Casey Hein BSDH, RDH, MBA

Casey Hein was over 40 years’ experience as a dental hygienist, public health, and education, Casey Hein is an internationally- recognized speaker and a very well-published author including scientific articles, consensus reports, white papers, and textbook chapters. She first began speaking about periodontal-systemic links in 2003, and in 2006, she founded (and became the Chief Editor) of the first publication on oral-systemic medicine: Grand Rounds in Oral- Systemic Medicine. She is known for her expertise in clinical implementation of periodontal-systemic science, and credited as a visionary in establishing models for dental-medical collaboration. 

In July 2018, Casey retired from the College of Dentistry at the University of Manitoba, where she was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Periodontics and Director of Education of the International Centre for Oral-Systemic Health. At the University she led a team in the development of her vision for the first comprehensive curriculum, Oral-Systemic Health Education for Non-Dental Healthcare Providers, which won for the University of Manitoba the prestigious William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Innovation. She also led programming in oral-systemic health, "Make the Connection" in 2014, which brought together physicians, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, and health care provides from other disciplines, and won the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons' Award for Innovation. 

Casey has a Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene from West Virginia University, a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University and maintains a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Dental Hygiene, at the University of Manitoba. She was accepted into the National Speakers’ Association in 2008, and she has been continuously voted among Dentistry Today’s Top 100 Clinicians/Consultants in Continuing Education since 2006.