Dr. Burton
Edelstein is a
pediatric dentist and professor
of dentistry and public health
at Columbia University, where
he is Chairman of the Section
on Social and
Behavioral
Sciences. He practiced
pediatric dentistry in
Connecticut
and taught
pediatric dentistry and oral
health policy at the Harvard
School
of Dental Medicine for
21 years before committing to
full-time health policy
practice.
Dr. Edelstein served as a
1996-7 Robert Wood Johnson
Health Policy
Fellow in the
office of US
Senate minority
leader Tom Daschle with
primary responsibilities for
SCHIP. He
worked with the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services on its oral
health
initiatives from 1998 to
2001, chaired the U.S.
Surgeon General's Workshop
on
Children and Oral Health,
and authored the child section
of the U.S. Surgeon General's
Report Oral Health in America.
With support from the
American Academy of Pediatric
Dentistry, American Academy
of Pediatrics, and American
Dental Education Association,
Edelstein founded the
Children's Dental Health
Project in 1997.
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