Boston Camp Instructors

DH Methods of Education, Inc.

Camp Instructors

The Camp Leader is Cindy Biron Leiseca (see Home page). Additional Camp Instructors teach in the hands-on instrumentation courses and lead individual workshops.

Meet the instructors:

Course Leader for Accreditation Workshops

Christine Dominick RDH, CDA, BS, M. Ed

Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene, Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene.

Christine is the former Chair of The Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene, Boston, MA and creator and Program Director of the Mount Ida Dental Hygiene Program in Newton, MA. She has over forty years of clinical and teaching experience. After graduating from Forsyth in 1968 she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in 1972 and a Masters in Adult Education from the University of New Hampshire in 1974. Her first job in education was at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, NH. In 1985 her family relocated to Massachusetts and for the next 17 years she practiced clinical dental hygiene and raised a family. In 1997 Christine was asked to start a new dental hygiene program for Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. Always up for a new challenge, she accepted and in the fall of 1999 Mount Ida dental hygiene opened their doors to the first class and a 100% pass rate on the National Board. This endeavor was an education in dealing with CODA requirements and becoming an administrator. In 2003 she became the Chair of the dental hygiene program at MCPHS Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene. Presently she is a member of the faculty coordinating all of the radiology policies, procedures and instruction for the school and is in her fourth year as a consultant examiner for NERB. Christine is presently in charge of her own self-study using the new 2009 standards and is the designated CODA readiness person at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene. Her six years as a site visitor for the Commission on Dental Accreditation and completion of over eight visits to dental hygiene programs and distance education satellite programs provided the experience to learn the accrediting process well. Christine has prepared and participated in over 5 site visits to her own schools, serves as an external reader of self-study documents for her peers, prepared numerous self-study documents and reports as well as applying to the commission for a new program and seeing that through a series of successful site visits. We feel that she is highly qualified for her role in our camps.

Christine understands the daunting task that faces all of us when it is our time to undergo the accreditation process. She will supply you with excellent organizational ideas and a process that will get you through the accreditation process successfully. I think that you will find her materials, personal attention and group discussions helpful and supportive.

Co-instructor in DA Accreditation Workshops

Instructor in DA Preclinic Course, and Periodontal Instrumentation Workshops

Michele M. Edwards, CDA, RDH, MS

Associate Professor & Chair of the Dental Health Programs

Tallahassee Community College

Michele has been appointed Chair of both the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Program effective January 1, 2010. Prior to her appointment to the Chair of both programs she served as the Coordinator of the Dental Assisting program from 1995-2009. She now has the responsiblity of serving as Chair of both programs.

Michele has over seventeen years of clinical dental hygiene and dental assisting experience in private practice. She earned an Associates Degree in Dental Hygiene from Tallahassee Community College in 1979, a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Education in 1990 and a Masters in Adult Education in 1995 from Florida State University. She has been teaching for twenty years in both the dental hygiene and dental assisting programs. Her teaching experience includes, Clinic II and Clinic III coordinator in Dental Hygiene, Community Dentistry, Preventive Dentistry, Dental Assisting Preclinic I & II, Dental Assisting Clinic I and II, Expanded Functions I and II, and Radiology and Dental Materials corequisite labs.

She establishes community rotations for the dental hygiene students and recently accompanied dental hygiene students to St. Lucia for community service to underprivileged children.

Michele oversees the clinical experience for the dental assisting students. She also establishes and maintains affiliations with the local dental offices and facilities used for extramural rotation sites for students.

Michele has prepared numerous dental assisting self-study documents and the dental assisting program under her direction received no recommendations, or even a suggestion, at its recent site visit in November of 2008.

Michele was selected as a NISOD Excellence Award recipient for 2009 in Austin, Texas.

She has served as an instructor in the DH Methods of Education, Inc. Instrumentation Camps since 2006.

Course Leader in "Case Based Course" Course instructor in "Periodontal Instrumentation I & II"

Debra Burtoft, RDH, BS

Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene, Tallahassee Community College

Debbie has been Second Year Dental Hygiene Coordinator for the past eleven years, teaching both the Clinic II and Clinic III courses. She has fifteen years of teaching experience, and over 15 years of clinical practice. After graduating from the Tallahassee Community College Dental Hygiene Program, she practiced fulltime and then completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida State University in 1995. Her teaching experience includes Preclinic, Clinic I, Periodontology Clinic, Clinic II, Clinic III, Community Dentistry, Periodontology , Clinic and Office Management, and the labs that accompany Radiology and Dental Materials. She is the clinical coordinator for the second-year dental hygiene students and oversees the on-campus dental hygiene clinical experience for these students. She also establishes and maintains affiliations with local dental clinic institutional settings to be used as extramural sites for students. She presents annual updates of the topics “Infection Control in the Dental Office” and “Prevention of Medical Errors in the Dental Office” for all of the faculty and students of the Dental Healthcare Programs at TCC. In addition, she has served as an instructor in the DH Methods of Education, Inc. Instrumentation Camps since 2003.

Course Instructor in "Periodontal Instrumentation I & II"

Marianne Dryer RDH, BS

Marianne is a graduate of the Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists (currently at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences), Old Dominion University and is currently working on her Master's degree in Education from St. Joseph's College of Maine. She was the first year coordinator at Collin County Community College in Dallas, Texas for six years where she was selected for the Outstanding Faculty Award and was nominated for the advisor of the year award by her former students. Marianne relocated back to the Boston area and joined the faculty at Cape Cod Community College in 2007. She teaches Dental Hygiene III and is an instructor in first year clinic. She is active in the local and state dental hygiene organizations and initiates many community dental events for the underserved.

Marianne teaches Periodontology Instrumentation I and Periodontology II in the Boston Camps. She is also the alumni blog keeper for DH Methods of Education, Inc.

Course Leader in Complete Nutrition Course and instructor Periodontal Instrumentation I and II Workshops

Rebecca Sroda, RDH, MS

Associate Dean of Allied Health and Director of Dental Education at South Florida Community College

Becky received her BS in Dental Hygiene from the University of Detroit in 1974 and worked in various clinical practices for six years before giving in to a strong yearning to teach. She continued her education, earning her MS in Dental Hygiene from the University of Michigan in 1980, and has been teaching in various capacities ever since.

Her clinical practice has been varied and diverse; general and periodontal practices in Michigan and South Carolina, a Veteran’s Hospital, and Rehabilitation Center.

Educational affiliations; University of Detroit – Department of Periodontics, Oakland Community College, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, and South Florida Community College

Becky has taught pre-clinic instrumentation for 20 years and advanced instrumentation for 15, using the methods in Jill Gehrig’s “Instrumentation for the Dental Hygienist” textbook and those used at the DH Methods of Education, Inc. Boot Camp.

Becky is a published author and just completed the 2^nd edition

of her textbook titled “Nutrition for a Healthy Mouth” , contributes three chapters to “Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist” by Jill S. Nield-Gehrig, and co-author (with Jill Gehrig) of the chapter on Instrumentation in the Mosby DH Review text.

You may recognize Becky as the clinician in the textbook “Periodontal Instrumentation and Advance Root Instrumentation” and its accompanying DVD, both by Jill S. Nield-Gehrig.

Becky has taught in the camp instrumentation sessions in Miami, Orlando, and Jacksonville.

Course Leader for "The Complete Preclinic Course"

Course Instructor in "Periodontal Instrumentation I & II"

Virginia M. Wagner, CDA, RDH, BHS

Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene, Tallahassee Community College

Ginny has been the First Year Dental Hygiene Coordinator for the past 5 years, teaching both the Preclinic and Clinic I courses. She is currently transitioning and taking on the role of Radiology Supervisor. She has sixteen years of teaching experience, and over 30 years of clinical practice. After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976 she practiced full-time and then completed her Bachelor of Health Science degree from University of Florida in 1986. Ginny is currently pursuing her Masters in Science in Health Professions Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her teaching experience includes Preclinic, Clinic I, Oral Histology & Embryology, Oral Pathology, Community Dentistry, Local Anesthesia & Pain Control, Nitrous Oxide Sedation and the labs that accompany Radiology, Dental Anatomy, Medical Emergencies and Dental Materials.

In the DH Methods of Education, Inc. camps, Ginny teaches the “Preclinic Course” and team teaches in the Perio Instrumentation I & II sessions. Ginny has taught in camps in Tallahassee & Jacksonville, FL and Boston, MA.

Course Instructor in "The Complete Ethics Course", and "Periodontal Instrumentation I & II"

Robin Blatt Matloff, RDH, BSDH, JD

Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene,

Mount Ida College, Newton, MA

Robin graduated from Westbrook College (currently University of New England) in Portland, Maine with her AS degree in Dental Hygiene and University of Rhode Island with her BS in Dental Hygiene, with a Specialty in Health Education. She was EFDA (Expanded Functions Dental Auxiliary) trained at University of Pennsylvania Dental School in 1981. She also graduated form University of New England School of Law in 1986 with a JD in Law.

Robin’s career spans over thirty-four years of clinical and teaching experience. She has been a full-time faculty member and taught both didactic and clinical courses at Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene in Boston MA, as well as Quinsigamond Community College, in Worcester, MA. Since 1999, Robin has been teaching at Mount Ida College in Newton MA, where she served as Program Director from 2003-2007. She has also been a CODA examiner since 2004.

Robin is First-Year Clinic Coordinator at Mount Ida College. She teaches Pre-Clinic and Clinic 1. She coordinates and teaches Medical Emergencies Lecture and Lab, as well as Dental Ethics and Practice Management. She is a clinical instructor in the Pain Management/Local Anesthesia Lab. She has presented training courses for graduate Dental Hygienists at Mount Ida College, in Local Anesthesia, since August of 2005, the year that it became a delegable duty for Dental Hygienists in the state of Massachusetts.

Robin has lectured for the Massachusetts Dental Society on various topics. She has also presented numerous lectures at the Yankee Dental Congress over the years, which is the fifth largest Dental Convention, held yearly in Boston, MA. She was granted Tenure at Mount Ida College in May of 2005.

Course Instructor for: Evidence Based Solutions to Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy: Power Scaling and Pain Management

Renee' C. Graham, RDH, Med

Renee' received a dental hygiene degree from Darton College and both a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master of Education degree from Valdosta State University. Renee’ brings 19 years of clinical experience in general and periodontal practices and 11 years of academic experience to the Division. For the past ten years, she has held the position of Director of Dental Programs at Valdosta Technical College in Valdosta, Georgia.

Renee’ has served as a site visitor for the Commission on Dental Accreditation since 2003 and has been very active with regional testing agencies, the Georgia Dental Hygiene Educators Association, and dental hygiene and assisting curriculum development for the State of Georgia. Her speaking engagements have encompassed international, national and local engagements.