FAQs
Find answers to common questions about the Convergent Leadership program, including fellowships, eligibility, and the application process.
The program will be held on the Harvard School of Dental Medicine campus in Boston, MA from April 27-May 1, 2026. All days of the program are held exclusively in person.
Yes. All participants will receive a Continuing Education Certificate of Completion. This certificate demonstrates your engagement with the program and your commitment to advancing Convergent Care within your professional practice.
The 3C (Care Convergence Case) Project is an individualized, mission-driven initiative based on a real challenge or opportunity from your professional or community setting.
These projects are designed to enhance, expand, or transform care delivery within participants’ organizations or networks. Throughout the program, participants identify resources, partnerships, and guidance needed from peers, faculty, and the broader community.
Working collaboratively, participants explore practical strategies, refine their approach, and develop actionable steps to move their initiative forward.
Participants will explore leadership frameworks, business fundamentals, strategic communication, change management, and the role of emerging technologies in healthcare.
Through case studies, interactive sessions, and guided discussion, participants will build practical skills they can apply immediately in clinical or organizational settings.
In addition to educational background and professional role, applicants are asked to describe an organizational challenge they are facing and how this program could help address it. Payment is due only after acceptance into the program.
Fellowships may be available for qualified applicants who demonstrate a commitment to advancing convergent care in their organizations or communities. Payment is due only after acceptance.
Contact HSDM_CE@hsdm.harvard.edu to learn more.
Care convergence is a shift in how care is designed and delivered. It brings together disciplines, technologies, and payment models to treat the whole patient, rather than isolated conditions across disconnected systems.
Today, healthcare is often organized around specialties, institutions, and billing structures—not around people. Care convergence challenges that model by connecting medical, behavioral, and oral health with lifestyle factors such as nutrition and social determinants of health. It aligns incentives across payers, providers, and technology platforms and emphasizes coordinated, prevention-focused care that improves outcomes while reducing costs.
This program applies the care convergence framework to dental and integrated care. However, the leadership principles, business tools, and change management strategies participants develop are relevant to leaders working to break down silos across the broader healthcare system.
To explore the framework in more depth, we recommend these resources by Course Director Mariya Filipova:
- For clinical audiences: Care Convergence: 5 Proven Strategies to Elevate Dental Care and Patient Outcomes (Dental Economics, January 2025)
- For business and health system audiences: Care Convergence: Mindset Shift for the Future of Care Delivery (Forbes, October 2024)