Kimara
Gustafson,
MD
University of Minnesota
Kimara Gustafson, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics. Her primary research and education interests include special health care needs of adoptive children and children who have experience in the foster care system, socio-emotional trauma impact on development, racial and cultural social identity development for transracially adoptive or foster care children, and racial discrimination among historically marginalized youth in the United States.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Objective: As the integrated medical and dental model advances to improve patient care and outcomes, it is important to understand how dental hygienists will identify professionally as part of interprofessional teams. Adoption Medicine is a specialized clinic that cares for pediatric patients with unique needs resulting from early childhood adversity, including unstable housing, institutionalization, neglect, difficulty in accessing appropriate medical and dental care, and various forms of abuse. The interprofessional care team is composed of pediatricians, occupational therapists, child…