Oral health meets e-health Symposium 2012

The Australian Government has committed to e-health and facilitating the electronic management of health information. This symposium will explore what e-health will mean to the dental profession, discussing an extensive range of teledentistry procedures and applications, as well as the opportunities and risks involved. Information will be shared on the impact e-dentistry may have on the patient, the provider and organisational challenges, as well as presenting examples of eHealth services and initiatives.

The event is suitable for oral health professionals, health and public health professionals, hospital and clinical directors, educators, public policy makers, students and all others interested in e-health and telehealth issues.

The symposium will be presented by the Oral Health CRC at the Melbourne Dental School, together with the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES), the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch. This is the sixth Oral Health Symposium in population oral health, addressing priority areas as established by Australia's National Oral Health Plan 2004 - 2013.

  

Program

The program will feature opportunities and challenges, ethical and social aspects, access and engagement and examples of successful projects.

We anticipate that speakers may include (TBC):

  • The Hon. Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy)
  • Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis (the University of Melbourne)
  • Melbourne Laureate Professor Eric Reynolds AO (the Melbourne Dental School, Oral Health CRC)
  • Prof Fernando Martin Sanchez (the University of Melbourne)
  • Dr Ann Borda (Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative)
  • Dr Merle Spriggs (Murdoch Children's Research Institute)
  • Mr Garry Pearson (Australian Dental Assocation Victorian Branch)
  • A/Prof Hanny Calache (Dental Health Services Victoria)
  • Dr Stephen Winn (the University of New England)
  • Dr Kathleen Gray (the University of Melbourne)

 

Downloan the draft program here http://www.oralhealthcrc.org.au/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=66809

 

Venues

Speakers will attend a venue such as the Melbourne Dental School in Carlton, with interactive-livestreaming occuring at several off-site venues. Attendees will be welcome at:

  • The Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne Carlton
  • The University of Melbourne, Shepparton campus
  • The University of Western Australia
  • The University of New England
  • or join us online.

Registrants at each of these venues will receive full instructions on registering. Five Continuing Professional Development (CPD points) will be available for practitioners attending.

 

Register

Registrations will be available in 2012.  To register your interest, please contact

Pamela Spencer-Gardner
pamelasg@unimelb.edu.au
03 6 9341 1552 
Oral Health CRC, Level 6, 720 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053. 

For more information about the symposium, please contact A/Prof Rodrigo Marino, Symposium Chair, rmarino@unimelb.edu.au or 03 9341 1558.

 

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