Under invitation of the Harvard-MIT division of health sciences and technology Dr Bertassoni leads some of the most prominent endeavours in tissue engineering in his laboratory and contributing to the development of leading technologies and their implementation in dentistry.
Graduate Certificate Triumph for Dr Susie Dracopolous' video for the Graduate Certificate project, recently featured in the November issue of the ITL News Bulletin.
The University of Sydney's alumni community is a valuable resource for students who have much to benefit from their experience. Fun, Fare & Future Alumni is a hospitality program connecting current international and local students with alumni
Please join me in congratulating three BDent 3 students for having been awarded an Undergraduate Australian Dental Research Foundation Inc Research grant.
Dentistry started their rugby campaign in earnest against Vet Science on 14 September 2012. However, their preparation started long before - in early 2011, when a group of students, many of who had never played Rugby before, came together and trained the house down under the guidance of BDent3 student, Tom Shumack, and Dr Neil Peppitt.
Final year Bachelor of Dentistry students, Ramesh Harichandran, Amelia Fernandes, Lora Banicevic and Jasmine Aurora competed against winners from all States in Australia, NZ and Oceania, to win the Colgate Travel Grant to present their collaborative research (with A/Professor Wendell Evans, A/Professor Peter Duckmanton and Dr Michelle Heffernan), at the International Association for Dental Research meeting in Seattle Washington, in March 2013.
Please join me as I proudly congratulate Christina Adler for receiving the award for the Senior Division of the Australia/NZ/Pacific Division poster presentation at the IADR conference recently held in Fiji.
Please join the Dean in congratulating BDent student, Ramesh Harishandran, who was invited to the IADR Australia/New Zealand Divisional Conference in Fiji this month to present his research.
Congratulations to Professor Andy Blinkhorn and George Johnson on the acceptance of their third paper to be published in the European Dental Journal on the rural placement program.
You are invited to the 4th World Implant Orthodontic Conference (WIOC) to be held in Sydney from 10-13 October 2012 with the theme: "Paradigm Shift with TADS… Too good to be true?"
Please mingle with your colleagues and friends as Dean Chris Peck and DASUS President, Dr Meredith Owen, introduce special guest alumnus Dr Allan Stewart, the 1-in-8 billion alumni whose thirst for knowledge won him worldwide acclaim as he became the oldest alumni to graduate from university.
Peru Charity Foundation Inc, (NGO) welcomes Australian volunteers to provide free health care for up to 1000 kids and 250 adults in these communities living in the poorest region in Peru.
On a Friday in April we welcomed 24 Dentistry alumni to the lecture theatre at the Sydney Dental Hospital for the first in a series of occasional seminars to showcase some of the leading research.
Although we are all focussed on achieving the goal of getting through the challenges that are posed by studying Dentistry, having a different passion to focus on can make the achievement easier, and also keep you sane.
Along with his graduating class of '53 Associate Professor Peter Barnard has been extremely active and generous by donating towards the resurgence of our Dental museum
Football (soccer) has been a long time passion of mine. I began to play competitively at the age of four and now twenty years since I first kicked a ball, I am still yet to miss a season...
October 2011 saw Dr Eszter Kalotay combine her fourth annual visit for voluntary work at the Saint Francis Foundation with an invitation to three BDent 3 students, Andy Lam, Chris Xu and Shannon He, and one BDent4 student, Judy Liu, to join her in the Transylvanian orphanage for their elective placement program.
Thirty years of intensive research and close association with peers saw the emergence of Professor Iven Klineberg and Diane Kingston's collaborative work on Oral Rehabilitation.
We were proud to learn that Professor Anthony Blinkhorn and his co-authors, KM Milsom, T Walsh, HV Worthington, P Kearney-Mitchell, H Whitehead and M Tickle, were recently awarded the 2012 IADR Aubrey Sheiham Award.
As a mature-age student with no Higher School Certificate (HSC), Jacinda Matthews had been concerned before starting her university studies in oral health about whether she would be able to keep up with other students who had come straight from high school. Last month she celebrated her graduation.
BDent Graduand, Dina Bedros, has recently had her student research, "Child and family health nurses' experiences of oral health of preschool children: a qualitative approach" published in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
A significant achievement by BDent 4 Honours students, Matthew Lewis and Michelle McNab, was proudly announced today by their supervisor, Dr Amit Arora.