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Dr Anne Stewart BDS (Glas)
President
Anne joined Council in 2004 and was elected President in 2010. She has served on the Finance and Audit Committee, chairs the ADC Candidate Mentoring and Support Ad Hoc Committee and represented the Branch on the Melbourne Dental School Undergraduate Studies and Curriculum Review Committee. She is a past Chair of the Mid-Western Group. She is a founding partner in a large general practice in Ballarat.
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Dr Matthew Hopcraft BDSc (Melb) MDSc (Melb) BA (Deakin) PhD (Melb)
Vice President and Vice Chair Finance and Audit Committee
Matt joined Branch Council in 2005 and the Executive in 2009. He has served on the Branch’s Continuing Professional Development Committee, chaired the Public Dentistry Committee, and is a member of the ADA Inc. Special Purpose Committee Internship. Matt is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Dental School. He was a Faculty Board member at the School and is Honorary Treasurer of the International Association for Dental Research (Australia and New Zealand Division). Matt won the WM & AV Eggleston Trust Excellence in Teaching Award 2006 and was recipient of the Colonel MGT Kenny Award 2004 for exemplary service to the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps. He received the IADR (ANZ) Award in Preventive and Community Dentistry in 2005.
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Dr Anne Harrison BDSc (Hons) DCD (Melb) MRACDS (Endo)
Immediate Past President
Anne is the Immediate Past President of the Branch. She joined Council in 2003, having chaired the Recent Graduates Committee. She is a member of the Membership Survey Committee and has represented the Branch on the Melbourne Dental School Advisory Committee and on the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services Board, the University of Melbourne. She was also Branch representative on the School’s Clinical Outplacements Committee. Anne is an endodontist in Moonee Ponds and Wodonga and has been a volunteer with dental teams in Vietnam and East Timor.
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Dr Mark Bowman BDSc (Melb) FADI
Honorary Secretary and Federal Councillor
Mark was elected Honorary Secretary in 2010. He began service as secretary of Group Q in 1986, joined Branch Council 2004 and was Branch President (2007-08). He has served on several different committees and is currently a member of the Constitution Committee and chair of the Member Services Survey Committee. Elected to Federal Council in 2008, he is a member of the Federal Policy Committee. He is a past President Australian Society of Periodontology Vic Br (2003-04) and was elected Federal President ASP Inc. in 2010. He is a consultant with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and advisor to Department of Health and Ageing. He has a general practice in Hawthorn East.
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Dr Gordon Burt BDS (Lond), LDS RCS Eng, MS (Minnesota), MSc (Lond) FRACDS, MRACDS (Pros), FADI
Executive Councillor
Gordon’s involvement with the Branch began in 1996 when he joined the then Professional Education Committee, and was Chair of the CPD Committee from 2004-09. He is a member of the Dental Advisory Committee Department of Veterans Affairs, has been an Examiner and Convener Final Examination Australian Dental Council, Secretary of the Australian Prosthodontic Society Victorian Branch and the Federal body. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Rotary International Australia Vietnam Dental Project. He is a prosthodontist in Glen Iris.
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Dr Jo-Anne Cherry BDSc (Melb), LDS (Vic)
Executive Councillor
Jo-Anne has been a member of the Infection Control Committee since 2001 and currently is its Chair. She is a Demonstrator at the Melbourne Dental School and is in general practice in the City.
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Dr Andrew J. Barnes BDSc (Melb)
Federal Councillor
A Councillor since 1996, Andrew has served as Honorary Treasurer, Vice President and President (2001-02). He has been a member and Chair of the Legislation, Recent Graduates and Finance and Audit Committees. Andrew is currently Chair of the Disputes and Ethics Committee. Andrew is a consultant with the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Dental Advisor to the Department of Health and Ageing. He has also served on the Department of Human Services’ Dental Intern Working Party. He has a general practice in Mill Park.
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Dr Chris Callahan BA, BDSc (Melb), FRACDS FADI
Chris is a general practitioner in Malvern and a former Branch President (2005-06). He became Honorary Treasurer in 2003, a year after being elected to Branch Council. Chris was Honorary Secretary 2008-10. He currently serves on the Third Party Committee, Constitution Committee, and Chairs the Ad Hoc Committee in General Dental Anaesthesia. Chris is a Visiting Dentist at the Alfred Hospital, an external examiner for the Final Year BDSc Melbourne Dental School and is a panellist examiner for the General Stream of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. He is a procedural panel member for the Dental Board of Australia. Chris was a Senior Clinical Demonstrator in Undergraduate Removable Prosthodontics at the School.
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Dr Nathan Cochrane BDSc Hons (Melb), BDentStud (Melb), PhD (Melb)
Nathan was a member of the Third Party Committee for two years from 2003 and since then has been a member of the Oral Health Education Committee, which he currently chairs. He is also a member of the Federal Seal of Approval Committee and has been a Clinical Demonstrator at the Melbourne Dental School. Nathan is in general practice at Southbank as well as being a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Dental School and is the recipient of three prizes – CRC Early Career Scientist Award, Chancellor’s Prize and the R W Hession Award.
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Dr David J. Curnow BDSc (Melb)
David joined the Council in 1992, and taking the path to Presidency (2002-03) by being Honorary Treasurer and Vice President. He has served on numerous Standing and Ad Hoc Committees including Legislation, Infection Control, Constitution and Recent Graduates Committees. David is a representative on the Guild Liaison Committee and has chaired the Suburban Group L and Practice Administration Committees. He is a member of ADA Inc. Schedule and Third Party Committee. David has also acted as both Country Group Co-ordination and Suburban Group Co-ordinator. David was a recipient of the ADAVB Award for Distinguished Service (2009). His general practice is in Dandenong.
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Dr Bob Cvetkovic BDSc (Melb), LDS (Vic)
Bob joined Council in 2006, having been Secretary to Group E for four years and was also Treasurer of that Group. Through his work in Donate-a-Day, he is known to many simply as Dr Bob. He is a general practitioner in Camberwell.
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Dr Robert De Poi BDSc (Melb), MSD (Indiana) FRACDS
Robert was elected to Branch Council in 2008, having been Secretary of the 1993 ADA Congress Committee – Scientific Division and (continuing to be) a member of the Policy Advisory Committee Professional Provident Fund. He is a member of the Constitution Committee. He was Secretary and is President of the Australian Society of Periodontology Victorian Branch. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Dental School and part-time Clinical Instructor of the Graduate Periodontics program. He is a member of the CPD committee of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontology and was a member of the Student Advisory Committee of the American Academy of Periodontology. Robert was a member of the Victorian Regional Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons, the Australian Prosthodontics Society Victorian Branch and was a Clinical Demonstrator with the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry. His periodontal practice is in Moonee Ponds.
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Dr Neil Hewson BSc (Hons) (Monash), BDSc (Melb), LDS (Vic), FADI, FICD, FPFA
Federal President
Neil has served the dental profession in many ways starting as Secretary of Group R in 1985. He was President of the Branch in 1995/96, Branch Honorary Secretary 1997/2008.elected an Honorary Life Member of the Branch in 2001 and awarded the Dentistry Achievement Award in 2008. He has been a Branch Council member since 1987 and has represented the Branch on many occasions at meetings and on other organisations’ committees. Neil has chaired and served on most Branch Committees and currently is Chair of the Branch Constitution and Honours and Awards Committees. He has been a Federal Councillor (since 1996), has served on and chaired several ADA Inc committees, and was Federal President 2008/2010. In 2004 Neil’s contribution to the Melbourne Dental School was recognised when he was appointed a Senior Fellow and in 2009 a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is a director of the Australian Dental Research Foundation, the Australian Dental Association Foundation and the Australian Dental Council. Neil has a general practice in Heidelberg West in partnership with his brother Ian.
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Dr Ben Keith BDSc (Melb) MPH (Monash)
Ben is a Senior Lecturer at the Bendigo campus of La Trobe University. He is also a Sessional Member at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Manager of the Ben Keith Myanmar Project and a Board Member of The Otis Foundation. He is also the dentist at the Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative.
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Dr John Matthews BDSc (Melb), LDS (Vic), MDSc (Melb) FADI FICD
Immediate-Past Federal President
A member of Branch Council since 1992, John has held a number of offices including Executive Officer, Honorary Treasurer, Vice President and President. He has chaired numerous Branch committees and has represented the profession nationally on the NH and MRC (infection control), National Advisory Committee on Oral Health and in Victoria on the DPBV selection panel, Auditor-generals review of dental services and the DHS Dental Workforce Reference Group. His duties reflect his active involvement with the Branch and Federal body throughout much of his professional career. John is in general practice in Essendon.
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Dr Elizabeth Milford BDSc (QLD) MBA (MBS)
Elizabeth is a member of the Branch’s Finance and Audit Committee and Public Dentistry Committee and a past member of the Quality Assurance Committee. She is involved in policy development and implementation regarding workforce development of the public sector and is a casual lecturer of the BOH program. Elizabeth has managed the undergraduate teaching clinic at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne where she continues to be attached.
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Dr Greg Morris BDSc (Melb), LDS (Vic)
Chair, Finance and Audit Committee
A former Branch President (2006-07), Greg joined the Branch Council in 2004 after having been involved with a number of committees. He was Chair of the Dental Health Education Committee, Group E and served on the Graduate Education Committee. He has also been Secretary of the Dental Health Education Committee, GEC and Practice Management Committee. Greg is Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee and sits on the Quality Assurance Panel and the Third Part Committee. He has a general practice in Hawthorn.
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Dr Susan Wise BDSc (Melb), MDSc (QLD)
Susan Chaired the Dental Health Education Committee for four years from 2005. Susan continues to be involved in numerous non-Branch activities. She is a committee member of the Australian Society of Periodontology Victorian Branch, having served as Secretary/Treasurer. Susan was a committee member of the Victorian Women’s Dental Association and was actively involved in the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity’s Sydney and Melbourne Chapters. She has been a Demonstrator with the Melbourne Dental School, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. Susan was also an Examiner with the Australian Dental Council and dental school. Her periodontal practice is in McKinnon.
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