(left to right) Dr. Brian Michel (Appleton) was the first Mentor Program protégé of Dr. Ken Geiger (Sheboygan). They met up again in June at the ninth WDA Foundation and WDA Mission of Mercy in West Allis, Wis. Dr. Michel’s MOM volunteer experiences include the prosthodontics department as a dental student, orthodontics department while a resident and prosthodontics department as a dentist. Dr. Geiger again served as state lead for prosthodontics for the 2018 WDA MOM. Dr. Geiger is also the Pierre Fauchard Academy representative to the Mentor Program Work Group.
Making a long-term impact on dentistry by sharing professional values with future dentists.
Exchanging real-world experiences for student-protégés new clinical knowledge – feed your lifelong-learner soul.
Networking with future and current colleagues; no one can have too many friends and you never know when you will need a professional confidant.
Texting and other communications technology make it easy to reach across the miles and provide student-protégés with answerers to life-school-work questions and emotional support as they travel through the dental school maze.
Only today’s dentists know the career fun and challenges that await dental students. Choose to help guide and inspire!
Register your commitment to a strong dental profession by serving as a mentor for the Wisconsin Dental Association-Marquette University School of Dentistry-Pierre Fauchard Academy Mentor Program.
Interested in being a dentist-mentor during the 2018-19 academic year? Please complete this brief survey to facilitate the pairing process.
