Our Mentors and Advisors
Our Advisory Board: A Multi-Disciplinary Group
The Student Oral Health Inititaive is further guided our Advisory Board of experts of healthcare in both academia and industry. Our Advisory Board consists of three of today's most innovative medical and dental pioneers. They will be lending their expertise to the Student Oral Health Initiative by helping us establish quality progress and success measurements.
Dr. Allen Finkelstein is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bedford HealthCare Solutions, a healthcare consulting. He is the former Chief Dental Officer of AmeriChoice/United Health Group serving over 2 million members. Dr. Finkelstein is also a general dentist currently practicing in Great Neck, NY and a graduate with honors from Temple University School of Dentistry. Dr. Finkelstein is a member of the American Dental Association, the New York and Essex County Dental Societies and the Dental Associations of New Jersey and Rhode Island. He serves on the New Jersey Dental Medicaid Advisory Committee, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island Coalitions of Oral Health, American Friends of the Hebrew University New York Board, the Vice Chair of the Advisory Board of Shils Entrepreneurial Education Fund and New York Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Finkelstein's commitment to innovative and cost effective preventable healthcare is remarkable. As a long time proponent of Integrated Dental and Medical Care, he has created and implemented many community oral healthcare models. He is the creator of the Health Home model and Fluoride Varnish Program.
Medical Director; AmeriChoice/United Health Group
Dr. Hanson is a Medical Director at AmeriChoice/United Health Group. She joined AmeriChoice/United Health Group in 2007 to be in charge of Quality and Case Management working with the underserved. In 1999 she worked in New York at a large HMO to develop a geriatric case management department which was selected for publication in Population Health Management in August, 2008. As demonstrated in this publication, Dr. Hanson is an instrumental leader and innovator quality-centered managed care.
Dr. Hanson is a Board Certified Doctor of Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, and has over two decades of experience as a practicing physician. Dr. Hanson did her training at UMDNJ in Newark, New Jersey where she was selected Chief Resident.
Dr. Hanson is a role model for all aspiring physicians, and has been instrumental in molding the professional character of our initiative's student directors.
Dean; Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health
Dr. Jack Dillenberg is the inaugural dean of the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health. Dr. Dillenberg received his master’s degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health and completed his dental education at New York University, College of Dentistry. He received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University in New Orleans. Prior to joining the Arizona dental school, Dr. Dillenberg was associate director for public health programs in the California Department of Health Services and prior to that was area health officer serving the west area of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Dr. Dillenberg also is president of Dillenberg & Friends Health Services Consulting providing a full scope of health services consulting. During most of the 1990s, Dr. Dillenberg served in several capacities in the Arizona Department of Health Services, including director for more than four years and assistant director in the Division of Family Health Services. Dr. Dillenberg has also served in numerous positions on health-related boards and associations and is the recipient of a great number of honors and awards, including the U.S Public Health Service Chief Dental Officer’s Service Award and the Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit. Dr. Dillenberg is recognized at the local, state, and national levels as an expert in the area of public health leadership, health program development, social marketing, oral health issues, health center design, training of community health workers, community organizing, and lecture presentations.
