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Niches:
Harvard AB; UConn DMD: retired from 25 years as private practice general dentist, with a focus on compassionate care for anxious adults and family prevention of oral disease starting with pregnancy and baby’s first year
Oral Health Coaching (prevention and care resources coaching for Brushing IS for Babies, How to Raise a Cavity-Free Kid, Young Adults, and Seniors),
and
Healthcare Advocacy and Consulting (second opinions on dental treatment plans, helping clients find a dentist they love and trust, patient care advocacy with healthcare providers, and oral health advice and empowerment).
About me:
I am a graduate of Harvard University and earned my doctor of dental medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. I completed a general practice residency in clinical dentistry at Hartford (CT) Hospital. I have 25 years experience in private practice general dentistry (24 as solo practice owner). I am a member of the American Dental Association’s Institute for Diversity in Leadership Class of 2019-2020. Now retired from clinical dentistry, I have served as the MA Grassroots Representative for OPEN Oral Health Progress and Equity Network (https://openoralhealth.org) and on the advisory board with the American Heart Association’s Voices for Healthy Kids: https://voicesforhealthykids.org/
National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers (NCIT) Committee/Peer Groups: www.NCIT.org.
I travelled all over MA from 2021 to 2024 as a professional vaccinator for Northampton Department of Health and Human Services, and Cataldo Ambulance Service, providing Covid, flu, and childhood vaccines to diverse populations in their home communities, and sometimes in their homes.
I am an expert in oral health prevention/care/treatment, dental wellness coaching, and healthcare advocacy coaching and consulting.
I live with my life partner in MA, and have two young adult children who have flown the coop! When not pursuing my passions as a life coach, oral health prevention champion, and community vaccinator, I enjoy rowing/sculling, kayaking, hiking, playing symphonic double bass, performing musical improv, just learned to sail, am a certified wilderness first responder, and have jumped out of a perfectly good airplane-twice!