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2026 Ninth District President

Dr. Bharat Joshi

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2026 Member Benefits Guide

Explore Your Member Benefits — The 2026 Member Benefits Guide is now available! See everything NYSDA offers and get a quick overview with our At-A-Glance one-pager.

Member Assistance Program (MAP)

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Welcome to the Ninth District Dental Association

The Ninth District Dental Society was formed in 1909 and renamed to the Ninth District Dental Association in 2002. We have a membership of over 1500 dentists in 5 counties: Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam.

In its quest to serve both the public and the profession, the Ninth District embodies the highest ideals.

The mission of the 9th District Dental Association is to serve and support its members and the public by improving the oral health of our community through Advocacy, Continuing Education and Camaraderie.



Latest News Around the Tripartite

AHRQ Highlights Data Analysis as Tool to Improve Health Care Quality and Equity

Apr 24, 2024

Per the notice below, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is highlighting research on using data analysis to improve health care quality and equity.

Grantee Profile Highlights Work of Tina Hernandez-Boussard To Improve Healthcare Quality, Equity Through Data Analysis

Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate dean of research at Stanford University School of Medicine, has dedicated her career to analyzing “clinical big data” to identify quality and safety issues that can result in adverse events.  With funding from AHRQ, she has reviewed large datasets, such as ones with administrative claims data and electronic health records, to develop evidence-based standards, guidelines, and decision-making tools for general healthcare practice, including surgical specialties and pain management.  In conducting her research, Dr. Hernandez-Boussard, who is also a professor of medicine, biomedical data science, and surgery at Stanford, is working to address and unravel bias in healthcare data.  Check out Dr. Hernandez-Boussard’s profile and the profiles of other AHRQ grantees.


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