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Professor of Pediatric Dentistry
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA School of Dentistry
Dr. Ramos-Gomez is a professor in the UCLA Section of Pediatric Dentistry and the Director for the Pediatric Dentistry Advanced Clinical Trainees Program. Ramos-Gomez joined UCLA as a faculty member in 2008. Dr. Ramos-Gomez has over 30 years of experience in pediatric oral health and has worked on numerous community projects over the past 25 years. He has authored well over 60 articles on pediatric and community oral health. He also holds a Masters of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health. Here is the link to his bio: http://www.uclachatpd.org/faculty--staff.html.
In 2010, UCLA Pediatric Dentistry under the direction of Dr. Ramos-Gomez launched an Infant Oral Care Program (IOCP) at the local community clinic. The Infant Oral Care Program is part of a large multi-state quality improvement Early Childhood Caries Collaborative. It provides care coordination that is culturally competent, sensitive to language and oral health literacy challenges. The program aims to increase access to care and improve oral health outcomes through a disease prevention and management model (CAMBRA) targeted at typically underserved, low-income, minority children ages 0-5 and their mothers/caregivers in a non-traditional setting.
He also conceptualized and founded the UCLA Center for Children’s Oral Health (www.uccoh.org). The mission of UCCOH is to reduce oral health morbidity for underserved and minority children through the utilization of interprofessional partnerships and expansion of preventive oral health education and care for vulnerable populations.
Through the delivery of preventive oral health education, systems change approach, identification of best evidence-based research to provide affordable quality preventive oral health care, utilization of innovative training curricula, and leadership of policy and advocacy development efforts, UCCOH aims to create a paradigm shift within the landscape of pediatric dental care from reactive to proactive.