Dental and Oral Health

Professor Mahmoud AL-Omiri is a Professor at University of Jordan; Senior Consultant at Jordan University Hospital; Associate fellow at Warwick University, UK; Advisory team member of DoooX Dentistry et all, DooIT GmbH, Germany; President of the Jordanian Society of Prosthodontics; member of the University Council at University of Jordan; member of the executive committee of the Jordanian Council of Implantology; past Head of the Department of Prosthodontics at University of Jordan; past part-time teacher of Head and Neck Dissecting Anatomy, Queen’s University Belfast; past President of the International Association for Dental Research-Jordan section; past Treasurer of the Jordanian Group of Implantology; past Head of Academic and Student Counseling Unit at Aljouf University-KSA. Professor AL-Omiri is on 3 specialist lists of the Jordanian Dental Association and Jordan Medical Council; he is Fully registered member of multiple international associations and professional bodies such as British General Dental Council, Dental Council of Ireland, BSSPD, IADFE, JDA, and others. Prof AL-Omiri has more than 50 published scientific articles in refereed and indexed international journals; he served as Editor for the International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences & the International Journal of Psychology and Counseling; Associate editor for the Journal of Dentistry and Oral Hygiene; Section Editor for the Journal of Jordanian Dental Association; Guest Lead Editor for International Journal of Dentistry; Editorial board member of Journal of Contemporary dental Practice, Pan Arab Medical Journal, Journal of Jordanian Dental Association, and Dirasat: Pure science Journal. He is Reviewer for International peer reviewed and indexed Journals such as Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants (JOMI), Oral Diseases journal, Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Journal of Oral Implantology, Quintessence International journal, Gerodontology journal, Angle Orthodontist journal, Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry journal, Journal of Dental Education, European Journal of Orthodontics, European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, BMC Oral Health journal, Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice, and others. He is involved in several research projects into Implantology, Oral health behaviour and dental attitudes, Satisfaction and personality, Tooth wear, Prosthodontics, Ceramics & Colour Science, Sleep Apnoea, Aesthetic dentistry, and others. Prof AL-Omiri is an invited speaker to a number of national and international conferences and scientific meetings. He has presented seminars, lectures, continuing education programmes and courses in Implantology, Prosthodontics, and Esthetic Dentistry.

Implantology, Oral health behaviour and dental attitudes, Satisfaction and personality, Tooth wear, Prosthodontics, Ceramics & Colour Science, Sleep Apnoea, Aesthetic dentistry, and others.

Sue Sandles has over 40 years experience in the dental industry as a Dental Representative and Practice Manager in both the public and private sectors. She has been a guest speaker at dental seminars throughout Australia . Sue has also completed a sterilisation course at Mayfield Education Victoria. Sue is currently teaching Certificate III in Dental Assisting.

Practice Management/ Marketing, Certificate IV Dental Assisting, Radiography Certificate IV Training and Assessment

Prof. Dr. Zainal Ariff Bin Abdul Rahman is presently working as Dean-Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya

Dentistry

Dr. Park is a Professor and Chair of the Postgraduate Orthodontic Program at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. Dr. Park has received several awards for scientific and clinical excellence including the Charley Schultz Award and the Joseph E. Johnson Award from the American Association of Orthodontists. Since 2008, he has published more than 130 scientific and clinical articles in peer-reviewed orthodontic and dental journals and 2 books. He also lectures nationally and internationally. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodotnists.

Orthodontics

Dr. Hans Ulrik Paulsen is associated with Departments of Orthodontics, Municipal Dental Health Service, Denmark; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark

Tooth autotransplantation in orthodontic treatment Bone remodelling in the TMJ in response to Herbst treatment Histomorphometric and scanning electron microscopy studies of human condyles Long-term study of changes of deciduous molars with hypodontia of permanent successors

Dr. Kemporn Kitsahawong is currently working as an Assoc. Prof. of Pediatric Dentistry at Khon Kaen Univeristy, Thailand

Pediatric Dentistry

Dr. Kenji Takada is Japanese-born and grew up in a city 10 miles west of Osaka. He received his D.D.S. and Ph. D. degrees (Dental Science) from Osaka University in 1973 and 1981, respectively. After serving as a junior investigator and later a clinician at Osaka University Dental Hospital, he joined the Osaka University faculty in 1980 and was dispatched to the University of British Columbia from 1981 to 1983 as a Visiting Assistant Professor at national expense. Since 1996, he has served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics in the Graduate School of Dentistry at Osaka University, a top school in the Japanese hierarchy of universities. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Dean of the School of Dentistry and of the Graduate School of Dentistry at Osaka University, serving as a Board Member of the Management Council at Osaka University until March 2007. He served as a Board Member of the University’s International Relations Office from 2007 to 2010. He has also served as board member on two cardinal councils of the national government, the Medical Ethics Council from 2001 to 2013 and the Council for University Chartering and School Juridical Person from 2007 to 2010, both of which exercise strong administrative powers in dental education and the practice of dental medicine in Japan. In the beginning of July 2012, he honorably left Osaka University and moved to the Faculty of Dentistry at National University of Singapore from which he had been offered a position of a Visiting Professor. At the same time, he was granted a title of Professor Emeritus from Osaka University to his distinguished achievements. From the 1st of July, 2013, he has been promoted to a full Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at NUS.

Motion controls in chewing and during facial expression 3D facial morphology with a particular relevance to dentofacial esthetics Decision-making modeling in clinical dentistry Kinetics of dexterity in dental practice

Dr Pattama CHAILERTVANITKUL has received her DDS from Mahidol University, Thailand, PhD in Endodontics from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, PostDoctorate Training from The University of Western Australia and Fellow of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Thailand (Endodontics). Currently, she is working as Associate Professor in Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen Univeristy in Thailand. She is now the director of the Master of Science program in Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University. She has published more than 20 articles in refereed journals. She was the Chief-editor of Khon Kaen University Dental Journal. She serves on Editorial Boards of Journal of The Endodontic Society of Thailand. She is now a member of Thai Dental Council and American Association of Endodontists.

Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics

Dr. Rochaya Chintavalakorn is presently working as Deputy Head for Department of Orthodontics at Mahidol University, Thailand

Orthodontics

Dr. Supaporn Chatrchaiwiwatana is currently working as an Associate Professor Department of Oral Biology, Khon Kaen Univeristy, Thailand

Oral Biology

Dr. Cao Tong is currently working as Tenured Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, NUHS & NUS. He is also the Principal Investigator, Cranio-Maxillofacial Group, NUS Tissue Engineering Program.

Somatic differentiation of hESC Tissue regeneration; Stem cells for cell therapy Differentiated hESC models for toxicological and pharmacological screening/testing