Board and Executive Team

Mark Cannon, DDS

Secretary

Mark L. Cannon is a Professor of Otolaryngology, Division of Dentistry at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, an Attending Physician at Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital and a member of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry. In addition to being the founder of Associated Dental Specialists of Long Grove (1981); he is the Research Coordinator of the Pediatric Dental residency program at Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Cannon has 40 years of experience in pediatric dentistry and has presented lectures both nationally and internationally. Dr. Cannon has presented guest lectures at the University of Athens, Greece, Sao Paulista State University, UNESP, Aracatuba, Brazil, University of Texas- Houston, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Yonsei University, Beijing Medical University, CES (Medellin, Colombia) and at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of Pediatric Dentistry. He has had presentations to the following organizations; I.A.D.R./A.A.D.R., the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American Society of Dentistry for Children, Academy of Dental Materials, World Congress of Biological Materials, International Association of Pediatric Dentistry, Pediatric Dental Association of Asia, Australasian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, World Congress of Preventive Dentistry, Mexican Association of Pediatric Dentistry and the European Association of Pediatric Dentistry. He lectures on many oral health topics including evolutionary oral medicine, the gateway microbiomes, biologic and bioactive dental materials (patents owner), probiotics, and all aspects of everyday Pediatric oral health. Dr. Cannon has humbly accepted two invitations by the Karolinska Institutet, first to the Nobel Forum (2016) and secondly to the Nobel Assembly (2017). Most of all, Dr. Cannon is the proud father of five, all of whom are very accomplished. He is also a very proud grandfather!

Doug Thompson, DDS

Board Member - doug@wellnessdentistrynetwork.com

Dr. Thompson began his dental career at age eighteen, working as an in-house laboratory technician. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1996 and then completed a one-year hospital-based V.A. Residency in 1997. Dr. Thompson has completed hundreds of hours of continuing education at the Kois Center in Seattle, Washington. In 2015, he was offered and accepted a part-time faculty position teaching about personalized periodontal medicine. In 2016, he added the wellness dentistry topic to his teaching role.

In addition to his dental training, Dr. Thompson is pursuing a fellowship in anti-aging and regenerative medicine through the American Academy of Anti-Aging, Regenerative, and Functional Medicine. He has published professionally, and in 2015 Dr. Thompson founded the Wellness Dentistry Network, a community of dentists with a keen awareness of how oral conditions affect whole body health.

Laura M Beaty MD

Board Member

Dr. Laura Beaty is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1995, completed her residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1998 serving as chief resident during her final year and maintains board certification through the American Board of Family Physicians.  Dr. Beaty started the fist solo concierge medical practice in metro Atlanta in 2004 and is the current director of Wellness at Beaty Facial Plastic Surgery in midtown Atlanta.

Ellie Campbell, DO

Board Member

Dr. Campbell is a native Chicagoan with a BS and MS from the University of Illinois, a DO degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a Family Medicine residency from the Medical College of Georgia.  Board certified in Family Medicine for over 25 years, she also holds certification from the American Board of Integrative Medicine.

For thirteen years, Dr. Campbell practiced indigent healthcare in a Community Health Center, but since 2005 has championed a solo, concierge-style integrative, holistic, functional medicine-based family practice.

Dr. Campbell has specialty interests-- and lectures internationally on-- innovative medical practice design and management, community partnerships, Functional Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, cardiovascular disease prevention, the oral-systemic connection, solutions to physician burnout and Vitamin D.

She began hosting interdisciplinary meet-up groups in 2010 via her “Consortium of Integrative Care Practitioners of Atlanta”. In 2017, she launched “Revolution Practice,” a concierge medicine teaching platform whereby practitioners are taught the business of how to run a successful membership-style functional medicine practice like hers.

In her spare time, Dr. Campbell enjoys live theater, gardening, healthy cooking, hiking, travel, and playtime with her husband and three college age daughters. Learn more about her and her practice at www.campbellfamilymedicine.com or www.RevolutionPractice.com

Dr. Shanley Lestini

Board Member

Raised in Raleigh, NC, Dr. Shanley Lestini earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the UNC School of Dentistry in 2013 after receiving her B.A. from Duke University in 2009.  An alumna of the Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education and the Dawson Academy, Dr. Lestini also has completed several courses covering a range of topics beneficial to patient health, including sleep apnea and orthodontics, and she serves on the board of the American Academy for Oral-Systemic Health (AAOSH).  She and Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson also recently co-authored their first book, The Shift: The Dramatic Movement Toward Health Centered Dentistry, which focuses on the intersection between dentistry and overall health. 

Dr. Lestini is a member of the North Carolina Dental Society (NCDS), the American Dental Association (ADA), the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA), AAOSH, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), and the Junior League of Raleigh.  She is an active member of her church and has served as a leader in Bible Study Fellowship in Raleigh for many years.

Stephanie Lodding, RDH

Advisory Council Member

Stephanie has been a full time practicing hygienist for 21 years. She specializes in cosmetic hygiene, lasers and oral systemic care of her patients, with 16 years of experience working beside one of the leading cosmetic dentists in the country. Stephanie is best known in the dental field as the “Half Million Dollar Hygienist.”

G. Lee Ostler, DDS

Advisory Council Member

Dr. Ostler lectures to dentists and physicians teaching them how to create and build professional interdisciplinary relationships. He is author of the Healthcare Professionals Networking Handbook, and The Physicians Resource Manual, along with numerous articles about the oral systemic connection and interdisciplinary patient co-management.

Amy L. Doneen, DNP, ARNP

Advisory Council Member

Amy L Doneen, DNP co-founded the Bale/Doneen Method and the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center. She is a principal instructor in the Bale/Doneen Method, training other medical, dental and healthcare providers across the country. She is the owner and medical director of the sought-after private clinical practice in Spokane, Washington; The Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center, which serves patients from all over the world.  Dr. Doneen is one of the nation's leading specialists in preventing heart attacks, stroke and diabetes. She is co-author of the bestselling book, Beat The Heart Attack Gene.

Bradley Bale, MD

Advisory Council Member

Bradley Bale, M.D. is an Adjunct Professor at Texas Tech Health Science Center, Medical Director of the Heart Health Program at Grace Clinic, Lubbock, Texas and runs a private practice in Gallatin, TN. Dr. Bradley Bale is one of the nation’s leading specialists in preventing heart attacks, stroke and diabetes. He co-founded the Bale/Doneen Method with Amy Doneen in 2001. Their personalized approach of CV risk reduction has been effective enough to allow them to attach a ‘guarantee’ to their clinical practices. The results of their method demonstrating regression and stabilization of arterial disease has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

Gary Kadi

Advisory Council Member

Gary Kadi is a pioneer in leading the Oral Systemic Health Movement. His ground breaking documentary Say Ahh… is a go-to educational source for dental and medical practices, and hygiene, nursing, medical and dental schools. His mission is to have the public equate dentistry with over all health and for dentists and their teams to be a vital component of sustainable health and longevity. His trainings, educational workshops, and annual implementation coaching programs provide dental and medical teams a systematic process for team engagement and patient treatment acceptance. Gary and the teams he collaborates with are on a mission to get 30 million people healthier by the year 2020.

Steven J. Anderson

Advisory Council Member

For nearly 30 years, Steven J. Anderson has founded and lead a group of organizations that have made significant inroads into positive change in dentistry. He has pioneered leading dental case presentation methods that have allowed top practitioners to connect excellent clinical skills with patient acceptance. His management systems are at the heart of helping practices create and maintain a culture of success. He has teamed up with top dental clinicians to help dentists implement clinical protocols for treating periodontal disease with the latest science for total health. He has also helped lead the largest cause-related charity campaign in dentistry having raised and donated tens of millions of dollars to children’s charitable causes.

He is Founder of the Total Patient Service Institute, co-founder of the Crown Council, Dental Warranty Corp, and Smiles for Life Foundation. He is also the author of numerous books including The Culture of Success – 10 Natural Laws for Creating the Place Where Everyone Wants to Work.

Marc Richard Moeller

Advisory Council Member

Marc Richard Moeller, Managing Director of the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, and Executive Director and Founding Board Chair of the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences, has spoken on Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy in 25 countries to date and supported the facilitation of research, public health projects, clinical protocols, and curriculum development in OMT with over 50 universities, hospital groups, and governments around the world.  Marc has spent the majority of his career working in business banking with experience in sales management, sales and marketing strategy, and integration of vertical business units across complimentary business lines. 

He is a graduate of University of California, San Diego and is based in Los Angeles.  Marc is an adjunct professor at the University of the Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry.  He speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese.

Bill Domb, DMD

Advisory Council Member

Dr. Bill Domb is a founding member of the American Academy for Oral Systemic Health, and the producer of the website ZT4BG.com.  He founded the International Association of Ozone in Healthcare, currently its immediate past president.

He recently retired from busy high-tech practice in Southern California where his focus was on aesthetics but the practice has a number of other active centers such as headache-TMD, fresh breath, anesthesia and sedation dentistry, implantology, underlying biochemistry analysis, and minimally interventive/preventive services and the many uses of ozone.  Bill is an international expert, speaker and researcher on the many uses of Ozone. 

Charles Whitney, MD

Advisory Council Member

Charles Whitney, M.D. is double board certified in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed his family practice residency at David Grant USAF Medical Center. He served as a physician in the United States Air Force before joining the University of Pennsylvania Health System, where he established his Concierge medical practice, Revolutionary Health Services, in 2003.

A leading national advocate of bridging the “oral-systemic gap” between dentistry and medicine, Dr. Whitney has been published in leading print and online dental trade journals, including Dentistry Today, Dentaltown, Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry,  DentistryIQ.com and Dentalcompare.com. He also authored a four-part online CE course “A Comprehensive Review of Vascular Disease” for PennWell’s INeedCE.com continuing education portal.