Mary
A. Walsh-Cole graduated from Tufts University School of Dental
Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts in 1980. She completed a
General Practice Residency at Los Angeles County/U.S.C. Medical
Center the following year. In 1982 she married Stan Cole and
they moved to Encinitas, California. She purchased her dental
practice in 1984 and moved to the current location in 1991.
Dr. Walsh-Cole believes strongly in continuing education.
She received her Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry
in 1995. This required 500 hours of continuing education and
passage of an eight-hour comprehensive examination of all
phases of dentistry. She has been involved in a Masters program
in the Academy of General Dentistry for the past five years
completing an additional 600 hours of continuing education,
400 in hands-on courses. She hopes to receive her Mastership
in 2004.
Since May 2001, she has been attending courses at the prestigious
Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. These courses
have included aesthetic reconstruction of the mouth with an
emphasis on cosmetics and neuromuscular dentistry.
She is a member of the San Diego County Dental Society, California
Dental Association, American Dental Association, Academy of
General Dentistry, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.
In 1999, she was selected as a member of the 3M Espe Council
for Innovative Dentistry, participating in evaluations of
products and marketing ideas.
On a personal note, Dr. Walsh-Cole was born and raised in
Long Beach, California. She attended college first in Long
Beach, then transferred to U.C. Berkeley, and graduated with
her B.S. in Biology from George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. She and Stan have three children, Alicia, Kelsey and
Kammann. They enjoy boating on Lake Powell, water skiing and
snow skiing as a family. |
