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I am excited to share Reconnext 2024 with you, the official event of the Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry. Our 2024 conference will be an opportunity to combine fun and sun with stimulating presentations and collegial conversations. We are hosting this year’s conference on the coastal town of of Mooloolaba, Queensland from 26 – 28th September 2024. While we bring our members together to re-energise and collaborate, we encourage you to consider bringing your partners or families with you to make the most of this stunning location. The conference will kick off with the traditional Postgraduate Day on Thursday and the conference will wrap up on Saturday afternoon. Our plan is to watch the AFL Grand Final on Saturday afternoon together, though as a Kangaroos supporter, sadly, I doubt I will be a winner that day! The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Digital Health: the potential and the reality’. We are excited to have two great keynote speakers in Andy Keeling, Professor of Prosthetics and Digital Dentistry from the University of Leeds and Professor Dianne Shanley from the Menzies Health Institute at Griffith University. Together they will lead a stimulating line-up of speakers from around the country, including several of our own talented members. Over the course of the conference, we will interactively cover, the development of new technologies, share clinical insights and implications, as well as exploring the future benefits and bioethical issues for us as individual paediatric specialists and as health professionals more broadly. There will also be an opportunity to hear about the research being conducted by our DCD students in the traditional 3-Minute-Thesis session. I am already looking forward to this weekend, I hope you all consider joining us. Over the coming months we will be sharing more information on how to register and organise your invigorating trip to Mooloolaba! Kind Regards, Dr Katie Ayers AAPD President

Learning outcomes

As the biennial conference for the Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry, Reconnext offers a unique opportunity to delve deeper into our professional niche. Reconnext will allow you to Reconnect with industry peers. Rekindle and reinvigorate your passion for our profession. And Reimagine the exciting future that lies ahead for paediatric dentistry. We have an incredibly rich program that covers diverse topics within paediatric dentistry. We’ll discuss advances in clinical practice and technology. Delve into the healthcare system and look at how it impacts our patients. And examine contemporary social questions, such as how to best support trans children and young people as healthcare professionals. You will hear from the leading thinkers in paediatric dentistry, with our conference line-up including international as well as local thought leaders. These experienced practitioners and academic leaders will impart practical knowledge to improve your clinical abilities. As well as get you up to speed on what’s current in our profession – and prepare you for what’s on the horizon. You will find ample opportunities for networking at Reconnext. This is an unmissable chance to build a meaningful professional network. Whether you’re looking to find professional mentors, meet fellow practice owners, or discover potential employers or upcoming talent to hire – you’ll make the right connections at Reconnext. You’ll tick off a large block of your mandatory CPD hours by attending Reconnext, with the event offering 11 verifiable CPD hours. To maintain your registration, you must compete 60 hours of continuing education over a 3-year cycle. Averaged out per year, attending Reconnext will take you over half way toward the hours you need in one year.

Further information 
Speakers

PROFESSOR ANDY KEELING

Professor Andy Keeling studied computer science in the early nineties at the University of Bristol (UK) before switching to Dentistry, qualifying in 1999. He worked in full time general practice for a decade before migrating to a full time University position at Leeds School of Dentistry. Over the past 15 years he has built and led the Digital Dentistry Group, with the aim of investigating and developing technological solutions to genuine clinical problems. Current work is focussed on accurately getting the patient into the computer, including 3D scanning, facial scanning, and dynamic articulation. A second strand of work involves 3D printing for dental training models and for dentures. Most of the work involves traditional software engineering combined with machine learning, followed by clinical trials. Andy is a Senior Consultant for GC IaG (Switzerland) advising on all aspects of digital dentistry. A spin-out company was recently formed in Leeds to develop various outputs from his academic group and has received around GBP 3 million in funding to date from government grants and other investments. Andy has authored over 50 peer-reviewed academic papers and regularly collaborates with other international groups.

PROFESSOR DIANNE SHANLEY

Professor Dianne Shanley is a clinical psychologist and expert in implementation science and co-design. She has held key leadership appointments responsible for the strategic direction of health services over the past 10 years. She has been a chief investigator on grants totalling >$26M and is in the top 1% for world prominence in implementation science and evidence-based practice (SciVal 5May2022). Prof Shanley led the multi-disciplinary team that co-created a culturally-responsive strategy for monitoring developmentally not-on-track children in primary care (the Tracking Cube). Her approach integrated primary health care with specialist systems using community-driven solutions to solve health system challenges. Prof Shanley led 5 successive multi-million dollar, multi-site projects funded by NHMRC, MRFF and the Commonwealth Department of Health to co-design, implement and validate the Tracking Cube. Her team was nominated for two national awards on community engagement, won the 2023 Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Research Impact award and the 2023 LuminaX healthtech start-up of the year.

PROFESSIOR NIGEL CURTIS

Professor Nigel Curtis is a paediatric infectious diseases physician and clinician scientist. He is Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Melbourne and Head of Infectious Diseases at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. He is also Leader of Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Research Group at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, holds an undergraduate medical degree from the University of Cambridge. He completed clinical training at St Mary’s Medical School, University of London, and lab training at Imperial College London. Specializing in infectious diseases, his research, supported by grants exceeding $35 million, centers on enhancing diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of childhood infectious diseases. He leads a multidisciplinary team and is Chief Principal Investigator of The BRACE Trial, investigating BCG vaccination’s impact on COVID-19 in healthcare workers.

BREE JONES

Bree is an oral health therapist, senior lecturer at the Melbourne Dental School, and PhD candidate at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Her research investigates using Intraoral Scanners for early caries detection in children and the development of automated caries detection methods using artificial intelligence. She is an active member of the ITU-WHO topic group on dental diagnostics and digital dentistry, which seeks to provide global standards for AI application in dentistry

DR JILEN PATEL

Dr Jilen Patel is a specialist paediatric dentist, senior lecturer at UWA, consultant at PCH and principal at Castlegate Family Dental Care. For over a decade, Jilen has been involved with providing volunteer dental services to remote Aboriginal communities and is the current chairman of the Kimberley Dental Team (KDT). Jilen’s research interests include dental public health and cariology, and he is the clinical lead for the WA Early Childhood Dental Program. His PhD created an evidence-based quality improvement framework for dental care to Indigenous communities and studied the impact of volunteer services to remote communities. More recently he has been involved with translating and adapting the KDT model to address areas of unmet need in the Central Great Southern implementing a community based oral health promotion program seeing 80% of all 0-4yr old children in the region. He has also been involved with asynchronous telescreening for children to increase the reach of dental services in Perth as well as a large city-wide study currently in progress in Saudi Arabia. He has international collaborations in Indonesia and Cambodia aiming to improve oral health outcomes among underserved communities. Jilen is passionate about unravelling and conveying evidence to help clinicians better understand complex concepts and he has received both the Royal Australasian College Emerging Lecturer Award, the ADA/Pierre Fauchard Academy’s Young Lecturer Award and recently received the ADA Outstanding Young Dentist Award for his contribution to the profession.

DR VANESSA CHO

Dr Vanessa Cho is a specialist paediatric dentist who is passionate about understanding the psychology of young children to respond to their oral health needs and treat them. To obtain an objective assessment of a child’s perspective, she embraced eye-tracking technology for her PhD to conduct Eye Movement Analysis In children (EMAIL). The goal of Vanessa’s research is to better understand what children see and connect the visual search patterns to common oral health problems affecting children. In turn, the results be translated if visual search can be used as an early predictor for children at risk of common oral health conditions.

DR MARJAD PAGE

Dr Marjad Page, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University. He is a Christian and proud descendent of the Kalkadoon, Waanyi and Gangalidda Nation Groups from the Mount Isa region. Dr Page is an accomplished medical practitioner with extended skill in medical administration, child health, and palliative care, as well as advanced skills in anaesthetics and obstetrics (MBBS; FACRRM; FRACMA; Advanced Diploma Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Diploma Palliative Care; BAppSc-HMS). He has been a chief investigator on research grants totalling more than $8M. A/Prof Page’s special interest in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) led him to play an instrumental role in guiding the co-design of the Tracking Cube, a culturally-responsive strategy for monitoring developmentally not-on-track children. To assist the implementation of the Tracking Cube, he wrote the Dreamtime Story that was used by health providers to explain the tiered neurodevelopmental assessment to First Nations families, improving family engagement with healthcare services. His vision is to provide fair, holistic and culturally appropriate health services to rural and remote communities, especially First Nations people.

RECONNEXT

AAPD Reconnext Conference


Speakers:

PROFESSOR ANDY KEELING

PROFESSOR DIANNE SHANLEY

PROFESSIOR NIGEL CURTIS

BREE JONES

DR JILEN PATEL

DR VANESSA CHO

DR MARJAD PAGE

Thursday 26th Sep 2024 - Saturday 28th Sep 2024
6:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Mantra Mooloolaba
7 Venning Street
Region: Overseas
Brought to you by Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry