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Welcome from the Program Director

Our General Practice Dental Residency Program is a fully accredited CODA PGY-1 training program with an optional CODA-approved PGY-2 year. Our program is designed to serve as a post-graduate educational training experience for U.S. graduate dentists by providing ample opportunities to deliver dental care on both an outpatient and inpatient basis in the hospital environment. Extramural rotations on our two mobile dental vans provide additional community and public health experiences.

An extensive highly trained dental core faculty provides direct supervision and instructions. Our faculty consists of 12 general dentists, four OMFS faculty and one pedodontist.

Our graduates are well accomplished – achieving not only regional but national recognition. While most of our graduates enter dental private practice, a number have gone on to specialty training. Among the specialties represented are dental anesthesiology, ENT, OMFS, endodontics, orthodontics, prosthodontics, pedodontics and geriatric dentistry.

Our graduates are also well represented in academics, serving as section chairpersons in both medical and dental schools. Lastly, our graduates are well represented in organized dentistry, serving in local, regional and state leadership roles, most notably as president of the ODA.

Why do a residency?

  • Experience
  • Marketability
  • Phone solicitations for PGY-1 and PGY-2
  • Graduates
  • Improved quality patient care
  • Increase income
  • Decrease malpractice premiums
  • Improve clinical competence

Program Director

 Dr. M Frank Beck  
M. Frank Beck, DDS, FAAHD, MAGD, FICOI, DSCDA | Program Director

Medical School: Ohio State University College of Dentistry
Residency: Mercy Health, PGY-1 and PGY-2

Dr. Beck has been the program director since 2008. Previously, he served as the associate program director for 10 years and became an attending faculty member in 1982. He presently serves as regional chief opioid officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health, most recently receiving the Help Network NEO 2018 Advocacy Award for Outstanding Services in the field of mental health addiction recovery. He also has served on the Ohio Department of Health Director’s Oral Health Ohio Task Force as well as the Ohio Opioid Abuse Prevention focus group. He maintains the Center for Oral Systemic Health and his private practice in Boardman, Ohio.

Associate Program Directors

MaryBeth Shaffer, DMD
Douglas Styka, DDS

Core Faculty

Jill Babinec, DDS
M. Frank Beck, DDS, Program Director
Mark Billy, DDS, MD (OMFS)
Andrew Bushey, DMD, MD, Chief, Dentistry Dept. (OMFS)
Amy Caicco, DDS
Joseph Charnas, DDS
Kevin Johnson, DDS
Jean Kim, DDS
Richard Mayo, DDS, MD (OMFS)
Jeana McEvey, DDS
Robert Ohl, DDS
P.J. Snyder, DDS
Jeremy Taylor, DDS
Craig Wagley, DDS, MD (OMFS)

Contact Us

Program Coordinator: Mary Morjock
Phone: 330-480-2994
Email: mjmorjock@mercy.com