I am excited to share Reconnext 2024 with you, the official event of the Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry.

Our 2024 conference will be an opportunity to combine fun and sun with stimulating presentations and collegial conversations. We are hosting this year’s conference on the coastal town of of Mooloolaba, Queensland from 26 – 28th September 2024. While we bring our members together to re-energise and collaborate, we encourage you to consider bringing your partners or families with you to make the most of this stunning location.

The conference will kick off with the traditional Postgraduate Day on Thursday and the conference will wrap up on Saturday afternoon. Our plan is to watch the AFL Grand Final on Saturday afternoon together, though as a Kangaroos supporter, sadly, I doubt I will be a winner that day!

The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Digital Health: the potential and the reality’. We are excited to have two great keynote speakers in Andy Keeling, Professor of Prosthetics and Digital Dentistry from the University of Leeds and Professor Dianne Shanley from the Menzies Health Institute at Griffith University. Together they will lead a stimulating line-up of speakers from around the country, including several of our own talented members.

Over the course of the conference, we will interactively cover, the development of new technologies, share clinical insights and implications, as well as exploring the future benefits and bioethical issues for us as individual paediatric specialists and as health professionals more broadly.

There will also be an opportunity to hear about the research being conducted by our DCD students in the traditional 3-Minute-Thesis session.

I am already looking forward to this weekend, I hope you all consider joining us. Over the coming months we will be sharing more information on how to register and organise your invigorating trip to Mooloolaba!

Kind Regards,