General Information

Check-In: 5:30 pm

This event is open to SDCDS Members only.

Light dinner & soft drinks provided during check-in.
(For special dietary requirements please contact our Media & Continuing Education Coordinator, Meg Hamrick, admin@sdcds.org or 619-275-7188)

Course Description:

Clay will be educating on how to utilize your data to increase patient care, profitability and overall performance of the practice.

Course Objectives:

• How can you grow your practice with what you have today?
• What data is important and why?
• How can it be used to help you and the team?
• What are best practices around sustaining a data driven culture?
• How do you create an environment where your team is empowered and rallies around you to help drive overall performance?

About Sherri Nickerson:

Sherri Nickerson started in the dental industry in 1972 as a RDA. Since then, she has not only excelled in the back office, but has also worked as a treatment coordinator, insurance biller, scheduling coordinator, and office manager. In 1997 she took over as the Office Manager of a practice in Woodland Hills, where she immediately and substantially increased collections and lowered the accounts receivable, launching the practice into previously uncharted success (over 2 million!). Sherri has been working as a practice analyst / consultant since 2001 and has successfully helped over 2000 offices from around the country reach goals that they never thought possible. From 2005 – 2013 Sherri worked as a Practice Analyst with Mercer Advisors. Mike Elster, Regional Manager of Mercer, called her “one of the most outstanding and excellent dental consultants” he has seen in his twenty year tenure at Mercer. Sherri brings tremendous positivity, exceptional communication skills, a keen eye for detail, and a great passion for the business of dentistry Nickerson Consulting.

About Clay Shubin

As a founding team member of Dental Intelligence, Clay has become known for helping Dental Coaching Firms and other Partners become more effective in understanding the performance data within dental practices to identify key strengths, areas of opportunity, and the specific causes that can be addressed to impact performance. With over 15 years of Cloud/SaaS leadership experience, Clay has driven programs within larger environments such as Oracle, along with smaller budding technology companies, for example, playing a unique role in the successful IPO of Nuance (NUAN: NASDAQ). When not helping partners understand practice performance data, Clay can be found wake surfing, snow skiing, cycling, or coaching the local high school mountain bike team.

Carr Healthcare Realty, Citibank, The Law Offices of Cecelia Chen, Legacy Practice Advisors

 SDCDS is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. SDCDS designates this activity for three (3) continuing education credits. This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between SDCDS and Citibank.