Sat 12 July 2025 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
OTD networking and CPD event for ADC candidates and graduates
The Overseas Trained Dentists (OTD) Advisory Group advises the Australian Dental Association Victorian Branch (ADAVB) on the needs, concerns, and aspirations of Australian Dental Council (ADC) candidates and graduates. The Group also provides feedback on ADAVB initiatives and programs.
Come along to our CPD day for Overseas Trained Dentists, and hear about our new OTD Advisory Group, dentistry in the Australian context, infection control, the Therapeutic Guidelines update, stress management and more. Connect with peers and learn about the support of ADAVB.
9:00am Registration
9:30am Introduction to the OTD Advisory Group Ms Ilsa Hampton and Dr Ramini Shankumar
9:50am Update from ADAVB CPD Committee and useful tips for understanding dentistry in the Australian context Dr Wessam Atteya
10:10am Advisory Group member experiences
10:20am Therapeutic Guidelines update Dr Mat Lim
10:50am Advisory Group member experiences
11:00am Infection Control Guidelines Standard AS 5369:2023 Ms Amanda Brown
11:45am Stress reduction – what are your strategies? Ms Ilsa Hampton
12:05pm Dentist-patient communication tips - Dr Ahmed El-Hadidi
12:55pm Closing remarks Dr Ramini Shankumar
1.00pm LUNCH
Presented by Ms Ilsa Hampton, Dr Ramini Shankumar, Dr Wessam Atteya, Dr Mat Lim and Ms Amanda Brown
CPD hours: 4 non-clinical hours
RSVP: Friday, 4 July 2025
Please note: Photographs may be taken at this event and may be used on the ADAVB website, social media or publications to promote ADAVB events and ADAVB membership. Please advise us if you do not wish to be photographed.
Schedule
9:00am Registration
9:30am Introduction to the OTD Advisory Group Ms Ilsa Hampton and Dr Ramini Shankumar
9:50am Update from ADAVB CPD Committee and useful tips for understanding dentistry in the Australian context Dr Wessam Atteya
10:10am Advisory Group member experiences
10:20am Therapeutic Guidelines update Dr Mat Lim
10:50am Advisory Group member experiences
11:00am Infection Control Guidelines Standard AS 5369:2023 Ms Amanda Brown
11:45am Stress reduction – what are your strategies? Ms Ilsa Hampton
12:05pm Dentist-patient communication tips - TBC
12:55pm Closing remarks Dr Ramini Shankumar
1.00pm LUNCH
Speakers
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Mathew Lim 
BDS, BScDent (Hons), DCD (SND), PhD, FSCD RCS Ed, FRACDS, FSCD, FiADH, FICD, FPFA
Affiliations: Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne; Central Clinical School, Monash University; Alfred Health; Royal Melbourne Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor Lim is a young clinical leader and clinician-scientist. He is one of only 29 registered specialists in special needs dentistry, specialising in the management of patients with complex health needs and disabilities. He currently practices in Melbourne in the hospital sector with appointments at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and The Alfred, where he is also the Director of Dental Services.
Mathew also has academic appointments at the Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Monash University and at the Melbourne Dental School. These roles include Senior Lecturer in Special Needs Dentistry, Co-Coordinator of the final year of the Doctor of Dental Surgery program, and Convenor of the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (Special Needs Dentistry) degree. He had a diverse research background that ranges from clinical research into the evidence-based management of patients with bleeding conditions, to public health research focussed on understanding the challenges experienced by people with disability in relation to their oral health and improving oral health workforce capability to address the growing population of patients with complex medical needs and disabilities.
Mathew is Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Special Needs Dentistry and contributes regularly to local and international advisory committees and working parties, including being on the expert panel for the soon to be released Version 4 of the Oral and Dental Therapeutic Guidelines.
Ms Amanda Brown 
Cert. in Infection Control and Sterilisation, Cert. in Dental Nursing (RDHM), Cert. III in Health - Sterilising Practice
Ms Brown has extensive clinical experience in both private and public dental practice and currently works for the Australian Dental Association – Victorian Branch, providing IPC support and CPD education to members and their staff.
Amanda is a member of the Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control and the Sterilising Research & Advisory Council of Australia - Victorian Branch
Dr Wessam Atteya 
General Dentist
Clinical Lecturer - University of Melbourne
BDS Cairo, ADC Melb, FRACDS Syd, MFDS RCS Ed
MFD RCS Ire, MFDS RCS Eng, MFDS RCPS Glasgow
Originally from Cairo-Egypt, Dr Atteya has had over 25 years of experience as a dentist. He moved to Australia in 2010, and he now calls Melbourne home.
Wessam believes that “continuous professional education” is a journey not a destination, so he has pursued and attained several reputable post-graduate certifications including the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS) and the Memberships of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (MFDS-RCS) in Edinburgh, Ireland, England, and Glasgow.
Dr Atteya is a mentor and a clinical lecturer and an examiner for the final year dental students at the University of Melbourne. He was also appointed as an adjunct lecturer at La Trobe University where he was focusing on treatment planning in General Dentistry for dentists and oral health therapists. He also lectures on Clear Aligner Therapy, Dental implants, and Dental Career/Business Development.
As a clinician, Dr Atteya has worked in multiple private practices in Melbourne where he gained an extensive valuable experience and still enjoys all aspects of dentistry, with particular interest in Periodontics, Implant Dentistry as well as Oral Surgery.
Wessam believes that excellent dentistry provided with compassion have a long lasting, profound effect on a patients’ lives. His motto is “Quality dentistry, quality life’.
Dr Wessam Atteya is affiliated with:
- RACDS (Fellow and Treasurer of the VIC/TAS Committee)
- ADAVB (Member and Serving on the CPD Committee since 2017)
- University of Melbourne (Clinical Lecturer and Fellow)
- La Trobe University (Adjunct Lecturer)
- International Team for Implantology “ITI”
- Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Ireland, and England
- Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Dr Ahmed El-Hadidi 
BDS, MRACDS(GDP), DCD(PERIODONTICS)
Dr El-Hadidi completed his specialty degree in Periodontics from the University of Melbourne following his 15 years of practice as a general dentist. He graduated from Cairo and then moved to Australia in 2010, where he practiced in Launceston, then Sydney, before settling in Melbourne in 2016.
While practicing all fields of dentistry, Ahmed's passion and interest were in the fields of periodontics and implant dentistry, motivating him to join the specialty program in 2020 at the university of Melbourne.
His research thesis aimed to identify the DNA mutations increasing the susceptibility to periodontal disease. This will help build a susceptibility profile for our patients, enabling us to offer them a tailored management plan and thus apply the precision medicine principle. Ahmed is a member of ADA, AOS, ASP, and ITI organizations, which helps continuously update his professional knowledge.
Ahmed provides a range of procedures, including non-surgical/surgical periodontal therapy, regenerative procedures, hard and soft tissue grafting, aesthetic procedures (e.g. crown lengthening, managing recession defects), and all aspects of implant dentistry.
