63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the IADR ANZ Division – Cairns
Conference Program
An overview of the full conference program is now available below. Titles of the allocated abstracts for each oral and general poster sessions are available to presenters and other delegates by clicking on the respective buttons on this page.
Guidelines for presenters for both oral and general poster presentations can be found on the websites Abstracts page. Colgate poster presenters please refer to information previously circulated by the competition organisers.
Please contact the Conference Organisers if you have any concerns regarding your session allocation.
Complementing the conference program, the organising committee is currently investigating the possibility of offering a complimentary tour of JCU's dental clinic and facilities for interested delegates on the 25th and/or 26th of September, depending on numbers. A bus would be provided for the return journey from the conference venue to JCU. If you are keen on taking part in this excursion, please express your interest by adding this option to your registration. The maximum number is 25 participants per trip, and places will be offered in order of registration. Please note that opting into this excursion will mean a 1.5 - 2 hour absence from the conference (includes travel time).
Sessions
Registrations Open
Conference Opening Ceremony
Plenary Lecture 1
Resorbable 3D printed scaffolds for alveolar bone regeneration: Benchside to chairside
It is our great pleasure to welcome Professor Sašo Ivanovski as our first plenary speaker... More
Prof Sašo Ivanovski
It is our great pleasure to welcome Professor Sašo Ivanovski as our first plenary speaker at the 2024 IADR Conference in Cairns, presenting a lecture on.3D printed scaffolds for alveolar bone regeneration: Benchside to chairside.
Sašo Ivanovski is the Head of School at the University of Queensland School of Dentistry in Brisbane, Australia and Director of the Centre for Orofacial Regeneration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (COR3). He combines this position with part time specialist private practice in periodontics and surgical implant dentistry. He is a Senior Fellow of the International Team of Implantology (ITI) and currently sits on the Board of the Osteology Foundation and the ITI Research Committee. Sašo has also served as federal president of the Australasian Osseointegration Society (AOS), the Australian Society of Periodontology (ASP) and the International Association for Dental Research (ANZ Division), as well as Chair of the Australian Dental Research Foundation Research Advisory Committee. He has published over 300 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and leads an internationally recognized research group with an interest in oro-dental regeneration and tissue engineering, as well as clinical periodontics and implant dentistry
Morning Tea
Colgate Poster Competition Juniors
Colgate Poster Competition Seniors
Symposium 1
ACODS
Best Evidence Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Student Professionalism
Chair: A/Prof Delyse Leadbeatter
Oral Session 1
Craniofacial
Buffet Lunch
Symposium 2
Causal inference approaches using observational data – the scientific framework and future directions for dental research
Chair: Prof Loc Do
Oral Session 2
Education
Colgate Posters general viewing
Afternoon tea
Oral Session 3
Endodontics
Oral Session 4
Microbiology/Iimmunology
Welcome Reception
Registration
Plenary Lecture 2
Colgate Eminent Speaker Plenary Lecture
Achieving Universal Oral Health Coverage for all is necessary but not sufficient
Colgate Eminent Speaker We are delighted to welcome Marco as the Colgate Eminent Speaker to the... More
Prof Marco Peres
We are delighted to welcome Marco as the Colgate Eminent Speaker to the 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the IADR ANZ Division in Cairns. Marco graduated from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) Faculty of Dentistry, Brazil, with a PhD in Epidemiology from USP and University College London. After almost 20 years in the Department of Public Health at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2012, Marco was appointed Professor and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health University in Adelaide, Australia. In 2018, he took a position as a Professor of Dental and Oral Health Research at Griffith University. Currently, he is the Deputy CEO for Research and education, Senior Principal Investigator at the National Dental Research Institute Singapore and Professor and Director of the Academic Clinical Programme Oral Health, Health Services and Systems Research Programme, and SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His research areas of interest include global health, the effectiveness of health-related policies, health services research, big data linkage, health surveillance, fluorides, inequalities in health, life course epidemiology and the relationship between oral health and general health. Marco is a founder member of the International Centre for Oral Health Inequalities Research and Policy (ICOHIRP) based at University College London, United Kingdom, a former member of the Brazilian Commission of Social Determinants of Health and a member of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Collaboration, the deputy chair of the Expert Working Group for Fluoride of the Australian and New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values for Fluoride, a member of the Oral Health Expert Group of the Australian Burden of Diseases 2011 and 2015 Studies. He was the President of the International Association for Dental Research Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network and a member of the Lancet Commission on Oral Health. Marco has been cited among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2021 and 2022. He received the 2017 International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award for Global Oral Health Research. Marco has supervised 40 postgraduate students and authored three books, 15 book chapters, 300 peer-reviewed papers and received more than 20 million AUD in research competitive grants. His work has received over 27,000 citations and an H index of 86. Marco is the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Singaporean Translational Research Award (STaR).
Morning Tea
Symposium 3
Strengthening Dental Public Health in Australia: Local Actions, Policies, and Workforce Development
Chair: Bradley Christian and Arash Ghanbarzadegan
Oral Session 5
Paediatric Dentistry
Oral Session 6
Periodontics
General Poster Session 1
- Digital Dentistry
- Oral Health
- Dental Materials
- Oral Medicine
- Endodontics
Buffet Lunch and IADR AGM
The IADR Annual General Meeting will take place in the Kuranda Ball room from 12:30-13:30.
Symposium 4
Building the evidence to foster an anti-racist dental health system in Australia
Chair: Dr Dimitra Lekkas
Oral Session 7
Implantology & Prosthodontics
Oral Session 8
Oral health 1
General Poster Session 2
- Education
- Geriatric Oral Research
- Microbiology
- Digital Dentistry
- Periodontics
- Maxillofacial
- Minimally Invasive Dentistry
- Cariology
Afternoon tea
Plenary Lecture 3
Bioactive materials for oral health: Present and future
Professor and Chair, Department of Dental Biomaterials Professor, Joint Research Laboratory of... More
Prof Satoshi Imazato, DDS, PhD
It is our great privilege to welcome Professor Satoshi Imazato, the 101st president of the IADR (2024-2025), as a plenary speaker at the 2024 IADR Conference in Cairns, presenting a lecture on Bioactive materials for oral health: Present and future. Professor Imazato has been actively involved in IADR for more than 30 years (President of the IADR Dental Materials Group and President of the Japanese Division of IADR, just to name a few) has served within several dental organisations and as an editorial board member for numerous journals, including as a current member of the Journal of Dental Research Editorial Board.
During his 35-year impressive research career, Professor Imazato focused on dental materials/ biomaterials sciences, with one of the highlights being the invention of the world's first antibacterial adhesive system that allows minimally invasive restorative treatment. As a dentist and dental scientist, he has published over 300 highly-cited papers in a variety of fields, including restorative/prosthetic dentistry, cariology, endodontology, pulp biology, and regenerative medicine, and was the recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award (Wilmer Souder Award) in 2020. We are greatly honoured to welcome Professor Imazato and are looking forward to his presentation.
Gala Dinner & Awards Night
Registration
Symposium 5
Improving oral health of children from refugee & migrant backgrounds
Chair: A/P Dr. Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla
Oral Session 9
Oral Health 2
Morning Tea
Oral session 10
Multimorbidity, Polypharmacy, and Oral Health
Oral Session 11
Digital Dentistry and e-oral Health
Conference Closing
Contact the event organiser
Get in touch with the event organisers by using this form or email direct to dentistryevents@jcu.edu.au.
James Cook University (JCU) is delighted to host the IADR ANZ's Annual Scientific meeting, with the ongoing and very generous support of Colgate as the principal sponsor and ACODS as further valued sponsor.
