On behalf of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), James Swift, D.D.S., will testify on March 18 in support of dental education and research programs before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
Dr. Swift, currently the immediate past president of the ADEA and the director of the division of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, will present the association's fiscal year 2010 budget recommendations for the Title VII health professions education and training programs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the Dental Health Improvement Act, the Oral Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Health Service Corps (NHSC), and the Ryan White CARE Act.
According to an ADEA press release, Dr. Swift will urge Congress to provide $16 million for general dentistry and pediatric dentistry residency training grants; $33.2 billion for NIH, including $440.9 million for the NIDCR; $117 million for the Title VII diversity programs; $235 million for the National Health Service Corps; $10 million for the Dental Health Improvement Act; $17.5 million for CDC's Oral Health Program; and $19 million for the dental programs included in the Ryan White CARE Act.
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