Cellerant Consulting Group is excited to announce that Rachel Wall, RDH, BS and Valerie Dangler, RDH, BSDH have joined the company as senior executive consultants and have also joined the Cellerant Best of Class Hygiene Award panel of judges, which is currently concluding deliberations for 2023 award winners to be announced in July.
“Rachel and Valerie are important additions to the Cellerant hygiene team,” said Dr. Lou Shuman, CEO and founder of Cellerant Consulting Group. Led by Melissa Turner, chief hygiene officer, Rachel and Valerie join fellow hygiene industry leaders Amanda Hill, BSDH, RDH, Brooke Crouch, RDH, Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, Kristin Goodfellow, BA, RDH, Nancy Miller, RDH, BA, and Sarah Crow, RDH. Senior executive consultants play a critical role to Cellerant’s corporate clients by providing early stage product design input, hands-on evaluation, and high quality post-launch clinical education to the dental community.
“Rachel and Valerie are well-known all-stars and are respected voices in the dental community,” Shunman continued. “Combining expert clinical knowledge with tremendous insights on the products and technology that will make hygiene departments successful for the future.”
As an international speaker, coach and owner of Inspired Hygiene, Rachel Wall, RDH has guided thousands of dental professionals to elevate their hygiene services and systems while driving profits to the bottom line and developing empowered, engaged hygienists. Rachel draws from 30 years of experience as a hygiene profitability coach and clinical hygienist to deliver to-the-point interactive workshops and coaching programs. She is a past recipient of the Dental Excellence Award from DrBicuspid.com for “Most Effective Dental Hygienist Educator” and has been named one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Report.
Her book, Return on Hygiene, has been called the hygiene benchmark bible and used by dentists all over North America to uncover the true potential of their hygiene teams.
Valerie Dangler, RDH, BSDH, CEO of ValDent Solutions, is an expert in dental practice management, dental hygiene education, clinical training and development, and sales consulting. Holding many roles during her 30 years in the dental industry, she lectures throughout North America and is a sought-after key opinion leader and advisor. She is a past recipient of the Hu-Friedy Golden Scaler award, has been nominated for several awards, and is past-president of her professional association.
“We have been fortunate that Cellerant’s hygiene division has grown rapidly since its launch several years ago,” said Melissa Turner, CHO. “It’s a great time to add well-respected leaders like Rachel and Valerie to the team. As members of the Best of Class Hygiene panel, they also bring great wisdom to judging the best technologies from a clinical growth perspective.”
About Cellerant Consulting Group
Founded and led by CEO Lou Shuman, DMD, CAGS Cellerant provides strategic dental market insights, clinical expertise, and implementation resources to accelerate growth for client dental companies. Cellerant services include product development, accelerated market awareness due to intimate relationships with the media community, new concept incubation, clinical product evaluation, manufacturing, seed funding, continuing education program development and CE sponsorship, 510k support, strategic branding and marketing, corporate social media, website development and online marketing resources, lead generation and dental media relations management.
As an orthodontist and former owner of a 10-doctor multi-specialty private group practice, Dr. Shuman guides clients to develop offerings that connect with and engage dental customers on a relationship level that provides sustained differentiation. Cellerant operates under a unique model that merges leading voices in clinical product evaluation and strategic partner companies to provide a menu of services from one easily accessible network.
About the Cellerant Best of Class Hygiene Award
Since the inaugural presentation in 2009, the “Best of Class” Technology Awards have grown to occupy a unique space in dentistry, by creating awareness in the community of manufacturers that are driving the discussion as to how practices will operate now and in the future. Expanding into the dental hygiene space in 2021, the selection process relies on an expert panel of dental hygienists recognized as thought leaders and educators that includes Melissa Turner, BASDH, RDHEP, EFDA, Amanda Hill, BSDH, RDH, Brooke Crouch, RDH, Pamela Maragliano-Muniz, DMD, Kristin Goodfellow, BA, RDH, Nancy Miller, RDH, BA, and Sarah Crow, RDH.
Over the course of each year, the panel members seek out and conduct research on potentially practice-changing technologies, with official deliberations taking place at the Yankee Dental Congress. Panelists are precluded from voting in any category where they have consulting relationships. The entire selection process is conducted rigorously and managed on an unbiased not-for-profit basis.
Winners are announced in July’s issue of RDH Magazine and recognized at the Under One Roof annual conference.
For more information on the Cellerant Best of Class Awards go to www.cellerantconsulting.com.
