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Speakers
Dr Andrew Tucker 
BDSc, MDSc, FRACDS, GradDipClinDent, FDSRCPS(GLasg), FRACDS(Perio)
Dr Tucker completed his dental degree at Melbourne University in 1987. He worked for ten years in general practice in Melbourne and Northern Australia before spending 3 years in UK in Hospital based oral surgery. He obtained Fellowships in UK and Australia
Upon returning to Australia in 2000 he undertook 3 year post graduate Periodontics at Melb Uni.
He has worked in specialist Private periodontics practice in Melbourne since 2004 and visits Shepparton monthly. He has also taught and examined postgraduates in Periodontics and Implant courses at Melb Uni since 2005.
Adj. A/Prof Melinda Newnham 
BDSc (W.A.) FRACDS DCD (Perio) FRACDS (Perio) FADI FITI FPFA FICD.
Melinda completed her undergraduate dental training at the University of Western Australia in 1995, specialist training in periodontics in Melbourne (2006), was awarded the ANZAP medallion in 2007 and gained fellowships to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 2004 (general stream) and in Periodontics 2006, the Academy of Dentistry International in 2017, the International Team of Implantology (ITI) in 2023, the Pierre Fauchard Academy in 2024 and International College of Dentistry in 2025.
Melinda has been a periodontist for 18 years working in private practice in Melbourne, is the consultant periodontist working with medically compromised and special needs patients at the Alfred Hospital, a clinical supervisor for periodontal postgraduate students at the University of Melbourne and is the academic lead for Periodontics at La Trobe University, Bendigo. In 2022, Melinda founded and co-directs the Women’s Implantology Network Australia (WIN), an ITI study group supporting female clinicians in the field of dental implantology.
Dr Hossam El-Haddad 
Hossam graduated from Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt) in 2006, and worked in both public and private sectors before relocating to Australia in 2010. Hossam obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 2015, and graduated with a Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics from The University of Melbourne in 2018. He has now joined a specialist practices in Essendon and Launceston, Tasmania.
