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Academic Qualifications: Graduated Dentist by the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Oporto (FMDUP) with a final grade of 17 out of 20 (1996-2002)   Post graduation in Implantology (Bränemark Institute in Gothenburg and Maxilla-Facial Surgery Ward at Västerås Hospital, Sweden) (2002)   Specialisation Course in Implantology at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Oporto (FMDUP) with a final grade of Good (2003-2006)   Master's Degree (MSc) in Implantology by the Faculty of Dental Medicine (FMDUP) (2006-2007) and investigation thesis under the title "Experimental study of a new biomembrane (MES) for guided bone regeneration" with a final unanimous grade of Very Good (top grade)   Undergoing PhD programme (Implantology) in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the University of Oporto (FMDUP 2013-2016) Dental License   Professional license No. 4013 of the Portuguese Dental Medicine Association   Merit Awards Rectory of the University of Oporto- Best finalist student award   Belmiro de Azevedo F

Ali has been an endodontic educator and clinical practitioner for the past 20 years. He's passionate about a patient centered philosophy of care and teaching and sharing his clinical techniques with others. He is the current President and CEO of RealWorldEndo and is in Private practice in Boston, MA Microsurgical Endodontics.   www.RealWorldEndo.com www.MSEndo.com

Lesia Crawford is the co-owner and CEO of GoGo Billing , Medical Billing for dentists. As a former dental office manager and treatment coordinator she enjoys working with dental offices incorporating sleep apnea treatment into their practice. GoGo Billing provides medical billing services exclusively for dental offices primarily treating sleep apnea as well as TMD, dental treatment due to medical conditions and accident claims.  She has been in the dental field for 20 years and while she is no longer actively working in the dental office she has been lecturing on case presentation and the art of selling for Denmat Lumineers and  Invisialign. Lesia's is here to give us some insider information on the billing world and promote her own CE course on October 21st  here in Scottsdale . Lesia along with Dr. Stacey Layman are teaching offices the how to's and what for's of  medical billing for  sleep apnea and other services covered by medical plans as well as case presentation  and sales strategies.    Address for O

Human Resource Advisors has been serving dentists nationwide for over 25 years with current HR advice for their specific issues. They provide employee handbooks, job descriptions, seminars and workshops, and forms for hiring, firing, and everything in between.  Most of all, Human Resource Advisors provides consulting on all the issues faced by doctors about their team.   www.HumanResourceAdvisors.com

Eddie Corrales is the founder of CADSMILES, a same day smile service for CEREC owners. Eddie Corrales is a Smile Designer and travels around the world restoring smiles as well as full mouth reconstructions. He also lectures on the subject and is an DSD member. Eddie Corrales has been a Dental Ceramist for 22 years, his laboratory, Downtown Dental Designs is in San Diego California. But Eddie Spends most of the time at dental offices assisting chairside with all the Digital Smile Design from treatment planning to finishing all the ceramics onsite.   www.CADSMILES.com www.SameDaySmiles.com 

Steven trained in Dentistry by having completed an accelerated combined 7 year program at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-NJ Dental School. He went on to complete his advanced specialty training in Prosthodontics at The Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry-Boston University.   Steven was born in New York City and raised, the oldest of four children, in Oradell, NJ (near the George Washington Bridge).   Steven enjoys spending time with Traci, his wife, and their kids. His hobbies include teaching and coaching the kid's athletics, fitness and restoring old classic cars.   Steven conducted cancer research at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and while at UMDNJ-New Jersey School of Medicine.   Steven has been honored with faculty appointments as:  Assistant Clinical Professor at NJ Dental School, Clinical Teaching Fellow at Boston University and Clinical Attending at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ.   Continuing education

Greg Beck is President of Dental Practice Services, Inc. in Overland Park, KS, and the program manager of the Private Dental Plan Program.  DPS has operated the PDP program since 2002 and works with other dental consultants to promote the concept of a self-administered plan.  So Greg tell us how customized dental service plans work and how you got involved.   www.inofficedentalplans.com

Dr. Dillenberg is the inaugural Dean of A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health.  He completed his dental education at New York University, College of Dentistry and received his Master's Degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.  Previously, Dr. Dillenberg was Associate Director for public health programs in the California Department of Health Services.  He also served in several capacities in the Arizona Department of Health Services, including being its Director for four years.  Dr. Dillenberg continues to serve in numerous leadership positions on health-related boards and associations and is the recipient of many honors and awards locally, nationally and globally.   www.JackDillenberg.com www.ATSU.edu

Dr. Wolf, a general dentist, completed his undergraduate education at Saint Louis University in Missouri and was awarded his D.D.S. from the University of Texas Dental School in Houston. Dr. Wolf completed a residency in  general practice at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was chief resident during his training.   Dr. Wolf held the positions of Dental Director at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Chief of the Harvard Community Health Plan, Braintree Dental Center. Dr. Wolf has published articles in the field of dental materials research and has a special interest in practice management digital dentistry and implant dentistry.   Dr. Wolf is the founder of DentalCareLinks. DentalCareLinks.com is a new online platform designed to make it easy for dental professionals to manage the patient referral process. In place of hand-written notes, phone calls and relying on patients to carry images and other sensitive information, DentalCareLinks.com does it all automatical

Dianne Glasscoe Watterson, RDH, BS, MBA has more than four decades in dentistry. Her business, Watterson Speaking/Consulting LLC is based in Lexington, NC. Since 1997, Dianne has been published extensively, including authoring two monthly columns in national dental publications- one in Dental Economics called "Practice Wisdom" and the other in RDH called "Staff Rx."  Dianne is a well-known provider of continuing education for dental professionals and has presented for associations and major dental meetings across the US.  In addition to serving on the editorial board of RDH magazine, Dianne is a co-author of Foundations of Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist, a text used in many hygiene programs.  She has published two books:  Manage Your Practice Well and The Consummate Dental Hygienist.  Dianne was honored by Dentsply™ as a "Distinguished Dental Professional" in 2005. Also, Dianne was honored by Colgate™ in 2009 and 2010 as a "Key Opinion Leader" and serves on their Oral Health Advisory Board.  Dianne has

Dr. Marko Vujicic is responsible for overseeing all of the Association's policy research activities. Prior to joining the American Dental Association in 2011, he was Senior Economist with The World Bank in Washington D.C. where he directed the global health workforce policy program. He was also a Health Economist with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a visiting assistant professor at Tufts University in Boston. Dr. Vujicic obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor's degree in Business from McGill University in Montreal.   www.ADA.org

Richard Chwalek is known for his personalized work as a dental marketing consultant for many dentists over the last 20 years. He currently works with dentists from Traverse City, Michigan to New Zealand. He also has worked on marketing for a number of dental labs. His specific focus is developing individualized solutions for his clients in social media and external marketing. In addition to his own suite of services he recently became a certified partner with Lighthouse360, a comprehensive patient communication system.   www.NicheDental.com

Dr. Rami Gamil: B.D.S. / FICOI/ DU University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier Rami Gamil received his Diplome Universitaire DU in 3D Imaging from the University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier in France. His main area of interest in research is Digital Dentistry, Computer Aided Implantology, Image Guided and Computer Guided Surgery, 3D Smile Anlaysis & published author in JPD, JOI & other articles in press. His main focus is the use of CBCT, 3D imaging, computer aided implant surgery,3D Smile Analysis, CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping in dentistry. He is a current member of the Computer Aided Implantology (C.A.I.) Academy. And Active member of the International Digital Dentistry Society & member of its Data Acquisition council. Dr. Gamil teaches at the First Digital Dentistry Master Program organized by the Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. He is also the C.E.O. & Founder of 3dVision Company and Advanced Training Center for 3D Imaging, 3D printing,

Peter E. Dawson, D.D.S. is considered to be one of the most influential clinicians and teachers in the history of dentistry. He authored the best selling dental text, Evaluation, Diagnosis and Treatment of Occlusal Problems, which is published in 13 languages. His latest book is entitled Functional Occlusion: From TMJ to Smile Design. He is the founder of the "Concept of Complete Dentistry Seminar Series (SM)" as well as The Dawson Academy. In addition to numerous awards and special recognitions, Dr. Dawson is the past president and life member of the American Equilibration Society, a past president of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry.   www.TheDawsonAcademy.com

Tom is an owner and CEO of SS White, a dental manufacturing company with a 168-year history of changing dentistry for the better. His experience includes heading up Sales and Marketing, and leading the development of new products that are used around the world by over 50,000 doctors. Several of these products were co-developed with Dr. Dan Boston and Temple University. Tom is passionate about the conservation of healthy tissue and efficiency, and has a high interest in helping great doctors build great practices.   Tom began his career at Kodak as a technical sales rep.  He earned a BA from the University of South Carolina in 1987 with a double major in Management and Marketing.   Tom is a member of several boards, including SS White and Temple University's School of Dentistry Board of Visitors.   Tom and his wife, Michelle, reside in Boulder, Colorado with their three children. Together they enjoy hiking, reading, travel and golf.   www.SSWhiteDental.com

Dr Marcus Dagnelid received his dental degree in 2003 from the faculty of Odontology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He subsequently started working in his private clinic with focus on prosthetic treatment and implantology.   The team at the clinic has worked for many years in close collaboration with implants companies, with a high focus on surgical- and prosthetic protocols. In the field of guided surgery, the team is considered opinion leaders being responsible for the development of Nobel Guide concept. Marcus has been a Procera Software specialist since 2005, Simplant Pro user since 2007 and has given numerous lectures both nationally and internationally on the subject guided surgery. He continuously helps dentists with guided surgery clinical issues. Marcus has also worked closely together with Biomet3i on product testing and development as well as research in the past.   Since more than 5 years he has worked in very close collaboration together with Dentsply Implants, Astra Tech Implant System. This

Dr. Brett Gilbert received his D.D.S. and Certificate in Endodontics from the University of Maryland. Dr. Gilbert has a private practice limited to Endodontics in Niles, Illinois. He is currently on faculty in the Department of Endodontics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry and on staff at Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago.  Dr. Gilbert lectures nationally and internationally on clinical endodontics and conducts advanced hands on training courses.  Dr. Gilbert is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics.   www.KingEndo.com

Having graduated from The University of Sydney with a Bachelors of Dental Surgery in 2001, Dr Katyal entered private general dental practice and also completed a Master of Science in Medicine (Clinical Epidemiology) from The University of Sydney. In 2013 Dr Katyal attained the degree of Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in Orthodontics from The University of Adelaide as well as Membership in Orthodontics from the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.   Her research interests are in the field of pediatric sleep-disordered breathing, snoring and oral appliances, which has been published in both Australian and American orthodontic journals. She has also been awarded the prestigious Sam Bulkley AB Orthodontics Traveling fellowship to continue her research in Germany in the area of miniscrew-assisted rapid maxillary expansion in children and adolescents. She is also actively involved in setting up a multidisciplinary pediatric sleep clinic at Westmead Children's hospital

Sarah is a dental hygienist who has multiple jobs including working clinical hygiene one day a week, secretary on the dental hygiene committee of the NM dental Board of Healthcare, WREB examiner, mom of 3 little kids, and spends most of her time launching her new company CE Zoom. She is very passionate about educating dental professionals about the importance of obtaining continuing education, but most importantly quality education.   www.CEZoom.com

Dr. Lisa Marie Samaha is a general dentist who practices comprehensive cosmetic, reconstructive and periodontal care in a holistic setting. She is a 1982 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. For well over thirty years, Dr. Samaha has pioneered her practice on the principles of Total Body Wellness through Total Health Dentistry. Her practice maintains a special focus on the advanced, non-surgical treatment of periodontal disease and all aspects of the oral/systemic link. To support her clinical practice, Dr Samaha has extensive training in the field of integrative medicine, with special focus on advanced medical and genetic testing and nutritional physiology, for the purpose of true preventive medicine and healing.   After observing a significant disconnect between the scientific research and its application in a clinical setting, Dr. Samaha founded the AGD/PACE-approved Perio Arts Institute and began teaching PerioPassion Dental Seminars in 2007. In her seminars, she