Trisha O’Hehir, RDH, BS and Perio Reports Joins Farran Media, LLC
Ms. O’Hehir will become the Editorial Director of the new Hygienetown Magazine
Phoenix, November 8, 2004—Farran Media, LLC, parent company of Dentaltown and
Hygienetown announces the appointment of Trisha O’Hehir RDH, BS as Editorial
Director of Hygienetown Magazine.
Hygienetown Magazine, scheduled to launch in January of 2005, will
include the message board interactions from working hygienists participating in
the online community, www.Hygienetown.com
This peer-learning environment will bring to light the daily issues of dental
hygiene, and through each other’s experiences create solid solutions. The
Editorial Director, Trisha O’Hehir, will encourage and participate with the
online community directly and choose the best topics for the publication. She
also will be directly involved with content development including writing a
monthly editor’s page, and publishing her newsletter, Perio Reports,
within the pages of Hygienetown Magazine
.
“We are very excited to have Trisha O’Hehir join our team,” said Howard Farran
DDS, MBA, MAGD, President of Farran Media, LLC. “With her experience and
genuine commitment to the hygiene profession, we knew Trisha would be the
perfect person to guide our hygiene community!”
Biography for Trisha O’Hehir
Trisha O’Hehir, RDH, BS has been a dental hygienist for more than 30 years
including private practice and faculty positions at the Universities of
Minnesota, Washington, Arizona and Louisville. She is an international
lecturer, author and inventor. Ms. O’Hehir is the President of the Perio
Reports Publishing Company, Editor of Perio Reports Newsletter
and textbook, and Vice-President of the Perio-Data Company, the designer of the
Perio-Data charting form. She also designed the O’Hehir Debridement Curettes
made by several dental instrument companies.
Ms. O’Hehir was a founding member of the RDH Magazine Editorial Board 25
years ago. She also has had articles published in the Journal of the American
Dental Association, the Journal of Dental Research, the Journal
of Dental Hygiene, Access, Dental Economics, the Journal of Practical
Hygiene, Compendium of Continuing Education in Oral Hygiene, Dental Hygienist
News, and Dental Assistant
.
She has authored the best selling cartoon book, The Toothpaste Secret,
the textbook Perio Reports Compendium of Current Research, contributed
to the texts Comprehensive Dental Hygiene Care, by Irene Woodall, and Comprehensive
Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist
by Mea Weinberg.
Ms. O’Hehir currently holds the office of President of the Oral Health Research
Group within the International Association for Dental Research. She is an
active member of many professional organizations including: the American Dental
Hygienists’ Association, the Arizona State Dental Hygienists’ Association, the
Western Society of Periodontology, the American Association for Dental
Research, the International Academy of Periodontology and the International
Federation of Dental Hygienists.
Background Information
Founded by practicing dentist, Howard Farran, DDS, MBA, MAGD, Farran Media, LLC
is the parent company of Hygienetown and Dentaltown. Farran Media has created
an interactive format not seen from any other publishing company. This format
includes printing comments from message boards found on Farran Media websites
in their sister publications, bringing the voice of active participants to
thousands of readers. Hygienetown.com
provides dental hygienists a place to discuss techniques, procedures, and
products. Today, the online population of
Hygienetown.com is more than 600 dental professionals and
growing. Hygienetown.com
will bring the voice of these dental professionals to hygienists across the
United States with Hygienetown Magazine
beginning in January 2005.