120 [APPLAUSE] 2341 01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:14,320 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH. 2342 01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,360 THAT WAS A VERY INSPIRING TALK. 2343 01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:20,120 I'D LIKE TO NOW INVITE 2344 01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,280 DR. CHRISTOPHER FOX, THE CEO OF 2345 01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:25,120 THE AMERICAN DENTAL -- THE 2346 01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:26,360 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL, 2347 01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:28,640 ORAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH, 2348 01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:35,880 TO SAY A FEW WORDS. 2349 01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:37,000 [APPLAUSE] 2350 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:40,120 >>THANK YOU, DR. WEBSTER 2351 01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:40,400 CYRIAQUE. 2352 01:26:40,400 --> 01:26:42,400 I'VE BEEN CHALLENGED WITH 2353 01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,120 HIGHLIGHTING WHAT NIDCR HAS 2354 01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:47,600 MEANT TO IADR AND AMERICAN 2355 01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,360 DIVISION OVER THESE LAST 2356 01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:49,760 75 YEARS. 2357 01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:51,880 WE JUST CELEBRATED OUR 2358 01:26:51,880 --> 01:26:53,520 CENTENNIAL A FEW YEARS AGO. 2359 01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:55,600 SO IADR HAS A MISSION TO DRIVE 2360 01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:57,040 DENTAL, ORAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 2361 01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,680 RESEARCH FOR HEALTH AND 2362 01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:00,240 WELL-BEING WORLDWIDE, IN A 2363 01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:02,000 VISION OF ORAL HEALTH FOR THE 2364 01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:03,520 WORLD THROUGH DISCOVERY AND 2365 01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:04,520 DISSEMINATION. 2366 01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,080 WE HAVE A VALUE STATEMENT WHICH 2367 01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:09,520 IS THE SAME FOR BOTH AADOCR AND 2368 01:27:09,520 --> 01:27:11,400 IADR CENTERED AROUND SCIENTIFIC 2369 01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:12,600 EXCELLENCE, SOCIAL 2370 01:27:12,600 --> 01:27:14,800 RESPONSIBILITY, AND SCIENTIFIC 2371 01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:15,920 COMMUNITY. 2372 01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:20,520 OUR ASSOCIATION'S VALUES, 2373 01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:23,960 SCIENCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF 2374 01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:25,680 RIGOR TO CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION 2375 01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:27,280 AND GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH. 2376 01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:28,280 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, WE WANT 2377 01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:29,800 TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS PURSUIT 2378 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,360 OF SCIENCE TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND 2379 01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:32,880 WELL-BEING FOR ALL PEOPLE AND TO 2380 01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:34,960 REDUCE HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND 2381 01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:36,400 INEQUITIES AND PROACTIVELY TAKE 2382 01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:37,480 ACTIONS AND POSITIONS TO IMPROVE 2383 01:27:37,480 --> 01:27:38,440 HEALTH. 2384 01:27:38,440 --> 01:27:39,560 AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, WE'RE 2385 01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:41,520 ALL ABOUT A DIVERSE AND 2386 01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,080 INCLUSIVE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE, 2387 01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:45,360 PROMOTING WORK-LIFE BALANCE, 2388 01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:46,480 SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY 2389 01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:48,440 AND MENTORING NETWORKS TO 2390 01:27:48,440 --> 01:27:49,640 DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF 2391 01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:51,080 SCIENTISTS. 2392 01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:52,560 YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SLIDE 2393 01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:53,320 COUNTLESS TIMES. 2394 01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:54,920 THIS IS PRESIDENT TRUMAN SIGNING 2395 01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:57,160 INTO LAW THE NATIONAL DENTAL 2396 01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:00,800 RESEARCH ACT, 75 YEARS AND THREE 2397 01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:01,880 DAYS AGO. 2398 01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:04,520 AND SOMETIMES THIS SLIDE IS 2399 01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:05,920 CROPPED AND YOU DON'T SEE THE 2400 01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:09,240 GENTLEMAN ON THE RIGHT BUT 2401 01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:12,160 THAT'S H. TRENLEY DEAN. 2402 01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:17,520 I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE 2403 01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,720 CONNECTIONS OVER THE YEARS. 2404 01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:24,320 SO THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF NIDR 2405 01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:26,720 WAS H. TRENLEY DEAN AND HE WAS 2406 01:28:26,720 --> 01:28:27,600 OUR PRESIDENT A FEW YEARS 2407 01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:27,960 BEFORE. 2408 01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:29,360 YOU'LL NOTICE A TREND HERE. 2409 01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,640 THE SECOND NIDR DIRECTOR WAS DR. 2410 01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:38,360 HE WAS IADR PRESIDENT '53 TO 2411 01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:38,560 5/04. 2412 01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:40,200 THE THIRD WAS SEE MORE 2413 01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,080 CRECHEOVER, HE WAS IADR 2414 01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,800 PRESIDENT FROM '62 TO '63. 2415 01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:47,320 DAVID B. SCOTT WAS NIDR DIRECTOR 2416 01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:49,880 FROM 76 TO 81 AND IADR PRESIDENT 2417 01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,160 75 TO 76. 2418 01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:54,960 DR. HAROLD LOWE, NIDR DIRECTOR, 2419 01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:56,720 83 TO 94, AND HE WAS NIDR 2420 01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:59,480 PRESIDENT A FEW YEARS BEFORE 2421 01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:00,120 THAT. 2422 01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:03,640 OTHER IMPORTANT LEADERS IN NIDR 2423 01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,560 WAS DR. MAUREEN NIGH LAND, THE 2424 01:29:06,560 --> 01:29:10,000 FIRST FEMALE INTERIM DIRECTOR IN 2425 01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:11,400 1977, THEN SHE LATER WENT ON TO 2426 01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,160 BECOME IADR PRESIDENT, 81 TO 2427 01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,000 82 AND AADR PRESIDENT BEFORE 2428 01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:21,880 THAT, 79 TO 80. 2429 01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:23,680 A FEW YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME 2430 01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:26,080 DIRECTOR, HE WAS AADR PRESIDENT 2431 01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:30,640 FROM 93 TO 94. 2432 01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:31,680 DR. TABAK IS THE ONE THAT GOT 2433 01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:32,320 AWAY. 2434 01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:32,880 [LAUGHTER] 2435 01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:40,680 HE WAS ELECTED AADR TREASURER IN 2436 01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:42,800 2000 BUT THEN TOOK THE JOB OF 2437 01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:43,920 NADR DIRECTOR BUT THEN HAD TO 2438 01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:45,400 STEP DOWN SO WE DID NOT BENEFIT 2439 01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,520 FROM THE WISDOM OF DR. TABAK. 2440 01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:49,760 AFTER DR. TABAK WAS 2441 01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:51,640 DR. SOMERMAN, NIDCR DIRECTOR 2442 01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:53,920 FROM 2011 TO 2019 AND AADR 2443 01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:57,080 PRESIDENT FROM 2001 TO 2002. 2444 01:29:57,080 --> 01:30:01,360 AND DR. RENA D'SOUZA -- 2445 01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:02,360 [APPLAUSE] 2446 01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,760 -- OUR CURRENT DIRECTOR WAS 2447 01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:12,240 AADR PRESIDENT FROM 2012, IADR 2448 01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:16,280 PRESIDENT, AND DR. WEBSTER 2449 01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:20,000 CYRIAQUE IS OUR CURRENT 2450 01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:20,400 PRESIDENT. 2451 01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:21,840 SO WE ALSO CONNECT THROUGH 2452 01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:24,400 INCLUSIVITY. 2453 01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,320 IN 1998 UNDER SLAVKIN'S 2454 01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:29,960 LEADERSHIP THEY EXPANDED TO 2455 01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:31,280 BECOME THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 2456 01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:32,720 DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 2457 01:30:32,720 --> 01:30:33,280 RESEARCH. 2458 01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:36,000 WE THOUGHT THAT WAS A PRETTY 2459 01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:37,520 GOOD IDEA, IN 2021 WE EXPANDED 2460 01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:41,160 THE NAME OF AADR TO BE AADOCR TO 2461 01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:43,760 REALLY EXPRESS THE INCLUSIVITY 2462 01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:45,320 OF OUR MEMBERS AND THE TYPE OF 2463 01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:46,400 SCIENCE THEY WERE DOING IN THE 2464 01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,400 DEDENTAL, ORAL AND CRANIOFASCIAL 2465 01:30:49,400 --> 01:30:50,240 SPACES. 2466 01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:51,040 PARTNERING THROUGH SCIENCE, IF 2467 01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:52,240 YOU LOOK AT THE NIDCR WEBSITE 2468 01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:53,800 AND THEIR DIVISION OF EXTRAMURAL 2469 01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:55,320 RESEARCH, THEY'VE GOT THREE 2470 01:30:55,320 --> 01:30:55,840 BRANCHES AND ONE CENTER. 2471 01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:57,520 IN THE DIVISION OF INTRAMURAL 2472 01:30:57,520 --> 01:30:59,440 RESEARCH WITH FIVE MAIN STUDY 2473 01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:01,120 AREAS, QUITE ALIGNED WITH OUR 2474 01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:02,680 NOW 35 SCIENTIFIC GROUPS AND 2475 01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:04,080 NETWORKS WITHIN IADR AND THAT'S 2476 01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,160 A LIST OF THEM IN FRONT OF YOU. 2477 01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:09,040 WE ALSO CONNECT STRATEGICALLY 2478 01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:11,880 THROUGH CHARTING THE FUTURE. 2479 01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:12,520 AADOCR CONSISTENTLY RESPONDS TO 2480 01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:14,520 THE NUMEROUS NIDCR REQUESTS FOR 2481 01:31:14,520 --> 01:31:16,480 INFORMATION ON VARIED FRONTS. 2482 01:31:16,480 --> 01:31:17,760 DURING THE STRATEGIC PLANNING 2483 01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,320 PROCESS, WE INPUT INTO THAT, 2484 01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:21,960 CRAFTING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, 2485 01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:24,480 NOVEL RESEARCH INITIATIVES AND 2486 01:31:24,480 --> 01:31:25,640 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES, SHARING 2487 01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:27,200 MECHANISMS TO AUGMENT TRAINING 2488 01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:28,080 AND SUSTAIN PROGRESS, AND 2489 01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:29,720 DESIGNING EFFORTS TO REDUCE AND 2490 01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:31,360 PREVENT HEALTH DISPARITIES AND 2491 01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:32,520 IMPORTANTLY TO INCREASE THE 2492 01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,040 DIVERSITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC 2493 01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:34,560 WORKFORCE. 2494 01:31:34,560 --> 01:31:36,840 AND THAT BRINGS US TO WHAT IS 2495 01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:38,480 RAPIDLY BECOMING OUR FLAGSHIP 2496 01:31:38,480 --> 01:31:41,920 PROGRAM WITH NIDCR FUNDED BY THE 2497 01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,120 NIDCR AS A U AGREEMENT, OUR 2498 01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:45,960 AADOCR MINE THE FUTURE PROGRAM, 2499 01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:47,880 WHICH IS MENTORING AN INCLUSIVE 2500 01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,840 NETWORK FOR A DIVERSE WORKFORCE 2501 01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:52,160 FOR THE FUTURE. 2502 01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:56,360 WE ALSO PARTNER THROUGH 2503 01:31:56,360 --> 01:31:56,800 LEVERAGING WORKFORCE. 2504 01:31:56,800 --> 01:31:59,760 WE HAD OUR AAODCR CANADIAN 2505 01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:01,400 MEETING IN PORTLAND, OREGON AND 2506 01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:02,960 NEXT YEAR WE WILL BE IN NEW 2507 01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:03,200 ORLEANS. 2508 01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:05,120 THERE ARE A VARIETY OF NIDCR 2509 01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:06,120 ACTIVITIES THAT TAKE PLACE AT 2510 01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:08,440 OUR MEETINGS, INCLUDING KICKING 2511 01:32:08,440 --> 01:32:10,640 OFF THIS 75TH CELEBRATION IN 2512 01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:12,600 PORTLAND, AND WE'LL HAVE A 2513 01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:13,800 WRAP-UP IN NEW ORLEANS. 2514 01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,000 BUT TRAINEE RESEARCH 2515 01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:17,040 PRESENTATIONS WHICH IS ALWAYS A 2516 01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:18,400 HIGHLIGHT OF OUR MEETINGS, 2517 01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,320 HAND-ON WORKSHOPS, INTERACTIVE 2518 01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:22,160 TALK SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA, 2519 01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:23,480 MENTORING AND NETWORKING 2520 01:32:23,480 --> 01:32:24,920 LUNCHES, AND ASSOCIATION AND 2521 01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:26,120 AFFILIATE MEETINGS. 2522 01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:27,000 AND IMPORTANTLY, IT GIVES OUR 2523 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:28,000 MEMBERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET 2524 01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,080 WITH THE PROGRAM OFFICERS OF 2525 01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:32,040 NIDCR, WHO ARE OFTEN IN 2526 01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:33,680 ATTENDANCE AT OUR MEETINGS. 2527 01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:35,240 AND A LOT OF STUDENTS ARE 2528 01:32:35,240 --> 01:32:36,440 ATTENDING OUR MEETINGS ALSO THAT 2529 01:32:36,440 --> 01:32:38,040 WE'RE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE INTO 2530 01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:40,920 SCIENTIFIC CAREERS. 2531 01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:43,480 SO ABOUT 25% OF OUR MEETINGS ARE 2532 01:32:43,480 --> 01:32:45,480 DENTAL STUDENTS, DENTAL 2533 01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:46,080 STUDENTS, RESIDENTS AND 2534 01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:47,880 POSTDOCS, SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING 2535 01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:48,960 FOR STUDENTS INVOLVED IN 2536 01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:50,280 RESEARCH, PLEASE COME TO OUR 2537 01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:51,360 MEETINGS. 2538 01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:53,320 ADVOCACY, WE ADVOCATE FOR NIH 2539 01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:53,840 AND NIDCR. 2540 01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:54,800 WE'VE GOT OUR DIRECTOR OF 2541 01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,880 GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS IN THE 2542 01:32:57,880 --> 01:32:59,040 AUDIENCE, WHERE WE CORRESPOND 2543 01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:00,600 WITH CONGRESS, WE HAVE ADVOCACY 2544 01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:01,640 DAY ON THE HILL, WE HAVE THAT AT 2545 01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:04,360 THE END OF MARCH WITH OUR 2546 01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,400 COLLEAGUES, APPROPRIATION 2547 01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:07,880 REQUEST, CONGRESSIONAL 2548 01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,200 TESTIMONY, DR. D'SOUZA, WHEN SHE 2549 01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,040 WAS AADR PRESIDENT ABOUT A 2550 01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:14,480 DECADE AGO, SHE GAVE SOME 2551 01:33:14,480 --> 01:33:15,880 FANTASTIC TESTIMONY ON BEHALF OF 2552 01:33:15,880 --> 01:33:17,200 NIDCR AND REALLY QUITE ENGAGED 2553 01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:18,800 THE CHAIR OF APPROPRIATIONS IN 2554 01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:21,080 THAT TESTIMONY. 2555 01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:21,840 PARTICIPATING IN COALITIONS AND 2556 01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:23,560 WE HAVE MONTHLY MEETINGS WITH 2557 01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:24,960 NIDCR ALL ABOUT HOW WE CAN 2558 01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:27,640 IMPROVE DENTAL, ORAL AND 2559 01:33:27,640 --> 01:33:28,640 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH AND 2560 01:33:28,640 --> 01:33:29,560 ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF OUR 2561 01:33:29,560 --> 01:33:30,160 COMMUNITY. 2562 01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:31,280 WE HAVE A FEW PATIENT ADVOCATES 2563 01:33:31,280 --> 01:33:32,120 IN THE AUDIENCE. 2564 01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:33,640 IT GREAT THAT WE ALSO HAVE AS 2565 01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:36,320 PART OF AADOCR THE FRIENDS OF 2566 01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:38,040 NIDCR AND IT'S A VERY BROAD 2567 01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:38,920 BASED COALITION. 2568 01:33:38,920 --> 01:33:41,040 OUR CURRENT PATIENT ADVOCACY 2569 01:33:41,040 --> 01:33:42,720 COUNCIL IS COMPRISED OF 39 2570 01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:43,640 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS 2571 01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:45,840 REPRESENTING DISEASES AND 2572 01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:47,800 CONDITIONS WITH A DENTAL, ORAL 2573 01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:48,600 OR CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH 2574 01:33:48,600 --> 01:33:49,680 COMPONENT AND SUPPORT THE WORK 2575 01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:50,080 OF NIDCR. 2576 01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:51,280 AND WHEN YOU'RE UP ON THE HILL 2577 01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:52,520 AND YOU CAN BRING A PATIENT 2578 01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:53,960 ADVOCATE AND PAIR THAT WITH A 2579 01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:55,480 RESEARCHER, THAT'S A REALLY 2580 01:33:55,480 --> 01:33:56,520 IMPACTFUL MESSAGE ON THE HILL 2581 01:33:56,520 --> 01:33:59,120 AND REALLY A DIFFERENT STORY 2582 01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:02,640 THAN WHEN IT'S JUST RESEARCHER 2583 01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,280 SO WE REALLY DO RELY AND ARE AN 2584 01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:07,800 IMPORTANT PART OF NIDCR. 2585 01:34:07,800 --> 01:34:09,320 OUR CONCLUDING SLIDE WHERE WE'RE 2586 01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:10,560 CONNECTING OVER THE NEXT 75 WHY 2587 01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:11,760 OUR ORGANIZATIONS WILL ENDEAVOR 2588 01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:13,080 TO CONTINUALLY CONNECT AND 2589 01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:14,080 PARTNER WITH NIDCR TO 2590 01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:15,120 COLLABORATE ON THE MISSION, 2591 01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,760 VISION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES 2592 01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:18,680 WITHIN ITS FUTURE STRATEGIC 2593 01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:21,240 PLANS, WE WANT TO IDENTIFY WHERE 2594 01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:22,640 VALUE DRIVEN RESOURCES CAN YIELD 2595 01:34:22,640 --> 01:34:24,640 THE GREATEST IMPACT, WE WANT TO 2596 01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:25,720 CHAMPION SCIENCE AND DISSEMINATE 2597 01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:27,680 DATA THAT BREAKS DOWN 2598 01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:28,800 DISPARITIES, INEQUITIES IN 2599 01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:30,000 HEALTH, FUEL INNOVATION AND 2600 01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,440 BRING ABOUT A COALESCENCE IN 2601 01:34:32,440 --> 01:34:34,840 DENTAL, ORAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 2602 01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:36,080 RESEARCH, ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF 2603 01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:37,600 NIDCR FOR ADEQUATE AND 2604 01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:39,240 SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS IN 2605 01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,240 BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AS WELL AS 2606 01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:43,360 INCREASED RESOURCES FOR DENTAL, 2607 01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:45,040 ORAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH, 2608 01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:46,280 AND IMPORTANTLY, SUPPORT, MENTOR 2609 01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:48,280 AND TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF 2610 01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,280 DIVERSE DENTAL, ORAL AND 2611 01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:51,240 CRANIOFACIAL SCHOLARS TO MEET 2612 01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:52,880 THE NEEDS AND ADDRESS GAPS 2613 01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:54,440 WITHIN DOC RESEARCH. 2614 01:34:54,440 --> 01:34:59,200 SO ON BEHALF OF MY IADR AND MY 2615 01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:00,520 AADOCR BOARD OF DIRECTORS, I 2616 01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:01,880 CONGRATULATE NIDCR ON 75 YEARS 2617 01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:05,360 AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEX NEX 2618 01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:05,520 75. 2619 01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:05,920 THANK YOU. 2620 01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:11,080 [APPLAUSE] 2621 01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:13,160 >>THANK YOU, DR. FOX, FOR A 2622 01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:13,680 WONDERFUL OVERVIEW. 2623 01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,800 NEXT WE'LL HEAR FROM DR. KAREN 2624 01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:17,440 WEST, WHO IS THE PRESIDENT AND 2625 01:35:17,440 --> 01:35:19,320 CEO OF THE AMERICAN DENTAL 2626 01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:22,040 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. 2627 01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:30,680 [APPLAUSE] 2628 01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:31,240 >>HELLO. 2629 01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:34,000 I AM REALLY HONORED TO JOIN YOU 2630 01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:40,200 TODAY AS NIDCR RECOGNIZES 2631 01:35:40,200 --> 01:35:41,320 75 YEARS OF CELEBRATING THE PAST 2632 01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:43,200 AND CHARTING THE FUTURE OF ORAL, 2633 01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:44,400 DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 2634 01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:45,280 RESEARCH. 2635 01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:47,920 THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL MOMENT IN 2636 01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:49,840 HEALTHCARE. 2637 01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:51,880 FROM ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND 2638 01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:54,960 TECHNOLOGY, TO CREATING AVENUES 2639 01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:57,600 FOR ACCESS TO CARE FOR 2640 01:35:57,600 --> 01:35:58,600 UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, ABSENT 2641 01:35:58,600 --> 01:36:00,040 FROM THE CONVERSATION FOR 2642 01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,320 SEVERAL DECADES. 2643 01:36:02,320 --> 01:36:06,920 I APPLAUD THE WORK THAT NIDCR 2644 01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:10,480 HAS CHAMPIONED FOR 75 YEARS, TO 2645 01:36:10,480 --> 01:36:12,480 ADVANCE THE KNOWLEDGE OF DOC 2646 01:36:12,480 --> 01:36:13,920 HEALTH AND TRANSLATE THESE 2647 01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:16,360 FINDINGS INTO EARLY DETECTION, 2648 01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:18,720 PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT TO 2649 01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:20,400 IMPROVE OVERALL HEALTH ACROSS 2650 01:36:20,400 --> 01:36:22,120 THE LIFESPAN OF ALL. 2651 01:36:22,120 --> 01:36:24,080 SO THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME 2652 01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:24,960 HERE TODAY. 2653 01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:27,800 AND TO SHARE THE COLLABORATIVE 2654 01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:29,960 EFFORTS BETWEEN NIDCR AND THE 2655 01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:32,000 AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION 2656 01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:33,280 ASSOCIATION. 2657 01:36:33,280 --> 01:36:38,440 SO FIRST OF ALL, WHO ARE WE? 2658 01:36:38,440 --> 01:36:39,680 SO IT'S THE VOICE OF DENTAL 2659 01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:40,640 EDUCATION. 2660 01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:44,280 WE REPRESENT 65,000-PLUS ORAL 2661 01:36:44,280 --> 01:36:47,240 HEALTH FACULTY, STAFF, 2662 01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:49,480 ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS, 2663 01:36:49,480 --> 01:36:49,960 RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS. 2664 01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:55,800 THIS INCLUDES 15,000 INDIVIDUAL 2665 01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:57,800 MEMBERS, 800-PLUS ALLIED AND 2666 01:36:57,800 --> 01:36:58,560 ADVANCED DENTAL EDUCATION 2667 01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:01,080 PROGRAMS, AND 80-PLUS DENTAL 2668 01:37:01,080 --> 01:37:03,680 SCHOOLS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA. 2669 01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:06,680 NOW WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW WE HAVE 2670 01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:09,040 WORKED WITH NIDCR OVER THE PAST 2671 01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:12,960 75 YEARS, WE HAVE VERY SIMILAR 2672 01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:14,160 MISSIONS. 2673 01:37:14,160 --> 01:37:17,360 OUR MISSION ALIGNS WITH THAT OF 2674 01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:19,960 NIDCR, WHICH STRIVES TO ADVANCE 2675 01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:21,120 KNOWLEDGE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE 2676 01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:22,760 ORAL HEALTH. 2677 01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:24,960 OUR MISSION IS TO LEAD AND 2678 01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,680 SUPPORT THE HEALTH PROFESSION'S 2679 01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:30,400 COMMUNITY IN PREPARING FUTURE 2680 01:37:30,400 --> 01:37:34,720 READY ORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. 2681 01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:40,640 NOT SURPRISINGLY, NIDCR AND ADEA 2682 01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:42,480 ARE LONG-STANDING COLLABORATORS 2683 01:37:42,480 --> 01:37:43,600 IN MULTIPLE REALMS, CONNECTED 2684 01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:45,600 THROUGH OUR MISSIONS, VISIONS 2685 01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:49,080 AND GOALS, WHICH MAKE MULTIPLE 2686 01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:50,640 OPPORTUNITIES FOR BENEFICIAL 2687 01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:52,640 PARTNERSHIPS IN THE FUTURE. 2688 01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:56,760 AS MENTIONED BEFORE, WE ADVOCATE 2689 01:37:56,760 --> 01:37:59,080 ON CAPITOL HILL FOR DENTAL 2690 01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:01,080 RESEARCH AND ORAL HEALTH 2691 01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:04,000 WORKFORCE ISSUES. 2692 01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:09,040 WE HAVE AN ADEA PHASE TO 2693 01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:10,280 LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, WHICH 2694 01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:11,200 STRESSES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 2695 01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:12,920 ADVOCACY TO ORAL HEALTH 2696 01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:13,520 EDUCATION. 2697 01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:16,240 AND WHICH CULMINATES IN VISITING 2698 01:38:16,240 --> 01:38:18,200 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR 2699 01:38:18,200 --> 01:38:21,520 INCREASED FUNDING FOR NIDCR AND 2700 01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:22,720 TITLE 7 ORAL HEALTH TRAINING 2701 01:38:22,720 --> 01:38:25,480 PROGRAMS. 2702 01:38:25,480 --> 01:38:27,120 ADEA IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF 2703 01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:32,360 FRIENDS OF NIDCR, THE ADVOCACY 2704 01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:33,880 COALITION. 2705 01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:36,320 44% OF NIDCR BUDGET IS ASSIGNED 2706 01:38:36,320 --> 01:38:39,200 TO DENTAL SCHOOLS, AND WHICH 2707 01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:41,400 HELPS EARLY INVESTIGATORS, MANY 2708 01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:44,880 OF WHOM ARE TEACHING FACULTY AND 2709 01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:46,400 ADEA MEMBERS. 2710 01:38:46,400 --> 01:38:48,600 BOTH INSTITUTIONS, BOTH 2711 01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:50,600 ASSOCIATIONS, BASICALLY SUPPORT 2712 01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:53,280 THE SAME PEOPLE. 2713 01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:57,200 WE DISSEMINATE SCIENTIFIC 2714 01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:58,600 LITERATURE THROUGH THE JOURNAL 2715 01:38:58,600 --> 01:39:01,760 OF DENTAL EDUCATION, WHICH 2716 01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:04,320 CONTRIBUTES TO EDUCATIONAL 2717 01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:06,320 RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL 2718 01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,400 DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH 2719 01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:12,200 INTEGRATION, AND EVIDENCE-BASED 2720 01:39:12,200 --> 01:39:12,680 PRACTICE. 2721 01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:13,640 WE ADVANCE THE QUALITY OF 2722 01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,280 EDUCATION IN THE DENTAL 2723 01:39:16,280 --> 01:39:18,480 PROFESSION, ENSURING THAT ORAL 2724 01:39:18,480 --> 01:39:21,440 HEALTH EDUCATORS ARE EQUIPPED 2725 01:39:21,440 --> 01:39:24,160 WITH THE LATEST KNOWLEDGE. 2726 01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:27,440 WE WIDELY PROMOTE NIDCR TRAINING 2727 01:39:27,440 --> 01:39:29,880 GRANTS TO OUR MEMBERS. 2728 01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:34,280 AND WE HAVE THE AD ESM A 2729 01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:35,560 CHAPTERS FOR STUDENTS, RESIDENTS 2730 01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:37,240 AND FELLOWS, AND WE ENCOURAGE 2731 01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:38,760 OUR STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED 2732 01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:40,560 WITH ACADEMIC CAREERS. 2733 01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:41,840 AND I'M GOING OFF SCRIPT HERE 2734 01:39:41,840 --> 01:39:45,600 FOR A BIT, BUT I'VE HEARD TODAY 2735 01:39:45,600 --> 01:39:47,040 ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE WHO ARE 2736 01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:47,560 HERE. 2737 01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:49,560 WE ARE RESEARCHERS, WE ARE 2738 01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:54,640 EDUCATORS, WE ARE CLINICIANS. 2739 01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:56,080 BUT ALL IN ALL W DO WE COME 2740 01:39:56,080 --> 01:39:56,280 FROM? 2741 01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:57,480 WE COME FROM A DENTAL SCHOOL 2742 01:39:57,480 --> 01:40:01,280 THAT HAS TO PROVIDE ALL THOSE 2743 01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:02,280 OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS. 2744 01:40:02,280 --> 01:40:06,200 SO THEY CAN MAKE CHOICES, SO 2745 01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,680 THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO BE AN 2746 01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:10,760 EDUCATOR, A RESEARCHER, A 2747 01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:11,040 CLINICIAN. 2748 01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:12,400 SO I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME WORK 2749 01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:13,920 TO DO THERE, AND WE CAN WORK 2750 01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:16,160 TOGETHER ON THIS. 2751 01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:20,600 BECAUSE IN ORDER TO DO THAT AND 2752 01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:21,560 PROVIDE A STUDENT WITH THESE 2753 01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:22,520 OPPORTUNITIES, WE HAVE TO HAVE 2754 01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:23,320 TIME TO DO SO. 2755 01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:25,960 SO THERE IS OVERCROWDING IN THE 2756 01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:28,480 CURRICULUM, BUT AS WE LOOK TO 2757 01:40:28,480 --> 01:40:30,280 THE FUTURE, WE SEE OPPORTUNITIES 2758 01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:32,480 FOR NEW MODELS FOR EDUCATION, 2759 01:40:32,480 --> 01:40:35,680 THAT WE HAVE TO EMBRACE, AND WE 2760 01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:37,520 HAVE TO SEARCH FOR, AND WE HAVE 2761 01:40:37,520 --> 01:40:42,800 TO FIND THE TIME THAT WE CAN -- 2762 01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:45,560 SORRY -- GRADUATE A STUDENT WHO 2763 01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:47,640 IS PRACTICE-READY, WHO IS 2764 01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,480 RESEARCH-READY, WHO IS 2765 01:40:50,480 --> 01:40:52,200 EDUCATION-READY, WHO IS 2766 01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:53,360 COMMUNITY-BASED ACCESS TO CARE, 2767 01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:55,560 PUBLIC HEALTH-READY. 2768 01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:56,440 SO WE HAVE -- 2769 01:40:56,440 --> 01:40:59,400 [APPLAUSE] 2770 01:40:59,400 --> 01:41:02,280 -- A HUGE, HUGE CHALLENGE AHEAD 2771 01:41:02,280 --> 01:41:03,600 OF US. 2772 01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:05,480 SO I WENT OFF SCRIPT THERE AND I 2773 01:41:05,480 --> 01:41:07,080 APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. 2774 01:41:07,080 --> 01:41:09,560 BUT OTHER FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES, 2775 01:41:09,560 --> 01:41:12,360 I THINK WE CAN COLLABORATE TO 2776 01:41:12,360 --> 01:41:14,600 ELIMINATE ORAL HEALTH 2777 01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:18,520 DISPARITIES, WE CAN RECRUIT AND 2778 01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:19,880 SUPPORT OUR RESEARCH FACULTY WE 2779 01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,200 HAVE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, AND 2780 01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:24,800 WE CAN CREATE AN INCLUSIVE AND 2781 01:41:24,800 --> 01:41:27,680 EQUITABLE ORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE, 2782 01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:29,440 AS HAS BEEN TALKED AT TODAY, 2783 01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:31,640 WHICH IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 2784 01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:35,040 AND WE CAN PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR 2785 01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:39,320 MISSION-APPROPRIATE RESEARCH, 2786 01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:41,480 AND EXPLORE WAYS THAT ALL OF 2787 01:41:41,480 --> 01:41:43,520 ADEA'S MEMBER INSTITUTIONS CAN 2788 01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:44,160 PARTICIPATE IN 2789 01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:45,680 MISSION-APPROPRIATE RESEARCH. 2790 01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:47,120 WE HAVE NEW DENTAL SCHOOLS 2791 01:41:47,120 --> 01:41:48,640 COMING ON BOARD. 2792 01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:50,360 THEY WILL HAVE DIFFERENT 2793 01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:50,760 MISSIONS. 2794 01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:53,600 THEY WILL HAVE DIFFERENT VISIONS 2795 01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:58,320 FROM THE REST OF US. 2796 01:41:58,320 --> 01:41:59,960 SO WE HAVE TO APPROACH THAT WITH 2797 01:41:59,960 --> 01:42:01,200 AN OPEN MIND, AND A THOUGHT 2798 01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:04,800 PROCESS THAT ALLOWS US TO THINK 2799 01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,800 ABOUT HOW WE CAN ENGAGE ALL OF 2800 01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:09,880 OUR MEMBERS AND ALL OF OUR 2801 01:42:09,880 --> 01:42:10,440 INSTITUTIONS. 2802 01:42:10,440 --> 01:42:14,240 SO I THINK THESE AND OTHER YET 2803 01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,040 REALIZED OPPORTUNITIES CALL UPON 2804 01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:19,720 US TO HAVE MULTIFACETED 2805 01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:21,080 UNDERSTANDING OF RESEARCH, ONE 2806 01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,080 THAT ENCOMPASSES BASIC SCIENCE, 2807 01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:26,560 CLINICAL SCIENCE, TRANSLATIONAL, 2808 01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:28,840 EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2809 01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:29,120 RESEARCH. 2810 01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:31,520 SO IN CLOSING, I HOPE TODAY THAT 2811 01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:35,400 YOU HAVE OBSERVED HOW OUR TWO 2812 01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:37,880 ORGANIZATIONS HAVE PAVED THE WAY 2813 01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:40,840 TOGETHER TO ADVANCE ORAL HEALTH 2814 01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:42,080 EDUCATION AND THE OVERALL HEALTH 2815 01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:43,960 OF OUR SHARED COMMUNITY. 2816 01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:47,000 AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER, ADEA 2817 01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:48,040 CELEBRATES THIS MILESTONE WITH 2818 01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:58,560 YOU, AND WE LOOK 75TH BIRTHDAY. 2819 01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:13,240 I BRING GREETINGS FROM THE 2820 01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:14,120 HISPANIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION AND 2821 01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:15,280 THE DIVERSE DENTAL SOCIETY. 2822 01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:18,480 TODAY WE ARE HERE NOT ONLY TO 2823 01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:20,880 CELEBRATE PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2824 01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:23,400 AND HARD WORK, BUT TO CHART THE 2825 01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:26,680 FUTURE OF DENTAL, ORAL, AND 2826 01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:29,480 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH. 2827 01:44:29,480 --> 01:44:32,280 IN 2021, THE HISPANIC DENTAL 2828 01:44:32,280 --> 01:44:36,160 ASSOCIATION UNDER MY TENURE AS 2829 01:44:36,160 --> 01:44:37,480 PRESIDENT STARTED A STRONG 2830 01:44:37,480 --> 01:44:40,360 RELATIONSHIP WITH NIDCR UNDER 2831 01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:42,080 THE LEADERSHIP OF DR. RENA 2832 01:44:42,080 --> 01:44:43,000 D'SOUZA. 2833 01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:45,080 WE STARTED RESEARCH INITIATIVES 2834 01:44:45,080 --> 01:44:48,240 AS PART OF THE HISPANIC DENTAL 2835 01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:51,240 ASSOCIATION'S STRATEGIC PLAN 2836 01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:53,480 FOCUSING ON THE IMPORTANCE OF 2837 01:44:53,480 --> 01:44:55,440 DEVELOPING QUALITATIVE AND 2838 01:44:55,440 --> 01:44:57,280 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FOR OUR 2839 01:44:57,280 --> 01:44:59,800 MINORITY POPULATIONS AND 2840 01:44:59,800 --> 01:45:02,960 MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. 2841 01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:05,920 SINCE 2021, THE HDA RESEARCH 2842 01:45:05,920 --> 01:45:09,160 TEAM HAS PARTICIPATED IN SEVERAL 2843 01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:11,680 TRAININGS WITHIN THE RESEARCH 2844 01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,520 TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT 2845 01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:18,360 PROGRAMS THROUGH NIH AND NIDCR 2846 01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:21,160 TO BECOME COMPETENT AND READY TO 2847 01:45:21,160 --> 01:45:24,000 APPLY FOR VARIOUS AVAILABLE 2848 01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:25,840 GRANTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE FOCUSED 2849 01:45:25,840 --> 01:45:29,160 ON MINORITY POPULATIONS, 2850 01:45:29,160 --> 01:45:32,040 SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS, 2851 01:45:32,040 --> 01:45:35,080 DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC 2852 01:45:35,080 --> 01:45:36,440 PUBLICATIONS AND PARTICIPATION 2853 01:45:36,440 --> 01:45:39,960 IN NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. 2854 01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,360 THE EMPOWERMENT AND SUPPORT 2855 01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:45,480 RECEIVED BY THE NIDCR HAS 2856 01:45:45,480 --> 01:45:47,880 ENCOURAGED THE HDA RESEARCH TEAM 2857 01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:50,720 AND THE DIVERSE DENTAL SOCIETY 2858 01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:53,080 TO DEVELOP THE FIRST NATIONAL 2859 01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:55,400 ORAL HEALTH STUDY OF U.S. 2860 01:45:55,400 --> 01:45:56,880 HISPANICS. 2861 01:45:56,880 --> 01:45:59,920 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CARE 2862 01:45:59,920 --> 01:46:01,520 QUEST INSTITUTE. 2863 01:46:01,520 --> 01:46:03,920 THIS DATA PUBLISHED RECENTLY IN 2864 01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:08,240 OUR BRAND NEW SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL 2865 01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:09,880 PROVIDES THE FIRST NATIONAL 2866 01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:12,520 OVERVIEW OF THE ORAL HEALTH 2867 01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:15,640 STATUS DENTAL WORKFORCE, DENTAL 2868 01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:17,880 EDUCATION, AND DENTAL 2869 01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:20,600 UTILIZATION BY HISPANICS IN THE 2870 01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:22,720 UNITED STATES. 2871 01:46:22,720 --> 01:46:24,400 WE WERE INVITED TO THE IADR 2872 01:46:24,400 --> 01:46:27,000 MEETING THIS PAST WEEK, WHERE 2873 01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:30,000 THIS DATA WAS PRESENTED. 2874 01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:33,080 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT A 2875 01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:34,040 MINORITY DENTAL ORGANIZATION HAS 2876 01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:37,000 BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT AND PRESENT 2877 01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:45,040 AT AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL LEVELA 2878 01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:47,320 RATHER COMPREHENSIVE ORAL HEALTH 2879 01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:48,800 STUDY ON ITS POPULATIONS. 2880 01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:50,000 WE FEEL SO PROUD OF OUR RESULTS 2881 01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:52,760 AND CURRENTLY OUR HDA RESEARCH 2882 01:46:52,760 --> 01:46:56,280 TEAM IS PRESENTING THESE 2883 01:46:56,280 --> 01:46:57,040 IMPORTANT RESULTS IN DIFFERENT 2884 01:46:57,040 --> 01:47:00,680 NATIONAL MEETINGS. 2885 01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:03,320 THE ORAL HEALTH CONFERENCE, THE 2886 01:47:03,320 --> 01:47:06,560 HDA ANNUAL MEETING, THE AMERICAN 2887 01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:08,400 ASSOCIATION OF ORAL AND 2888 01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:10,840 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH, THE 2889 01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:11,880 SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY 2890 01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:13,320 ASSOCIATION, AND AS I MENTIONED 2891 01:47:13,320 --> 01:47:16,120 PREVIOUSLY, WE HAD THE HONOR TO 2892 01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:20,480 PRESENT AT THE IADR IN COLOMBIA. 2893 01:47:20,480 --> 01:47:22,880 OUR HDA RESEARCH TEAM WILL 2894 01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:27,360 ATTEND THE UPCOMING AMERICAN 2895 01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:31,480 DENTAL ASSOCIATION SMILE CON 2896 01:47:31,480 --> 01:47:32,920 MEETING, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC 2897 01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:33,680 HEALTH ASSOCIATION MEETING, AND 2898 01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:36,560 NEXT YEAR, THE AMERICAN DENTAL 2899 01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:38,240 ASSOCIATION ADEA ANNUAL MEETING 2900 01:47:38,240 --> 01:47:40,640 IN NEW ORLEANS. 2901 01:47:40,640 --> 01:47:42,440 AT ADEA, WE WILL CONTINUE 2902 01:47:42,440 --> 01:47:45,160 SHARING THE RESULTS OF OUR 2903 01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:49,880 NATIONAL RESEARCH AND SECONDARY 2904 01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:51,720 DATA ANALYSIS STUDY. 2905 01:47:51,720 --> 01:47:54,240 BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 2906 01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:57,120 NIDCR IS NOT ONLY ABOUT 2907 01:47:57,120 --> 01:47:59,080 RESEARCH, IT'S ALSO ABOUT MAKING 2908 01:47:59,080 --> 01:48:03,360 AN IMPACT ABOUT OPENING DOORS. 2909 01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:05,040 OUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE ENGAGING 2910 01:48:05,040 --> 01:48:08,560 IN THE NEW GENERATIONS OF 2911 01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:11,200 HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED, 2912 01:48:11,200 --> 01:48:14,360 RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DOCTORAL 2913 01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:16,320 STUDENTS AND GRADUATES TO BE 2914 01:48:16,320 --> 01:48:20,200 PART OF THE MINORITY WORKFORCE 2915 01:48:20,200 --> 01:48:22,280 WITHIN NIH AND NIDCR. 2916 01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:24,240 I WILL DO LIKE MY COLLEAGUE, I'M 2917 01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:26,520 GOING TO GO OFF SCRIPT. 2918 01:48:26,520 --> 01:48:29,080 GIVE US A CHANCE. 2919 01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:33,280 PEOPLE OPENED DOORS FOR ME. 2920 01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:35,240 I AM HUMBLED TO BE HERE IN FRONT 2921 01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:37,640 OF ALL OF YOU. 2922 01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:41,720 AND YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY 2923 01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:43,600 HUMBLING, SOMEONE GAVE ME AN 2924 01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:45,600 OPPORTUNITY, AND I'M SITTING 2925 01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:48,560 HERE -- OOPS, SORRY -- WITH 2926 01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:50,000 AMAZING PEOPLE, AND IT'S BECAUSE 2927 01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:52,280 SOMEONE OPENED MY DOOR, AND I 2928 01:48:52,280 --> 01:48:56,280 KNOW YOU KNOW THIS, AND YOU OPEN 2929 01:48:56,280 --> 01:48:57,000 DOORS FOR ME. 2930 01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:00,920 SO ANYWAY, EVERY TIME WE 2931 01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:03,600 IDENTIFY A TALENT THAT MATCHES 2932 01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:06,480 WITH DIFFERENT INTERNSHIPS OR 2933 01:49:06,480 --> 01:49:09,560 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED 2934 01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:12,560 BY THE NIDCR, WE ENHANCE 2935 01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:15,280 DIVERSITY IN DENTAL, ORAL, AND 2936 01:49:15,280 --> 01:49:17,040 CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH. 2937 01:49:17,040 --> 01:49:21,440 WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROMOTE ALL 2938 01:49:21,440 --> 01:49:23,880 OF THIS NIDCR AND NIH 2939 01:49:23,880 --> 01:49:26,160 OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN OUR DIVERSE 2940 01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:28,000 ORGANIZATIONS. 2941 01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:29,880 WE KNOW THAT RESEARCH TEAMS WITH 2942 01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:31,440 MEMBERS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS 2943 01:49:31,440 --> 01:49:35,320 ARE MORE LIKELY TO GENERATE 2944 01:49:35,320 --> 01:49:36,840 INNOVATIVE IDEAS THAT TEAMS THAT 2945 01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:41,320 ARE MADE UP FROM MEMBERS FROM 2946 01:49:41,320 --> 01:49:42,720 DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 2947 01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:43,840 DIVERSITY BUILDS EDUCATIONAL 2948 01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:47,200 EXCELLENCE. 2949 01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,880 HDA AGREES THAT RECRUITING 2950 01:49:49,880 --> 01:49:54,040 SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS WHO 2951 01:49:54,040 --> 01:49:56,560 HAVE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND 2952 01:49:56,560 --> 01:49:59,080 LIFE EXPERIENCES WILL INCREASE 2953 01:49:59,080 --> 01:50:00,680 RESEARCH ON OUR MINORITY 2954 01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:03,320 POPULATIONS AND PROVIDE POLICY 2955 01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:05,920 CHANGES AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN 2956 01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:08,040 UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. 2957 01:50:08,040 --> 01:50:09,840 THANK YOU, NIDCR, FOR YOUR 2958 01:50:09,840 --> 01:50:12,240 COMMITMENT TO OUR 2959 01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:13,360 UNDERREPRESENTED, AND BELOVED 2960 01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:14,600 COMMUNITIES. 2961 01:50:14,600 --> 01:50:17,760 AND FUTURE RESEARCHERS. 2962 01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:19,600 THE HISPANIC DENTAL ASSOCIATION 2963 01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:21,840 IS TRULY HONORED FOR THIS 2964 01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:23,400 INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THIS 2965 01:50:23,400 --> 01:50:26,240 ANNIVERSARY. 2966 01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:28,440 ALWAYS COUNT ON US TO CONTINUE 2967 01:50:28,440 --> 01:50:31,720 ACHIEVING THE GOALS OF NIDCR, 2968 01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:33,520 INCREASING DENTAL RESEARCH IN 2969 01:50:33,520 --> 01:50:35,520 DIFFERENT FIELDS, AND ATTRACTING 2970 01:50:35,520 --> 01:50:39,200 AND RETAINING PEOPLE FROM 2971 01:50:39,200 --> 01:50:41,440 UNDERREPRESENTED, RACIAL, AND 2972 01:50:41,440 --> 01:50:43,560 ETHNIC GROUPS. 2973 01:50:43,560 --> 01:50:44,720 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND 2974 01:50:44,720 --> 01:50:47,360 PEOPLE FROM ECONOMICALLY AND 2975 01:50:47,360 --> 01:50:51,760 EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED 2976 01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:52,040 BACKGROUNDS. 2977 01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:54,600 THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF 2978 01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:56,600 MORE 75 WONDERFUL YEARS OF 2979 01:50:56,600 --> 01:50:58,480 COLLABORATION. 2980 01:50:58,480 --> 01:51:00,440 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THANK YOU, THANK 2981 01:51:00,440 --> 01:51:10,440 YOU! 2982 01:51:10,440 --> 01:51:13,320 >>THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR 2983 01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:17,480 PARTNERS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 2984 01:51:17,480 --> 01:51:18,400 FUTURE COLLABORATIONS. 2985 01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:19,840 WE WILL NOW TAKE A 15-MINUTE 2986 01:51:19,840 --> 01:51:21,280 BREAK AND THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM 2987 01:51:21,280 --> 01:51:22,880 OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS AND ASK OUR 2988 01:51:22,880 --> 01:51:24,400 FEDERAL PARTNERS TO COME BACK 2989 01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:24,840 5 MINUTES EARLY. 2990 01:51:24,840 --> 01:51:25,920 THANK YOU ALL. 2991 01:51:25,920 --> 01:51:26,960 SEE YOU IN A FEW MINUTES. 2992 01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:29,840 [APPLAUSE] 2993 01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:32,480 I KNOW THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE 2994 01:51:32,480 --> 01:51:34,200 THAT WERE GOING TO SPIN OFF FOR 2995 01:51:34,200 --> 01:51:36,200 DIFFERENT SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, 2996 01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:41,320 SO I WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE THIS 2997 01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:42,600 AFTERNOON, WE WILL BE 2998 01:51:42,600 --> 01:51:44,200 ACKNOWLEDGING OUR STAFF, AND IT 2999 01:51:44,200 --> 01:51:45,480 INDEED TAKES A VILLAGE. 3000 01:51:45,480 --> 01:51:48,120 GETTING THIS EVENT TOGETHER 3001 01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:50,520 ITSELF TOOK A CONSIDERABLE 3002 01:51:50,520 --> 01:51:53,600 EFFORT FROM DARRELL KESSLER, 3003 01:51:53,600 --> 01:51:56,480 LISA MARLICK, NICOLE AND HER 3004 01:51:56,480 --> 01:51:57,960 TEAM, CATHERINE EVANS, ALL OF 3005 01:51:57,960 --> 01:52:01,680 YOU UP THERE, LILLIAN SHUM, WHO 3006 01:52:01,680 --> 01:52:03,960 TOOK ON THE ORGANIZATION, AND 3007 01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:05,480 THROUGH THE YEAR, THE GUIDANCE 3008 01:52:05,480 --> 01:52:07,120 OF THE ORGANIZING OR THE 3009 01:52:07,120 --> 01:52:09,600 PLANNING COMMITTEE, I SEE 3010 01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:10,680 DR. KLEINMAN HERE, AMONGST MANY 3011 01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:12,960 OTHERS WHO WORKED TIRELESSLY TO 3012 01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:15,280 MAKE THIS A MEANINGFUL, 3013 01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:18,720 IMPACTFUL CELEBRATION OF OUR 3014 01:52:18,720 --> 01:52:21,240 75TH AND PROJECTION FOR THE NEXT 3015 01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:22,000 75 YEARS, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH 3016 01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:22,240 FROM ME. 3017 01:52:22,240 --> 01:52:23,000 [APPLAUSE] 3018 01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:24,520 AND THE REST OF NIDCR. 3019 01:52:24,520 --> 01:52:26,840 AND I DO WANT TO DO SOMETHING 3020 01:52:26,840 --> 01:52:28,200 THAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE EARLIER, 3021 01:52:28,200 --> 01:52:30,080 WHICH IS TO PRESENT DR. MCCAULEY 3022 01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:32,440 A PLAQUE OF RECOGNITION FROM US 3023 01:52:32,440 --> 01:52:37,560 FOR TAKING THE TIME IN YOUR BUSY 3024 01:52:37,560 --> 01:52:38,480 SCHEDULE TO GRACE THE OCCASION. 3025 01:52:38,480 --> 01:52:39,520 THANK YOU, LAURIE. 3026 01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:40,120 THANK YOU. 3027 01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:50,280 [APPLAUSE] 3028 01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:56,080 >>WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE. 3029 01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:58,920 AND WE ARE SO FORTUNATE AND 3030 01:52:58,920 --> 01:53:02,560 REALLY LUCKY TODAY TO HAVE WITH 3031 01:53:02,560 --> 01:53:05,640 US FOUR OF OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS 3032 01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:08,280 FOR A FIRE SIDE -- NO FIRE PIT 3033 01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:10,280 HERE, BUT WE'LL CALL IT A 3034 01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:11,080 FIRESIDE CHAT, OKAY? 3035 01:53:11,080 --> 01:53:13,920 SO I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THEM 3036 01:53:13,920 --> 01:53:14,200 NOW. 3037 01:53:14,200 --> 01:53:16,680 PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND WHEN I 3038 01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:18,440 CALL YOUR NAME. 3039 01:53:18,440 --> 01:53:21,960 FROM THIS SIDE OF THE STAGE, WE 3040 01:53:21,960 --> 01:53:25,560 HAVE REAR ADMIRAL MICHAEL 3041 01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:26,000 WINDSOR JOHNSON. 3042 01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,800 HE IS THE CHIEF DENTAL OFFICER 3043 01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:30,040 FOR THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH 3044 01:53:30,040 --> 01:53:32,080 SERVICE. 3045 01:53:32,080 --> 01:53:37,280 NEXT TO HIM, WE HAVE MR. CASEY 3046 01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:39,360 HANNAN, DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION 3047 01:53:39,360 --> 01:53:41,240 OF ORAL HEALTH AT THE CENTERS 3048 01:53:41,240 --> 01:53:42,200 FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND 3049 01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:42,520 PREVENTION. 3050 01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:47,080 [APPLAUSE] 3051 01:53:47,080 --> 01:53:50,000 NEXT TO MR. HANNAN, WE HAVE 3052 01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:52,120 DR. NATALIA CHALMERS, THE CHIEF 3053 01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:53,480 DENTAL OFFICER AT THE CENTERS 3054 01:53:53,480 --> 01:53:56,000 FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID 3055 01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:56,240 SERVICES. 3056 01:53:56,240 --> 01:53:57,200 [APPLAUSE] 3057 01:53:57,200 --> 01:54:02,560 AND AN ALUMNI OF NIDCR. 3058 01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:07,080 AND FINALLY, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, 3059 01:54:07,080 --> 01:54:14,120 WE HAVE DR. SRINIVAS NANDU 3060 01:54:14,120 --> 01:54:15,080 NANDKUMAR, DIRECTOR OF THE 3061 01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:16,760 DIVISION OF DENTAL AND ENT 3062 01:54:16,760 --> 01:54:18,280 DEVICES AT THE FOOD AND DRUG 3063 01:54:18,280 --> 01:54:18,640 ADMINISTRATION. 3064 01:54:18,640 --> 01:54:20,720 [APPLAUSE] 3065 01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:22,360 THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. 3066 01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:24,520 WE REALLY VERY MUCH APPRECIATE 3067 01:54:24,520 --> 01:54:26,800 IT, AND LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING 3068 01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:28,160 FROM BRIEF REMARKS THAT YOU'LL 3069 01:54:28,160 --> 01:54:29,400 EACH PROVIDE. 3070 01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:32,960 WE'LL START WITH DR. JOHNSON. 3071 01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:35,520 >>GOOD MORNING. 3072 01:54:35,520 --> 01:54:39,240 I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM 3073 01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:42,240 DR. KESSLER, WHO STATED IN THE 3074 01:54:42,240 --> 01:54:48,280 EMAIL THAT INVITED ME TO SPEAK, 3075 01:54:48,280 --> 01:54:49,720 AND SHE INTIMATED IN THE EMAIL 3076 01:54:49,720 --> 01:54:52,560 THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A FIRESIDE 3077 01:54:52,560 --> 01:54:55,120 CHAT. 3078 01:54:55,120 --> 01:54:57,160 AS WAS SHARED EARLIER, I'M THE 3079 01:54:57,160 --> 01:54:58,960 NATIONAL CHIEF DENTIST FOR THE 3080 01:54:58,960 --> 01:55:00,360 DENTAL CATEGORY, U.S. PUBLIC 3081 01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:03,240 HEALTH SERVICE, AND THIS IS MY 3082 01:55:03,240 --> 01:55:04,120 FIRST FORUM THAT I'M SPEAKING 3083 01:55:04,120 --> 01:55:05,400 TO, SO WHEN I READ IN THE EMAIL 3084 01:55:05,400 --> 01:55:07,440 IT WAS A FIRESIDE CHAT, I 3085 01:55:07,440 --> 01:55:09,080 THOUGHT, OKAY, SO THAT'S A NICE 3086 01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:15,280 WAY TO GET MY FEET WET, SMALL, 3087 01:55:15,280 --> 01:55:15,640 INTIMATE GROUP. 3088 01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:17,840 >>THIS IS A SMALL -- THERE'S 3089 01:55:17,840 --> 01:55:19,480 FOUR OF US UP HERE, FIVE IF YOU 3090 01:55:19,480 --> 01:55:20,520 COUNT ME. 3091 01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:22,480 >>LOOKING AROUND, THIS IS NOT 3092 01:55:22,480 --> 01:55:23,960 MY DEFINITION OF A FIRESIDE 3093 01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:25,920 CHAT. 3094 01:55:25,920 --> 01:55:26,360 [LAUGHTER] 3095 01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:27,840 >>KEEP YOUR VIEW LOCAL. 3096 01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:30,800 KEEP YOUR VIEW LOCAL. 3097 01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:34,640 >>ONE OF THE TASKS OR OUTLINES 3098 01:55:34,640 --> 01:55:37,400 IN THAT EMAIL WAS TO SHARE WITH 3099 01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:40,480 ALL OF YOU THE RELATIONSHIP WITH 3100 01:55:40,480 --> 01:55:43,040 COMMISSION CORPS AND NIDCR. 3101 01:55:43,040 --> 01:55:44,800 AS WEIGH SHARED WITH A NUMBER OF 3102 01:55:44,800 --> 01:55:47,000 THE SPEAKERS AND AS WELL AS THE 3103 01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,520 SLIDE, THE FIRST DENTAL DIRECTOR 3104 01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:54,600 WAS H.10LY DEAN, WHO WAS A 3105 01:55:54,600 --> 01:55:55,480 COMMISSION CORPS OFFICER. 3106 01:55:55,480 --> 01:55:58,440 HE WAS THE FIRST DIRECTOR IN 3107 01:55:58,440 --> 01:55:59,720 1948, WHEN THE NATIONAL 3108 01:55:59,720 --> 01:56:02,560 INSTITUTE OF DENTAL RESEARCH WAS 3109 01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:03,520 ESTABLISHED. 3110 01:56:03,520 --> 01:56:07,920 HIS NAME IS ALSO FAMILIAR 3111 01:56:07,920 --> 01:56:09,560 BECAUSE HE HAD AN INTEREST IN 3112 01:56:09,560 --> 01:56:10,680 THE EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE ON 3113 01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:12,560 TEETH, AND THROUGH HIS TENURE, 3114 01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:15,920 DURING HIS TENURE, THE 3115 01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:19,640 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEYS WERE 3116 01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:22,800 INSTITUTED FOR FLUORIDE, SO IN 3117 01:56:22,800 --> 01:56:26,680 1950, THE PHS, COMMISSION CORPS 3118 01:56:26,680 --> 01:56:31,520 OFFICERS, ENDORSED FLUORIDATING 3119 01:56:31,520 --> 01:56:33,360 COMMUNITY WATER. 3120 01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:37,760 SO FAST FORWARD TO 2000, THE 3121 01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:40,320 FIRST EVER REPORT ON ORAL HEALTH 3122 01:56:40,320 --> 01:56:41,520 WAS PUBLISHED BY THE SURGEON 3123 01:56:41,520 --> 01:56:45,240 GENERAL, AND THEN JUST RECENTLY, 3124 01:56:45,240 --> 01:56:46,400 ANOTHER PUBLICATION THAT WAS 3125 01:56:46,400 --> 01:56:48,680 PUBLISHED WAS THE ORAL HEALTH IN 3126 01:56:48,680 --> 01:56:49,920 AMERICA. 3127 01:56:49,920 --> 01:56:53,240 WHICH COMMISSION CORE OFFICERS 3128 01:56:53,240 --> 01:56:55,840 WERE NOT ONLY INVOLVED WITH 3129 01:56:55,840 --> 01:56:58,600 FACILITATING, BUT THEY WERE ALSO 3130 01:56:58,600 --> 01:57:02,520 CONTRIBUTORS AS AUTHORS. 3131 01:57:02,520 --> 01:57:05,000 I'M ALSO THE CHIEF DENTIST OF 3132 01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:06,040 THE NATIONAL FEDERAL PRISONS. 3133 01:57:06,040 --> 01:57:09,400 AND OUR MISSION AS DENTAL CORPS 3134 01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:12,240 ALLIANCE WITH NIDCR IN THAT WE 3135 01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:18,800 WANT TO INCREASE ACCESS TO ORAL 3136 01:57:18,800 --> 01:57:24,560 HEALTH FOR FULL NECIAL VULNERABS 3137 01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:25,680 AND TO ADVANCE ORAL HEALTH IN 3138 01:57:25,680 --> 01:57:26,040 AMERICA. 3139 01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:28,680 SO I'M JUST VERY HONORED TO BE 3140 01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:31,400 HERE TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOU 3141 01:57:31,400 --> 01:57:32,760 BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS IS LIKE 3142 01:57:32,760 --> 01:57:34,680 COMING HOME, BECAUSE I DID MY 3143 01:57:34,680 --> 01:57:36,320 PUBLIC HEALTH RESIDENCY AT 3144 01:57:36,320 --> 01:57:37,600 NIDCR. 3145 01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:38,880 SO I APPRECIATE -- 3146 01:57:38,880 --> 01:57:40,760 [APPLAUSE] 3147 01:57:40,760 --> 01:57:42,200 -- HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO 3148 01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:45,560 COME BACK IN THIS CAPACITY AND 3149 01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:49,400 HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH YOU, ANY 3150 01:57:49,400 --> 01:57:50,680 QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING 3151 01:57:50,680 --> 01:57:52,200 THE COMMISSION CORPS OR WHAT OUR 3152 01:57:52,200 --> 01:57:53,400 INITIATIVES ARE OR HOW WE CAN 3153 01:57:53,400 --> 01:57:54,520 CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH 3154 01:57:54,520 --> 01:57:56,440 NIDCR. 3155 01:57:56,440 --> 01:57:57,240 SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU. 3156 01:57:57,240 --> 01:57:57,800 [APPLAUSE] 3157 01:57:57,800 --> 01:58:02,120 >>THANK YOU! 3158 01:58:02,120 --> 01:58:03,480 THANK YOU FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT 3159 01:58:03,480 --> 01:58:04,560 IN THIS SMALL, INTIMATE 3160 01:58:04,560 --> 01:58:05,720 DISCUSSION. 3161 01:58:05,720 --> 01:58:06,480 [LAUGHTER] 3162 01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:06,760 MR. HANNAN. 3163 01:58:06,760 --> 01:58:07,760 >>HI. 3164 01:58:07,760 --> 01:58:10,120 GOOD MORNING, AND I BRING 3165 01:58:10,120 --> 01:58:11,520 GREETINGS FROM THE CENTERS FOR 3166 01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:12,760 DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION 3167 01:58:12,760 --> 01:58:13,680 IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 3168 01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:17,240 IT'S AN HONOR TO BE INVITED. 3169 01:58:17,240 --> 01:58:18,320 DR. D'SOUZA, THANK YOU FOR THIS, 3170 01:58:18,320 --> 01:58:20,320 AND THANK YOU NOT ONLY TO 3171 01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:21,400 PARTICIPATE, BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE 3172 01:58:21,400 --> 01:58:24,920 SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE CURRENT, 3173 01:58:24,920 --> 01:58:26,400 PAST AND WHAT MIGHT HOLD FOR US 3174 01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:28,200 IN THE FUTURE OF OUR 3175 01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:30,640 COLLABORATION BETWEEN OUR TWO 3176 01:58:30,640 --> 01:58:31,120 AGENCIES. 3177 01:58:31,120 --> 01:58:32,600 IT'S ALSO GREAT TO BE JOINED ON 3178 01:58:32,600 --> 01:58:34,360 THIS FIRESIDE CHAT WITH VERY 3179 01:58:34,360 --> 01:58:36,160 FAMILIAR FACES. 3180 01:58:36,160 --> 01:58:38,160 MANY OF US HAVE WORKED FOR YEARS 3181 01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:40,520 ON THE PHS ORAL HEALTH 3182 01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:41,680 COORDINATING COMMITTEE. 3183 01:58:41,680 --> 01:58:42,960 ALL OF OUR ORGANIZATIONS ARE 3184 01:58:42,960 --> 01:58:44,280 REPRESENTED ON THAT, AND MANY OF 3185 01:58:44,280 --> 01:58:47,000 US ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP ON 3186 01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:47,720 THOSE CALLS. 3187 01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:49,680 AND IMPORTANTLY, NIDCR IS A PART 3188 01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:52,360 OF THAT LEVEL OF COLLABORATION, 3189 01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:54,280 AND THEN DECADES OF 3190 01:58:54,280 --> 01:58:55,760 COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIT 3191 01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:57,000 FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE OFFICE OF 3192 01:58:57,000 --> 01:58:58,160 ORAL HEALTH AND NOW THE DIVISION 3193 01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:01,560 OF ORAL HEALTH AT CDC. 3194 01:59:01,560 --> 01:59:05,600 WE'VE HAD -- WE'VE ENJOYED A 3195 01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:07,040 RICH HISTORY AND PRODUCTIVE 3196 01:59:07,040 --> 01:59:08,440 HISTORY OF LEVELS OF 3197 01:59:08,440 --> 01:59:10,280 COOPERATION, COORDINATION AND 3198 01:59:10,280 --> 01:59:11,080 COLLABORATION, AND WE'VE 3199 01:59:11,080 --> 01:59:13,640 CONNECTED RECENTLY ON ISSUES 3200 01:59:13,640 --> 01:59:16,040 RELATED TO PANDEMICS, GLOBALLY, 3201 01:59:16,040 --> 01:59:19,680 TRYING TO ENSURE SAFE VISITS FOR 3202 01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:22,120 EVERYBODY RECEIVING SOME SORT OF 3203 01:59:22,120 --> 01:59:24,400 DENTAL CARE TO ISSUES RELATED TO 3204 01:59:24,400 --> 01:59:25,600 AMALGAM, WHAT'S THE FEDERAL 3205 01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:29,400 AGENCY POSITION ON THAT, TO 3206 01:59:29,400 --> 01:59:31,360 ISSUES OF SCIENCE AND 3207 01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:32,160 IMPLEMENTATION ON COMMUNITY 3208 01:59:32,160 --> 01:59:33,720 WATER FLUORIDATION, AND A BUNCH 3209 01:59:33,720 --> 01:59:35,600 OF OTHER REALLY IMPORTANT ORAL 3210 01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:37,840 HEALTH TOPICS, I SHOULD SAY, SO 3211 01:59:37,840 --> 01:59:41,720 IT'S JUST FABULOUS TO BE HERE ON 3212 01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:42,440 A MOMENTOUS CELEBRATION AND WHAT 3213 01:59:42,440 --> 01:59:44,520 I HOPE IS AUSPICIOUS FOR THE 3214 01:59:44,520 --> 01:59:46,720 NEXT 75 YEARS. 3215 01:59:46,720 --> 01:59:48,800 CDC'S DIVISION OF ORAL HEALTH, 3216 01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:51,840 OUR MISSION HAS GOOD ALIGNMENT 3217 01:59:51,840 --> 01:59:53,600 AND COMPLEN TAIRT TO THE MISSION 3218 01:59:53,600 --> 01:59:55,000 OF NIDCR AND WE ARE ABOUT 3219 01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:56,720 PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING ORAL 3220 01:59:56,720 --> 02:00:00,440 DISEASES AND CONDITIONS BY 3221 02:00:00,440 --> 02:00:01,560 BUILDING KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS AND 3222 02:00:01,560 --> 02:00:03,840 NETWORKS THAT PROMOTE HEALTHY 3223 02:00:03,840 --> 02:00:05,160 BEHAVIORS AND EFFECTIVE PUBLIC 3224 02:00:05,160 --> 02:00:07,600 HEALTH PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS. 3225 02:00:07,600 --> 02:00:09,240 TO BOIL THAT ALL DOWN INTO A 3226 02:00:09,240 --> 02:00:10,640 SINGULAR PURPOSE, AND WE ALL 3227 02:00:10,640 --> 02:00:16,560 SHARE THIS ACROSS HHS, CHS, PHS, 3228 02:00:16,560 --> 02:00:19,320 NIDCR, IT'S REALLY ABOUT TAKING 3229 02:00:19,320 --> 02:00:21,760 A DIFFERENT CUT AT TRYING TO 3230 02:00:21,760 --> 02:00:23,640 ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN ORAL HEALTH 3231 02:00:23,640 --> 02:00:27,680 EQUITY FOR ALL. 3232 02:00:27,680 --> 02:00:28,880 IT'S REALLY ABOUT WHAT WE'RE ALL 3233 02:00:28,880 --> 02:00:29,840 ABOUT BECAUSE THERE IS, AS THE 3234 02:00:29,840 --> 02:00:30,920 DATA WILL INDICATE IN THE ORAL 3235 02:00:30,920 --> 02:00:32,880 HEALTH IN AMERICA REPORT, MUCH 3236 02:00:32,880 --> 02:00:34,920 OF THE BURDEN OF ORAL DISEASE IS 3237 02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:40,520 STILL BY AND LARGE PREVENTABLE. 3238 02:00:40,520 --> 02:00:42,240 WHAT CAN WE BE DOING MOVING 3239 02:00:42,240 --> 02:00:44,240 FORWARD TO CARVE INTO THAT 3240 02:00:44,240 --> 02:00:45,280 PREVENTABLE BURDEN OF ORAL 3241 02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:45,520 DISEASE. 3242 02:00:45,520 --> 02:00:47,000 SO WHEN WE -- AND I HAD GREAT 3243 02:00:47,000 --> 02:00:48,360 FUN PREPARING FOR THIS BECAUSE I 3244 02:00:48,360 --> 02:00:52,080 WAS ABLE TO INTERVIEW CDC 3245 02:00:52,080 --> 02:00:53,600 DIVISION OF ORAL HEALTH ALUMNI, 3246 02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:54,800 FORMER DIRECTORS, I WANTED TO 3247 02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:58,360 MAKE SURE I CAPTURED AN ACCURATE 3248 02:00:58,360 --> 02:00:59,560 AND REFLICTED BACK TO YOU THE 3249 02:00:59,560 --> 02:00:59,920 COLLABORATION. 3250 02:00:59,920 --> 02:01:02,520 THERE WERE TWO BROAD OVERARCHING 3251 02:01:02,520 --> 02:01:03,840 THEMES THAT WE HAVE COMMON 3252 02:01:03,840 --> 02:01:06,960 POINTS OF INTEREST SUCH AS 3253 02:01:06,960 --> 02:01:08,560 PROMOTING SCIENCE, DEVELOPING 3254 02:01:08,560 --> 02:01:09,800 GUIDELINES, PROMOTING PREVENTION 3255 02:01:09,800 --> 02:01:11,560 AND HEALTH EQUITY TO OUR 3256 02:01:11,560 --> 02:01:14,920 RESPECTIVE AUDIENCES AND 3257 02:01:14,920 --> 02:01:16,040 STAKEHOLDERS, AND ALSO ON 3258 02:01:16,040 --> 02:01:16,880 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH 3259 02:01:16,880 --> 02:01:18,280 OUR DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH 3260 02:01:18,280 --> 02:01:21,640 RESIDENCY PROGRAMS. 3261 02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:23,920 AS I MENTIONED WE HAVE 3262 02:01:23,920 --> 02:01:25,480 COMPLEMENTARY ROLES. 3263 02:01:25,480 --> 02:01:26,760 NIDCR CONDUCTS AND FUNDS BASIC 3264 02:01:26,760 --> 02:01:28,120 SCIENCE AND RESEARCH, AND CDC 3265 02:01:28,120 --> 02:01:29,840 DIVISION OF ORAL HEALTH STUDIES 3266 02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:31,240 PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 3267 02:01:31,240 --> 02:01:33,080 SCIENCE AND RESEARCH. 3268 02:01:33,080 --> 02:01:34,840 YOUR CLINICAL TRIALS FORM THE 3269 02:01:34,840 --> 02:01:37,240 BASIS OF OUR COMMUNITY TRIALS, 3270 02:01:37,240 --> 02:01:39,760 AND IN OTHER WORDS, YOUR SCIENCE 3271 02:01:39,760 --> 02:01:41,840 EMPHASIZES STUDYING EFFICACY, 3272 02:01:41,840 --> 02:01:43,800 AND OUR SCIENCE EMPHASIZES 3273 02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:45,200 STUDYING EFFECTIVENESS. 3274 02:01:45,200 --> 02:01:47,840 SO THOSE ARE THE BROAD 3275 02:01:47,840 --> 02:01:48,880 OVERARCHING THEMES. 3276 02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:50,080 SPECIFIC THEMES OVER THE LAST 3277 02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:52,160 FEW DECADES HAVE TO DO WITH 3278 02:01:52,160 --> 02:01:55,760 ADVANCING ORAL HEALTH EQUITY, 3279 02:01:55,760 --> 02:01:57,560 ALSO PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION AND 3280 02:01:57,560 --> 02:01:59,760 ORAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE. 3281 02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:03,200 WE'VE BEEN PARTNERED OVER THE 3282 02:02:03,200 --> 02:02:05,560 YEARS WITH REGARD TO DATA 3283 02:02:05,560 --> 02:02:08,320 SHARING, ANALYSIS AND 3284 02:02:08,320 --> 02:02:11,200 PUBLICATION. 3285 02:02:11,200 --> 02:02:12,800 AND SECONDLY THE AREA -- SORRY 3286 02:02:12,800 --> 02:02:15,520 SECOND TO LAST, SUPPORTING 3287 02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:16,640 RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR THE 3288 02:02:16,640 --> 02:02:17,280 IMPROVEMENT OF ORAL HEALTH 3289 02:02:17,280 --> 02:02:18,920 ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND THEN 3290 02:02:18,920 --> 02:02:21,480 LASTLY, TRAINING AND SUPPORTING 3291 02:02:21,480 --> 02:02:22,360 DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH RESIDENTS 3292 02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:24,240 THROUGH OUR RESPECTIVE RESIDENCY 3293 02:02:24,240 --> 02:02:27,760 PROGRAMS. 3294 02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:29,280 WE HAVE A RICH HISTORICAL 3295 02:02:29,280 --> 02:02:29,720 COLLABORATION. 3296 02:02:29,720 --> 02:02:31,080 I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER ALL OF 3297 02:02:31,080 --> 02:02:31,480 THIS. 3298 02:02:31,480 --> 02:02:32,560 MUCH OF THE HISTORY OF THIS WAS 3299 02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:34,320 LAID OUT EARLIER TODAY. 3300 02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:37,120 BUT WE APPRECIATE THE ROLE OF 3301 02:02:37,120 --> 02:02:39,920 NIDCR, THE BRAND, THE CACHE, YOU 3302 02:02:39,920 --> 02:02:43,480 CAN SAY, THE REPUTATION THAT IT 3303 02:02:43,480 --> 02:02:44,760 DRAWS NEEDED ATTENTION FOR THE 3304 02:02:44,760 --> 02:02:47,160 TOPICS WE ALL CARE ABOUT, UNLIKE 3305 02:02:47,160 --> 02:02:49,320 MANY CHRONIC CONDITIONS, ORAL 3306 02:02:49,320 --> 02:02:51,200 DISEASES PLACE THE GREATEST 3307 02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:52,960 BURDEN ON THE MOST MARGINALIZED 3308 02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:55,840 OF COMMUNITIES. 3309 02:02:55,840 --> 02:02:57,960 SO TO THAT END, WE'VE DONE A LOT 3310 02:02:57,960 --> 02:02:59,360 OF GOOD WORK DOCUMENTING BURDEN, 3311 02:02:59,360 --> 02:03:00,440 GETTING IT WRITTEN UP. 3312 02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:02,040 THAT HAS LED THE WAY FOR THE 3313 02:03:02,040 --> 02:03:06,800 COLLABORATION OF CDC AND NIH TO 3314 02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:08,520 BE PARTNERS IN THE HEALTHY 3315 02:03:08,520 --> 02:03:10,280 PEOPLE OBJECTIVES INITIATIVES 3316 02:03:10,280 --> 02:03:13,720 AND LAYING OUT A ROAD MAN FOR 3317 02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:15,080 WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE 3318 02:03:15,080 --> 02:03:19,200 COLLECTIVELY IN 10-YEAR BLOCKS. 3319 02:03:19,200 --> 02:03:23,120 WE APPRECIATE THE GOOD WORK OF 3320 02:03:23,120 --> 02:03:25,000 NIDCR AND NCI LEADING THE 3321 02:03:25,000 --> 02:03:26,200 EFFORTS TO TRACK ORAL CANCERS 3322 02:03:26,200 --> 02:03:27,400 AND THEIR MORTALITY AND 3323 02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:30,560 INCIDENCE, AND THEN INITIALLY 3324 02:03:30,560 --> 02:03:32,080 NIDR, WHEN THEY GOT STARTED, HAD 3325 02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:35,360 THE MOTION COMPREHENSIVE DATASET 3326 02:03:35,360 --> 02:03:37,520 RELATED TO THE EFFICACY, THE 3327 02:03:37,520 --> 02:03:39,720 EFFECTIVENESS OF FLUORIDE AS IT 3328 02:03:39,720 --> 02:03:41,240 RELATES TO ITS IMPACT THROUGH 3329 02:03:41,240 --> 02:03:43,920 COMMUNITY WATER FLUORIDATION. 3330 02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:44,920 WE'VE COLLABORATED ON THE ORAL 3331 02:03:44,920 --> 02:03:46,120 HEALTH IN AMERICA REPORT IN 3332 02:03:46,120 --> 02:03:52,440 2000, AND THEN AGAIN FOR THE 3333 02:03:52,440 --> 02:03:55,600 LATEST PUBLICATION BY NIDCR IN 3334 02:03:55,600 --> 02:03:58,800 2021. 3335 02:03:58,800 --> 02:04:00,640 WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS 3336 02:04:00,640 --> 02:04:01,440 THROUGH UNDERSTANDING THAT 3337 02:04:01,440 --> 02:04:02,600 EVERYBODY'S GOT A UNIQUE ROLE 3338 02:04:02,600 --> 02:04:06,040 AND THAT PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT IS 3339 02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:07,040 THE APPLICATION ARM, IF YOU 3340 02:04:07,040 --> 02:04:08,720 WILL, OF THE GOOD SCIENCE AND 3341 02:04:08,720 --> 02:04:11,600 RESEARCH THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE 3342 02:04:11,600 --> 02:04:13,400 HALLOWED GROUND HERE AT NIH. 3343 02:04:13,400 --> 02:04:15,200 SO WITH MY BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME 3344 02:04:15,200 --> 02:04:17,720 LEFT, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I TALK 3345 02:04:17,720 --> 02:04:20,520 ABOUT FUTURE COLLABORATION 3346 02:04:20,520 --> 02:04:20,920 OPPORTUNITIES. 3347 02:04:20,920 --> 02:04:22,880 WE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN 3348 02:04:22,880 --> 02:04:23,760 NIDCR'S EFFORTS IN THE CONVENING 3349 02:04:23,760 --> 02:04:25,680 OF AN ORAL HEALTH DISPARITIES 3350 02:04:25,680 --> 02:04:27,480 AND HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH OR A 3351 02:04:27,480 --> 02:04:29,320 THINK TANK, I SHOULD SAY, TO 3352 02:04:29,320 --> 02:04:31,600 IDENTIFY THE CHALLENGES AND 3353 02:04:31,600 --> 02:04:32,800 OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVE AND 3354 02:04:32,800 --> 02:04:34,080 MAINTAIN ORAL HEALTH EQUITY. 3355 02:04:34,080 --> 02:04:36,800 THIS HAPPENS TO BE A STRATEGIC 3356 02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:38,760 PRIORITY ACROSS THE AGENCY FOR 3357 02:04:38,760 --> 02:04:40,120 ORAL HEALTH AT CDC, SO WE'RE 3358 02:04:40,120 --> 02:04:41,560 LOOKING FORWARD TO STAYING 3359 02:04:41,560 --> 02:04:43,240 CLOSELY CONNECTED TO THAT. 3360 02:04:43,240 --> 02:04:46,000 WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL TO DEPUTY 3361 02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:47,680 DIRECTOR WEBSTER-CYRIAQUE TO 3362 02:04:47,680 --> 02:04:49,040 HAVE ATTENDED AN EARLY MAY 3363 02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:50,000 MEETING AT CDC, WHERE WE'RE 3364 02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:52,680 TRYING TO DEVELOP A ROAD MAP 3365 02:04:52,680 --> 02:04:55,680 FOR -- A NATIONAL ROAD MAP FOR 3366 02:04:55,680 --> 02:04:56,960 MEDICAL-DENTAL INTEGRATION AND 3367 02:04:56,960 --> 02:04:59,160 ACHIEVING WHOLE PERSON 3368 02:04:59,160 --> 02:05:01,160 INTEGRATED CARE SUCH THAT IT'S 3369 02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:03,120 NOT JUST ONE ASPECT OF THE HUMAN 3370 02:05:03,120 --> 02:05:06,040 BODY OR THE HUMAN PERSON, BUT 3371 02:05:06,040 --> 02:05:07,600 HOLISTICALLY LOOKING AT THE 3372 02:05:07,600 --> 02:05:09,080 WHOLE PERSON. 3373 02:05:09,080 --> 02:05:10,720 WE BELIEVE THERE IS AN 3374 02:05:10,720 --> 02:05:12,160 OPPORTUNITY TO SYNERGIZE AND 3375 02:05:12,160 --> 02:05:13,880 LEVERAGE NEW AND DEVELOPING 3376 02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:15,640 TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS NEW 3377 02:05:15,640 --> 02:05:16,640 MEASUREMENT METHODS FOR 3378 02:05:16,640 --> 02:05:17,480 CONDUCTING ORAL HEALTH 3379 02:05:17,480 --> 02:05:17,920 SURVEILLANCE. 3380 02:05:17,920 --> 02:05:22,120 FOR EXAMPLE, CAN ORAL EXAMS IN 3381 02:05:22,120 --> 02:05:24,440 THE FIELD WITH ROOT TECHNOLOGY 3382 02:05:24,440 --> 02:05:26,680 TAKE LESS TIME PER PARTICIPANT 3383 02:05:26,680 --> 02:05:28,200 BECAUSE OF THAT NEW METHODOLOGY 3384 02:05:28,200 --> 02:05:29,520 AND THE TECHNOLOGY, AND, 3385 02:05:29,520 --> 02:05:31,040 THEREFORE, SAVE COSTS BECAUSE OF 3386 02:05:31,040 --> 02:05:32,680 REDUCED TIME, OR INCREASE SAMPLE 3387 02:05:32,680 --> 02:05:35,080 SIZE TO GET MORE ROBUST STABLE 3388 02:05:35,080 --> 02:05:39,800 ESTIMATES OF ORAL DISEASES. 3389 02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:41,840 MOVING ALONG, FROM A MEETING 3390 02:05:41,840 --> 02:05:43,040 EARLIER THIS MONTH, WE HAD WITH 3391 02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:46,640 THE HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR 3392 02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:47,960 HEALTH, ADMIRAL LEVINE, 3393 02:05:47,960 --> 02:05:49,240 DR. D'SOUZA AND I RECOGNIZE THE 3394 02:05:49,240 --> 02:05:50,360 OPPORTUNITY AND BENEFITS OF 3395 02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:54,000 JOINTLY DEVELOPING A RESEARCH 3396 02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:55,240 AGENDA AROUND FLUORIDE AND WATER 3397 02:05:55,240 --> 02:05:56,000 FLUORIDATION. 3398 02:05:56,000 --> 02:05:57,200 LOOKING AT CLINICAL, COMMUNITY 3399 02:05:57,200 --> 02:05:58,320 AND POPULATION IMPACTS. 3400 02:05:58,320 --> 02:06:00,040 WE WOULD LOVE TO COLLABORATE ON 3401 02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:02,880 THIS RESEARCH AGENDA 3402 02:06:02,880 --> 02:06:04,200 DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS OTHERS, 3403 02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:11,720 AND THEN I JUST WANT TO ECHO DRG 3404 02:06:11,720 --> 02:06:13,400 INCLINED TO ESTABLISH BOLD 3405 02:06:13,400 --> 02:06:15,400 GOALS, AND ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO 3406 02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:17,840 ACHIEVE BOLD GOALS. 3407 02:06:17,840 --> 02:06:22,080 AND TO THAT END, WE WOU WANT --E 3408 02:06:22,080 --> 02:06:24,880 WOULD LIKE, I SHOULD SAY MORE 3409 02:06:24,880 --> 02:06:28,160 POLITELY, WE WOULD LIKE NIDCR TO 3410 02:06:28,160 --> 02:06:31,520 RESEARCH IN CAREI SE, AND 3411 02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:32,640 PERIODONTAL ORAL DISEASES, THE 3412 02:06:32,640 --> 02:06:33,400 TWO BIGGEST BURDENS WE HAVE 3413 02:06:33,400 --> 02:06:35,360 RIGHT NOW, AND TO SEE WHERE 3414 02:06:35,360 --> 02:06:37,960 WE'RE GOING WITH NONINVASIVE, 3415 02:06:37,960 --> 02:06:38,760 NON-SURGICAL SORTS OF TREATMENT 3416 02:06:38,760 --> 02:06:41,560 THAT CAN BE USED IN THE FIELD, 3417 02:06:41,560 --> 02:06:43,800 AND THEN COMMUNITY TRIALS FOR 3418 02:06:43,800 --> 02:06:46,120 IMPLEMENTING THE EVIDENCE-BASED 3419 02:06:46,120 --> 02:06:46,560 PROJECT. 3420 02:06:46,560 --> 02:06:49,400 BECAUSE AS I SAID, THE 3421 02:06:49,400 --> 02:06:50,560 PREVENTABLE BURDEN OF ORAL 3422 02:06:50,560 --> 02:06:53,120 DISEASES IS LARGE, AND I WORRY 3423 02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:55,680 THAT IF WE'RE NOT BOLD ENOUGH TO 3424 02:06:55,680 --> 02:06:56,960 ENVISION WHAT SORT OF SYSTEMS 3425 02:06:56,960 --> 02:07:00,280 NEED TO TRANSFORM TO ACHIEVE 3426 02:07:00,280 --> 02:07:01,880 THINGS LIKE 30 YEARS FROM NOW, 3427 02:07:01,880 --> 02:07:03,520 NO MORE CARIES. 3428 02:07:03,520 --> 02:07:04,520 THERE'S A LOT OF GLOBAL 3429 02:07:04,520 --> 02:07:05,680 ORGANIZATIONS WORKING ON THAT 3430 02:07:05,680 --> 02:07:06,960 GOAL, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE IN 3431 02:07:06,960 --> 02:07:12,320 THE U.S. ALSO SUPPORTING IT AND 3432 02:07:12,320 --> 02:07:14,800 I JUST WONDER IF WE'RE NOT BOLD, 3433 02:07:14,800 --> 02:07:16,000 WILL WE REALLY SEE THE 3434 02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:16,640 OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THOSE 3435 02:07:16,640 --> 02:07:18,960 SYSTEMS OF CARE, THE SYSTEMS OF 3436 02:07:18,960 --> 02:07:23,200 PREVENTION, PUBLIC HEALTH, 3437 02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:24,280 HEALTHCARE SERVICE DELIVERY AND 3438 02:07:24,280 --> 02:07:25,360 THE LIKE. 3439 02:07:25,360 --> 02:07:26,920 SO I WANT US ALL TO BE THINKING 3440 02:07:26,920 --> 02:07:28,640 ABOUT THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN 3441 02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:29,280 THE NEXT 75 YEARS. 3442 02:07:29,280 --> 02:07:31,640 AND WITH THAT, I WILL EXPRESS 3443 02:07:31,640 --> 02:07:33,280 SINCERE GRATITUDE AND THE 3444 02:07:33,280 --> 02:07:37,400 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE, AND LOOK 3445 02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:39,480 FORWARD TO THE REST OF YOUR 3446 02:07:39,480 --> 02:07:39,880 AGENDA FOR TODAY. 3447 02:07:39,880 --> 02:07:41,000 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 3448 02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:41,360 >>THANK YOU. 3449 02:07:41,360 --> 02:07:45,040 [APPLAUSE] 3450 02:07:45,040 --> 02:07:45,960 DR. CHALMERS. 3451 02:07:45,960 --> 02:07:47,960 >>GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 3452 02:07:47,960 --> 02:07:50,000 AND WHAT AN AMAZING, INSPIRING 3453 02:07:50,000 --> 02:07:51,960 MORNING WE'VE HAD, CELEBRATING 3454 02:07:51,960 --> 02:07:54,440 ALL THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 3455 02:07:54,440 --> 02:07:56,520 75 YEARS OF NIDCR. 3456 02:07:56,520 --> 02:08:00,560 AND I HAVE TO START WITH, AFTER 3457 02:08:00,560 --> 02:08:00,800 REMARKS. 3458 02:08:00,800 --> 02:08:01,640 THIS IS COMING HOME DEFINITELY 3459 02:08:01,640 --> 02:08:04,400 FOR ME, BECAUSE I WALKED THROUGH 3460 02:08:04,400 --> 02:08:06,800 THESE DOORS FOR MY PH.D. WANTING 3461 02:08:06,800 --> 02:08:07,440 TO CURE DENTAL CARIES. 3462 02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:08,880 I WAS GOING TO PUT DENTISTS OUT 3463 02:08:08,880 --> 02:08:11,920 OF BUSINESS BUT TH IT DIDN'T WOK 3464 02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:12,520 QUITE THAT WAY. 3465 02:08:12,520 --> 02:08:13,640 THAT IS ONLY TO SAY, THE 3466 02:08:13,640 --> 02:08:15,520 EXCELLENT TRAINING NIDCR HAS 3467 02:08:15,520 --> 02:08:18,320 PROVIDED IN MY CAREER IS 3468 02:08:18,320 --> 02:08:20,160 INSTRUMENTAL AND INFORMATIVE OF 3469 02:08:20,160 --> 02:08:21,960 EVERY POLICY DECISION THAT IS 3470 02:08:21,960 --> 02:08:24,360 DONE AT CMS. 3471 02:08:24,360 --> 02:08:26,520 AND OF COURSE LATER I WAS HERE 3472 02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:28,400 AS A CLINICAL FELLOW, REALLY 3473 02:08:28,400 --> 02:08:29,800 SEEING WHAT AN INTEGRATED CARE 3474 02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:31,120 MODEL LOOKS LIKE WHEN WE ARE 3475 02:08:31,120 --> 02:08:32,640 AROUND THE TABLE, WITH 3476 02:08:32,640 --> 02:08:34,240 PALLIATIVE CARE, WITH THE 3477 02:08:34,240 --> 02:08:36,440 BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS, WITH 3478 02:08:36,440 --> 02:08:37,960 DERMATOLOGY, WITH THE 3479 02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:39,200 CARDIOLOGIST, THINKING ABOUT THE 3480 02:08:39,200 --> 02:08:41,480 BEST OUTCOME FOR THE PATIENT. 3481 02:08:41,480 --> 02:08:42,800 AND THAT, ALONG WITH MY 3482 02:08:42,800 --> 02:08:48,880 PEDIATRIC DEBT INDU DENTISTRY TG 3483 02:08:48,880 --> 02:08:50,000 AGAIN IN THE DENTAL SCHOOL HERE 3484 02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:52,360 HAS TRULY GUIDED MY DECISION AND 3485 02:08:52,360 --> 02:08:54,000 HOW I ADVANCE THINKING ABOUT THE 3486 02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:55,360 PATIENT HERE, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL 3487 02:08:55,360 --> 02:08:56,400 HERE TO IMPROVE THE ORAL HEALTH 3488 02:08:56,400 --> 02:08:58,360 OF OUR PATIENTS, YES THE 3489 02:08:58,360 --> 02:08:59,240 NATION'S, BUT IT TRULY STARTS 3490 02:08:59,240 --> 02:09:00,520 WITH THAT PATIENT AND THINKING 3491 02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:02,400 ABOUT THE INTEGRATED MODEL OF 3492 02:09:02,400 --> 02:09:04,720 CARE, HOW TO -- TO THE POINT 3493 02:09:04,720 --> 02:09:06,920 ABOUT FUNDING, WE MAY BE ONLY 2% 3494 02:09:06,920 --> 02:09:10,680 OF THE FUNDING, BUT OUR IMPACT 3495 02:09:10,680 --> 02:09:11,560 AMPLIFIES BECAUSE YOU CANNOT 3496 02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:14,880 HAVE GOOD ORAL HEALTH WITHOUT -- 3497 02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:16,320 YOU CANNOT HAVE GOOD HEALTH 3498 02:09:16,320 --> 02:09:17,680 WITHOUT GOOD ORAL HEALTH. 3499 02:09:17,680 --> 02:09:19,440 AND I THINK THAT IS 3500 02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:20,200 UNDERESTIMATED IN THE REST OF 3501 02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:20,800 THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. 3502 02:09:20,800 --> 02:09:23,840 SO IT'S AN HONOR TO SERVE AS THE 3503 02:09:23,840 --> 02:09:24,760 CHIEF FIRST DENTAL OFFICER IN 3504 02:09:24,760 --> 02:09:25,760 THE OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR, 3505 02:09:25,760 --> 02:09:27,800 AT THE CENTERS FOR MEDICAID AND 3506 02:09:27,800 --> 02:09:29,360 MEDICARE SERVICES. 3507 02:09:29,360 --> 02:09:29,880 [APPLAUSE] 3508 02:09:29,880 --> 02:09:33,400 AND JUST TO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPACT 3509 02:09:33,400 --> 02:09:36,720 OF OUR PROGRAM, TODAY, 3510 02:09:36,720 --> 02:09:37,320 150 MILLION AMERICANS ARE 3511 02:09:37,320 --> 02:09:38,840 TOUCHED BY OUR PROGRAMS. 3512 02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:39,560 THINK ABOUT THAT. 3513 02:09:39,560 --> 02:09:42,080 THAT IS IS IN 2. 3514 02:09:42,080 --> 02:09:43,080 IN THIS ROOM, THERE ARE PEOPLE 3515 02:09:43,080 --> 02:09:47,480 WHO EITHER HAVE A RELATIVE, A 3516 02:09:47,480 --> 02:09:48,840 FRIEND, WHO IS IMPACTED BY THE 3517 02:09:48,840 --> 02:09:51,160 POLICIES THAT WE AT CMS DEVELOP. 3518 02:09:51,160 --> 02:09:52,600 AND WE HAVE SIX PILLARS THAT 3519 02:09:52,600 --> 02:09:53,920 GUIDE ALL OF OUR WORK. 3520 02:09:53,920 --> 02:09:56,520 THE FIRST ONE IS TO ADVANCE 3521 02:09:56,520 --> 02:09:58,760 EQUITY, TO BE A TRUSTED PARTNER 3522 02:09:58,760 --> 02:10:05,080 THAT ADVANCES HEALTH EQUITY, 3523 02:10:05,080 --> 02:10:07,040 EXPANDS ACCESS TO CARE AND THEN 3524 02:10:07,040 --> 02:10:08,720 IMPROVES CLINICAL OUTCOMES. 3525 02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:10,080 EQUITY, HEALTH EQUITY IS NOT THE 3526 02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:11,760 LAST QUESTION WE ASK, IT'S THE 3527 02:10:11,760 --> 02:10:12,960 FIRST QUESTION WE ASK. 3528 02:10:12,960 --> 02:10:14,640 IT REALLY CHANGES HOW YOU 3529 02:10:14,640 --> 02:10:16,240 APPROACH EVEN A BASIC SCIENCE 3530 02:10:16,240 --> 02:10:16,680 QUESTION. 3531 02:10:16,680 --> 02:10:19,480 WHO IS THE POPULATION? 3532 02:10:19,480 --> 02:10:21,880 WHAT IS MY MODEL, CLINICAL 3533 02:10:21,880 --> 02:10:23,880 TRIAL, HOW DO I RECRUIT PEOPLE, 3534 02:10:23,880 --> 02:10:29,400 WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IMPAN IMPACTY 3535 02:10:29,400 --> 02:10:30,080 THE DISEASE. 3536 02:10:30,080 --> 02:10:30,920 SO REALLY THAT IS THE GOAL. 3537 02:10:30,920 --> 02:10:32,080 AND THEN TO EXPAND ACCESS. 3538 02:10:32,080 --> 02:10:33,760 WE KNOW WE HAVE THE MOST AMAZING 3539 02:10:33,760 --> 02:10:34,760 SCIENCE THAT IS OUT OF REACH FOR 3540 02:10:34,760 --> 02:10:37,280 MILLIONS. 3541 02:10:37,280 --> 02:10:39,320 TODAY, IN THE MEDICAID PROGRAM, 3542 02:10:39,320 --> 02:10:42,800 50% OF KIDS NEVER SEE A DENTIST. 3543 02:10:42,800 --> 02:10:48,160 IN SOME STATE, IT'S 80%. 3544 02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:49,800 AND WE -- LET ME JUST GIVE YOU A 3545 02:10:49,800 --> 02:10:50,520 SCOPE OF COVERAGE. 3546 02:10:50,520 --> 02:10:52,360 IN SOME STATES, WE COVER 80% OF 3547 02:10:52,360 --> 02:10:58,760 THE KIDS. 3548 02:10:58,760 --> 02:11:00,960 SO PUT THESE TWO TOGETHER AND WE 3549 02:11:00,960 --> 02:11:02,240 HAVE A DISPARITY IN THE MAKING. 3550 02:11:02,240 --> 02:11:03,240 AGAIN, PLENTY OF PEOPLE ARE 3551 02:11:03,240 --> 02:11:04,920 GETTING ORAL HEALTH, THEY CAN 3552 02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:06,360 CALL THE DENTIST, SCHEDULE 3553 02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:07,160 APPOINTMENT, BUT JUST LET'S 3554 02:11:07,160 --> 02:11:09,440 REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE DEEP 3555 02:11:09,440 --> 02:11:09,880 DISPARITIES. 3556 02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:11,560 WHAT IS REALLY GOOD IS THAT OVER 3557 02:11:11,560 --> 02:11:13,000 THE LAST 70 YEARS, THE GAP HAS 3558 02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:16,480 CLOSED, BUT IT REMAINS VERY WI 3559 02:11:16,480 --> 02:11:17,120 WIDE. 3560 02:11:17,120 --> 02:11:18,000 IT'S SMALLEST IN CHILDREN 3561 02:11:18,000 --> 02:11:18,600 ACTUALLY. 3562 02:11:18,600 --> 02:11:20,520 THE RACIAL DISPARITY GAPS. 3563 02:11:20,520 --> 02:11:22,600 IT'S LARGER IN ADULTS, AND IT'S 3564 02:11:22,600 --> 02:11:25,480 BIGGEST IN SENIORS, OKAY? 3565 02:11:25,480 --> 02:11:30,520 THE HEALTH DISPARITIES ARE MIND 3566 02:11:30,520 --> 02:11:31,000 BOGGLING, REGARDLESS OF 3567 02:11:31,000 --> 02:11:32,080 INSURANCE STATUS OR COVERAGE. 3568 02:11:32,080 --> 02:11:33,520 WE HAVE ACCESS TO CARE ISSUES. 3569 02:11:33,520 --> 02:11:34,640 SO JUST GIVING YOU THE SCOPE OF 3570 02:11:34,640 --> 02:11:37,120 THE PROGRAMS IN THE MEDICAID 3571 02:11:37,120 --> 02:11:39,840 SPACE, YOU KNOW, MEDICARE IS 3572 02:11:39,840 --> 02:11:41,360 65 MILLION, WE HAVE 93 MILLION 3573 02:11:41,360 --> 02:11:43,480 IN MEDICAID, SO A LOT OF PEOPLE 3574 02:11:43,480 --> 02:11:49,680 ARE TOUCHED BY OUR PROGRAMS. 3575 02:11:49,680 --> 02:11:51,440 AND ALL OF OUR POLICY, LET ME 3576 02:11:51,440 --> 02:11:52,960 HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THEM, ARE 3577 02:11:52,960 --> 02:11:54,440 REALLY DRIVEN BY THE SCIENCE 3578 02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:55,800 THAT NIDCR HAS GENERATED. 3579 02:11:55,800 --> 02:11:57,480 TO YOUR POINT, CASEY, WE CAN 3580 02:11:57,480 --> 02:11:58,880 ONLY IMPLEMENT WHAT WE KNOW 3581 02:11:58,880 --> 02:11:59,600 WORKS. 3582 02:11:59,600 --> 02:12:01,680 YOU CANNOT DEVELOP A PUBLIC 3583 02:12:01,680 --> 02:12:02,920 HEALTH PROGRAM ON SCIENCE THAT'S 3584 02:12:02,920 --> 02:12:04,840 NOT EVIDENCE-BASED. 3585 02:12:04,840 --> 02:12:05,960 I HAVE CORE PRINCIPLES THAT 3586 02:12:05,960 --> 02:12:07,600 GUIDE ANY POLICY DECISION. 3587 02:12:07,600 --> 02:12:10,880 THE FIRST ONE IS THAT IT HAS TO 3588 02:12:10,880 --> 02:12:12,280 BE FOCUSED ON EQUITY, THE 3589 02:12:12,280 --> 02:12:13,720 SECOND, IT HAS TO BE BASED ON 3590 02:12:13,720 --> 02:12:15,160 EVIDENCE AND HAS TO BE 3591 02:12:15,160 --> 02:12:16,000 DATA-DRIVEN. 3592 02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:17,360 ONE OF THE KEY FUNDAMENTAL 3593 02:12:17,360 --> 02:12:19,080 THINGS I HEARD TODAY THAT REALLY 3594 02:12:19,080 --> 02:12:21,240 RESONATES IS, DATA IS NOT ONLY 3595 02:12:21,240 --> 02:12:23,520 THE NEW OIL, BECAUSE OIL CAN BE 3596 02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:23,840 CRUDE. 3597 02:12:23,840 --> 02:12:25,840 YOU NEED TO HAVE CLINICIANS WHO 3598 02:12:25,840 --> 02:12:27,440 CAN TRANSLATE THAT DATA SCIENCE 3599 02:12:27,440 --> 02:12:29,280 INTO POLICY DECISION-MAKING, 3600 02:12:29,280 --> 02:12:32,080 THAT IMPACTS PEOPLE'S LIFE. 3601 02:12:32,080 --> 02:12:33,560 AND ONE EXAMPLE, IF YOU ALLOW ME 3602 02:12:33,560 --> 02:12:36,080 TO SHARE, IT'S BEFORE MY TIME AT 3603 02:12:36,080 --> 02:12:37,520 CMS, JUST TO SHOW YOU THE POWER 3604 02:12:37,520 --> 02:12:41,360 OF CLINICAL DATA AND POLICY 3605 02:12:41,360 --> 02:12:42,120 COMING TOGETHER. 3606 02:12:42,120 --> 02:12:45,560 THERE WAS A COALITION IN 3607 02:12:45,560 --> 02:12:48,640 MARYLAND, WHO RECOGNIZED THAT IN 3608 02:12:48,640 --> 02:12:51,000 MARYLAND, THERE WAS NOT AN ADULT 3609 02:12:51,000 --> 02:12:52,840 MEDICAID COVERAGE BECAUSE ADULT 3610 02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:53,960 MEDICAID COVERAGE IS OPTIONAL. 3611 02:12:53,960 --> 02:12:54,840 FOR CHILDREN, YOU HAVE TO HAVE 3612 02:12:54,840 --> 02:12:55,480 COVERAGE. 3613 02:12:55,480 --> 02:12:57,160 FOR ADULTS, EVERY STATE CAN 3614 02:12:57,160 --> 02:12:59,840 DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. 3615 02:12:59,840 --> 02:13:01,360 COMPREHENSIVE, FULL, ET CETERA. 3616 02:13:01,360 --> 02:13:04,000 LONG STORY SHORT, BUT I ENDED UP 3617 02:13:04,000 --> 02:13:04,760 TESTIFYING IN THE HOUSE AND 3618 02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:07,240 SENATE IN MARYLAND, AND THAT 3619 02:13:07,240 --> 02:13:09,280 BILL PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. 3620 02:13:09,280 --> 02:13:12,160 THE REASON I'M SHARING THIS IS, 3621 02:13:12,160 --> 02:13:13,320 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF 3622 02:13:13,320 --> 02:13:15,400 ORAL HEALTH. 3623 02:13:15,400 --> 02:13:17,720 THEY CAN RALLY AROUND THEM, AND 3624 02:13:17,720 --> 02:13:19,200 THIS JANUARY, 800,000 ADULTS IN 3625 02:13:19,200 --> 02:13:20,800 MARYLAND GOT MEDICAID ADULT 3626 02:13:20,800 --> 02:13:21,080 COVERAGE. 3627 02:13:21,080 --> 02:13:22,560 NOT MY EFFORTS ALONE, BUT I'M 3628 02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:24,880 JUST HIGHLIGHTING HOW CLINICAL 3629 02:13:24,880 --> 02:13:27,320 EXPERIENCE WITH A WHOLE TEAM OF 3630 02:13:27,320 --> 02:13:28,720 STAKEHOLDERS CAN TRULY IMPACT 3631 02:13:28,720 --> 02:13:31,120 ACCESS TO CARE. 3632 02:13:31,120 --> 02:13:32,560 THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO SEE 3633 02:13:32,560 --> 02:13:34,520 ACROSS THE BOARD, BECAUSE TODAY 3634 02:13:34,520 --> 02:13:35,840 IN SOME STATE, DENTAL COVERAGE 3635 02:13:35,840 --> 02:13:38,920 IS STILL OPTIONAL, SO -- BUT WE 3636 02:13:38,920 --> 02:13:41,200 REACH AN INCREDIBLE MILESTONE 3637 02:13:41,200 --> 02:13:41,480 LAST YEAR. 3638 02:13:41,480 --> 02:13:43,400 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 3639 02:13:43,400 --> 02:13:45,720 MEDICAID HISTORY WITH OUR 3640 02:13:45,720 --> 02:13:47,800 EFFORTS, THERE IS COVERAGE FOR 3641 02:13:47,800 --> 02:13:49,720 PREGNANT WOMEN IN MEDICAID. 3642 02:13:49,720 --> 02:13:51,280 AND MEDICAID COVERS -- THANK 3643 02:13:51,280 --> 02:13:51,480 YOU. 3644 02:13:51,480 --> 02:13:54,040 [APPLAUSE] 3645 02:13:54,040 --> 02:13:56,680 -- 42% OF U.S. BIRTHS. 3646 02:13:56,680 --> 02:13:58,560 42% ARE COVERED BY MEDICAID. 3647 02:13:58,560 --> 02:14:02,320 AND NOW IN EVERY STATE, THERE IS 3648 02:14:02,320 --> 02:14:04,720 AN ORAL HEALTH SERVICE FOR 3649 02:14:04,720 --> 02:14:05,240 PREGNANT INDIVIDUALS. 3650 02:14:05,240 --> 02:14:07,040 DO YOU KNOW THE CHALLENGE, 3651 02:14:07,040 --> 02:14:08,080 THOUGH, FOR SOME? 3652 02:14:08,080 --> 02:14:09,240 IT ONLY WHEN THEY HAVE AN 3653 02:14:09,240 --> 02:14:09,720 EMERGENCY. 3654 02:14:09,720 --> 02:14:10,480 IT'S NOT COMPREHENSIVE. 3655 02:14:10,480 --> 02:14:13,520 WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAYS TO GO. 3656 02:14:13,520 --> 02:14:15,520 I WANT THE MESSAGE TO RESONATE 3657 02:14:15,520 --> 02:14:17,600 THAT WE'VE DONE GREAT WORK, WE 3658 02:14:17,600 --> 02:14:18,920 HAVE A LOT MORE WORK TO DO. 3659 02:14:18,920 --> 02:14:21,720 SO WE HAVE, I WOULD SAY, AN 3660 02:14:21,720 --> 02:14:22,120 AMAZING PLACE. 3661 02:14:22,120 --> 02:14:23,600 THE OTHER PIECE THAT'S VERY MUCH 3662 02:14:23,600 --> 02:14:25,600 BASED ON THE EVIDENCE GENERATED 3663 02:14:25,600 --> 02:14:28,920 BY RESEARCH FUNDED BY NIDCR IS 3664 02:14:28,920 --> 02:14:30,760 OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE 3665 02:14:30,760 --> 02:14:33,160 ENGAGED WITH 13 STATES, 13 3666 02:14:33,160 --> 02:14:36,000 STATES TO IMPLEMENT OUR HEALTH 3667 02:14:36,000 --> 02:14:37,480 PREVENTION IN THE PRIMARY CARE 3668 02:14:37,480 --> 02:14:38,240 SETTING. 3669 02:14:38,240 --> 02:14:38,760 WHY? 3670 02:14:38,760 --> 02:14:41,440 I HAVE TAKEN A 3-YEAR-OLD TO THE 3671 02:14:41,440 --> 02:14:43,880 OPERATING ROOM WITH 20 CAVITIES. 3672 02:14:43,880 --> 02:14:44,720 PICTURE THAT. 3673 02:14:44,720 --> 02:14:46,040 3-YEAR-OLD. 3674 02:14:46,040 --> 02:14:47,880 THEY ONLY HAVE 20 TEETH. 3675 02:14:47,880 --> 02:14:49,480 EACH ONE HAS A CAVITY, OKAY? 3676 02:14:49,480 --> 02:14:51,880 THAT IS THE CHALLENGE, IS THAT 3677 02:14:51,880 --> 02:14:54,920 WE DENTISTS, EVEN IN SOME 3678 02:14:54,920 --> 02:14:57,040 COMMUNITIES TODAY, THERE IS THE 3679 02:14:57,040 --> 02:14:58,560 NOTION, OH, COME WHEN YOU'RE 5. 3680 02:14:58,560 --> 02:15:00,320 WELL, IT'S TOO LATE WHEN THEY'RE 3681 02:15:00,320 --> 02:15:00,960 5. 3682 02:15:00,960 --> 02:15:03,880 SO I THINK THIS IDEA OF ORAL 3683 02:15:03,880 --> 02:15:05,160 HEALTH LITERACY AND EARLY 3684 02:15:05,160 --> 02:15:07,600 INTERVENTION IS REALLY KEY. 3685 02:15:07,600 --> 02:15:09,720 JUST TO SHARE, WE'VE ENGAGED 3686 02:15:09,720 --> 02:15:12,320 WITH THE STATES, AND EVEN IF IT 3687 02:15:12,320 --> 02:15:13,440 WORKS, EVEN IF IT'S PAID FOR, 3688 02:15:13,440 --> 02:15:14,840 BECAUSE THAT'S ANOTHER BARRIER, 3689 02:15:14,840 --> 02:15:17,560 COST OF CARE IS ONE OF THE MAJOR 3690 02:15:17,560 --> 02:15:18,360 BARRIERS, IT'S STILL VERY 3691 02:15:18,360 --> 02:15:20,000 DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT. 3692 02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:21,720 AND IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE IS 3693 02:15:21,720 --> 02:15:24,360 KEY TO TRANSLATING ALL OF THIS 3694 02:15:24,360 --> 02:15:28,200 GREAT EVIDENCE TO BENEFIT THE 3695 02:15:28,200 --> 02:15:29,400 PATIENT AT THE CHAIR OR THE 3696 02:15:29,400 --> 02:15:30,760 PROVIDER THAT NEEDS TO DECIDE, 3697 02:15:30,760 --> 02:15:31,960 AM I GOING TO DO THIS IN MY 3698 02:15:31,960 --> 02:15:32,720 PRACTICE OR NO? 3699 02:15:32,720 --> 02:15:34,120 IT TOO DIFFICULT. 3700 02:15:34,120 --> 02:15:38,760 WE'RE STILL PHACS FAXING REFERRS 3701 02:15:38,760 --> 02:15:39,240 TODAY, IN THIS WORLD. 3702 02:15:39,240 --> 02:15:40,840 WE HAVE A LONG WAYS TO GO WHEN 3703 02:15:40,840 --> 02:15:42,280 WE TALK ABOUT COORDINATION OF 3704 02:15:42,280 --> 02:15:42,600 CARE. 3705 02:15:42,600 --> 02:15:45,720 SO THAT WAS THE WORK -- AND 3706 02:15:45,720 --> 02:15:47,040 THURSDAY, SHAMELESS PLUG, WE 3707 02:15:47,040 --> 02:15:49,920 WILL BE FEATURING THREE STATES, 3708 02:15:49,920 --> 02:15:52,400 SO I WILL SHARE WITH YOU THE 3709 02:15:52,400 --> 02:15:54,480 INFORMATION, YOU CAN SHARE TO 3710 02:15:54,480 --> 02:15:57,720 DENTISTS, THREA STATES -- THREET 3711 02:15:57,720 --> 02:15:59,080 DID AMAZING WORK RECOGNIZING HOW 3712 02:15:59,080 --> 02:15:59,640 DIFFICULT IT IS. 3713 02:15:59,640 --> 02:16:01,120 LET ME JUST FINISH WITH THE 3714 02:16:01,120 --> 02:16:02,560 MEDICARE PIECE BECAUSE EVIDENCE 3715 02:16:02,560 --> 02:16:04,560 AND ACTUALLY SOME OF THE MOST 3716 02:16:04,560 --> 02:16:05,640 RECENT COLLABORATION WILL BECOME 3717 02:16:05,640 --> 02:16:07,320 VERY IMPORTANT. 3718 02:16:07,320 --> 02:16:09,520 I BROUGHT THE TEXT OF THE 3719 02:16:09,520 --> 02:16:12,400 EXCLUSION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 3720 02:16:12,400 --> 02:16:15,080 NIDCR WAS ESTABLISHED IN '48. 3721 02:16:15,080 --> 02:16:17,880 THIS RULE, THIS STATUTORY 3722 02:16:17,880 --> 02:16:19,880 EXCLUSION, WAS WRITTEN IN '65, 3723 02:16:19,880 --> 02:16:23,240 AND THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS. 3724 02:16:23,240 --> 02:16:26,680 "UNDER SECTION 1862 OF THE 3725 02:16:26,680 --> 02:16:28,400 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, NO PAYMENT 3726 02:16:28,400 --> 02:16:31,040 MAY BE MADE UNDER PART A OR PART 3727 02:16:31,040 --> 02:16:35,120 B FOR ANY EXPENSES INCURRED FOR 3728 02:16:35,120 --> 02:16:37,720 ITEMS OF SERVICES WHERE SUCH 3729 02:16:37,720 --> 02:16:39,520 EXPENSES ARE FOR SERVICES IN 3730 02:16:39,520 --> 02:16:41,000 CONNECTION WITH THE CARE, 3731 02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:42,560 TREATMENT, FILLING, REMOVAL OR 3732 02:16:42,560 --> 02:16:44,840 REPLACEMENT OF TEETH OR 3733 02:16:44,840 --> 02:16:46,840 STRUCTURES DIRECTLY SUPPORTING 3734 02:16:46,840 --> 02:16:47,120 THE TEETH. 3735 02:16:47,120 --> 02:16:48,600 EXCEPT THAT THE PAYMENT MAY BE 3736 02:16:48,600 --> 02:16:51,080 MADE UNDER PART A IN THE CASE OF 3737 02:16:51,080 --> 02:16:53,160 INPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICE IN 3738 02:16:53,160 --> 02:16:54,680 CONNECTION WITH THE PROVISION OF 3739 02:16:54,680 --> 02:16:56,320 SUCH DENTAL SERVICE IF THE 3740 02:16:56,320 --> 02:16:58,160 INDIVIDUAL, BECAUSE OF HIS 3741 02:16:58,160 --> 02:17:00,400 UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITION AND 3742 02:17:00,400 --> 02:17:01,760 CLINICAL STATUS, OR BECAUSE OF 3743 02:17:01,760 --> 02:17:03,320 THE SEVERITY OF THE DENTAL 3744 02:17:03,320 --> 02:17:05,400 PROCEDURE REQUIRES 3745 02:17:05,400 --> 02:17:06,520 HOSPITALIZATION IN CONNECTION 3746 02:17:06,520 --> 02:17:11,480 WITH PROVISION OF SUCH DRUGS, IN 3747 02:17:11,480 --> 02:17:12,760 ONE WORDS, THE POLICY IN THE LAW 3748 02:17:12,760 --> 02:17:15,520 IS BASED ON THAT ECK COLLUSION. 3749 02:17:15,520 --> 02:17:18,440 AND UNLESS THAT IS REMOVED, NO, 3750 02:17:18,440 --> 02:17:20,200 YOU KNOW, INTEGRATION OF TRUE 3751 02:17:20,200 --> 02:17:21,880 NATURE CAN REALLY HAPPEN. 3752 02:17:21,880 --> 02:17:25,640 AND SO WE ARE COMMITTED TO, 3753 02:17:25,640 --> 02:17:27,560 BASED ON THIS STATUTORY 3754 02:17:27,560 --> 02:17:29,040 EXCLUSION WITHOUT CHANGES IN THE 3755 02:17:29,040 --> 02:17:30,400 LAW, TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE 3756 02:17:30,400 --> 02:17:34,360 TO EX-PANELED DENTAL SERVICES TO 3757 02:17:34,360 --> 02:17:35,560 INDIVIDUALS 65 AND OLDER. 3758 02:17:35,560 --> 02:17:36,880 AS I SAID, THE HEALTH 3759 02:17:36,880 --> 02:17:37,640 DISPARITIES ARE THE WIDEST. 3760 02:17:37,640 --> 02:17:40,400 YOU HAVE RACIAL DISPARITIES THAT 3761 02:17:40,400 --> 02:17:42,240 ARE 25%, FROM ONE GROUP TO THE 3762 02:17:42,240 --> 02:17:42,800 OTHER. 3763 02:17:42,800 --> 02:17:45,000 THAT'S SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE. 3764 02:17:45,000 --> 02:17:46,560 AND ALSO, WE KNOW THEY HAVE SO 3765 02:17:46,560 --> 02:17:47,960 MANY CHRONIC COMORBIDITIES FOR 3766 02:17:47,960 --> 02:17:49,360 WHICH WE NOW HAVE THE SCIENCE 3767 02:17:49,360 --> 02:17:52,120 AND THE CONNECTION WITH ORAL 3768 02:17:52,120 --> 02:17:52,560 HEALTH. 3769 02:17:52,560 --> 02:17:54,520 SO LAST YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME, 3770 02:17:54,520 --> 02:17:57,680 WE PROPOSED IN THE 2023 3771 02:17:57,680 --> 02:18:01,520 PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE A 3772 02:18:01,520 --> 02:18:03,760 RATIONALE FOR EXPANDING COVERAGE 3773 02:18:03,760 --> 02:18:07,120 FOR DENTAL SERVICES THAT ARE 3774 02:18:07,120 --> 02:18:09,240 INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO A MEDICAL 3775 02:18:09,240 --> 02:18:09,880 SERVICE, AND WHERE THE SUCCESS 3776 02:18:09,880 --> 02:18:13,520 OF THE MEDICAL SERVICE DEPENDS 3777 02:18:13,520 --> 02:18:14,800 ON THE ORAL HEALTH STATUS. 3778 02:18:14,800 --> 02:18:16,360 SO FOR EXAMPLE, I MEAN, PEOPLE 3779 02:18:16,360 --> 02:18:17,800 HERE WORK WITH TRANSPLANTS ALL 3780 02:18:17,800 --> 02:18:18,560 THE TIME, RIGHT? 3781 02:18:18,560 --> 02:18:22,040 YOU KNOW THE TRANSPLANT WILL 3782 02:18:22,040 --> 02:18:24,000 FAIL IF SOMEONE HAS A TOOTH 3783 02:18:24,000 --> 02:18:25,520 ABSCESS, MULTIPLE INFECTIONS. 3784 02:18:25,520 --> 02:18:26,880 WE KNOW THE MOMENT -- YOU HAVE 3785 02:18:26,880 --> 02:18:27,520 AN EMERGENCY. 3786 02:18:27,520 --> 02:18:29,160 SO TRANSLATING THAT EVIDENCE 3787 02:18:29,160 --> 02:18:30,840 INTO POLICY, RIGHT, IN THE PAST 3788 02:18:30,840 --> 02:18:34,520 WE WOULD COVER AN ORAL EXAM. 3789 02:18:34,520 --> 02:18:36,640 BUT NOT THE TREATMENT. 3790 02:18:36,640 --> 02:18:38,280 SO LAST YEAR WE SAID FIRST WE'RE 3791 02:18:38,280 --> 02:18:39,920 GOING TO LOOK EVERYTHING WE 3792 02:18:39,920 --> 02:18:41,360 PASSED, PUT IT IN THE LAW. 3793 02:18:41,360 --> 02:18:42,280 SECOND, WE'RE GOING TO COVER 3794 02:18:42,280 --> 02:18:43,560 ORAL EXAM AND ALL THE TREATMENT 3795 02:18:43,560 --> 02:18:46,680 NEEDED BEFORE YOU HAVE THAT 3796 02:18:46,680 --> 02:18:47,240 TRANSPLANT, ANY TRANSPLANT. 3797 02:18:47,240 --> 02:18:49,320 NOT RENAL, NOT HEART, WHATEVER 3798 02:18:49,320 --> 02:18:50,760 TRANSPLANT, BECAUSE FROM A 3799 02:18:50,760 --> 02:18:52,680 BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, THEY 3800 02:18:52,680 --> 02:18:55,240 REALLY ARE VERY SIMILAR. 3801 02:18:55,240 --> 02:18:59,720 AND THEN WE ALSO SAID THINGS 3802 02:18:59,720 --> 02:19:01,800 WE'VE PAID IN THE PAST, VALVE 3803 02:19:01,800 --> 02:19:03,080 REPLACEMENT, YOU HAVE VOPLASTY, 3804 02:19:03,080 --> 02:19:04,240 THESE ARE THINGS WE SAID WE HAVE 3805 02:19:04,240 --> 02:19:05,680 ENOUGH EVIDENCE, LET'S PUT IT 3806 02:19:05,680 --> 02:19:06,640 INTO LAW. 3807 02:19:06,640 --> 02:19:07,440 THE THIRD AND MOST IMPORTANT 3808 02:19:07,440 --> 02:19:08,520 PIECE WHERE ALL OF YOU THINKING 3809 02:19:08,520 --> 02:19:12,280 ABOUT THE EVIDENCE BECOMES VERY 3810 02:19:12,280 --> 02:19:13,080 IMPORTANT IS WE DEVELOPED A 3811 02:19:13,080 --> 02:19:14,640 PROCESS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 3812 02:19:14,640 --> 02:19:15,760 THE HISTORY OF THE MEDICARE 3813 02:19:15,760 --> 02:19:20,200 PROGRAM WHERE WE HAVE AN 3814 02:19:20,200 --> 02:19:21,240 OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU, THE SCIENCE 3815 02:19:21,240 --> 02:19:22,240 COMMUNITY, TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK 3816 02:19:22,240 --> 02:19:24,960 TO CMS AND SAY WELL, ALL THE 3817 02:19:24,960 --> 02:19:26,160 THINGS YOU COVERED, GREAT. 3818 02:19:26,160 --> 02:19:27,480 THESE THINGS LOOK LIKE THEM. 3819 02:19:27,480 --> 02:19:29,160 AND, THEREFORE, YOU CAN EXPAND 3820 02:19:29,160 --> 02:19:31,560 YOUR AUTHORITY TO COVER THESE 3821 02:19:31,560 --> 02:19:32,880 SERVICES. 3822 02:19:32,880 --> 02:19:35,000 AND THAT EVIDENCE, I CAN'T TELL 3823 02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:36,400 YOU HOW CRITICAL IT HAS BEEN TO 3824 02:19:36,400 --> 02:19:38,040 HAVE THE STUDIES, TO HAVE THE 3825 02:19:38,040 --> 02:19:40,640 RESEARCH AND AN AMAZING 3826 02:19:40,640 --> 02:19:42,720 COLLABORATION WITH DR. WEBSTER 3827 02:19:42,720 --> 02:19:43,240 CYRIAQUE. 3828 02:19:43,240 --> 02:19:45,680 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO EVEN MORE 3829 02:19:45,680 --> 02:19:47,200 MEANINGFUL AND FRUITFUL 3830 02:19:47,200 --> 02:19:48,080 COLLABORATIONS BECAUSE IN THE 3831 02:19:48,080 --> 02:19:50,920 END OF THE DAY, WAIT WE IMPROVE 3832 02:19:50,920 --> 02:19:52,120 ORAL HEALTH IS WHEN WE BRING TO 3833 02:19:52,120 --> 02:19:53,120 THE PATIENT THAT NEEDS IT MOST. 3834 02:19:53,120 --> 02:19:55,240 AND WE HAVE HUGE EQUITY AND 3835 02:19:55,240 --> 02:19:56,560 DISPARITIES, BUT WE HAVE TO BE 3836 02:19:56,560 --> 02:19:57,160 VERY INTENTIONAL. 3837 02:19:57,160 --> 02:19:58,760 IT'S NOT JUST GOING TO HAPPEN. 3838 02:19:58,760 --> 02:20:00,480 WE NEED TO BE INTENTIONAL BY 3839 02:20:00,480 --> 02:20:03,560 CLOSING IT, TRAIN THE PROVIDERS 3840 02:20:03,560 --> 02:20:05,000 WHO ARE DIVERSE BECAUSE THEY'RE 3841 02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:06,440 THE ONES THAT SERVE OUR 3842 02:20:06,440 --> 02:20:06,960 PATIENTS. 3843 02:20:06,960 --> 02:20:08,600 GIVE THEM WHATEVER HELP THEY 3844 02:20:08,600 --> 02:20:10,360 NEED IN ORDER TO GO INTO THE 3845 02:20:10,360 --> 02:20:11,040 REAL COMMUNITIES AND SERVE 3846 02:20:11,040 --> 02:20:12,840 THERE, BECAUSE IN SOME PLACES, 3847 02:20:12,840 --> 02:20:13,720 IT'S FASTER TO GO TO THE 3848 02:20:13,720 --> 02:20:14,800 EMERGENCY ROOM THAN IT IS TO GO 3849 02:20:14,800 --> 02:20:16,680 TO A DENTIST, AND THAT'S MONEY 3850 02:20:16,680 --> 02:20:18,120 DOWN THE DRAIN, SO I THINK 3851 02:20:18,120 --> 02:20:20,760 REALLY THINKING ABOUT EVIDENCE, 3852 02:20:20,760 --> 02:20:23,600 TRANSLATING THAT WITH DATA AND 3853 02:20:23,600 --> 02:20:26,080 EMPOWERING IT THROUGH TO POLICY. 3854 02:20:26,080 --> 02:20:26,440 THANK YOU. 3855 02:20:26,440 --> 02:20:28,720 >>THANK YOU DR CHALMERS. 3856 02:20:28,720 --> 02:20:33,720 [APPLAUSE] 3857 02:20:33,720 --> 02:20:37,400 AND DR. NANDKUMAR. 3858 02:20:37,400 --> 02:20:38,400 >>THAT WAS AWESOME WITHOUT 3859 02:20:38,400 --> 02:20:40,400 NOTES AND ANYTHING. 3860 02:20:40,400 --> 02:20:40,840 [LAUGHTER] 3861 02:20:40,840 --> 02:20:43,120 I HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT. 3862 02:20:43,120 --> 02:20:45,440 SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 3863 02:20:45,440 --> 02:20:48,240 INSTITUTE, NIDCR, FOR YOUR 3864 02:20:48,240 --> 02:20:49,000 75 YEARS. 3865 02:20:49,000 --> 02:20:52,160 I WORK AT FDA IN THE CENTER FOR 3866 02:20:52,160 --> 02:20:53,960 DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH. 3867 02:20:53,960 --> 02:20:56,680 I'M THE DIVISION DIRECTOR FOR 3868 02:20:56,680 --> 02:20:58,120 DIVISION OF DENTAL AND ENT 3869 02:20:58,120 --> 02:21:00,320 DEVICES, SO WE ARE RESPONSIBLE 3870 02:21:00,320 --> 02:21:01,880 FOR WHAT WE CALL THE TOTAL 3871 02:21:01,880 --> 02:21:04,720 PRODUCT LIFECYCLE REGULATION OF 3872 02:21:04,720 --> 02:21:06,840 MEDICAL DEVICES IN THOSE TWO 3873 02:21:06,840 --> 02:21:08,680 AREAS. 3874 02:21:08,680 --> 02:21:11,480 TOTAL PRODUCT LIFECYCLE, WE ALSO 3875 02:21:11,480 --> 02:21:16,640 CALL THAT TPLC, BY THAT I MEAN 3876 02:21:16,640 --> 02:21:18,680 WE GET DEVICE SUBMISSIONS ALL 3877 02:21:18,680 --> 02:21:22,720 THE WAY FROM VERY EARLY DEVEL 3878 02:21:22,720 --> 02:21:23,520 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DISCUSSIONS 3879 02:21:23,520 --> 02:21:27,400 WITH RESEARCHERS, MANUFACTURERS, 3880 02:21:27,400 --> 02:21:29,120 AT THE STAGE OF BENCH STUDIES, 3881 02:21:29,120 --> 02:21:31,800 ANIMAL STUDIES, NON-CLINICAL 3882 02:21:31,800 --> 02:21:33,440 STUDY, ALL THE WAY TO CLINICAL 3883 02:21:33,440 --> 02:21:36,000 STUDIES AND EVENTUALLY END UP IN 3884 02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:38,280 MARKETING SUBMISSIONS, WHICH WE 3885 02:21:38,280 --> 02:21:41,440 REVIEW AND APPROVE OR FIND THEM 3886 02:21:41,440 --> 02:21:44,400 AS SAFE AND AS EFFECTIVE AS A 3887 02:21:44,400 --> 02:21:45,400 LEGALLY MARKETED DEVICE. 3888 02:21:45,400 --> 02:21:47,680 AND THAT'S JUST THE PREMARKET 3889 02:21:47,680 --> 02:21:48,280 ASPECT. 3890 02:21:48,280 --> 02:21:50,760 WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR POST 3891 02:21:50,760 --> 02:21:52,280 MARKET SURVEILLANCE OF DEVICE 3892 02:21:52,280 --> 02:21:53,920 SAFETY, AND WE ALSO MONITOR 3893 02:21:53,920 --> 02:21:56,560 COMPLIANCE TO REGULATIONS OF 3894 02:21:56,560 --> 02:21:58,000 DEVICES THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE 3895 02:21:58,000 --> 02:21:58,520 MARKET. 3896 02:21:58,520 --> 02:22:00,720 SO THAT'S THE TOTAL PRODUCT 3897 02:22:00,720 --> 02:22:03,120 LIFECYCLE REGULATION THAT WE ARE 3898 02:22:03,120 --> 02:22:04,680 RESPONSIBLE FOR. 3899 02:22:04,680 --> 02:22:08,400 OF COURSE THE MISSION OF FDA AS 3900 02:22:08,400 --> 02:22:12,760 EVERYONE KNOWS IS TO PROMOTE AND 3901 02:22:12,760 --> 02:22:15,040 PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC 3902 02:22:15,040 --> 02:22:15,680 HEALTH. 3903 02:22:15,680 --> 02:22:20,680 THE PRIORITIES, I WAS ASKED TO 3904 02:22:20,680 --> 02:22:22,440 TALK OVER SOME OF THE PRIORITIES 3905 02:22:22,440 --> 02:22:23,000 THAT OVERLAP HERE. 3906 02:22:23,000 --> 02:22:24,280 ONE OF THE BIG ONES IS THAT 3907 02:22:24,280 --> 02:22:28,240 ALLIANCE WITH NIDCR IS THE 3908 02:22:28,240 --> 02:22:32,520 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE OF WHAT 3909 02:22:32,520 --> 02:22:34,600 WE CALL REGULATORY SCIENCE 3910 02:22:34,600 --> 02:22:41,920 BECAUSE WE TRY TO DEVELOP TOOLS 3911 02:22:41,920 --> 02:22:43,120 AND PROCEDURES THAT HELP 3912 02:22:43,120 --> 02:22:47,160 RESEARCHERS THAT HELP THE 3913 02:22:47,160 --> 02:22:48,280 COMMUNITY OF -- THE SCIENTIFIC 3914 02:22:48,280 --> 02:22:52,120 COMMUNITY TO COME UP WITH THESE 3915 02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:53,320 ADVANCEMENTS THAT CAN EVENTUALLY 3916 02:22:53,320 --> 02:22:54,560 MAKE TO THE CLINIC, TO THE 3917 02:22:54,560 --> 02:22:57,840 BEDSIDE, TO THE PATIENT. 3918 02:22:57,840 --> 02:22:58,640 ACCESS, AFFORDABILITY, 3919 02:22:58,640 --> 02:23:00,320 EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE TALKED 3920 02:23:00,320 --> 02:23:09,880 ABOUT TODAY IS SOMETHING THAT WE 3921 02:23:09,880 --> 02:23:11,120 HAVE -- PROGRAMS THAT ARE 3922 02:23:11,120 --> 02:23:14,920 ONGOING AT THE FDA, WHERE WE 3923 02:23:14,920 --> 02:23:18,120 ENABLE RESEARCHERS TO -- AND I 3924 02:23:18,120 --> 02:23:19,120 KNOW I HEARD TODAY MORNING, 3925 02:23:19,120 --> 02:23:21,320 THERE ARE COMPLEXITIES IN 3926 02:23:21,320 --> 02:23:22,320 REGULATIONS THAT BECOME 3927 02:23:22,320 --> 02:23:24,840 SOMETIMES ROADBLOCKS TO 3928 02:23:24,840 --> 02:23:27,200 RESEARCHERS, THAT CAN BECOME 3929 02:23:27,200 --> 02:23:28,040 ROADBLOCKS, SO WE ARE VERY 3930 02:23:28,040 --> 02:23:29,520 HAPPY, THE TAKEAWAY I WOULD HAVE 3931 02:23:29,520 --> 02:23:32,920 THAT YOU COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR 3932 02:23:32,920 --> 02:23:35,680 AWARDEES', FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT 3933 02:23:35,680 --> 02:23:37,200 AWARDEES AND RESEARCHERS IS TO 3934 02:23:37,200 --> 02:23:38,560 CONNECT WITH US AS EARLY AS 3935 02:23:38,560 --> 02:23:42,280 POSSIBLE IN THEIR RESEARCH. 3936 02:23:42,280 --> 02:23:44,800 PATHWAY, AND WE HAVE ANYTHING 3937 02:23:44,800 --> 02:23:48,920 EVEN FROM AN INFORMAL EMAIL TO 3938 02:23:48,920 --> 02:23:50,560 ME OR ALL THE WAY TO WHAT WE 3939 02:23:50,560 --> 02:23:53,120 CALL A PRESUBMISSION WHICH IS A 3940 02:23:53,120 --> 02:23:55,960 MUCH MORE STRUCTURED APPROACH TO 3941 02:23:55,960 --> 02:23:57,600 INTERACTING. 3942 02:23:57,600 --> 02:23:59,880 QUESTIONS ON REGULATORY PATHWAY, 3943 02:23:59,880 --> 02:24:02,600 EVEN, YOU KNOW, PROTOCOLS FOR 3944 02:24:02,600 --> 02:24:05,840 TESTING, WE HAVE GUIDANCE 3945 02:24:05,840 --> 02:24:07,640 DOCUMENTS AND TOOLS AVAILABLE 3946 02:24:07,640 --> 02:24:13,000 AND WE COULD SHARE THAT WITH THE 3947 02:24:13,000 --> 02:24:14,160 COMMUNITY AND JUST BRAINSTORM ON 3948 02:24:14,160 --> 02:24:18,240 SOME OF THESE RESEARCH IDEAS ON 3949 02:24:18,240 --> 02:24:25,000 HOW TO MOVE IT INTO WHETHER 3950 02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:26,240 THERE'S A CLINICAL STUDY, 3951 02:24:26,240 --> 02:24:29,160 WHETHER THERE'S AN IDE -- IN 3952 02:24:29,160 --> 02:24:31,080 DEVICES IT'S CALLED AN IDE, IN 3953 02:24:31,080 --> 02:24:34,240 DRUGS AND DEVICES IT'S AN IND, 3954 02:24:34,240 --> 02:24:35,680 INVESTIGATIVE DEVICE EXEMPTION, 3955 02:24:35,680 --> 02:24:37,680 TO CONDUCT THE CLINICAL STUDY 3956 02:24:37,680 --> 02:24:40,440 FOR HI HIGH RISK DEVICES. 3957 02:24:40,440 --> 02:24:42,280 IF NOT IT WILL BE AN 3958 02:24:42,280 --> 02:24:43,040 IRB-APPROVED STUDY. 3959 02:24:43,040 --> 02:24:44,600 EVEN FOR THAT, EVEN IF IT 3960 02:24:44,600 --> 02:24:46,880 DOESN'T COME AS AN IDE TO US, WE 3961 02:24:46,880 --> 02:24:48,440 LIKE TO INTERACT AND ENSURE THAT 3962 02:24:48,440 --> 02:24:50,800 A STUDY THAT SOMEBODY IS 3963 02:24:50,800 --> 02:24:52,920 SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY IN DOING 3964 02:24:52,920 --> 02:24:55,120 IS STUDIES THE RIGHT END POINTS, 3965 02:24:55,120 --> 02:24:57,120 IS LOOKING AT THE RIGHT 3966 02:24:57,120 --> 02:24:58,440 ASSESSMENT SO THAT IT'S USEFUL 3967 02:24:58,440 --> 02:24:59,960 WHEN IT COMES IN AS A MARKETING 3968 02:24:59,960 --> 02:25:01,080 SUBMISSION TO THE FDA. 3969 02:25:01,080 --> 02:25:02,960 SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT 3970 02:25:02,960 --> 02:25:06,680 EVERYONE'S TIME AND MONEY IS 3971 02:25:06,680 --> 02:25:08,120 BEING USED IN A WAY SO THAT WHEN 3972 02:25:08,120 --> 02:25:12,240 IT COMES TO US, THAT REVIEW 3973 02:25:12,240 --> 02:25:15,240 PROCESS HAS SOME PREDICTABILITY, 3974 02:25:15,240 --> 02:25:20,600 HAS SOME -- IS EFFICIENT FOR 3975 02:25:20,600 --> 02:25:21,840 EVERYONE, FOR BOTH OUR 3976 02:25:21,840 --> 02:25:23,160 REVIEWERS, OUR SUBJECT MATTER 3977 02:25:23,160 --> 02:25:24,480 EXPERTS IN MY DIVISION AND THE 3978 02:25:24,480 --> 02:25:26,440 RESEARCHERS, SO THAT EVENTUAL 3979 02:25:26,440 --> 02:25:30,720 GOAL IS THAT CLINICIANS AND 3980 02:25:30,720 --> 02:25:32,880 PATIENTS BENEFIT FROM THESE 3981 02:25:32,880 --> 02:25:37,160 TECHNOLOGIES. 3982 02:25:37,160 --> 02:25:38,800 SO REGARDING WHAT WE ARE DOING 3983 02:25:38,800 --> 02:25:40,400 TODAY, COLLABORATIONS, WE HAVE 3984 02:25:40,400 --> 02:25:42,560 COLLABORATED WITH NIDCR ON 3985 02:25:42,560 --> 02:25:44,680 TMJ -- PATIENT-LED TMJ 3986 02:25:44,680 --> 02:25:45,280 ROUNDTABLE. 3987 02:25:45,280 --> 02:25:48,040 THERE ARE TEMPOROMANDIBULAR 3988 02:25:48,040 --> 02:25:49,560 DEVICE DISORDER TREATMENTS AND 3989 02:25:49,560 --> 02:25:51,160 FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS, THERE'S 3990 02:25:51,160 --> 02:25:51,880 BIOMATERIALS FUNDING 3991 02:25:51,880 --> 02:25:53,240 ANNOUNCEMENT, AND WE HAVE 3992 02:25:53,240 --> 02:25:55,320 INTERACTED WITH NIDCR, WE AR% 3993 02:25:55,320 --> 02:25:58,720 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, HAVE 3994 02:25:58,720 --> 02:26:00,680 REVIEWED SOME OF THESE PROPOSALS 3995 02:26:00,680 --> 02:26:03,440 WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH 3996 02:26:03,440 --> 02:26:04,120 RESEARCHERS AND EVENTUALLY WHEN 3997 02:26:04,120 --> 02:26:08,160 IT COMES IN, WE'LL ALL HAVE A 3998 02:26:08,160 --> 02:26:11,720 BETTER IDEA OF WHAT IS -- WHAT 3999 02:26:11,720 --> 02:26:13,320 THIS MONEY IS BEING SPENT ON, 4000 02:26:13,320 --> 02:26:20,720 WHAT KIND OF -- WHAT IS THE BEST 4001 02:26:20,720 --> 02:26:22,240 OR MOST EFFICIENT PATHWAY TO 4002 02:26:22,240 --> 02:26:23,960 MARKET. 4003 02:26:23,960 --> 02:26:25,200 THAT'S THE GOAL. 4004 02:26:25,200 --> 02:26:35,720 AND WE'VE ALSO -- I THINK FOLKS 4005 02:26:36,240 --> 02:26:40,240 MENTIONED THE DOC PRC THIS 4006 02:26:40,240 --> 02:26:41,360 MORNING, I PRESENTED AT ONE OF 4007 02:26:41,360 --> 02:26:43,520 THEIR MEETINGS A FEW YEARS AGO, 4008 02:26:43,520 --> 02:26:44,880 I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT AND HAPPY 4009 02:26:44,880 --> 02:26:46,320 TO HAVE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS 4010 02:26:46,320 --> 02:26:48,840 DO THAT, AND IT WAS A VERY GOOD 4011 02:26:48,840 --> 02:26:49,160 INTERACTION. 4012 02:26:49,160 --> 02:26:50,240 WE INTERACTED WITH THE 4013 02:26:50,240 --> 02:26:52,040 RESEARCHERS AND EVEN AFTER THE 4014 02:26:52,040 --> 02:26:54,240 PRESENTATION, BRAINSTORMED ON 4015 02:26:54,240 --> 02:26:55,320 WAYS THAT THEY COULD BRING THEIR 4016 02:26:55,320 --> 02:26:57,240 DEVICES TO A CLINICAL STUDY, TO 4017 02:26:57,240 --> 02:27:00,280 MARKET, AND IT'S A NICE WAY TO 4018 02:27:00,280 --> 02:27:01,360 INFORMALLY INTERACT AND PROVIDE 4019 02:27:01,360 --> 02:27:03,760 SOME FEEDBACK, WHICH IS VERY 4020 02:27:03,760 --> 02:27:06,400 USEFUL TO RESEARCHERS AND USEFUL 4021 02:27:06,400 --> 02:27:07,760 TO US ALSO BECAUSE EVENTUALLY, 4022 02:27:07,760 --> 02:27:14,320 WE SEE SUBMISSIONS THAT WE'RE 4023 02:27:14,320 --> 02:27:15,520 NOT TELLING FOLKS YOU'VE GOT TO 4024 02:27:15,520 --> 02:27:16,760 START ALL OVER AGAIN FROM THE 4025 02:27:16,760 --> 02:27:17,040 BEGINNING. 4026 02:27:17,040 --> 02:27:17,720 IT HELPS EVERYONE. 4027 02:27:17,720 --> 02:27:21,440 AND I THINK LAST THING I WOULD 4028 02:27:21,440 --> 02:27:22,640 SAY IS THAT WE ARE MORE AND 4029 02:27:22,640 --> 02:27:27,200 MORE -- WE ARE SEEING SUBMIS 4030 02:27:27,200 --> 02:27:29,080 SUBMISSIONS THAT AS FOLKS TALKED 4031 02:27:29,080 --> 02:27:31,320 IN THE MORNING, DATA-DRIVEN, 4032 02:27:31,320 --> 02:27:33,680 A.I., MACHINE LANGUAGE-DRIVEN, 4033 02:27:33,680 --> 02:27:37,360 YOU KNOW, AND HEALTH EQUITY AND 4034 02:27:37,360 --> 02:27:38,840 ACCESS AND AFFORDABILITY IS A 4035 02:27:38,840 --> 02:27:40,720 BIG THING, A BIG PRIORITY EVEN 4036 02:27:40,720 --> 02:27:41,800 AT THE FDA, AND WE ARE SEEING 4037 02:27:41,800 --> 02:27:46,240 MORE AND MORE WHERE PATIENTS 4038 02:27:46,240 --> 02:27:47,520 CAN -- SORRY, THE PRIMTION HOME 4039 02:27:47,520 --> 02:27:51,920 PRESCRIPTIONHOME USE OR OVER THR 4040 02:27:51,920 --> 02:27:53,120 THAT PATIENTS CAN DOWNLOAD AN 4041 02:27:53,120 --> 02:27:54,440 APP AND MONITOR THEIR OWN 4042 02:27:54,440 --> 02:27:54,680 HEALTH. 4043 02:27:54,680 --> 02:27:55,600 THIS IS A BIG THING IN ORAL 4044 02:27:55,600 --> 02:27:56,360 HEALTH ALSO. 4045 02:27:56,360 --> 02:28:00,160 AND WE VEING M ARE SEEING MORE E 4046 02:28:00,160 --> 02:28:01,520 OF THESE TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS, 4047 02:28:01,520 --> 02:28:02,880 AND HAPPY TO TALK, AND WE DO 4048 02:28:02,880 --> 02:28:04,120 HAVE A MEMORANDUM OF 4049 02:28:04,120 --> 02:28:05,640 UNDERSTANDING WITH THE NIDCR. 4050 02:28:05,640 --> 02:28:06,360 >>YES, WE DO. 4051 02:28:06,360 --> 02:28:08,080 >>SO WE ARE HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT 4052 02:28:08,080 --> 02:28:09,920 THESE KINDS OF THINGS, AND MOVE 4053 02:28:09,920 --> 02:28:10,840 THESE AREAS FORWARD. 4054 02:28:10,840 --> 02:28:11,720 THANK YOU. 4055 02:28:11,720 --> 02:28:14,040 >>PER FENGT. 4056 02:28:14,040 --> 02:28:14,680 PERFECT. 4057 02:28:14,680 --> 02:28:17,240 THIS HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL CHAT. 4058 02:28:17,240 --> 02:28:18,400 AND I HAVE TO THANK ALL OF OUR 4059 02:28:18,400 --> 02:28:19,560 FEDERAL PARTNERS BECAUSE IT WILL 4060 02:28:19,560 --> 02:28:22,720 TAKE ALL OF US TO GET TO OPTIMAL 4061 02:28:22,720 --> 02:28:24,840 WHOLE PERSONAL HEALTH, WHERE THE 4062 02:28:24,840 --> 02:28:26,240 O IN WHOLE STANDS FOR ORAL 4063 02:28:26,240 --> 02:28:27,800 HEALTH, RIGHT? 4064 02:28:27,800 --> 02:28:29,880 THAT'S AN EQUITABLE, ACCESSIBLE, 4065 02:28:29,880 --> 02:28:31,360 AFFORDABLE, AND OPTIMAL. 4066 02:28:31,360 --> 02:28:34,640 SO WE THANK YOU, AND WE LOOK 4067 02:28:34,640 --> 02:28:36,920 FORWARD TO CONTINUED 4068 02:28:36,920 --> 02:28:38,120 COLLABORATIONS SO THAT WE CAN 4069 02:28:38,120 --> 02:28:39,560 ALL REACH OUR MOONSHOT AND GET 4070 02:28:39,560 --> 02:28:41,680 RID OF THESE PREVENTABLE 4071 02:28:41,680 --> 02:28:42,080 DISEASES. 4072 02:28:42,080 --> 02:28:42,600 THANK YOU ALL. 4073 02:28:42,600 --> 02:28:52,760 [APPLAUSE] 4074 02:28:53,560 --> 02:28:55,120 OUR FINAL TALK WILL BE FROM OUR 4075 02:28:55,120 --> 02:28:59,760 DIRECTOR, RENA D'SOUZA. 4076 02:28:59,760 --> 02:29:00,480 , WHO WILL 4077 02:29:00,480 --> 02:29:04,680 CHART THE FUTURE. 4078 02:29:04,680 --> 02:29:06,880 >>I SHOULD HAVE CALLED THIS THE 4079 02:29:06,880 --> 02:29:09,160 EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AIR 4080 02:29:09,160 --> 02:29:09,600 TRAVEL. 4081 02:29:09,600 --> 02:29:09,840 [LAUGHTER] 4082 02:29:09,840 --> 02:29:12,640 TWO DAYS OF SLEEPLESS NIGHTS 4083 02:29:12,640 --> 02:29:14,960 ACTUALLY IN TWO AIRPORTS, COMING 4084 02:29:14,960 --> 02:29:18,280 BACK FROM COLOMBIA. 4085 02:29:18,280 --> 02:29:20,800 I WAS AT HIGH ALTITUDE SO I 4086 02:29:20,800 --> 02:29:23,320 COULD BE A VISIONARY, BE THE BIG 4087 02:29:23,320 --> 02:29:24,200 PICTURE VIEW HERE. 4088 02:29:24,200 --> 02:29:26,760 BUT IT'S BEEN SUCH A HOPEFUL 4089 02:29:26,760 --> 02:29:28,080 MORNING, SUCH AN INSPIRATIONAL 4090 02:29:28,080 --> 02:29:30,720 SET OF TALKS, AND I JUST WANT TO 4091 02:29:30,720 --> 02:29:34,840 REMIND US ALL THAT TO BE LEADING 4092 02:29:34,840 --> 02:29:36,720 AN ORGANIZATION OR AN ENTITY 4093 02:29:36,720 --> 02:29:38,800 LIKE THIS AT THIS STAGE IN ITS 4094 02:29:38,800 --> 02:29:43,280 CAREER -- IN ITS HISTORY, ONLY 4095 02:29:43,280 --> 02:29:44,280 MEANS ONE THING, THAT PEOPLE 4096 02:29:44,280 --> 02:29:45,840 MATTER FOR US AT NIDCR. 4097 02:29:45,840 --> 02:29:48,360 THE COMMUNITY OF STAFFERS, OF 4098 02:29:48,360 --> 02:29:50,280 EXECUTIVE LEADERS WHO ARE HERE 4099 02:29:50,280 --> 02:29:54,200 TODAY, REALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN. 4100 02:29:54,200 --> 02:29:56,000 PROGRAM STAFF IN THE DIVISION OF 4101 02:29:56,000 --> 02:29:57,120 EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH, MATT 4102 02:29:57,120 --> 02:30:00,880 HOFFMAN LEADING THE INTRAMURAL 4103 02:30:00,880 --> 02:30:02,880 PROGRAM IN BUILDING 30, THE 4104 02:30:02,880 --> 02:30:04,480 LEGENDARY BUILDING 30. 4105 02:30:04,480 --> 02:30:09,360 JANICE LEE FOR REALLY CREATING A 4106 02:30:09,360 --> 02:30:10,800 NATIONALLY IF NOT 4107 02:30:10,800 --> 02:30:11,720 INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED 4108 02:30:11,720 --> 02:30:12,880 PROGRAM IN CLINICAL RESEARCH AND 4109 02:30:12,880 --> 02:30:13,960 TRAINING, ALL OF YOU COUNT AND 4110 02:30:13,960 --> 02:30:14,640 MATTER. 4111 02:30:14,640 --> 02:30:16,320 SO JENNIFER, TO HAVE YOU AS A 4112 02:30:16,320 --> 02:30:17,280 PARTNER, OF COURSE, ADDS A LOT 4113 02:30:17,280 --> 02:30:20,040 OF ICING ON THAT CAKE. 4114 02:30:20,040 --> 02:30:29,080 SO I WANT TO -- I ALWAYS HAVE 4115 02:30:29,080 --> 02:30:30,280 THIS LITTLE SAYING, EVERY TALK 4116 02:30:30,280 --> 02:30:31,160 I'VE GIVEN THIS LAST YEAR, 4117 02:30:31,160 --> 02:30:32,680 BECAUSE IT REALLY SAYS A LOT, 4118 02:30:32,680 --> 02:30:33,960 ABOUT REALIZING THE PROMISES OF 4119 02:30:33,960 --> 02:30:35,120 SCIENCE. 4120 02:30:35,120 --> 02:30:36,160 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE ABOUT. 4121 02:30:36,160 --> 02:30:38,200 AND WE'RE HERE TO CELEBRATE THIS 4122 02:30:38,200 --> 02:30:39,720 LEGACY, AND THE HISTORY, AND 4123 02:30:39,720 --> 02:30:42,560 YOU'LL SEE IT UNFOLD THROUGH THE 4124 02:30:42,560 --> 02:30:42,800 YEAR. 4125 02:30:42,800 --> 02:30:45,160 VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON PROJECTING 4126 02:30:45,160 --> 02:30:47,720 FOR THE FUTURE OUR VERY BEST 4127 02:30:47,720 --> 02:30:49,240 RESEARCH AND HOW WE CAN ADVANCE 4128 02:30:49,240 --> 02:30:53,680 IT THROUGH THESE TIMES. 4129 02:30:53,680 --> 02:30:55,520 OF COURSE WE RECOGNIZE TODAY THE 4130 02:30:55,520 --> 02:30:55,960 WORLD IS CHANGING. 4131 02:30:55,960 --> 02:30:57,000 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. 4132 02:30:57,000 --> 02:31:00,240 EVERY TALK EMPHASIZED THIS, WITH 4133 02:31:00,240 --> 02:31:02,000 GREAT CLARITY. 4134 02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:03,680 AND WHAT FOR US AS SCIENTISTS, 4135 02:31:03,680 --> 02:31:06,280 IT'S AN UNPRECEDENTED TIME 4136 02:31:06,280 --> 02:31:08,600 ACTUALLY TO BE TAKING A LOOK AT 4137 02:31:08,600 --> 02:31:10,160 THE CONVERGING OF ALL THESE 4138 02:31:10,160 --> 02:31:11,760 DISCIPLINES, OF ALL THE OMICS, 4139 02:31:11,760 --> 02:31:14,000 AS LAURIE MENTIONED, THE 4140 02:31:14,000 --> 02:31:16,200 MULTI-OMIC ERA IS UPON US, WE NO 4141 02:31:16,200 --> 02:31:19,320 LONGER CAN AFFORD TO BE 4142 02:31:19,320 --> 02:31:20,200 REDUCTIONIST EVEN THOUGH WE'VE 4143 02:31:20,200 --> 02:31:23,080 BEEN RAISED IN GRAND TIMES OF 4144 02:31:23,080 --> 02:31:25,640 BEING VERY ME C MECHANISTIC AND 4145 02:31:25,640 --> 02:31:26,920 HYPOTHESIS DRIVEN, WE STILL HAVE 4146 02:31:26,920 --> 02:31:27,720 TO HAVE THAT BIG PICTURE IN 4147 02:31:27,720 --> 02:31:28,160 MIND. 4148 02:31:28,160 --> 02:31:32,120 TODAY I WANT TO CONNECT ONE 4149 02:31:32,120 --> 02:31:35,400 THEME, OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS, OUR 4150 02:31:35,400 --> 02:31:36,120 STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATION LEADERS 4151 02:31:36,120 --> 02:31:37,600 AND THAT WORD IS A NEW OMICS, 4152 02:31:37,600 --> 02:31:41,080 IT'S BEEN USED BEFORE, CALLED 4153 02:31:41,080 --> 02:31:41,440 THE CONNECTOME. 4154 02:31:41,440 --> 02:31:43,760 WE'RE GOING TO BE CONNECTING THE 4155 02:31:43,760 --> 02:31:45,680 DOTS FOR THE FUTURE. 4156 02:31:45,680 --> 02:31:46,640 HAVING THIS CELEBRATION WITH OUR 4157 02:31:46,640 --> 02:31:47,760 PARTNERS IS ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT 4158 02:31:47,760 --> 02:31:52,280 NIDCR IS COMMIT TODAY COMMITTEE 4159 02:31:52,280 --> 02:31:53,840 NEAR FUTURE. 4160 02:31:53,840 --> 02:31:56,000 DADATA IS THE NEW OIL AND YOU CN 4161 02:31:56,000 --> 02:31:57,640 SEE CONNECTING THROUGH DATA 4162 02:31:57,640 --> 02:31:58,840 SCIENCE GIVES US ONE OPPORTUNITY 4163 02:31:58,840 --> 02:31:59,680 TO DO THAT, BUT THERE ARE 4164 02:31:59,680 --> 02:32:00,080 OTHERS. 4165 02:32:00,080 --> 02:32:02,240 OVER THE LAST 2 1/2 YEARS, I 4166 02:32:02,240 --> 02:32:04,680 HAVE STEADILY BUILT WITH HELP 4167 02:32:04,680 --> 02:32:08,400 FROM STAFFERS RELATIONSHIPS THAT 4168 02:32:08,400 --> 02:32:10,840 MATTER WITH PARTNERING 4169 02:32:10,840 --> 02:32:11,840 INSTITUTES. 4170 02:32:11,840 --> 02:32:13,680 WE ARE NOT AS RESOURCED AS THE 4171 02:32:13,680 --> 02:32:14,960 REST OF SOME OF THEM, RIGHT? 4172 02:32:14,960 --> 02:32:17,720 WE ARE STILL AT A $500 MILLION 4173 02:32:17,720 --> 02:32:19,800 BUDGET, IT'S GOOD, BUT THERE ARE 4174 02:32:19,800 --> 02:32:20,800 INSTITUTES HERE IN THIS 4175 02:32:20,800 --> 02:32:23,840 COLLECTION THAT ARE 6 BILLION 4176 02:32:23,840 --> 02:32:26,440 STRONG PLUS, SO WE ARE CLEVERLY 4177 02:32:26,440 --> 02:32:27,440 LEVERAGING SUPPORT FROM EACH ONE 4178 02:32:27,440 --> 02:32:29,480 OF THEM, TOO MANY TO LIST RIGHT 4179 02:32:29,480 --> 02:32:31,200 NOW, FOR OUR MAJOR INITIATIVES, 4180 02:32:31,200 --> 02:32:33,360 AND BY DOING THAT, WE CREATE THE 4181 02:32:33,360 --> 02:32:35,800 PARTNERSHIPS AND IN A VERY 4182 02:32:35,800 --> 02:32:37,680 SUBTLE WAY, ARE ESTABLISHING THE 4183 02:32:37,680 --> 02:32:39,240 IMPORTANCE OF ORAL HEALTH THAT 4184 02:32:39,240 --> 02:32:41,320 NIDCR IS NOT ALONE, THAT WE ARE 4185 02:32:41,320 --> 02:32:42,520 CONNECTED WITH THE OTHER 4186 02:32:42,520 --> 02:32:43,600 INSTITUTES, EACH ONE OF THEM 4187 02:32:43,600 --> 02:32:46,840 FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC ORGAN OR A 4188 02:32:46,840 --> 02:32:48,960 DISEASE. 4189 02:32:48,960 --> 02:32:50,560 THAT TODAY, WE ARE AND WILL 4190 02:32:50,560 --> 02:32:52,640 REMAIN THE PROUD OWNERS OF THE 4191 02:32:52,640 --> 02:32:54,600 SYSTEMS THAT WE ARE ENTRUSTED 4192 02:32:54,600 --> 02:32:56,720 WITH. 4193 02:32:56,720 --> 02:32:58,520 IS NIDCR'S DISTINGUISHING 4194 02:32:58,520 --> 02:32:59,040 RESPONSIBILITY ON CAMPUS. 4195 02:32:59,040 --> 02:33:00,680 THERE IS NO OTHER INSTITUTE THAT 4196 02:33:00,680 --> 02:33:03,040 IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WE HAVE, 4197 02:33:03,040 --> 02:33:05,080 IN TERMS OF UNIQUE BIOLOGICAL 4198 02:33:05,080 --> 02:33:09,680 SYSTEMS, PARADIGMS FOR 4199 02:33:09,680 --> 02:33:10,120 MINIMALIZATION, FOR 4200 02:33:10,120 --> 02:33:10,800 REGENERATION, ET CETERA, WE HAVE 4201 02:33:10,800 --> 02:33:13,600 IT ALL, AND THAT GIVES US THAT 4202 02:33:13,600 --> 02:33:15,280 FOUNDATION TO CONNECT THE ORAL 4203 02:33:15,280 --> 02:33:16,560 CAVITY WITH THE REST OF THE 4204 02:33:16,560 --> 02:33:16,760 BODY. 4205 02:33:16,760 --> 02:33:19,960 IT JUST THERE. 4206 02:33:19,960 --> 02:33:21,360 IT'S JUST THERE. 4207 02:33:21,360 --> 02:33:21,920 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE 4208 02:33:21,920 --> 02:33:23,360 THAT'S EXTREMELY DIFFERENTIATING 4209 02:33:23,360 --> 02:33:25,600 FOR OUR INSTITUTE AS WE STAND 4210 02:33:25,600 --> 02:33:29,360 OUT AMONGST THE OTHER 27, 4211 02:33:29,360 --> 02:33:30,800 PERHAPS COMING CLOSE, IS WE ARE 4212 02:33:30,800 --> 02:33:32,840 NOT JUST FOCUSED ON ONE ORGAN OR 4213 02:33:32,840 --> 02:33:33,840 ONE DISEASE, THAT WE HAVE WITH 4214 02:33:33,840 --> 02:33:37,080 US THE RESPONSIBILITY ENTRUSTED 4215 02:33:37,080 --> 02:33:39,400 TO SAFEGUARD THE ORAL HEALTH 4216 02:33:39,400 --> 02:33:40,120 PROFESSION. 4217 02:33:40,120 --> 02:33:41,400 TO WATCH OUT FOR DENTAL SCHOOLS 4218 02:33:41,400 --> 02:33:43,160 AND THEIR TRAINING AND THEIR 4219 02:33:43,160 --> 02:33:44,600 EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE. 4220 02:33:44,600 --> 02:33:47,120 TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CONNECTION 4221 02:33:47,120 --> 02:33:49,000 WITH CLINICIANS IS REAL. 4222 02:33:49,000 --> 02:33:52,520 I'M HOPING, DR. SHEPLEY, REALLY 4223 02:33:52,520 --> 02:33:54,320 FOR US TO BE FORGING PATHS OF 4224 02:33:54,320 --> 02:33:55,360 COLLABORATION WITH ADA, SO THAT 4225 02:33:55,360 --> 02:33:57,640 WE PUBLISH THE LATEST THAT IS OF 4226 02:33:57,640 --> 02:33:59,240 IMPACT TO DENTAL PRACTITIONERS 4227 02:33:59,240 --> 02:34:00,880 AND DRAW THEM IN TO OUR 4228 02:34:00,880 --> 02:34:01,560 WORKFORCE. 4229 02:34:01,560 --> 02:34:03,600 IN THIS AGE OF TRANSLATION, 4230 02:34:03,600 --> 02:34:05,480 THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT 4231 02:34:05,480 --> 02:34:07,640 THAN THE EYES OF THE CLINICIAN 4232 02:34:07,640 --> 02:34:08,440 CHAIRSIDE. 4233 02:34:08,440 --> 02:34:09,840 EVERY PATIENT, EVERY TREATMENT 4234 02:34:09,840 --> 02:34:12,200 BECOMES AN EXPERIMENT WORTH 4235 02:34:12,200 --> 02:34:14,760 REPORTING THE DATA FROM, RIGHT? 4236 02:34:14,760 --> 02:34:16,440 SO -- AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT 4237 02:34:16,440 --> 02:34:17,680 THESE ARE NOT COMPETING VISIONS 4238 02:34:17,680 --> 02:34:18,880 AND FOR THAT REASON, OUR 4239 02:34:18,880 --> 02:34:21,000 PARTNERSHIP COMES TOGETHER TO 4240 02:34:21,000 --> 02:34:23,520 CREATE THAT WHOLE, THAT 4241 02:34:23,520 --> 02:34:24,760 IMPORTANT POLICY REFORM THAT 4242 02:34:24,760 --> 02:34:25,960 NATALIA SO WELL DESCRIBED. 4243 02:34:25,960 --> 02:34:29,880 WE ARE GUIDED BY THE REPORT. 4244 02:34:29,880 --> 02:34:32,040 IT CAME TO US AS A GIFT, AS A 4245 02:34:32,040 --> 02:34:33,800 GIFT FOR US AT NIDCR TO TURN 4246 02:34:33,800 --> 02:34:34,800 OVER TO THE PUBLIC. 4247 02:34:34,800 --> 02:34:36,200 YOU OWN THAT GIFT. 4248 02:34:36,200 --> 02:34:38,480 AND IT TELLS US, IT'S THE VOICE 4249 02:34:38,480 --> 02:34:40,200 OF THE COMMUNITY, IT WASN'T JUST 4250 02:34:40,200 --> 02:34:41,280 400 PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT, BUT 4251 02:34:41,280 --> 02:34:45,280 THEY REFLECTED THE DATA OF THE 4252 02:34:45,280 --> 02:34:48,320 LAST 20 YEARS. 4253 02:34:48,320 --> 02:34:49,680 STRIKING AS FRANCIS HAD 4254 02:34:49,680 --> 02:34:51,160 MENTIONED CAME THIS REMINDER 4255 02:34:51,160 --> 02:34:52,760 THAT I AM HAUNTED WITH AS 4256 02:34:52,760 --> 02:34:54,160 DIRECTOR, THAT DESPITE THE 4257 02:34:54,160 --> 02:34:55,320 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES, 4258 02:34:55,320 --> 02:34:56,720 THE BRILLIANT WORK OF OUR 4259 02:34:56,720 --> 02:34:58,760 INTRAMURAL RESEARCHERS, AND THE 4260 02:34:58,760 --> 02:35:01,640 GREAT DISCOVERIES FROM OUR 4261 02:35:01,640 --> 02:35:02,720 EXTRAMURAL COMMUNITY, WE STILL 4262 02:35:02,720 --> 02:35:04,520 DEAL WITH THIS VERY STRONG SET 4263 02:35:04,520 --> 02:35:06,280 OF DATA THAT SAYS THAT 4264 02:35:06,280 --> 02:35:07,600 POPULATIONS IN THE U.S. 4265 02:35:07,600 --> 02:35:09,040 EXPERIENCE ORAL HEALTH 4266 02:35:09,040 --> 02:35:09,560 DIFFERENTLY. 4267 02:35:09,560 --> 02:35:11,800 SO WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG OR 4268 02:35:11,800 --> 02:35:13,000 NOT ENOUGH OF? 4269 02:35:13,000 --> 02:35:14,640 YOU KNOW, IT REALLY MAKES US 4270 02:35:14,640 --> 02:35:16,840 WANT TO THINK, PERHAPS HAVE WE 4271 02:35:16,840 --> 02:35:21,480 PAID ENOUGH ATEXT ATTENTION TO E 4272 02:35:21,480 --> 02:35:22,760 UPSTREAM DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, 4273 02:35:22,760 --> 02:35:23,880 THE SOCIOECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL 4274 02:35:23,880 --> 02:35:25,080 DETERMINANTS THAT MAKE OUR 4275 02:35:25,080 --> 02:35:27,920 AMERICAN SOCIETY SO SUSCEPTIBLE 4276 02:35:27,920 --> 02:35:29,840 TO DENTAL OR CRANIOFACIAL 4277 02:35:29,840 --> 02:35:30,720 DISEASES? 4278 02:35:30,720 --> 02:35:32,320 HOW DO WE AMPLIFY OUR 4279 02:35:32,320 --> 02:35:33,200 INTERVENTIONS, OUR BEHAVIORAL 4280 02:35:33,200 --> 02:35:35,800 AND SOCIAL CONDITIONING SYSTEMS, 4281 02:35:35,800 --> 02:35:36,800 COLLECTIVELY WITH PARTNERS, SO 4282 02:35:36,800 --> 02:35:39,400 THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE IT 4283 02:35:39,400 --> 02:35:41,200 HAPPEN FOR A PATIENT AND FOR 4284 02:35:41,200 --> 02:35:42,720 COMMUNITIES AT RISK? 4285 02:35:42,720 --> 02:35:46,200 WE ARE GUIDED BY A STRATEGIC 4286 02:35:46,200 --> 02:35:47,400 PLAN, I WAS SO TOUCHED THAT 4287 02:35:47,400 --> 02:35:49,880 FRANCIS ACTUALLY READ IT, 4288 02:35:49,880 --> 02:35:51,600 BECAUSE IT CAME AT A TIME WHEN 4289 02:35:51,600 --> 02:35:53,800 THE REPORT WAS BEING DEVELOPED 4290 02:35:53,800 --> 02:35:55,200 INDEPENDENTLY, BUT MAGICALLY THE 4291 02:35:55,200 --> 02:35:56,680 TWO ARE SO ALIGNED. 4292 02:35:56,680 --> 02:35:58,880 AND INSTEAD OF BEING 4293 02:35:58,880 --> 02:35:59,640 DISEASE-SPECIFIC, IT WAS EASY 4294 02:35:59,640 --> 02:36:01,280 FOR ME TO DO IT BECAUSE I'M A 4295 02:36:01,280 --> 02:36:03,640 CRANIOFACIAL BIOLOGIST, IT WAS 4296 02:36:03,640 --> 02:36:05,600 FAR MORE OF A CALLING TO BE 4297 02:36:05,600 --> 02:36:07,760 LOOKING AT TRANSLATION FROM A 4298 02:36:07,760 --> 02:36:09,040 HIGHER PERSPECTIVE, TO BE 4299 02:36:09,040 --> 02:36:10,440 LOOKING AT THE IMPORTANCE OF 4300 02:36:10,440 --> 02:36:12,000 CREATING A WORKFORCE THAT 4301 02:36:12,000 --> 02:36:14,200 REPRESENTS OUR DEMOGRAPHICS. 4302 02:36:14,200 --> 02:36:16,200 AND THEN TO BE MEASURING WHAT WE 4303 02:36:16,200 --> 02:36:19,280 DO ALL THE TIME, EVERY TIME, SO 4304 02:36:19,280 --> 02:36:22,080 THAT WE KEEP WHAT WORKS AND MOVE 4305 02:36:22,080 --> 02:36:23,400 APART FROM THINGS THAT HAVE NOT 4306 02:36:23,400 --> 02:36:24,200 WORKED AS WELL. 4307 02:36:24,200 --> 02:36:28,080 I THINK THAT IS REFRESHING AND I 4308 02:36:28,080 --> 02:36:29,200 THINK WE WILL BE COMMITTED IN 4309 02:36:29,200 --> 02:36:30,680 THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO CHARTING 4310 02:36:30,680 --> 02:36:32,000 THIS COURSE BASED ON THESE 4311 02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:32,680 GUIDING PRINCIPLES. 4312 02:36:32,680 --> 02:36:35,520 NOW HERE I LOVE THIS PARTICULAR 4313 02:36:35,520 --> 02:36:35,800 SCHEMATIC. 4314 02:36:35,800 --> 02:36:37,600 IT PUTS THE PATIENT IN THE 4315 02:36:37,600 --> 02:36:39,120 CENTER, THAT THE SCIENCE WE DO 4316 02:36:39,120 --> 02:36:42,760 IS RELEVANT TO ORAL HEALTH AND 4317 02:36:42,760 --> 02:36:43,160 GENERAL HEALTH. 4318 02:36:43,160 --> 02:36:43,920 THERE'S NOT A PERSON IN THIS 4319 02:36:43,920 --> 02:36:45,640 ROOM THAT WOULDN'T AGREE TO 4320 02:36:45,640 --> 02:36:47,680 THAT, WITH THAT PARTICULAR 4321 02:36:47,680 --> 02:36:49,880 PHILOSOPHY, THAT EVERY ARM OF 4322 02:36:49,880 --> 02:36:51,960 RESEARCH INVOLVES EACH ONE OF 4323 02:36:51,960 --> 02:36:53,520 US, AND EACH ARM IS IMPORTANT 4324 02:36:53,520 --> 02:36:56,200 FOR THE OVERALL HEALTH OF 4325 02:36:56,200 --> 02:36:59,080 INDIVIDUALS. 4326 02:36:59,080 --> 02:37:00,360 THE FIRST GOAL IS TO PUT THE 4327 02:37:00,360 --> 02:37:02,000 MEAT ON THE BONES IN TERMS OF 4328 02:37:02,000 --> 02:37:02,760 TRUE SCIENCE. 4329 02:37:02,760 --> 02:37:04,880 WE HAVE GREAT EVIDENCE COMING 4330 02:37:04,880 --> 02:37:06,680 OUT HERE OF THE CONNECTION 4331 02:37:06,680 --> 02:37:10,360 BETWEEN ORAL HEALTH, PERIODONTAL 4332 02:37:10,360 --> 02:37:11,520 HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, 4333 02:37:11,520 --> 02:37:14,080 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, THESE 4334 02:37:14,080 --> 02:37:16,040 CONNECTIONS, THE GUT AND ORAL 4335 02:37:16,040 --> 02:37:16,960 MICROBIOME, AND WE WILL CONTINUE 4336 02:37:16,960 --> 02:37:19,840 ON THAT PATH NOT IN ANY WAY 4337 02:37:19,840 --> 02:37:22,280 IGNORING THE INFLUENCES OF THE 4338 02:37:22,280 --> 02:37:24,120 ENVIRONMENT ON OUR GENERAL 4339 02:37:24,120 --> 02:37:24,520 HEALTH, RIGHT? 4340 02:37:24,520 --> 02:37:26,680 TO TAKE ALL OF THAT AND PUT IT 4341 02:37:26,680 --> 02:37:28,560 INTO FRANCIS COLLINS' VISION OF 4342 02:37:28,560 --> 02:37:30,440 PRECISION MEDICINE IS A NATURAL 4343 02:37:30,440 --> 02:37:33,840 ORGANIC OUTCOME THAT WILL HAP 4344 02:37:33,840 --> 02:37:34,760 HAPPEN. 4345 02:37:34,760 --> 02:37:36,720 THIRD GOAL, IMPORTANT, 4346 02:37:36,720 --> 02:37:37,600 DEVELOPING, A LOT OF WORK TO BE 4347 02:37:37,600 --> 02:37:39,160 DONE IN THIS AREA, IS TO MAKE 4348 02:37:39,160 --> 02:37:40,040 THE IMPLEMENTATION POSSIBLE. 4349 02:37:40,040 --> 02:37:42,880 SO WE TAKE WHAT WE DISCOVER TO 4350 02:37:42,880 --> 02:37:45,800 CLINICIANS, AND TO PUBLIC HEALTH 4351 02:37:45,800 --> 02:37:46,560 CENTERS AND COMMUNITIES. 4352 02:37:46,560 --> 02:37:48,120 VERY IMPORTANT. 4353 02:37:48,120 --> 02:37:49,520 NURTURING THE DIVERSE POPULATION 4354 02:37:49,520 --> 02:37:51,240 OF FUTURE RESEARCHERS AND 4355 02:37:51,240 --> 02:37:52,400 EDUCATORS IS IMPORTANT, AND OF 4356 02:37:52,400 --> 02:37:54,440 COURSE EXPANDING OUR 4357 02:37:54,440 --> 02:37:56,560 PARTNERSHIPS WITH ALL OUR 4358 02:37:56,560 --> 02:37:58,040 LEADERS PRESENT HERE TODAY IS 4359 02:37:58,040 --> 02:37:58,320 IMPORTANT. 4360 02:37:58,320 --> 02:37:59,120 SO WHAT ARE WE DOING? 4361 02:37:59,120 --> 02:38:00,760 WE'RE SETTING UP NEW 4362 02:38:00,760 --> 02:38:02,760 COMMUNITIES, LEARNING NEW 4363 02:38:02,760 --> 02:38:03,120 COLLABORATIONS. 4364 02:38:03,120 --> 02:38:04,560 WE'VE HAD THINK TANKS, THESE ARE 4365 02:38:04,560 --> 02:38:05,760 GOING TO CONTINUE. 4366 02:38:05,760 --> 02:38:07,200 CONNECTING THE DOTS WAS A LESSON 4367 02:38:07,200 --> 02:38:09,000 THAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US WAS 4368 02:38:09,000 --> 02:38:10,320 GOING TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE FOR 4369 02:38:10,320 --> 02:38:11,280 THE FUTURE. 4370 02:38:11,280 --> 02:38:13,440 WE DON'T HAVE TO ALWAYS MEET IN 4371 02:38:13,440 --> 02:38:16,040 PERSON, WE CAN MAKE THESE 4372 02:38:16,040 --> 02:38:17,000 CONNECTIONS VIRTUALLY AND IN 4373 02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:18,560 OTHER WAYS, AND WE'VE HAD THESE 4374 02:38:18,560 --> 02:38:19,920 AND THEY'VE STIMULATED, BY 4375 02:38:19,920 --> 02:38:21,480 BRINGING THOUGHT LEADERS TO THE 4376 02:38:21,480 --> 02:38:23,400 FIELD, NEW IDEAS ON HOWL 4377 02:38:23,400 --> 02:38:27,200 CONNECHOW CONNECTBEING THE DOTSE 4378 02:38:27,200 --> 02:38:28,280 CONNECTOME CAN ACTUALLY ADVANCE 4379 02:38:28,280 --> 02:38:28,920 OUR SCIENCE. 4380 02:38:28,920 --> 02:38:31,200 NO LONGER ARE INDIVIDUALS IN 4381 02:38:31,200 --> 02:38:33,200 SILOS GOING TO FEEL THAT 4382 02:38:33,200 --> 02:38:34,920 COMFORTABLE IF THEY WEREN'T 4383 02:38:34,920 --> 02:38:36,360 CONNECTED WITH TEAMS OF 4384 02:38:36,360 --> 02:38:36,920 SCIENTISTS. 4385 02:38:36,920 --> 02:38:38,040 AGAIN, A THEME THAT HAS 4386 02:38:38,040 --> 02:38:39,520 RESONATED THROUGH THE MORNING. 4387 02:38:39,520 --> 02:38:41,280 OUR STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP IS 4388 02:38:41,280 --> 02:38:42,280 EXTREMELY VALUABLE, AND I COULD 4389 02:38:42,280 --> 02:38:44,200 THINK OF NO OTHER WAY TO BRING 4390 02:38:44,200 --> 02:38:45,440 US TOGETHER THAN THIS PARTICULAR 4391 02:38:45,440 --> 02:38:46,720 VENUE. 4392 02:38:46,720 --> 02:38:48,440 AND OF COURSE, CULTIVATING THE 4393 02:38:48,440 --> 02:38:48,920 ORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE. 4394 02:38:48,920 --> 02:38:50,400 SO I WANT YOU TO ACTUALLY JUST 4395 02:38:50,400 --> 02:38:53,520 TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND CLOSE 4396 02:38:53,520 --> 02:38:56,280 YOUR EYES AND THINK WHERE YOU 4397 02:38:56,280 --> 02:38:59,000 WANT YOU TO BE, YOUR KIDS, YOUR 4398 02:38:59,000 --> 02:38:59,920 GRANDKIDS, AND WHERE WOULD YOU 4399 02:38:59,920 --> 02:39:02,280 WANT TO SEE NIDCR 25 YEARS FROM 4400 02:39:02,280 --> 02:39:02,600 NOW. 4401 02:39:02,600 --> 02:39:05,040 I THINK ONLY IN 25-YEAR 4402 02:39:05,040 --> 02:39:05,640 INCREMENTS. 4403 02:39:05,640 --> 02:39:07,480 I CAN'T GO AS FAR AS 75. 4404 02:39:07,480 --> 02:39:08,960 BUT LET'S THINK 25 BECAUSE IT 4405 02:39:08,960 --> 02:39:09,760 COMPLETES A CENTURY. 4406 02:39:09,760 --> 02:39:16,480 JUST THINK FOR A MINUTE. 4407 02:39:16,480 --> 02:39:18,440 AND IT MAKES US REALLY WANT TO 4408 02:39:18,440 --> 02:39:18,960 MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 4409 02:39:18,960 --> 02:39:20,920 AND I WANT EACH ONE OF YOU TO 4410 02:39:20,920 --> 02:39:22,120 TAKE THAT VALUE BACK WITH YOU 4411 02:39:22,120 --> 02:39:24,520 AND LIVE IT EVERY DAY THAT 4412 02:39:24,520 --> 02:39:26,320 YOU'RE HERE ON NIH'S CAMPUS OR 4413 02:39:26,320 --> 02:39:27,280 OUTSIDE. 4414 02:39:27,280 --> 02:39:31,800 I WILL SAY THAT THROUGH THE 4415 02:39:31,800 --> 02:39:33,160 75 YEARS, WE'VE HAD GIANTS JUST 4416 02:39:33,160 --> 02:39:33,800 EMERGE. 4417 02:39:33,800 --> 02:39:37,480 LARRY TABAK TO ME IS A 75-YEAR 4418 02:39:37,480 --> 02:39:39,080 GEM THAT WE WANT TO PRESERVE. 4419 02:39:39,080 --> 02:39:43,640 BUT THE INTRAMURAL PROGRAM GIVES 4420 02:39:43,640 --> 02:39:44,440 NIDCR ITS IDENTITY. 4421 02:39:44,440 --> 02:39:46,560 THESE RESEARCHERS ARE 4422 02:39:46,560 --> 02:39:48,480 OUTSTANDING. 4423 02:39:48,480 --> 02:39:51,800 THEY ALL WITH THE -- 4424 02:39:51,800 --> 02:39:52,520 CONTRIBUTING TO DIFFERENT 4425 02:39:52,520 --> 02:39:53,720 ASPECTS OF SCIENCE IN THESE 4426 02:39:53,720 --> 02:39:56,120 AREAS, AND THEY BRING, CONTINUE 4427 02:39:56,120 --> 02:39:57,240 TO AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND 4428 02:39:57,240 --> 02:40:01,080 IN BRINGING AREAS OF DISTINCTION 4429 02:40:01,080 --> 02:40:04,600 TO -- NOT JUST TO TO OUR INSTIT, 4430 02:40:04,600 --> 02:40:06,280 TO NIH AND TO THE WORLD OF ORAL 4431 02:40:06,280 --> 02:40:07,400 HEALTH SCIENCES. 4432 02:40:07,400 --> 02:40:08,280 CLINICAL AND TRANSLATION 4433 02:40:08,280 --> 02:40:11,760 RESEARCH WILL CONTINUE TO GROW. 4434 02:40:11,760 --> 02:40:15,000 IT'S NOT EASY TO EXPAND SUCH AN 4435 02:40:15,000 --> 02:40:16,080 ENDEAVOR. 4436 02:40:16,080 --> 02:40:17,720 BUT I THINK THE RIPPLE EFFECTS 4437 02:40:17,720 --> 02:40:19,920 OF WHAT JANICE LEE HAS CREATED 4438 02:40:19,920 --> 02:40:21,680 IS COMING THROUGH THE COUNTRY TO 4439 02:40:21,680 --> 02:40:22,320 WHERE OTHER SCHOOLS ARE 4440 02:40:22,320 --> 02:40:24,840 EMULATING THE PROGRAMS THAT WE 4441 02:40:24,840 --> 02:40:26,080 OFFER, OR THE PROGRAM THAT WE 4442 02:40:26,080 --> 02:40:28,000 OFFER HERE ON OUR CAMPUS. 4443 02:40:28,000 --> 02:40:29,920 AND YOU CAN SEE FROM THE DIVERSE 4444 02:40:29,920 --> 02:40:31,160 INTERESTS HERE WITH THE PATIENT 4445 02:40:31,160 --> 02:40:33,960 IN THE CENTER, BUT THIS IS 4446 02:40:33,960 --> 02:40:35,760 ACTUALLY -- HAS ACTUALLY LED TO 4447 02:40:35,760 --> 02:40:37,720 DRUGS THAT WORK ON PATIENTS WITH 4448 02:40:37,720 --> 02:40:41,720 RARE CONDITIONS LIKE MCCUNE 4449 02:40:41,720 --> 02:40:43,280 ALBRIGHT'S JUST PUBLISHED IN THE 4450 02:40:43,280 --> 02:40:46,240 JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, AND MORE TO 4451 02:40:46,240 --> 02:40:46,840 COME THERE. 4452 02:40:46,840 --> 02:40:50,640 I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT OUR 4453 02:40:50,640 --> 02:40:51,840 EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM 4454 02:40:51,840 --> 02:40:54,080 STAFF LED BY LILLIAN SHUM, I 4455 02:40:54,080 --> 02:40:55,360 JUST CAN'T SAY ENOUGH, LILLIAN. 4456 02:40:55,360 --> 02:40:57,320 YOU HAVE STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE 4457 02:40:57,320 --> 02:41:03,240 TO REALLY SHEPHERD THE PROGRAM, 4458 02:41:03,240 --> 02:41:04,640 IT'S ALL ABOUT LEADERSHIP. 4459 02:41:04,640 --> 02:41:05,880 YOU'VE ACCOMMODATED TO THESE 4460 02:41:05,880 --> 02:41:07,200 KIND OF CRAZY IDEAS THAT POP 4461 02:41:07,200 --> 02:41:11,480 INTO MY HEAD QUITE OFTEN, AND 4462 02:41:11,480 --> 02:41:12,600 DELIVERED IN SUCH A WONDERFUL 4463 02:41:12,600 --> 02:41:13,800 WAY. 4464 02:41:13,800 --> 02:41:14,560 SO THANK YOU, AND YOU CAN SEE 4465 02:41:14,560 --> 02:41:17,000 FROM THE PORTFOLIO THAT WE COVER 4466 02:41:17,000 --> 02:41:20,920 ASPECTS OF EVERY ISSUE AND EVERY 4467 02:41:20,920 --> 02:41:23,640 TISSUE IMAGINABLE AND EVERY MODE 4468 02:41:23,640 --> 02:41:25,680 OF INVESTIGATION THAT IS 4469 02:41:25,680 --> 02:41:26,680 POSSIBLE HERE FROM CROSS-CUTTING 4470 02:41:26,680 --> 02:41:30,080 TO DISEASE SPECTRUM TO AREAS AND 4471 02:41:30,080 --> 02:41:32,320 DISCIPLINES. 4472 02:41:32,320 --> 02:41:34,520 NOW, WE INVEST IN MULTIMILLION 4473 02:41:34,520 --> 02:41:35,720 DOLLAR INITIATIVES. 4474 02:41:35,720 --> 02:41:37,040 EACH ONE OF THEM, IF YOU JUST 4475 02:41:37,040 --> 02:41:38,560 THINK ABOUT IT, ARE SITTING IN 4476 02:41:38,560 --> 02:41:39,600 THEIR OWN SPACE, HAVING DONE 4477 02:41:39,600 --> 02:41:40,040 WELL. 4478 02:41:40,040 --> 02:41:41,560 SOME OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY GOING 4479 02:41:41,560 --> 02:41:43,280 TO THIRD CYCLES NOW OF FUNDING 4480 02:41:43,280 --> 02:41:46,600 OR FOURTH CYCLES. 4481 02:41:46,600 --> 02:41:48,000 COULD WE CONNECT THE DOTS. 4482 02:41:48,000 --> 02:41:50,040 SO I DREAM OF A TIME WHEN THE 4483 02:41:50,040 --> 02:41:54,880 FACE IS REPOSITORY THAT IS SO 4484 02:41:54,880 --> 02:41:56,080 DEDICATED, SO VISIONARY 20 YEARS 4485 02:41:56,080 --> 02:41:58,120 AGO, TO HAVE A DATA SHARING AND 4486 02:41:58,120 --> 02:41:59,280 MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WAS UNHEARD 4487 02:41:59,280 --> 02:41:59,760 OF THEN. 4488 02:41:59,760 --> 02:42:03,680 BUT WE LED THE WAY THERE. 4489 02:42:03,680 --> 02:42:06,520 HALL SLAVKIN, LARRY TABAK, 4490 02:42:06,520 --> 02:42:09,320 CONNECT THE DOTS. 4491 02:42:09,320 --> 02:42:11,640 THEY ACTUALLY TRIED IN CLIN CAL 4492 02:42:11,640 --> 02:42:14,440 TRIAL NETWORKS THAT THE PRACTICE 4493 02:42:14,440 --> 02:42:15,640 BASED RESEARCH NETWORK WOULD 4494 02:42:15,640 --> 02:42:16,320 CREATE. 4495 02:42:16,320 --> 02:42:18,480 HOW IS THE PEM TROA MANDIBULAR 4496 02:42:18,480 --> 02:42:19,560 JOINT THAT DELIVERS THAT 4497 02:42:19,560 --> 02:42:20,760 WONDERFUL INITIATIVE WE JUST 4498 02:42:20,760 --> 02:42:23,480 KICKED OFF, HOLISTIC IN ITS 4499 02:42:23,480 --> 02:42:25,960 APPROACH, CONNECTING THIS VERY 4500 02:42:25,960 --> 02:42:28,800 DEBILITATING CONDITION TO 4501 02:42:28,800 --> 02:42:31,080 SYSTEMIC CONDITIONS TO 4502 02:42:31,080 --> 02:42:32,080 COMORBIDITIES, HOW DOES THAT 4503 02:42:32,080 --> 02:42:33,240 TAKE OFF AND HOW DOES THAT 4504 02:42:33,240 --> 02:42:34,360 CONNECT WITH THESE OTHER 4505 02:42:34,360 --> 02:42:34,880 INITIATIVES? 4506 02:42:34,880 --> 02:42:35,640 WE'RE GOING THERE. 4507 02:42:35,640 --> 02:42:39,080 FAITH-BASED ITSELF, LEW IS HERE, 4508 02:42:39,080 --> 02:42:40,480 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KHALIDER 4509 02:42:40,480 --> 02:42:41,720 SHIP ALONG WITH LILLIAN TO 4510 02:42:41,720 --> 02:42:43,760 DEVELOP IT AS THE FUTURE 4511 02:42:43,760 --> 02:42:44,080 REPOSITORY. 4512 02:42:44,080 --> 02:42:46,120 IN BOTH GENERALIZED AND 4513 02:42:46,120 --> 02:42:47,320 SPECIALIZED MEANS BY WHICH 4514 02:42:47,320 --> 02:42:48,280 CLINICIANS CAN ACCESS CARE. 4515 02:42:48,280 --> 02:42:50,640 SO IT'S NOT JUST ZEBRAFISH AND 4516 02:42:50,640 --> 02:42:50,880 MOUSE. 4517 02:42:50,880 --> 02:42:53,320 WE HAVE A LOT OF THAT, BUT WE'RE 4518 02:42:53,320 --> 02:42:56,200 LOADING ON HUMAN DATA, REAL 4519 02:42:56,200 --> 02:43:00,760 RADIOGRAPHS AND C TSM SCANS, SOO 4520 02:43:00,760 --> 02:43:01,360 CLINICIANS ARE WELL INFORMED 4521 02:43:01,360 --> 02:43:03,120 ABOUT DIAGNOSING CRANIOFACIAL 4522 02:43:03,120 --> 02:43:04,120 ANOMALIES AND PERHAPS OTHER 4523 02:43:04,120 --> 02:43:05,560 DISEASES. 4524 02:43:05,560 --> 02:43:08,600 WE'VE JUST ADDED AN ENAMEL BASE 4525 02:43:08,600 --> 02:43:09,960 DATABASE TO THIS REPOSITORY, 4526 02:43:09,960 --> 02:43:10,400 JUST AN EXAMPLE. 4527 02:43:10,400 --> 02:43:12,320 I THINK PROBABLY FOR ME, THE 4528 02:43:12,320 --> 02:43:14,120 MOST ELEVATING OF ALL 4529 02:43:14,120 --> 02:43:16,440 EXPERIENCES WAS TO LAUNCH 4530 02:43:16,440 --> 02:43:18,240 SIGNATURE INITIATIVES IN THIS 4531 02:43:18,240 --> 02:43:19,960 YEAR THAT WE'RE GOING TO CALL 4532 02:43:19,960 --> 02:43:21,600 OUR ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS. 4533 02:43:21,600 --> 02:43:24,000 LAURIE MENTIONED PRIMED, WHICH 4534 02:43:24,000 --> 02:43:26,240 SETS UP FOR US WITHIN THE DENTAL 4535 02:43:26,240 --> 02:43:29,640 SCHOOL A CULTURE FOR A LOT OF 4536 02:43:29,640 --> 02:43:30,760 LEARNING, FOR LEARNING THAT 4537 02:43:30,760 --> 02:43:32,440 CLINICIANS ARE INTEGRAL TO THIS 4538 02:43:32,440 --> 02:43:33,720 WORKFORCE, THE RESEARCH 4539 02:43:33,720 --> 02:43:35,640 WORKFORCE, CREATING AN 4540 02:43:35,640 --> 02:43:38,800 INFRASTRUCTURE, A CAPACITY WITH 4541 02:43:38,800 --> 02:43:40,080 DENTAL SCHOOLS TO CONNECT WITH 4542 02:43:40,080 --> 02:43:41,880 ITS RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT AROUND, 4543 02:43:41,880 --> 02:43:43,480 EVEN IF YOU'RE A SINGLE DENTAL 4544 02:43:43,480 --> 02:43:45,840 SCHOOL IN A LESS RESOURCED AREA, 4545 02:43:45,840 --> 02:43:48,240 YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY NOW TO 4546 02:43:48,240 --> 02:43:49,880 CONNECT TO A SCHOOL OR TO A 4547 02:43:49,880 --> 02:43:50,720 UNIVERSITY THAT HAS THE 4548 02:43:50,720 --> 02:43:51,720 RESOURCES. 4549 02:43:51,720 --> 02:43:53,760 I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY 4550 02:43:53,760 --> 02:43:59,440 TRANSFORMATIVE, SO WOULD BE 4551 02:43:59,440 --> 02:44:03,080 PROGRAM IN AHEAD WITH THE 4552 02:44:03,080 --> 02:44:04,000 NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE THAT'S 4553 02:44:04,000 --> 02:44:06,480 GOING TO BE LOOKING AT 4554 02:44:06,480 --> 02:44:07,080 PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR HEAD 4555 02:44:07,080 --> 02:44:09,720 AND NECK CANCERS, AND OF COURSE 4556 02:44:09,720 --> 02:44:11,080 IMPACT THE TEMPOROMANDIBULAR. 4557 02:44:11,080 --> 02:44:13,400 NOW IT SO HAPPENS THESE THREE 4558 02:44:13,400 --> 02:44:16,640 INITIATIVES ACTUALLY FORM A 4559 02:44:16,640 --> 02:44:17,280 SENTENCE. 4560 02:44:17,280 --> 02:44:19,280 THEY'VE BEEN NOW PRIMED TO MOVE 4561 02:44:19,280 --> 02:44:20,280 AHEAD WITH IMPACT. 4562 02:44:20,280 --> 02:44:21,720 JUST HAPPENED TO ME. 4563 02:44:21,720 --> 02:44:25,720 [APPLAUSE] 4564 02:44:25,720 --> 02:44:27,320 AND TO MENTION WHERE 4565 02:44:27,320 --> 02:44:28,560 INTERSECTIONS AND THE MAGIC OF 4566 02:44:28,560 --> 02:44:30,640 INTERFACES, I CAN'T THINK OF A 4567 02:44:30,640 --> 02:44:32,400 MORE RELEVANT HERE -- AND 4568 02:44:32,400 --> 02:44:34,400 DR. SHEPLEY WOULD AGREE, THE 4569 02:44:34,400 --> 02:44:35,800 ROLE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AT 4570 02:44:35,800 --> 02:44:37,720 THE INTERSECTION OF PAIN 4571 02:44:37,720 --> 02:44:39,480 MANAGEMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH, 4572 02:44:39,480 --> 02:44:41,520 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, IS 4573 02:44:41,520 --> 02:44:41,800 CRITICAL. 4574 02:44:41,800 --> 02:44:42,760 IT'S ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. 4575 02:44:42,760 --> 02:44:44,600 YES, WE'RE ONLY TAPPING INTO A 4576 02:44:44,600 --> 02:44:45,880 SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE 4577 02:44:45,880 --> 02:44:47,320 POPULATION WHO CAN AFFORD DENTAL 4578 02:44:47,320 --> 02:44:50,000 CARE, BUT IT BEGINS A SYSTEM 4579 02:44:50,000 --> 02:44:53,080 WHERE WE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR 4580 02:44:53,080 --> 02:44:54,280 RECOGNIZE THAT A DRY MOUTH 4581 02:44:54,280 --> 02:44:56,920 CAUSED BY CHRONIC DRUG USE CAN'T 4582 02:44:56,920 --> 02:44:59,640 BE IGNORED BEYOND THE DENTAL 4583 02:44:59,640 --> 02:45:00,000 CHAIR. 4584 02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:01,520 WE HAVE TO MAKE THE REFERRALS 4585 02:45:01,520 --> 02:45:03,120 AND WE HAVE NOW A SURVEY THAT IS 4586 02:45:03,120 --> 02:45:06,360 JUST GOING TO COME FORTH WHERE 4587 02:45:06,360 --> 02:45:07,760 WE USE THE PRACTICE BASED 4588 02:45:07,760 --> 02:45:10,960 RESEARCH AND EFFORT TO ACTUALLY 4589 02:45:10,960 --> 02:45:12,000 SURVEY 7500 OF ITS MEMBERS 4590 02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:14,960 AROUND THE COUNTRY, DENTISTS, 4591 02:45:14,960 --> 02:45:16,760 PRACTICING DENTISTS. 4592 02:45:16,760 --> 02:45:18,000 IMPORTANT. 4593 02:45:18,000 --> 02:45:21,160 I JUST CAME BACK FROM BOGOTA 4594 02:45:21,160 --> 02:45:23,240 WHERE WE MET WITH LEADERS, CHRIS 4595 02:45:23,240 --> 02:45:24,760 FOX PAVED THE WAY FOR THIS. 4596 02:45:24,760 --> 02:45:26,160 IF WE DON'T CONNECT WITH THE 4597 02:45:26,160 --> 02:45:27,240 GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN A BIGGER WAY 4598 02:45:27,240 --> 02:45:29,000 AND LEAVE A LARGER FOOTPRINT OF 4599 02:45:29,000 --> 02:45:30,920 WHAT WE DO, NOT BECAUSE WE KNOW 4600 02:45:30,920 --> 02:45:32,440 IT ALL BUT BECAUSE WE NEED TO 4601 02:45:32,440 --> 02:45:34,560 LEARN FROM OUR INTERNATIONAL 4602 02:45:34,560 --> 02:45:35,120 COMMUNITY. 4603 02:45:35,120 --> 02:45:37,960 THE RESOURCES AND AVAILABILITY. 4604 02:45:37,960 --> 02:45:41,680 BECAUSE LOOK AT THE PREVALENCE 4605 02:45:41,680 --> 02:45:43,280 OF DISEASE ACROSS THE WORLD. 4606 02:45:43,280 --> 02:45:45,840 THIS HAS DRAWN THE ATTENTION OF 4607 02:45:45,840 --> 02:45:47,200 W.H.O. AND WE NOW HAVE A 4608 02:45:47,200 --> 02:45:48,360 RESOLUTION TO INCLUDE ORAL 4609 02:45:48,360 --> 02:45:49,640 HEALTHCARE AS PART OF THE 4610 02:45:49,640 --> 02:45:50,960 UNIVERSAL HEALTH PACKAGE. 4611 02:45:50,960 --> 02:45:53,600 WE HAVE A FOOTPRINT ALREADY, 4612 02:45:53,600 --> 02:45:55,040 PLANS ARE TO VERY SYSTEMATICALLY 4613 02:45:55,040 --> 02:45:57,840 AND VERY INTENTIONALLY, TO FOCUS 4614 02:45:57,840 --> 02:46:00,400 ON DISEASES LIKE NOMA, BUT 4615 02:46:00,400 --> 02:46:01,760 THROUGH COLLABORATION WITH THE 4616 02:46:01,760 --> 02:46:02,480 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF ALLERGY 4617 02:46:02,480 --> 02:46:03,520 AND I FORECASTTIOUS DISEASE, 4618 02:46:03,520 --> 02:46:05,760 THIS IS THE MOST THREATENING 4619 02:46:05,760 --> 02:46:10,200 CONDITION, PREVENTABLE, IF 4620 02:46:10,200 --> 02:46:11,840 PICKED UP EARLY, CHILDREN FROM 4621 02:46:11,840 --> 02:46:13,680 UNDERSERVED AREAS, IN AFRICA 4622 02:46:13,680 --> 02:46:15,160 ESPECIALLY BUT ACROSS THE WORLD, 4623 02:46:15,160 --> 02:46:16,760 THAT IF THROUGH RINSES AND 4624 02:46:16,760 --> 02:46:20,760 ANTIBIOTICS CAN ACTUALLY LEAD TO 4625 02:46:20,760 --> 02:46:21,960 MITIGATION OF THE DISEASE. 4626 02:46:21,960 --> 02:46:24,800 OUR TRAINING IS STRONG. 4627 02:46:24,800 --> 02:46:25,440 WE'RE REVISITING EVERYTHING WE 4628 02:46:25,440 --> 02:46:27,320 DO WITH A NEW SET OF LENSES NOW, 4629 02:46:27,320 --> 02:46:29,800 RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO TRAIN A 4630 02:46:29,800 --> 02:46:30,680 WORKFORCE DIFFERENTLY FROM THE 4631 02:46:30,680 --> 02:46:32,320 WAY WE CONCEIVED TO BE 20 YEARS 4632 02:46:32,320 --> 02:46:33,720 AGO. 4633 02:46:33,720 --> 02:46:35,800 SO TOGETHER, REALLY, WITH THE 4634 02:46:35,800 --> 02:46:37,760 PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN THE PLAN, 4635 02:46:37,760 --> 02:46:41,880 IN THE REPORT, THE ORAL HEALTH 4636 02:46:41,880 --> 02:46:42,680 AND -- REPORT, HAVING A PLAN 4637 02:46:42,680 --> 02:46:44,960 THAT IS VERY STRATEGIC IN 4638 02:46:44,960 --> 02:46:46,920 THINKING, WE TAKE THAT NEXT STEP 4639 02:46:46,920 --> 02:46:48,520 AHEAD, THINK OF THE NEXT STEP. 4640 02:46:48,520 --> 02:46:50,240 IT SETS US FOR A PATH THEN FOR 4641 02:46:50,240 --> 02:46:51,680 ORAL HEALTH FOR ALL. 4642 02:46:51,680 --> 02:46:55,360 WE HAVE A YEAR FULL OF VERY 4643 02:46:55,360 --> 02:46:56,240 MEANINGFUL EVENTS. 4644 02:46:56,240 --> 02:46:59,200 COMING UP NEXT IS THE DEDICATED 4645 02:46:59,200 --> 02:47:04,080 SYMPOSIUM TO 25 YEARS OF FIBROUS 4646 02:47:04,080 --> 02:47:04,640 DYSPLASIA. 4647 02:47:04,640 --> 02:47:05,520 JANICE, I THINK YOU'RE 4648 02:47:05,520 --> 02:47:10,120 ORGANIZING THAT, AND IT'S A TRUE 4649 02:47:10,120 --> 02:47:11,320 DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSLATION 4650 02:47:11,320 --> 02:47:13,560 FROM A VERY FOUNDATIONAL BASIC 4651 02:47:13,560 --> 02:47:17,840 SCIENCE APPROACH, ESTABLISHED BY 4652 02:47:17,840 --> 02:47:19,720 OUR BIOLOGY RESEARCHERS HERE AT 4653 02:47:19,720 --> 02:47:21,320 NIDCR TO A DRUG THAT ACTUALLY IS 4654 02:47:21,320 --> 02:47:22,360 APPROVED AND IS WORKING ON 4655 02:47:22,360 --> 02:47:22,920 PATIENTS. 4656 02:47:22,920 --> 02:47:24,680 I COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY 4657 02:47:24,680 --> 02:47:25,200 TO CELEBRATE. 4658 02:47:25,200 --> 02:47:26,200 THAT'S 25 YEARS THERE. 4659 02:47:26,200 --> 02:47:28,520 WE THEN BRING OUR TRAINEES 4660 02:47:28,520 --> 02:47:30,080 TOGETHER, 450-PLUS OF THEM 4661 02:47:30,080 --> 02:47:39,080 ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN A VIRTUALD 4662 02:47:39,080 --> 02:47:40,160 SHOWCASE THEIR WORK AND MAKE A 4663 02:47:40,160 --> 02:47:41,280 COMMITMENT TO THEM FOR THE 4664 02:47:41,280 --> 02:47:41,640 FUTURE. 4665 02:47:41,640 --> 02:47:42,920 THEN WE LINE UP ALL THESE OTHER 4666 02:47:42,920 --> 02:47:43,960 ACTIVITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING AT 4667 02:47:43,960 --> 02:47:45,720 THE SAME TIME IN NEW ORLEANS AT 4668 02:47:45,720 --> 02:47:47,960 THE ADOCR MEETING WITH A SET OF 4669 02:47:47,960 --> 02:47:49,040 SYMPOSIA THAT HIGHLIGHT THE 4670 02:47:49,040 --> 02:47:52,160 LEGACY OF OUR SCIENCE AND COMING 4671 02:47:52,160 --> 02:47:54,920 FROM OUR EXTRAMURAL RESEARCHERS. 4672 02:47:54,920 --> 02:47:57,560 AND REALLY PROJECTING WHERE 25 4673 02:47:57,560 --> 02:47:58,760 YEARS WILL TAKE US. 4674 02:47:58,760 --> 02:48:00,920 ALL OF THIS MAKES I THINK FOR A 4675 02:48:00,920 --> 02:48:02,880 VERY SPECIAL YEAR TO A TIME WHEN 4676 02:48:02,880 --> 02:48:04,640 WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO 25 YEARS 4677 02:48:04,640 --> 02:48:06,320 OF TURNING DISCOVERY INTO HEALTH 4678 02:48:06,320 --> 02:48:06,880 FOR ALL. 4679 02:48:06,880 --> 02:48:09,920 THAT IS NIH'S MISSION, IT'S 4680 02:48:09,920 --> 02:48:10,840 CERTAINLY ONE WE EMBRACE. 4681 02:48:10,840 --> 02:48:12,520 I THANK EACH ONE OF YOU FOR 4682 02:48:12,520 --> 02:48:13,640 BEING HERE, AND FOR REALLY 4683 02:48:13,640 --> 02:48:14,720 MAKING THIS MORNING VERY 4684 02:48:14,720 --> 02:48:15,520 SPECIAL. 4685 02:48:15,520 --> 02:48:15,720 THANKS. 4686 02:48:15,720 --> 02:48:25,920 [APPLAUSE] 4687 02:48:28,680 --> 02:48:30,440 FOR OUR GUESTS, YOU'RE ALL 4688 02:48:30,440 --> 02:48:31,000 INVITED TO STAY. 4689 02:48:31,000 --> 02:48:32,720 WE ARE BOUND BY FEDERAL RULES TO 4690 02:48:32,720 --> 02:48:34,640 NOT BUY LUNCH, BUT WE DO HAVE A 4691 02:48:34,640 --> 02:48:36,680 RECEPTION AT THE END OF OUR 4692 02:48:36,680 --> 02:48:37,840 STAFF RECOGNITION, OR IS IT 4693 02:48:37,840 --> 02:48:38,480 RIGHT NOW? 4694 02:48:38,480 --> 02:48:40,880 NO, IT'S AFTER THE RECOGNITION 4695 02:48:40,880 --> 02:48:41,120 CEREMONY. 4696 02:48:41,120 --> 02:48:42,640 THIS IS TRADITIONAL FOR US. 4697 02:48:42,640 --> 02:48:44,600 IT'S A TIME WHEN OUR STAFF COME 4698 02:48:44,600 --> 02:48:46,120 TOGETHER AND ARE RECOGNIZED FOR 4699 02:48:46,120 --> 02:48:47,840 THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP 4700 02:48:47,840 --> 02:48:48,600 CONTRIBUTIONS. 4701 02:48:48,600 --> 02:48:50,360 THANK YOU, SPECIAL GUESTS. 4702 02:48:50,360 --> 02:48:53,560 YOU ALL MADE IT VERY, VERY 4703 02:48:53,560 --> 02:48:54,520 MEANINGFUL FOR US, AND OUR 4704 02:48:54,520 --> 02:48:55,560 PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NEXT 25 4705 02:48:55,560 --> 02:48:56,360 YEARS IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 4706 02:48:56,360 --> 02:48:57,800 IT GOING TO HAPPEN. 4707 02:48:57,800 --> 02:48:59,800 WE'VE RECORDED ALL OF WHAT YOU 4708 02:48:59,800 --> 02:49:00,680 SAID. 4709 02:49:00,680 --> 02:49:01,800 LAURIE, THANK YOU FOR MAKING 4710 02:49:01,800 --> 02:49:02,440 THIS TRIP. 4711 02:49:02,440 --> 02:49:04,320 APPRECIATE IT. 4712 02:49:04,320 --> 02:49:05,480 HAVE A GREAT AFTERNOON. 4713 02:49:05,480 --> 02:49:15,680 [APPLAUSE]