FAMILY MATTERS BY KRISTIN BAIRD RATTINI
Lori Solomon, M.D. ’99, M.P.H. ’09
THE NEW FAMILY HEALTH CENTER IS A PIONEERING MODEL OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE AND THE TOURO COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE.
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ne floor, two exceptional community-focused health care services. The location of New York Medical College’s (NYMC) new Family Health Center, just steps away from the Touro College of Dental Medicine’s (TCDM) dental health clinic, Touro Dental Health (TDH), symbolizes not only an innovative collaboration between these 36
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two distinguished institutions but also represents the heightened awareness between both professions of the intricate connections between oral health and systemic health. The co-location of these clinics provides unprecedented opportunities for crossdiscipline consults for patients, training for students and research collaboration
for faculty. “I’ve been working toward an outpatient family medicine practice on campus for a decade,” says Lori Solomon, M.D. ’99, M.P.H. ‘09, director of the Family Health Center, clinical associate professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. “To be able to support and partner with the dental school on this makes it all the more exciting.”
