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Suzanne HanlinSuzanne completed her Masters degree in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Otago and obtained registration as a Prosthodontist in Victoria Australia. She worked in Prosthodontic practice in central Melbourne 2011 when she moved back to New Zealand to take up a teaching position as a senior lecturer with the University of Otago in the Department of Oral rehabilitation. She is a Past president of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch (ADAVB) and past Hon. Treasurer of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and College nominee to the Australian Dental Council. She has been associated with teaching at the University of Melbourne Dental School as a visiting clinical tutor to post graduate and undergraduate students and lecturer to Overseas Dentists in their registration training programme. Suzanne has lectured as a keynote speaker in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Her research interests are in clinical based research, implant dentistry and prosthodontics education. |
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Lara FriedlanderLara Friedlander qualified from Otago University in 1992. Thereafter she worked in hospitals and general practice whilst completing her Fellowship with the RACDS. In 1999, Lara completed her specialist training in Endodontics at Otago University and since 2008 has been a full time Senior Lecturer in Endodontics. She co-ordinates undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching in Endodontics and has been responsible for introducing and delivering advanced endodontic modules in rotary endodontics into the undergraduate BDS programme. She was recently invited to Switzerland to present the outcomes of this published work with other international Universities. Lara has lectured internationally with publications and research interests in endodontic education and improving clinical teaching and is an active member of the Oral immunopathology research group within the Sir John Walsh Research Institute. She is currently completing a PhD in Pulp angiogenesis and regenerative healing in immature permanent teeth. Most recently Lara has had key involvements in the establishment of New Zealand’s first Practice based Research Network (PBRN) known as ARCH (Applied Research through clinician’s hands) which aims to reduce translation of research into clinically useful initiatives that improve patient treatment outcomes in dental practices; and with research questions generated in the real world by practiced based clinicians. She is the lead researcher in the first two PBRN projects related to pulp capping practices in New Zealand |