Meet the Group
Our group is comprised of an experienced and trained team committed to your health and overall satisfaction with your dental care. We strive to create ‘smiles that heal and smiles that appeal’ by offering leading edge cosmetic and physiologic-based services. Each member of our group is dedicated to ensuring that you and your family experience the ultimate dental care in a friendly environment empowering you to make informed choices.
We support the dynamics of being a passionate and understanding team, always taking into consideration how your oral health affects you both on the inside and the out.
Karen – RDH, Hygienist
Karen received her Dental Hygiene Diploma at Georgian College. Her favourite part about being a Registered Dental Hygienist is educating patients to achieve and maintain good oral and overall health. She and her family have lived in beautiful Barrie for 26 years. In her free time, she enjoys running, swimming and yoga.
Kristine – RDH, Hygienist
Kristine has been in the dental field for 16 years. Working as a Dental Assistant before pursuing her career in Dental Hygiene. She attended the Dental Hygiene program at Durham College in Oshawa where she graduated with Honours in 2010. You will find Kristine is compassionate, able to put her patients at ease and she ensures a positive dental experience. Her favourite things to do when not working on teeth: reading, being outdoors, renovating and decorating their home and most of all spending time with her family.
Agnes – CDA I, Dental Assistant
As a certified clinical assistant, Agnes has been helping patients feel comfortable in the dental chair, since 2004. Her eagerness and excitement for continuing education has led her to discovering her passion for aesthetic and physiologic dentistry. She loves to help patients feel their best by educating and empowering them to make healthy and informed choices. Outside the office, Agnes loves to spend time with her close knit-family and dogs. She is passionate about active, healthy and mindful living.
Christie – CDA II, Dental Assistant
After travelling around the world with Disney On Ice, Christie settled in Barrie. In 1998 Christie graduated from Georgian College Dental Assistant Level II. Christie strives to put patients at ease by providing a positive, relaxing experience while getting the best dental care. After 25 plus years it is now time to return to the Ocean, where her heart has always been.
Tara – Communication Admin/Front Desk
Tara grew up in Orillia, attended the Georgian College Orillia campus and graduated the Dental Assisting Level II program in 1997. She joined this office January 1998 under contract for a maternity leave as one of Dr. Robinson’s chairside assistants. Once the contract ended, Tara worked at an office in Orillia as a Hygiene Assistant and Front Desk Administrator for nearly two years until Dr. Robinson contacted her with an opening working alongside him again in 2000. She jumped at the chance and continued there until returning from her own maternity leave where she shifted roles to become Hygiene Coordinator and now Communication Lead/Front Desk Administrator. She has called Barrie home since 2000 with husband Mike, daughter Kennedy, and son Jake. Home life is filled with sports, mainly minor hockey and lacrosse events along with billeting players of the Barrie Colts OHL team, and walking with her dog Baxter.
Carol – CDA II, Administrative Manager
Although Carol originally emigrated from Scotland as a ‘wee lass’, she has called Barrie home for 26 years. She resides with her husband Tom and is lucky enough that her grown children Cassaundra and Eric along with their partners have chosen Barrie as their home too. The lights of her life are her 2 adorable grandchildren who she sees every chance she gets. If she is not running around with her granddaughters, she enjoys interior decorating and is glad to help out anyone that asks.
As for her profession she completed her Level I and Level II chairside assisting and has been in the dental field for, almost 40 years (she says with a grimace). Although she misses the clinical aspect of chairside, she loves the other side of it and is passionate about helping her ‘wonderful patients’ navigate the dental world. Carol loves the connections she has made, having worked here for over 24 years and feels truly blessed to look upon them as family in a sense, having watched them grow from toddlers to they themselves bringing in their own toddlers.
Arash – Director
Arash is a doctoral candidate in business administration and has been pursuing his area of interest in Dentistry’s clinical and operational success after completion of “Dental Practice Management” at University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry. He is passionate to lead the team while focusing on the results of patients’ satisfaction and morale.
Encouraged and Inspired by Dr. Nika Sabri, Arash stepped into the world of dental management utilizing his passion in constructing a synergistic model of management and understanding team culture. These competences were formed and developed after completion of his MBA at Steinbeis University of Berlin in Germany in 2013.
When not at work, he makes sure he makes some time for himself to play tennis. He also enjoys other competition-oriented sports such as soccer where he used to play as a goalkeeper and now as a striker. Arash also loves recreational activities such as skiing, camping and swimming.
Call 705.737.2381 or schedule a consultation to learn more