Residents

The Department must also receive, directly from the residency program director, verification of completion of an approved residency program accredited for teaching purposes by an acceptable national accrediting body. You should confirm with your residency program director that the residency program is participating in this route to licensure.

Specialty Clinical Dental Residency Program

The dental resident applicant must complete a clinical specialty residency program in one or more of the following specialty areas:

• Endodontics;
• Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology;
• Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology;
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery;
• Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics;
• Pediatric Dentistry;
• Periodontics or Prosthodontics. 

If the specialty residency program is not in one of these specialty areas, 50% of the program completed by the resident must include clinical training in one or more of these specialty areas or general dentistry to meet New York State requirements. 

General Dentistry Residency Program

The dental resident applicant must complete a general dentistry program. During the residency program, the dental resident applicant must complete 9 dental procedures independently and to generally accepted professional standards:

• 2 full crowns;
• 2 endodontically treated teeth (root canals);
• 4 restorations (2 anterior, 2 posterior);
• 1 periodontal case (Type 1).

Dr. Gina Dorfman graduated from the University of Southern California in 2000. She is a practicing dentist and the founder of Dentistry for Kids and Adults, a busy family practice just north of Los Angeles, CA. She is a Co-founder of the paperless dental software company, YAPI. Dr. Dorfman is also a published author and an experienced public speaker. She has contributed to many dental publications and has spoken at many live events throughout the years.

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Learn ways to set yourself up for financial success—refinancing student debt, life insurance, and retirement planning.

Speakers

Alex Macielak

Alex Macielak is the Director of Business Development for Laurel Road. He has over 10 years of experience in the student loan industry and has helped thousands of borrowers determine their optimal repayment strategy. Alex has a degree in Economics & Finance from Bentley University.

 
Gina Goodreau

Ms. Goodreau is second vice president of Specialty Insurance Markets for Protective Life Insurance Co., which administers the ADA Members Insurance Plans issued by Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. Exclusively available to ADA members, these insurance plans include life, disability income protection, office overhead expense and supplemental medical. Protective Life does not provide legal, tax or investment advice. Please consult your own financial professional.

Benjamin Lake CFA, CFP^®

Ben works with clients and their families to develop and execute financial plans designed to achieve their financial goals. He also implements and monitors investment portfolios tailored to clients’ goals and risk tolerance.

Before joining Altfest in 2018, Ben was a Co-Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist at Lake Partners Inc., where he was involved in managing client portfolios, developing asset allocation strategies and macroeconomic research. Previously, Ben was an Associate at Casey Quirk & Associates LLC, a management consulting firm. Ben also worked as an Analyst at Pacific Epoch, an investment research firm in Shanghai, China.BEn is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of New York. He is also a CFP® professional.

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Learn how to identify burnout or depression, as well as ways to
manage stress in your daily life.

It is not new news that dentists are prone to professional burnout, anxiety disorders, and clinical depression. COVID-19 has added layers of other issues -- practice owners concerned about their staffs’ safety; associates concerned about job security; and the list goes on and on. But what can we do as a profession to identify, cope, and manage these challenges? This webinar will help attendees identify burnout or depression and offer guidance on where to seek support as well as ways to manage stress in your daily life.

Speakers

Matthew Shapiro

Matthew Shapiro is the Associate Director, Public Affairs for the National Alliance on Mental Illness-New York State (NAMI-NYS), the state chapter of NAMI, the nation’s largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and family members impacted by mental illness.

Matthew is the host of the NAMI-NYS produced video series Perspectives and is a frequent guest on Capital Region television and radio programs (such as Capital Tonight, Capital Pressroom and the AMC Roundtable) to discuss mental health issues. He has also presented at numerous national conferences and conventions. Matthew serves on several prominent state and national steering committees.

Matthew is the recipient of the 2019 NAMI Richard T. Greer Advocacy Award, 2020 STARR Coalition STARR of Excellence Award for Advocacy and the 2017 NYS Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitative Services Family Partner Award. 

Dr. Dennis Bohlin

Dr. Bohlin received his DDS at Columbia University in 1978 and completed his residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in 1979. He has been in private practice in Manhattan ever since. Dr. Bohlin has expertise in implants and their restoration and all phases of general and cosmetic dentistry.

Dr. Bohlin has special interest and advanced training in substance use disorders and lectures at all five dental schools in NY on addiction and substance abuse in dentistry. He has served on the New York State Dental Association Committee on Chemical Dependency since 1985.

He is a member of the American Dental Association, New York Dental Association, American College of Dentistry and the New York Academy of Dentistry.

Dr. Bohlin lives with his wife Rosemary, and they were blessed with nine wonderful children and ten adorable grandchildren.

J. William “Bill” Claytor, Jr., DDS, MAGD

Dr. Bill Claytor graduated from the University of North Carolina (Adams) School of Dentistry and completed a two year General Practice Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. He received the Academy of General Dentistry’s coveted Fellowship and Mastership, and most recently the prestigious AGD Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition Award. He also earned a certificate in Chemical Dependency Counseling from Union College.

Dr. Claytor is a consultant and Board Member of the Dental Well-Being Advisory Committee of the American Dental Association in Chicago. He is a panelist for the 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Acute Dental Pain of the American Dental Association’s Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry. He is Associate Director, North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals. Since 2016, he has provided the continuing education course, “N. C. Dental Opioid Update Course” each year for dental license renewal in North Carolina. In addition, he lectures throughout the U.S. on the Opioid Epidemic, the Marijuana Dilemma, Burnout, Perfectionism and Addiction, and gives webinars for the NCDS and ADA on Marijuana, the Opioid Epidemic, Stress and Burnout During the Covid Era, and Perfectionism. In the past, he has lectured at the Southeastern Conference on Addiction and Behavioral Health, the Annual Session of the Colorado Dental Association, the Tennessee Wellness Foundation, and most recently, the ADA’s Dental Health and Wellness National Conference in Chicago on these topics.

Dr. Claytor writes for several dental publications and online magazines about digital dentistry, endodontics, cone beam technology, and is a contributor for “Ask Bill” on www.digitalenamel.com, where he addresses current and relevant issues facing dentists today, including substance abuse, perfectionism and professional burnout.

Dr. Bill Claytor and his wife Lisa enjoy life with their two children, William and Jennifer, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Bailey.