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2025 Ninth District President

Dr. Renuka Bijoor

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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 9^th 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.

The Ninth District Dental Association

New Dentist Reception

Come Join Your New Dentist Colleagues!

Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Vida Restaurant
14 Marble Avenue
Thornwood, NY 10594

There will be passed hors d'oeuvres, beer & wine, vendors, and lots of fun FOR ALL NEW DENTISTS, Residents,
and D4 Dental Students!

Meet local new dentists whoa are also starting their career in dentistry! Learn how other new dentists and established dentists navigated their first steps after dental school and residency!

There will be dentists in all Specialties, as well as General Practitioners. Ninth District Dental Association Leaders will be present.

Register for the November 20th New Dentist Reception!

We will have established co-sponsors to assist all New Dentists with anything practice related!

Co-Sponsors (names are links to website)

Altfest Personal Wealth Management

DDSMatch

Danziger & Markhoff LLP

MLMIC Insurance Co.

We Hope to See You There!!

Lana Hashim, DDS
Chair, New Dentist Committee

Renuka Bijoor, DDS, MPH
President

Latest News Around the Tripartite

AHRQ Issues CDSiC Newsletter

Jul 23, 2025

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued its Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) newsletter.

Issue Number 31 | July 23, 2025

In this edition of the Insider, we share two resources that highlight the AHRQ CDSiC's key findings on core patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) topics: strengthening shared decision making and leveraging patient preferences data.

Table of Contents:

Resource Highlights How PC CDS Can Strengthen Shared Decision Making

Shared decision making is a collaborative process where patients are asked about their preferences, values, and goals, which are then considered along with clinical guidance to make the best decision for the patient. AHRQ's SHARE Approach, a five-step shared decision making model, provides a framework for understanding how patients, caregivers, and clinicians can explore the benefits, harms, and risks of different options while aligning with what matters most to patients.

To help advance this important process, the AHRQ CDSiC created a new resource that details how PC CDS can support all five steps of the SHARE Approach. It also includes a summary of the AHRQ-funded CDS for Chronic Pain Management project as a real-world example of how PC CDS can support shared decision making. With this resource, patients and clinicians alike can better understand how PC CDS tools support data collection, communication, and information exchange for shared decision making.

Check out all of the AHRQ CDSiC's shared decision making resources here!

Resource Shares Strategies to Incorporate Patient Preferences into PC CDS

Patient preferences reflect how patients wish to interact with their clinician, choose a particular course of action for their care, or prioritize specific healthcare outcomes. Using patient preference data to inform decision making can help ensure patients receive the care that they want and need.

The AHRQ CDSiC has explored how PC CDS tools can help collect patient preference data and apply this information in clinical care, making sure healthcare decisions are more personalized and better align with patients' priorities. Key findings are summarized in a new resource that highlights when and how PC CDS can support the collection and use of this important data. The resource also provides three example patient journeys, which demonstrate how preferences might be collected for PC CDS in different healthcare scenarios.

Access all of the AHRQ CDSiC's resources on patient preferences here!

In Case You Missed It: AHRQ CDSiC Publication Shares PC CDS Performance Measurement Framework

In April, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published a paper developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Innovation Center that shares a unified PC CDS performance measurement framework. The framework incorporates patient-centered principles into traditional health information technology evaluation approaches, and includes six domains and 34 subdomains that can be selected to assess performance. Stakeholders can use this framework to identify the domains that best align with their particular PC CDS intervention or specific research focus.

Read the full paper here!

The Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) is a community of broad, diverse stakeholders at the forefront of using technology to better support care teams, patients, and caregivers. The CDSiC is working toward healthcare decisions that are driven by both patient-centered and patient-specific information and that align with patient needs, preferences, and values. The CDSiC is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as part of a multi-component initiative to help advance patient-centered outcomes research into practice through CDS. For any inquiries regarding the CDSiC you may contact the project team at: CDSiC@norc.org.

Learn more about CDSiC