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Topic: Dental Sleep Medicine in Integrated Care: The Role of Oral Health Professionals in Cardiometabolic Screening and Collaboration
Format: Interactive and Discussion
Cost: FREE
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Time: 7:30PM Eastern Time
The Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 Continuing Sleep Technology Education Credits. Individuals should claim only those credits that he/she actually earned in the educational activity.
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If multiple participants plan to view this session from the same location (e.g., a group practice or shared workspace), each individual must register separately to be eligible for CSTE credit and a certificate of completion. This ensures accurate participation tracking for evaluations, credit alignment, and CSTE reporting compliance.
Closed captioning for this program will be available.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe why sleep-disordered breathing and oral health are relevant to cardiometabolic risk in routine dental care
- Define scope, boundaries, and handoffs between dental sleep medicine and medical sleep medicine
- Implement a practical, risk-based workflow for screening (OSA, BP, diabetes risk) and closed-loop referral
- Use a collaboration model that improves follow-up, safety, and outcomes for medically complex patients
About the Presenter: Scott S. De Rossi, DMD, MBA
Dr. Scott S. De Rossi is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, educator, and strategic innovator known for transforming organizations at the intersection of dentistry, medicine, technology, and leadership development. A two-time dental school dean and former academic health system CEO, he currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Nexus Integrated Health, Vice President for Strategy & Innovation at Serendequity Partners, and Chief Strategy at OrthoNu, where he leads enterprise strategy, medical-dental integration initiatives, and national thought-leadership platforms.
Across his career, Dr. De Rossi has built and scaled complex organizations in higher education, healthcare delivery, and entrepreneurial ventures. As Founding Dean of the Workman School of Dental Medicine at High Point University, he designed a $75M state-of-the-art institution, grew the HPU Oral Health Network into a regional market leader, and secured more than $32M in philanthropic commitments. Previously, as Dean of the UNC Adams School of Dentistry and CEO of Carolina Dentistry, he reversed multimillion-dollar deficits, generated significant research and philanthropic growth, integrated siloed clinical systems, and established global partnerships through the DentAlliance consortium.
A board-certified specialist in oral medicine, Dr. De Rossi has held faculty and clinical appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, UNC-Chapel Hill, the Medical College of Georgia, and Augusta University, where he founded and chaired the Department of Oral Health & Diagnostic Sciences and led nationally recognized interdisciplinary clinics.
He advises companies and boards across the health innovation landscape—including OrthoNu, Halo Digital, Safe’N’Clear, Autodontics, and Crown Biome—and is widely sought for his expertise in leadership development, medical-dental integration, value-based care, strategy execution, and organizational transformation. As Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for six national dental publications at MedMark Media, he championed the movement to position dentistry as healthcare through integrated education, research, and practice.
Dr. De Rossi holds a DMD from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Augusta University, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine. He has been recognized as one of Incisal Edge magazine’s “32 Most Influential People in Dentistry,” and is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists.
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