IPE workshop: Enhancing communication skills through interprofessional education

Dr. Riedy is the Delta Dental of Massachusetts Associate Professor in Oral Public Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is a behavioral scientist by training and discipline director for behavioral sciences in the HSDM predoctoral dental curriculum. Dr. Riedy received her master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology and an MPH in health services from the University of Washington, Seattle. She was the lead PI of the Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health, one of six academic units for primary care training enhancements previously funded by the federal government’s Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) and now sited under HSDM’s Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine. She is also the PI of the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders (NCECE), a national training and technical assistance partner with HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Health Care since 2017. More recently, she is the director of HRSA/BHW funded predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs for enhancing geriatric content in dental training and training general dentistry and dental public health providers on caring for vulnerable populations in rural communities, particularly older adults, respectively. Dr. Riedy has expertise in behavioral intervention research and research methodology including quantitative and qualitative methodology and mixed methods research. Her early research focused on oral health disparities and behavioral strategies to improve oral health. More recently, she has focused on the integration of oral health and medicine (and vice versa) through interprofessional educational training and models of clinical practice.