Shannon Pace Brinker CDA, CDD, ACE

Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA, CDD, ACE is a National and International Speaker and Published Author of over 300 articles for various publications. She has taught over 2,000 classes on dental assisting techniques and over 60,000 dental assistants. Shannon has taught at the Nash Institute, Dawson Academy and Spear Education, instructing through both lectures and hands-on programs and now she has launched her own Online Education Platform called. 

She has written over 300 articles in regards to Clinical Application and has a current column in Dental Product Reports for the team evaluation of dental products and materials. She has her own publication for dental assistants with partnership of Schein Dental called "Side by Side". She has started one of the first online platforms designated for dental assistants called the Academy of Chairside Assisting. Shannon is an active member of the AACD and was the first auxiliary to sit on the AACD Board of Directors and was awarded the Rising Star Award. Shannon had also been recognized as one of Dentistry Today’s Top 100 Clinicians for the last 10 years, Dental Products Report 25 most influential women in dentistry, the Lucy Hobbs Award, Sunstar Butler achievement award and Dr. Bicuspid’s Dental Assistant Educator of the year.