About Us
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Our Team
Dr. Mike Abougoush
Dr. Mike Abougoush grew up in Kelowna, BC. He did his undergraduate Science degree at the University of British Columbia while playing Junior Varsity and Varsity hockey with the UBC Thunderbirds. He graduated from UBC Dental School in 2001, and after working several years in the lower mainland, moved back to the Okanagan in the summer of 2005.
Dr. Abougoush continues advanced levels of study in all aspects of dentistry. He is currently an active member of the Kois Center for Advanced Dental Learning based out of Seattle, Washington, with Dr. John Kois. He graduated from the program in 2009 and is now a Kois Center Mentor.
Dr. Abougoush took most of his advanced surgical training in implants and oral surgery with Dr. Norm Ickert at the Ickert Implant Training Centre. He has also taken advanced courses with world-renowned specialists such as Dr. Fouad Khoury and Edward P Allen in their respective fields of hard and soft tissue grafting.
Dr. Abougoush works hard so he can enjoy quality time with his wife and 3 kids. He enjoys coaching his 2 daughters and son in a myriad of sports, including hockey, soccer, lacrosse, gymnastics, skiing, and water sports….when they have a brief respite from these activities, they enjoy family movie nights, RVing in spring and fall, rollerblading, and riding their bikes.
Dr. Michelle Scheepers
Dr Michelle Scheepers grew up in South Africa in the port city of Durban. She graduated from Medical School in 2003 and practised rural medicine for a number of years before doing her post graduate Specialization in Anesthesiology.
She was top of her class, graduating in 2011. Her clinical interest is in surgical prehabilitation and assisting people their optimize health preoperatively. She is actively involved in the UBC teaching program and has also done further studies in Quality Improvement Science.
She graduated from the BCPSQC Clinician Academy in 2018, and from IHI as an Improvement Advisor in 2021. She is currently an MBA Candidate with RRU. She and her husband emigrated to Canada in 2014 with their two children. They own and operate an apple orchard in Summerland and enjoy kayaking, hiking and camping as a family.
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