Colorado Springs, CO
College of Health Sciences, Class of 2022
"I didn't want to just check the box.
I wanted to actually grow."
I graduated from Idaho State University in 2022, worked a year in Idaho, then moved to Colorado Springs. A stint at a private practice in Monument, then a leap I didn't fully plan for: public health.
That leap changed things. Working at Peak Vista Community Health Centers pushed my clinical skills harder than private practice ever did. It also introduced me to something I hadn't expected: medical-dental integration. The idea that oral health is inseparable from whole-body health, and that hygienists are uniquely positioned to be part of that conversation. I'm genuinely obsessed with it.
But somewhere between the scaling and the charting and the rinse-and-repeat of daily clinic, I felt the thing a lot of hygienists feel: the wheel of predictability. I didn't want to just log hours. I wanted to learn, to research, to build something. I want to teach at a university someday. This is how I'm starting.
So I built the CE I was looking for. The kind that respects the clinician taking it. Not a slideshow. Not a 90-minute webinar on a Tuesday night. A real patient encounter, the kind that makes you think, built for hygienists who are tired of reading and forgetting, and who still care enough to want more from their career than a renewal checkbox.
This is for you. It's also for me.