22 More Dental Clinicians Complete Spear’s Core Workshop Curriculum

Congratulations, to the first class of 2025!

Spear Education proudly announces that 22 additional clinicians have completed their journey through the Core Workshop Curriculum pathway, a series of eight workshops focused on mastering the essential skills that distinguish great dentists.

After completing the final workshop in the curriculum, Advanced Treatment Planning, the participants left the Spear Campus in Scottsdale on Jan. 12, with a renewed vision for their professional future. Since 2023, a total of 98 clinicians have successfully completed Spear’s Core Workshop Curriculum.

Congratulations to:

• Dr. Andrew Agnini, Lakeland, FL
• Dr. David Belman, Frisco, TX
• Dr. Jennifer Brooks, Fairfax, CA
• Dr. Julia Burchett, Eldersburg, MD
• Dr. Daniel Copp, San Luis Obispo, CA
• Dr. Jay Dorgan, Kennett Square, PA
• Dr. Elizabeth Eggert, St. Paul, MN
• Dr. Robert Freitas, Brentwood, CA
• Dr. Ashkan Haeri, Mission Viejo, CA
• Dr. Srdjan Ilic-Siljak, St. Louis
• Dr. Denise Malcomson, Bethesda, MD
• Dr. Andrew Martin, Lake City, FL
• Dr. Nathan Saydyk, Gilbert, AZ
• Dr. Scott Shallish, Syracuse, NY
• Dr. Sean Smith, Skaneateles, NY
• Dr. Mark Swensen, Corvallis, OR
• Dr. Cameron Waters, Lakewood, CO
• Dr. Sarah Wilsey, San Anselmo, CA
• Dr. Steven Zdep, Syracuse, NY
• Dr. Melissa Zettler, Savage, MN
• Dr. Mike Zhou, Coquitlam, BC
• Dr. Rewan Zineldine, Phoenix

These doctors have completed a comprehensive curriculum that includes:

• Treatment Planning with Confidence
• Occlusion in Clinical Practice
• Airway Prosthodontics and Sleep Dentistry: Prevention to Control
• Restorative Design
• Anterior Restorative Dentistry,
• Worn Dentition
• Phasing and Sequencing Complex Treatment
• Advanced Treatment Planning

It’s a curriculum based on a layered-learning approach, with each workshop building on previous knowledge acquired in the series, culminating in the final workshop, Advanced Treatment Planning, where it all comes together, and participants examine cases together to develop their higher-level critical thinking and clinical skills.

Many of the attendees, such as Dr. Zineldine, already had experience with the Spear philosophy and were back to take their careers to the next level in a systematic way.

“The reason I chose to pursue Spear’s Core Curriculum is because I wanted to be a dentist that focuses on comprehensive treatment planning at the highest level,” said Dr. Zineldine. “All of the top doctors that I’d met after dental school told me the same thing: Start with Facially Generated Treatment Planning at Spear. I’m glad I took their advice because that changed my outlook on dentistry entirely. When you start taking courses here, you are immediately involved in a community of like-minded dentists, and you have access to so many experts who are willing and ready to help.”