The caller dental schoolhouse has appointed 12 members to the inaugural Board of Advisors.
HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 17, 2023 – High Point University’s Workman School of Dental Medicine has appointed a twelve members to its inaugural Board of Advisors. Their presumption volition proceed done 2025.
HPU volition invited its archetypal people of students to the Workman School of Dental Medicine, North Carolina’s lone backstage dental school, successful the autumn of 2024.
Board members supply voluntary enactment and hold to support a lasting complaint to clasp the school’s wide imaginativeness to discover, make and present amended health, says Dr. Scott S. De Rossi, founding dean of the Workman School of Dental Medicine. Selected for their commitment, expertise and diverseness of backgrounds, each committee subordinate provides insights and ideas to the school’s enactment portion serving arsenic a planetary ambassador by creating strategical connections and communicating the school’s strengths and needed resources.
“High Point University’s Workman School of Dental Medicine is blessed to person these dental innovators and thought leaders articulation forces arsenic we physique a unsocial learning exemplary for 1 of the nation’s astir distinctive dental schools,” says De Rossi. “We’re creating a wellness attraction web that volition let HPU students to get the champion dental acquisition successful the United States.”
This awesome radical includes Dr. Rick Workman, HPU’s Dental Innovator successful Residence and the laminitis of Heartland Dental, which supports much than 1,600 dental offices nationwide. The Workman School of Dental Medicine was supported by a $32 cardinal donation from the Rick and Angie Workman Foundation successful the outpouring of 2022.
Dr. Workman opened his archetypal dental bureau successful 1980 successful Effingham, Illinois, the birthplace of Heartland Dental. He opened a 2nd bureau 15 months later. Pursuing his passionateness for dentistry required 55 hours a week of delivering dental attraction and an further 30 hours connected the concern broadside of operations. Knowing determination had to beryllium a amended mode for himself and aboriginal dentists to practice, Workman introduced different dentists successful 1982 to the imaginable opportunities of precocious quality, nonclinical administrative enactment and crafted Heartland Dental into a world-class dental enactment organization. Today, Heartland Dental provides enactment to much than 2,600 dentists. Workman continues to beryllium actively progressive arsenic enforcement president of Heartland Dental. He devotes himself to the dental manufacture done providing mentorship, enactment proposal and speaking engagements.
The different recently appointed committee members are arsenic follows:
Dr. N. Karl Haden is the laminitis and president of the Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL). Founded successful 2005 and headquartered successful Atlanta, Georgia, AAL has worked with much than 150 universities astir the satellite and thousands of module members done nonrecreational development, consulting and coaching services. Focusing chiefly connected wellness professions education, Haden has consulted with institutions and associations representing dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, allied wellness and medicine.
Haden’s areas of expertise see enactment development, organizational change, squad building, strategical planning, caller schoolhouse and programme startups, program development, and the assistance of teaching and learning. He regularly presents to organizations connected leadership, morals and issues and trends successful higher education. Haden led the instauration of respective nationalist and internationally recognized module improvement initiatives, including AAL’s Institute for Teaching and Learning, present successful its 16th year, the Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program, and assorted collaborative programs with associations that span the stages of an world career.
Haden has authored oregon coauthored much than 80 articles connected acquisition policy, morals and character-based leadership. He is the co-author of “9 Virtues of Exceptional Leaders” (Deeds, 2015) and “31 Days with the Virtues” (Deeds, 2020). He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Dentists. In 2019, Haden received the Professionalism and Ethics Award from the American College of Dentists. He is simply a Fellow successful the Center for the Study of Great Ideas and holds degrees successful spiritual studies, the humanities and philosophy.
Arthur Mateen is the enforcement vice president, wide manager and manager of Bien Air USA, Inc., 1 of the world’s largest manufacturers of electrical handpieces for dental applications. Headquartered successful Switzerland, Bien Air operates wholly owned subsidiaries successful 11 countries and sells products into much than 80 countries.
Mateen has been successful his existent presumption for the past 26 years and is liable for the company’s North American subsidiary, located successful Irvine, California. Over the past 18 years, Mateen has worked intimately with the deans and module of dental schools to bid students with skills needed successful the changing dental supplier network. He is simply a subordinate of the American Dental Education Association firm council, connected the enforcement committee of the Center for Research & Education successful Technology and connected the committee of advisors for dental schools astatine different universities.
Dr. Alon Mozes is the CEO and co-founder of Neocis, developer of the archetypal robotic country strategy successful the dental industry. He led the institution from inception done commercialization, including much than 15,000 implants placed with their system. He has been moving with machine graphics and image-guided applications successful start-up companies for much than 20 years.
As 1 of the archetypal employees astatine MAKO Surgical Corp., Mozes helped make the bundle for their groundbreaking Rio strategy for orthopedic robotic surgery.
Dr. L’Tanya Joy Bailey is an orthodontist successful backstage signifier successful High Point, North Carolina, aft serving arsenic a fulltime subordinate prof astatine the University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill since 1985.
Bailey has immense acquisition successful the attraction of patients requiring orthodontics successful conjunction with orthognathic country and has published and lectured successful this country of treatment. She has distinguished herself done her enactment and committedness to dentistry portion serving arsenic a delegate to the American Dental Association’s House of Delegates, seat of the committee of trustees, North Carolina Dental Society Board of Services, president of the North Carolina Dental Society and president of the High Point Dental Society.
Bailey has received galore awards and honors, including the National Dental Association’s Colgate Palmolive Award for Excellence successful Teaching and Research. She is besides a board-certified diplomat of the American Board of Orthodontics and was inducted into the prestigious Angle Society of Orthodontics.
Dr. Jeremy Krell is simply a wide dentist with a combined concern background. He is the managing spouse of Revere Partners, the archetypal autarkic task superior money focused connected oral health. Krell has held cardinal relation roles astatine startups, including arsenic caput of selling and main dental serviceman astatine Simplifeye, based successful New York City, and arsenic main selling serviceman of Verena Solutions, based successful Chicago. He oversaw supplier and objective maturation initiatives arsenic quip, the oral wellness and subscription electrical toothbrush institution and strategical supplier innovation and improvement astatine Oscar Health.
Krell has practiced dentistry part-time for astir a decade, sits connected the boards of wellness attraction and dental startups, and is an angel capitalist astatine astir 30 companies. Krell received The President’s Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Award from President Joe Biden, Crain’s Notable successful Health Care, Top 100 Healthcare Visionaries grant from IFAH USA (International Forum connected Advancements successful Healthcare), Top 100 Doctors from the Global Summits Institute for his committedness to oral wellness innovation, and 40 nether 40 awards from Incisal Edge and Young Jewish Professionals.
Stephen E. Thorne IV is laminitis and CEO of Pacific Dental Service, a starring dental enactment enactment established successful 1974. Based successful Irvine, California, PDS presently provides concern enactment services to astir 900 dental practices passim 25 states.
Thorne began his enactment successful the dental tract erstwhile his father, a dentist, offered him a occupation managing a struggling dental office. After that bureau became a large success, Thorne continued to enactment with his begetter for respective years earlier creating PDS, which is dedicated to the occurrence of dentists. Under Thorne’s leadership, PDS has established itself arsenic a nationalist leader, moving to item the request for dental and aesculapian wellness attraction providers to collaborate to guarantee amended wellness outcomes for patients. PDS was the archetypal dental enactment to enactment Epic, the astir wide utilized broad wellness records system, into its supported dental practices to let dentists and specialists to coordinate attraction with different clinicians who service their patients.
Joe Broyles has much than 20 years of acquisition successful higher acquisition and merchandise innovation. After joining the concern squad astatine Apollo Education Group astatine the University of Phoenix successful the aboriginal 2000s, Broyles led worker improvement teams and grooming for astir 13,000 employees. He recognized an accidental to grow from interior customers to outer customers and implemented a voice-of-customer closed loop strategy with astir 500,000 progressive students.
Broyles aboriginal joined Spear Education, an industry-leading dental nonrecreational grooming and services company, wherever helium presently is the elder vice president of product. In this role, Broyles and his squad make and support the integer ecosystem of contented and products for dentists. With much than 17,000 members, 700+ survey groups and thousands of disposable continuing acquisition courses, Spear is the manufacture person successful dental acquisition and signifier absorption solutions.
Amir Aghdaei, founding president and CEO of Envista Holding Corporation, drives the company’s wide vision, dedicated to partnering with dental professionals to amended diligent lives.
Aghdaei joined Envista’s genitor institution Danaher successful 2008 arsenic a multi-brand wide manager and vice president of Fluke. He was named president of Tektronix successful 2009, radical enforcement successful 2011, president of the Danaher communications level and Danaher Russia successful 2014, president of dental technologies successful 2015, and president of Danaher’s dental level successful 2018. Envista separated from its genitor institution successful 2019 via archetypal nationalist offering, and functions present arsenic an autarkic entity with a proven concern strategy methodology, an experienced enactment squad and a beardown civilization grounded successful lawsuit centricity, innovation, respect, enactment and continuous improvement.
Dr. Wardah Inam is the co-founder and CEO of Overjet, a starring supplier of artificial quality exertion for the dental manufacture to assistance amended diligent care.
Prior to founding Overjet, she led merchandise improvement astatine a wellness attraction startup, Q Bio, moving connected biomedical imaging. As a postdoctoral chap astatine MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lad, she worked connected distant biomedical sensing utilizing instrumentality learning connected wireless signals. Her enactment processing AI-powered microgrid exertion received wide recognition, including National Geographic covering it arsenic a breakthrough that could alteration the mode we powerfulness the world.
Inam has firm acquisition astatine Apple, General Electric and received the MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Award. She has been ranked among the 32 astir influential radical successful dentistry by Incisal Edge, listed by Inc. Magazine arsenic 1 of the Top 100 Female Founders and received the Shils Innovator Award successful 2022. She is besides a subordinate of the Santa Fe Group’s Strategic Advisory Council, a deliberation vessel that advocates for amended dental services.
Dr. Stephen B. Baker is simply a board-certified integrative surgeon and manager of the Center for Facial Reconstruction astatine Georgetown University, who practices each aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive country and is simply a nationally recognized adept successful integrative country of the face.
Baker has some dental and aesculapian degrees and has completed 11 years of integrative country grooming astatine the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise, doctrine and attack to aesthetic country has been featured successful nationalist and planetary magazines and newspapers specified arsenic Newsweek, The Washington Post, The London Times, Elle and Allure. He has besides appeared connected section and nationalist quality programs including ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, NBC Nightly News and The Learning Channel. Beker has been ranked successful the apical 1% of integrative surgeons nationally by U.S. News and World Report and recognized arsenic 1 of Castle and Connolly’s Top Plastic Surgeons since 2005.
The Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery is 1 of the nation’s premiere integrative country practices, and keeps Baker astatine the forefront of the latest advances successful integrative surgery. He has won awards for his contributions to the specialty and holds respective patents for integrative country inventions. He has edited textbooks, written galore chapters and articles, taught courses astatine the specialty’s nationalist meeting, served arsenic a visiting prof and presented astatine nationalist and planetary surgical conferences.
Amir Mansouri is the CEO and co-founder of SprintRay. Under his direction, SprintRay has grown from a proof-of-concept concern program to a multinational dental instrumentality company.
Before founding SprintRay, Mansouri earned some a master’s grade and Ph.D. successful the tract of additive manufacturing. A unsocial blend of technological and entrepreneurial, helium pursued a exertion commercialization programme astatine USC Marshall School of Business, which led to founding SprintRay successful 2014. Today, Mansouri is uniquely suited successful his work for readying and strategizing SprintRay’s merchandise and commercialized improvement growth.
Simon Beard has had a progressive vocation implicit 25 years successful the pharmaceuticals and aesculapian instrumentality industry. As enforcement vice president and managing manager of Align Technology, Beard is liable for marketplace improvement and operational execution of each Align Technology products and services successful the Americas.
Previously helium served arsenic Align Technology’s elder vice president and managing manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He joined the institution successful 2014 arsenic vice president and managing manager for EMEA. Prior to joining Align, Beard was determination managing manager for Smith & Nephew’s Southeast Asia business, and held aggregate commercial, strategical and wide absorption positions astatine companies specified arsenic DePuy International (Johnson & Johnson), Sankyo Pharmaceutical and Sanofi Aventis. Beard holds a B.S. grade from Wake Forest University successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina.