Learn about speaker's cautionary tale;
join us for Regional Meeting webinar June 23
Don't miss this unique chance to learn how sloppy office practices can land you in jail.

Roy Shelburne, DDS, has walked in those shoes. Dr. Shelburne was arrested in 2003 after the FBI broke down his office door and confiscated his records. After several years under investigation, he was indicted in 2008 for healthcare fraud, racketeering and money laundering and spent nearly two years in prison.

Dr. Shelburne is the speaker for the Friday, June 23, Regional Meeting webinar. Since leaving prison, he has made it his mission to help other dentists learn what he learned the hard way: that small, unintentional mistakes can have outsized consequences and that delegating tasks without proper oversight is risky.

Learn more about Dr. Shelburne and his difficult journey in this DentistryIQ interview or in this YouTube interview with The Profitable Dentist.

Date: Friday, June 23
Time: 9 - 11 a.m. on Zoom
Title: Stop the Insanity by Doing Things Differently: Making Your Best Better
Speaker: Roy Shelburne, DDS
Program: Dr. Shelburne will share the principles of quality improvement that will empower the dental team to implement changes, making what we do easier and better not only for the team but for the patients as well.
CE Credits: 2

Regional Meetings are free to members and their staffs. Register by Thursday, June 22, to receive the Zoom link by email prior to the meeting.
This is the first of two webinars this year as CDS strives to provide our members with more flexibility to earn CE when their schedules prevent them from attending longer, in-person Regional Meetings. Our next webinar is Friday, Sept. 29, and will focus on financial management.
Join us Aug. 17 for annual New Dentist Night Out
We're back again on one of Chicago's best rooftops for the annual New Dentist Night Out!

Join us on Thursday, Aug. 17 from 6:30 - 9 p.m., at Loews Hotel Streeterville, 455 N. Park Dr., in downtown Chicago.

Catch up with your friends, enjoy an open bar, light appetizers, a virtual Swag Bag from our great sponsors and a chance to win some other great prizes at this popular reception, all for free for Early Career Dentists (in practice 10 years or less).  

This annual gathering always delivers stunning views of Chicago and a chance to socialize with friends and former classmates. Bring your colleagues!
CDS peer review/mediation moves to member-only benefit
Following a decision by the Illinois State Dental Society, CDS will limit mediation and peer review services to members only.
 
After evaluating time, cost and personnel needs required to review and resolve cases involving non-member dentists, ISDS decided on the members-only shift to provide “very direct and intentional member value.” The CDS Board of Directors agreed to adopt the same framework June 8.
 
Other states have made a similar move or disbanded mediation and peer review services in recent years. The policy change would require that a dentist involved in a mediation and peer review case be a current ISDS/CDS member at the time a case is filed. 
Nominations open for Feldner Leadership award
Do you know a CDS dentist or non-dentist who is dedicated to oral health for all, shines as a leader and mentor, and finds ways to give back to the profession?

Nominations are due July 14 for the Loren J. Feldner Leadership Award, created in 2020 in tribute to Dr. Feldner who died suddenly in 2019. Dr. Feldner was a charismatic leader for the profession, an accomplished clinician and a honorable friend and colleague.

Learn more about the award here and find the nomination form here.
Englewood Branch now the Southwest Branch
Looking to broaden its reach and appeal to more members, the Englewood Branch of CDS officially changed its name this spring to the Southwest Branch.

As branch members have moved west, the branch discussed adopting a new branch name that would better reflect its geographic reach. Meetings have been held in Oak Lawn in recent years as the branch makeup has skewed more suburban.

The branch has a long and prominent history. It was 1889 when the Hayden Dental Society was created so local dentists could socialize and share clinical insights. As the community grew exponentially following the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, the group was renamed the Englewood Dental Society in 1899. The society gave up its charter in 1911 to become the first branch of the Chicago Dental Society.
Contribute to Dr. Doroshow's campaign for ADA presidency
Former CDS President Susan Becker Doroshow is campaigning for president-elect with the vote culminating at the ADA's annual House of Delegates meeting this fall.

Learn more about Dr. Becker Doroshow, how she sizes up the ADA's challenges and her ideas to reform the group -- including speaking "hard truths" -- in the July/August issue of the CDS Review.

Review her campaign brochure here and use the QR code to contribute to her campaign.