Awards

Harold S. Goodman, D.M.D., M.P.H.

Myron Allukian Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in Community Dental Programs 2015 Recipient

Throughout his career, Dr. Goodman has made many outstanding contributions to community programs to improve oral health. As director of the Office of Oral Health (OOH), Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, he co-chaired the Maryland Dental Action Committee that was commissioned after the death of a 12-year-old boy who died because of a tooth infection that spread to his brain. The committee developed key recommendations to reform Maryland’s oral-health-care-delivery system for children and adolescents from families with low incomes. The committee also effected changes to Maryland’s Medicaid reimbursement policies. Dr. Goodman also led a group of public and private partners in the development of an oral-cancer-screening model whereby health providers throughout the state received hands-on experience providing the public with free oral cancer screenings. Dr. Goodman has had many exemplary programmatic and policy accomplishments, which have resulted in significant advances to community oral health. His efforts have contributed to strategic policy changes that have led to improved oral health both within Maryland and beyond.