The UQ College of Well being and Behavioural Sciences is proud to announce that following a global recruitment course of, Professor Saso Ivanovski has been appointed as the subsequent head of the UQ School of Dentistry.
Professor Ivanovski was beforehand chair of Periodontology and director of Analysis on the Faculty, a place he has held since 2017. He’s additionally director of the just lately established Centre for Orofacial Regeneration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.
“The UQ Faculty of Dentistry has gone from power to power lately, having efficiently navigated the re-location to a world-class facility inside the Herston Biomedical Precinct,” Professor Ivanovski stated.
“The varsity will now look to have interaction externally with the occupation and trade, in addition to different stakeholders and collaborators, to construct its nationwide and worldwide standing and fame.”
Professor Ivanovski holds a Bachelor of Dental Science (Honours), a Grasp of Dental Science (Periodontology) and PhD {qualifications} from UQ. He was the Basis chair and Professor of Periodontology at Griffith College from 2006-2017, the place he was deputy head of Faculty (Analysis) and established and led the specialist coaching program in periodontology, and was the self-discipline lead of periodontics and dental implantology.
Professor Ivanovski is the previous federal president of the Australian Society of Periodontology and the Australasian Osseointegration Society, and is president elect of the ANZ division of the Worldwide Affiliation of Dental Analysis. He’s a fellow of the Worldwide Crew of Implantology, the Academy of Dentistry Worldwide and the Worldwide School of Dentists.
A few of his analysis profession highlights embrace a NHMRC coaching postdoctoral fellowship at UQ’s Institute of Molecular Biosciences, a medical fellowship on the College School of London’s Eastman Dental Institute and quite a few NHMRC challenge grants.
Professor Ivanovski has greater than 180 publications within the peer-reviewed worldwide literature and a well-established document of aggressive grant funding from NHMRC and trade sources, together with latest funding as tutorial lead of the craniofacial and oro-dental analysis program within the Herston Biofabrication Institute, in collaboration with Metro North Hospital and Well being Service.
He was just lately recognised by The Australian’s Greater Schooling complement as Australia’s main researcher in dentistry.
