'Lage landen' Oral Health Faculties Meeting

Saturday, 7th September 2024 - 10:00 to 14:00

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Timezone:

CEST (Brussels time)

Duration:

5 hours

The Faculty Club: Sint Barbara

Session synopsis:

A meeting of the faculties of Belgian and Dutch oral health teachers, focussing on key regional challenges and priorities.

Programme:

10:00	Welcome and outline of session objectives
10:15	SHARING as a form of collaboration Presentation of Dominique Niesten: ‘Edemtet.EU: eCampus for Dental Education supporting multidisciplinary team-based learning and evidence-based treatment planning’ Followed by Q&A
11:00	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to enhance collaboration Presentation of Jens Bürger: ‘The KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence’ Followed by Q&A
11:45	Comfort break
12:00	Break out group discussions Question 1: Sharing as a form of collaboration: How can we implement this initiative in the Lage Landen? Specific plan with deadlines for follow up Question 2: AI to enhance collaboration How can AI help in dental education in the setting of the Lage Landen? Which initiatives/tools/ resources do already exist and how to share them? Question 3: Understaffing in academia: how to tackle it in the Lage Landen? Question 4: How to implement WHO’s strategic health plan in dental education? Are there first approaches to do so in the Lage Landen? How can we collaborate?
12:35	Summary of the findings of the groups
12:55	Conclusions and future steps

Chair:

Katleen Vandamme

Professor of Periodontology

KU Leuven, Belgium

Katleen is professor of periodontology at the KU Leuven Belgium, where she also holds the position of Coordinator of the Institute of Osseointegration KU Leuven since 2016. She has authored more than 70 research papers and her research interests include evidence-based Dentistry, biomedical (oral health) sciences, mechanobiology in implant osseointegration, implant surface properties, bone biology (in particular impaired bone conditions such as diabetes), skeletal tissue engineering, osteoprogenitor cell biology, teaching modalities and analytics. Katleen is a member of ADEE's regional council and chair of this years ADEE local organising committee.

Maria Cadenas

Assistant Professor of Orthodontics

KU Leuven

Maria is Assistant Professor at the section of Orthodontics of the Department of Oral Health Sciences of KU Leuven University, Belgium, where she is involved in postgraduate training and is responsible of the orthodontic research output. Her research interests are Biology of Tooth Movement, Root resorption, Tooth Transplantation and Cleft Lip and Palate. She has worked as a clinical orthodontist since 2012, mainly on patients with Cleft lip and Palate, Craniofacial syndromes, multiple congenitally missing teeth, enamel and dentin abnormalities and dental trauma.

She also coordinates the international relations of the school of Dentistry of KU Leuven and is Councillor of the Orthodontic Research Group (ORG) of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), member of European Orthodontic Society (EOS) and the Digital Taskforce of the Network of Erasmus Based European Orthodontic Programs (NEBEOP), where she leads the development of the NEBEOP Web Academy, and online platform for postgraduate teaching in orthodontics.