Michael Alfano
DMD, PhD
Wendy Mouradian
MD, MS
We dedicate this Convening in honor of the memory of Michael Alfano, DMD, PhD, and Wendy Mouradian, MD, MS. Their expertise, leadership, and commitment to achieving health equity taught us what it takes for oral health to be inseparable from whole-person health.
A room of leaders becomes a working network of leaders.
We are thrilled to have you joining a network of leaders gathered by intention to design the conditions under which whole-person health can become the standard of care, and to take on one central question: what will it take for oral health to be inseparable from whole-person health? Rather than dwelling on fragmentation, this Convening focuses on the systems-level levers, including policy, practice, and partnership, that can scale the integrated care models already working in communities across the country. Like the network taking shape here, this work is organic by design: a hub where individual perspectives overlap, cluster, and connect, so that a room of leaders becomes a working network of leaders across communities.
Explore who is in the room with you, and a few ways to add your own thinking to this collective work alongside your contributions throughout the Convening.
Get to know your fellow participants and the network gathered here today.
The current system asks people to navigate fragmentation alone.
Whole-person health transformation requires shared language, shared information flows, and simultaneous treatment of co-occurring conditions. It is technical, political, and relational work, and it cannot be done by any single profession, institution, or sector acting independently.
Built in pieces
The systems responsible for health, including financing, workforce, care delivery, data, and policy, operate in pieces. The cost is visible everywhere: preventable disease, deepened inequity, and avoidable cost.
A networked response
Transformation builds care in which no aspect of a person's well-being is treated as separate, and no community is left to navigate fragmentation alone. It is work that demands networked, coordinated, sustained commitment.
Why now
The policy and electoral landscape of 2026 and beyond can reshape financing, workforce, education, and delivery for generations. We gather by intention, to align our goals and accelerate what works.
We come together not to advocate for any single profession or program, but to design the conditions under which whole-person health can become the standard of care.
