NSW/ACT Regional Committee Scientific Meeting 2023

A/Prof Tino Mercado is a Periodontist. He has an affiliate Assoc Professor appointment at the Periodontal Postgraduate Program of University of Queensland and University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the ADA Service Medallion for 2021, for his “outstanding contribution to ADA and to the Oral Health Profession as a researcher, clinician, academic and administrator”. He is the Federal Vice President (2022-2024) for Australia and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists (ANZAP). He is the president of the Filipino Australian Dental Association (FADA). He recently completed his PhD on Peri-implant and periodontal plastic surgeries. He is the Candidate Advisor, Committee Member and Periodontal Examiner for Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS) since 2016.

Dr Christopher Ho is a Specialist Prosthodontist who received his Bachelor of Dental Surgery with First Class Honours at the University of Sydney. He completed postgraduate studies in the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry in Oral Implants at the University of Sydney, a Masters of Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics with Distinction from the University of London and Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics from the University of Sydney. He is Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, Special Field Member of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in Prosthodontics, Fellow of the College of General Dentistry and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. Dr Ho lectures extensively on aesthetic and implant dentistry both nationally and internationally. He is a visiting lecturer to the postgraduate programs at the University of Sydney, Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor at University of Puthisastra, Faculty member of the Global Institute for Dental Education and Visiting Lecturer at Kings College London, United Kingdom. He is Head of School of Postgraduate Dentistry at the Australasian College of Dental Practitioners. He is author of numerous publications, as well as Editor of the Wiley textbook “Practical Procedures in Aesthetic Dentistry” and “Practical Procedures in Implant Dentistry”.

A/Prof Richard Chan OAM graduated from the University of Sydney and completed his Master of Dental Surgery in 1983. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and was also a fellow of the College of Dental Surgeons Hong Kong (Prosthodontics), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Dental Surgery), Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Dentists. He was awarded the Pierre Fauchard Award 2010 for Excellence in the Science and Medicine of Dentistry by the American Biographical Institute He has practiced implant dentistry since the mid-1980’s and has published in international and Australian journals and has lectured extensively on restorative dentistry, implant surgery/GBR and prosthodontics in Australia, New Zealand, South-east Asia and United Kingdom. He is an Associate Professor in Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, and is on the faculty for Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (Prosthodontics). He was Program Director of Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Oral Implants) at the University of Sydney and is also an Honorary Associate Professor (Oral Rehabilitation) at the University of Hong Kong. He was a past President of the Australasian Osseointegration Society (NSW) Inc. and was in full time referral practice in Sydney limited to implant surgery and prosthodontics. He is passionate about the sharing of knowledge and real-life clinical experience with generations of students and clinicians that ultimately improved the quality of life of numerous patients. Richard was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to dentistry in 2019.