Meet the first six speakers for ADAQ's Annual Clinic Day 2024

For this year's clinic day, we will be advancing dental excellence through collaboration. We work in a profession where collaboration is in order to achieve predictable and meaningful results for patients. With presentations from not only leading dental professionals but also from allied health speakers.

ADAQ Annual Clinic Day is an opportunity for dental professionals, including dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, and the broader dental community to come together to learn about the latest developments and best practices in the field of dentistry.

Registrations are now open and we invite all ADAQ members, their dental team and allied health professionals to join us for 2024. Take a sneak peek at what is on offer for this year's Annual Clinic Day by exploring our speaker's topic, lectures and hands-on workshops.

Dr Rakesh Jivan | The role of patient-centred communication in enhancing dental treatment outcomes

Dr Rakesh Jivan graduated from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2000 and completed further studies in restorative dentistry at the Eastman Dental Institute, London. With over 20 years’ of experience in general practice, he has owned and operated multi-chair private practices in the UK and Australia. For over 10 years, he was a key opinion leader for 3M ESPE developing a passion for education, teaching and lifelong learning.
He has previously held the position of Clinical Director for Education at Pacific Smiles Group developing educational programs supporting over 700 dental practitioners in the group including their flagship Insight Graduate Program.
He regularly delivers face to face training programs in a variety of topics including communication skills, record keeping, consent and the National Law.
He is currently the Education Director and General Manager of DentalEDU and Anatomic4D developing comprehensive hands-on and online educational programs for dental practitioners within Australia.

Larissa Alderton | Understanding the potentials legal liabilities for failing to comply with infection control standards and steps taken to mitigate them

Larissa graduated with a Bachelor of Oral Health in Oral Health Therapy and Master of Health Management, with a focus on health care law and ethics and research.
Larissa has worked in the dental profession since 2004 with experience in private practice, the University sector and the NHS in the United Kingdom. Larissa’s academic background and clinical experience puts her in an ideal position to assist ADAQ members with patient complaints, health fund audits, regulatory notification and insurance queries.

Dr Adam Teo | Oral Medicine & Sleep in Dentistry

Dr Nymphia Naik | Early Intervention Strategies, Managing Dental Development Issues

Dr Patrick Lin | Diagnosis Protocols, Conservative Management Strategies and Surgical Interventions. Role of Orthodontic Treatment in TMD Treatment.

Emeritus Professor Laurie Walsh | Infection Control Standards, ADAQ Guidelines

Professor Laurence Walsh AO is a specialist in special needs dentistry who is based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, where he is an emeritus professor, having retired from UQ in 2020. Laurie has been teaching infection control and clinical microbiology for over 25 years at postgraduate level and was chief examiner in microbiology for the RACDS from 1999-2020.
Laurie has been a member of the ADA Infection Control Committee since 1998, and has been re-appointed as its chair for 2021, having previously served as chair from 2009-2014. He has contributed to various protocols, guidelines and checklists and manuals used in Australia.
He has presented invited courses and lectures on infection control across Australia and internationally. Laurie has written over 60 articles on infection control and in addition published over 200 journal papers on clinical microbiology. He currently serves on three committees of Standards Australia (personal protective equipment; and instrument reprocessing) and in recent years has been an adviser to the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.