Dental Hygiene Faculty

Jeanette Siladie RDH, MEd Instructor Page
Associate Professor

Jeanette helped develop the curriculum, course design and implementation of the BASDH program. She teaches in the bachelor's degree completion program and is passionate about developing relevant online educational material. She has 30 years of combined clinical and teaching experience in all aspects of dental hygiene education. Her education includes an AS in Dental Hygiene from Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts, a BS in Dental Hygiene from the University of Missouri and a MEd in Administration and Supervision from University of South Florida.

Michelle Fellona RDH, BS, MSDH Instructor Page
Adjunct Faculty

Michelle has been teaching and developing courses in the BASDH and BASHSA programs at St. Petersburg College for the last five years. She came to SPC with 37 years of clinical health care experience as a dental hygienist and 25 years of clinical and didactic teaching and course development in Maryland, California and Florida. She is published in JDH, ADEA. Her education includes an AA in Dental Hygiene from Fairleigh Dickenson University and both a bachelors and Master of Science in Dental Hygiene from the University of Maryland.

Leslie Hills RDH., M.Ed. Instructor Page
Adjunct Faculty

Leslie specializes in Clinical Dental Hygiene and Periodontics. She has 32 years of experience in the field of Dental Hygiene. She has been teaching dental hygiene since 1994 and currently is a full-time faculty member at Vermont Technical College. In addition, she holds an adjunct faculty position in the BAS program at St. Petersburg College Leslie received an AS Degree in Dental Hygiene, a BS Degree in Education, and a M.Ed. Degree in Education Leadership from the University of Vermont.

Hazel Kerr RDH, MS Instructor Page
Adjunct Faculty

Hazel specializes in online BAS courses at SPC. She has 34 years of experience teaching in the field of Dental Hygiene and previously held clinical Dental Hygiene practices in Florida, North Carolina and Mississippi. Her education includes an AS Degree from Palm Beach Community College and a BS and MS in Health Science from the University of North Florida.

Diane Peterson RDH, M.ED Instructor Page
Adjunct Faculty

Diane is a graduate of the University of Vermont with degrees in dental hygiene, human development and educational leadership. She is a faculty member at Vermont Technical College as well as SPC where her areas of interest are clinical dental hygiene, public health and dental materials. Diane presents continuing education programs on the topics of natural care, herbal supplements and green dentistry.