Cincinnati · Healthcare Education & Practice Management
Marina Davar built the program that trains clinical staff. Today she runs the practice that hires them.
Marina Davar built a dental assisting program from zero as Dean of Dental Studies at Beckfield College, and today runs operations and revenue cycle for a large Cincinnati medical practice. She has worked both sides of the healthcare workforce equation, and she writes about what that teaches you.
Most people in healthcare workforce conversations have stood on one side of the hiring desk. Marina Davar has stood on both: she built the program that graduates dental assistants, and she runs the practice that interviews them. The Both-Sides Perspective
Thought Leadership
Six pillars, one through-line: the people who make healthcare work
Marina Davar writes about building programs, teaching adult learners, and running independent practices in the Cincinnati tri-state market.
Founder authority
Building the program
Curriculum, CODA accreditation, clinical facilities, and advisory boards: what it actually takes to launch a dental assisting program from a blank page.
Pedagogy
Teaching the hands
How clinical skills are really taught to adult learners: first-generation students, career changers, and working adults balancing school with life.
Student success
The student nobody bet on
Retention, belonging, and the career-college student: why the learners most programs write off are often the ones worth fighting for.
Employer-side commentary
What practices actually need
Day-one readiness vs. graduation requirements: the gap between what programs produce and what practices can use, from someone who has interviewed both ways.
Cincinnati market
Independent and surviving
Running an independent medical practice in a market dominated by TriHealth, UC Health, Mercy Health, and Christ Hospital: wages, staffing, and revenue cycle discipline.
OH · KY · IN
Tri-state realities
Cross-border licensure, payer rules, Medicaid variation, and telehealth complexity across the Ohio–Kentucky–Indiana region.
From the blog
Latest writing by Marina Davar
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I Trained the People I Now Hire
What practices actually need on day one versus what programs graduate, and what changes when you have sat on both sides of the desk.
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Building a Dental Assisting Program From Zero
Backward-designed curriculum, the accreditation grind, equipping a clinic on a career-college budget, and what a founder would sequence differently.
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Denials Are a Management Problem, Not a Billing Problem
Root-cause denial work starts at the front desk, not in the billing office. A practical framework for practice leaders.