Organization: Kansas City, MO

Biography Text: Cassandra McKenzie, MA, DDS, MS is active in her Kansas City private practice, Periodontal Care. Dr. McKenzie completed her dental training at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she graduated as part of a select national dental honor society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon. In addition to excelling in academics, she also volunteered in the first student run clinic providing free dental care for people transitioning out of homelessness. After being accepted to all residency programs to which she applied, Dr. McKenzie decided to settle down in Kansas City. She completed her Certificate of Periodontics and second master’s degree at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is Board Certified in Periodontology and Implant Surgery. Dedicated to maintaining excellence in dentistry, she currently serves as secretary for the Midwest Society of Periodontology and was selected to the prestigious LEAD Program. Dr. McKenzie remains active in education. Prior to dental school, she taught middle science in inner city Baltimore as part of Teach For America where she simultaneously earned her Master of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins. Additionally, she obtained her Certificate in Collegiate Teaching from UMKC during her residency. She has provided hundreds of hours of continuing education for dentists and hygienists, enthusiastically hosting the hygiene study club GQ: Gums Quarterly. Dr. McKenzie is avid about needlework, particularly embroidering microbes, as well as collecting dinosaur teeth and terrible jokes.