T he purpose of this initiative is to define the critical research, education, service, and leadership roles of dental schools needed to ensure their ability to improve oral health. Although focused on U.S. dental schools, this is a worldwide agenda that seeks to address the recent Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health in America. The recognition that dental schools are a national resource ne...

Disorders of the respiratory tract constitute a major national health problem, and a shortage of pediatric chest physicians has been suggested by a survey supported by the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1972.’ However, this survey did not sample the pediatric generalist and did not define the scope of pediatric pulmonary problems. Therefore, the present Task Force addressed itself to an i...