Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Donald Chi is Professor of Oral Health Sciences and the Lloyd and Kay Chapman Endowed Chair for Oral Health at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. He is also Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Health Services at the UW School of Public Health. His research focuses on understanding and addressing children’s oral health inequalities. He is a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Chi has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He is Chair of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Council on Scientific Affairs. He teaches public health and clinical dentistry, and maintains an active dental practice treating patients at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic in Seattle.

Gordon J. Christensen is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Practical Clinical Courses (PCC), Chief Executive Officer of Clinicians Report Foundation (CR), and a Practicing Prosthodontist in Provo, Utah. Gordon and Dr. Rella Christensen are co-founders of the non-profit CLINICIANS REPORT FOUNDATION (previously named CRA). Currently, Dr. Rella Christensen is the Director of the TRAC Research Division of the CR Foundation. Since 1976, they have conducted research in all areas of dentistry and published the findings to the profession in the well-known CRA Newsletter now called CLINICIANS REPORT.

Eric comes from a long line of dentists – His father was a Pediatric Dentist and his Uncle is an Endodontist. He’s a dual citizen (Canadian – American), living in Chicago. graduated from the University of Toronto in 1989, did a GPR then moved to Chicago and Trained in Oral Surgery at Northwestern Dental School. He was an assistant professor at Northwestern and then became the Director of Oral Surgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals. (99-06) His interest in technology and innovation led him to become involved and exposed to start ups at several incubators in Chicago. He was exposed to Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence. This led to his current role as Chief Dental Officer in Denti.AI. Jeremy is a general dentist and currently oversees provider and clinical initiatives at quip, the oral health and subscription electric toothbrush company. Jeremy also practices dentistry part-time, sits on the Boards of healthcare and dental startups (including: Denti.AI, Floss Bar, PatientPlus, Verena Solutions, and Voyant), and is an angel investor. Jeremy has a 15+ year proven track record with startups through several successful multi-million dollar fundraises and acquisitions.

Dr Stefano Troiani was born in Tuscany and graduated in Dentistry from the University of Rome. After graduation, he opened his first dental practice in Rome. After 4 years, he sold his practice to finance his orthodontic postgraduate education at the Department of Orthodontics of the Royal Dental College of Aarhus, Denmark under Professor Birte Melsen. Dr Troiani is KOL for GC orthodontics and has held courses and lectures in over 30 countries in the last 10 years. Recently, he has started the GET project with the aim to provide open-minded, up-to-date and honest orthodontic education. GET project already has local speakers in 12 countries and 13 new countries are going to be add in 2020. Dr Troiani speaks 5 languages, is not married, has no kids and like to spend his nearly non-existing free time in the gym, playing piano and traveling.

Dawn Kulongowski, DDS is the owner and sole practitioner of a dental practice in Michigan, where she lives with her husband, daughter and 2 dogs. After repeatedly hitting a wall of personal and professional burnout, she met her teacher, davidji, and started a regular meditation practice. She was amazed at the level of personal change that came from meditating and employing simple mindfulness techniques throughout the day. Everything in her life changed for the better. Since then, Dawn has immersed herself in the study of meditation, mindfulness, emotional intelligence and communication skills. She has completed a 520 hour accredited meditation teacher certification program and continues to study the subject matter in depth and with enthusiasm.

For 35 years, Doron Dekel has led the development of many pioneering medical visualization and surgical navigation technologies. Amongst them: The first interactive and the first real-time medical 3-D visualization systems; The first user-programmable CT and MRI scanner UI; Free-hand real-time 3-D ultrasound visualization; The first optical motion tracking system based on pattern recognition; Automatic detection of colon polyps in CT; The first automatic full-body identification of patient anatomy in clinical CT; The first commercial surgical navigation system, used for guiding brain surgery; NaviENT - a compact and affordable sinus and skull base navigation system; and two generations of Navident – the market leading dynamic dental navigation system. Doron is also the Co-CEO of ClaroNav, a medical image processing company he co-founded in 2001. ClaroNav bootstrapped itself on its own profits to a lucrative exit in 2015, then rebooted itself again to rapid growth in surgical navigation, in the dental market in particular. The company is still wholly owned by its founders and employees.

Cory is the CEO of CallForce, a dental solutions company dedicated to helping dentists across the country succeed in their practices. When he’s not helping dentists out, he enjoys keeping active and loves to play golf and tennis in his spare time.

Dr. Croft was Utah's first American Dental Board of Anesthesia Diplomate and specialist in dental anesthesiology. Before earning his DDS at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Croft graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah. He completed a hospital-based, CODA-accredited, residency in Dental Anesthesiology at the Stony Brook University Medical Center and is licensed to provide all levels of sedation/anesthesia. He also is leading the charge in pushing educational offerings and standards in pain and anxiety management into the 21st century by heading a joint effort by the AGD and the ASDA to create a national, top-to-bottom curriculum and course offerings in all things pain and anxiety management. He is also Director at Large for the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists and the Dean of the Institute for the Management of Pain and Anxiety, also known as “The IMPA."

Dr. Delrose is a graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Dentistry. He then finished a Fellowship in Prosthetics before joining the U.S. Navy. His last duty in the Navy was as the branch Prosthodontist. He joined North River Dental, a private dental practice in Ellenton, in 1997. In 2017, he received his Fellowship in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. Dr. Delrose is a member of the ADA, FDA, WCDA, MDA, AACD, FACD, ISCD, CAI, ICOI, AAID and the ACCD (Academy of CAD/CAM Dentistry), of which he was past president. He is also a Key Opinion Leader for Carestream Dental. He lectures for Carestream Dental, Colgate, Dental Learning, and has lectured on marketing a Dental Implant Practice.

Rod practices in Irvine, California.  He graduated magna cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Dentistry in 1978, and completed a GP residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Rod is an exciting and effective international lecturer and author of five popular clinical and dental marketing books. He has authored numerous articles in, and is frequently interviewed by dental journals and consumer magazines; has appeared numerous times on the covers of several widely-read dental journals in the USA; has been featured six times on national tape interview series; has been a consultant to several popular consumer magazines such as People Magazine and has been a feature writer for Oxygenwomen’s fitness magazine. He has been interviewed and featured numerous times in national media and was the personal dentist of the United States Men’s World Cup Soccer Team.  Most recently Rod has been widely known for his KöR® Whitening System.