Reconnext 2024
We are delighted to invite all members to join us, and your paediatric dental specialist community, at Reconnext 2024.
Stunning Coastal Location
- 26 – 28 September 2024
- Mantra, Mooloolaba, Australia
This year, the conference will be held in the beautiful coastal town of Mooloolaba in Queensland. Overlooking the ocean, the Mantra hotel provides the ideal venue for discovering the latest developments in paediatric dentistry while catching up with industry friends and colleagues.
With a program packed with informative sessions, as well as opportunities for interactive discussions and networking, Reconnext promises to be a truly engaging weekend of learning and fostering industry connections.
The conference will feature a diverse range of sessions, including:
Innovations in dental technology
Health equity and inequality
Emerging trends in dental practice
Keynote Speakers
We are thrilled to present some remarkable keynote speakers to set the agenda for the conference’s theme of ‘Digital Health: the potential and the reality’. Professor Andy Keeling will dive into the hot topic of technology and dentistry, with two sessions on the scope, application, and ethics of current advancements in AI, while Professor Dianne Shanley shines a light on the power of implementation science and co-design.
Professor Andy Keeling
Professor Andy Keeling studied computer science in the early nineties at the University of Bristol (UK) before switching to Dentistry, qualifying in 1999.
He worked in full time general practice for a decade before migrating to a full time University position at Leeds School of Dentistry. Over the past 15 years he has built and led the Digital Dentistry Group, with the aim of investigating and developing technological solutions to genuine clinical problems. Current work is focussed on accurately getting the patient into the computer, including 3D scanning, facial scanning, and dynamic articulation. A second strand of work involves 3D printing for dental training models and for dentures. Most of the work involves traditional software engineering combined with machine learning, followed by clinical trials.
Andy is a Senior Consultant for GC IaG (Switzerland) advising on all aspects of digital dentistry. A spin-out company was recently formed in Leeds to develop various outputs from his academic group and has received around GBP 3 million in funding to date from government grants and other investments.
Andy has authored over 50 peer-reviewed academic papers and regularly collaborates with other international groups.
Professor Andy Keeling
Professor Dianne Shanley is a clinical psychologist and expert in implementation science and co-design. She has held key leadership appointments responsible for the strategic direction of health services over the past 10 years.
She has been a chief investigator on grants totalling >$26M and is in the top 1% for world prominence in implementation science and evidence-based practice (SciVal 5May2022). Prof Shanley led the multi-disciplinary team that co-created a culturally-responsive strategy for monitoring developmentally not-on-track children in primary care (the Tracking Cube). Her approach integrated primary health care with specialist systems using community-driven solutions to solve health system challenges.
Prof Shanley led 5 successive multi-million dollar, multi-site projects funded by NHMRC, MRFF and the Commonwealth Department of Health to co-design, implement and validate the Tracking Cube. Her team was nominated for two national awards on community engagement, won the 2023 Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Research Impact award and the 2023 LuminaX healthtech start-up of the year.
Mark the dates and join us for what promises to be a highlight of both your professional and personal calendar!
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