ACTA – Amsterdam (7th/8th April 2016)

Saliva, Salivary Glands and the Dental Curriculum

‘…whetting the apatite for learning’

A summary of the meeting can be seen by following this link.

Please click on the session title below to see ‘PowerPoint’s of plenary presentations delivered at the meeting (Note: not all items listed here are linked and not all presentations at the meeting are listed)

Thursday 7^th April 2016

Session 1 (Chair: Dr Jon Bennett)

• Introduction  (Dr Henk Brand, Committee Member ABSTD/Local Organiser, ACTA and  Dr Jon Bennett, President ABSTD)
• Welcome  (Dr. R.C. Gorter,  Director of Education, ACTA)

Session 2 (Chair: Professor Paul Anderson)

• What do I need to know about Saliva and Salivation? – The Student’s View (Ms Fionnuala Loy, Senior Dental Student, Trinity College Dublin, Eire)
• Salivary Biology for Dental Practice (Professor Mark Hector, Dundee, UK.)

Session 3 (Chair: Professor Concha Martinez)

• The ‘Anatomage’ table – new technologies and Anatomy teaching (Dr Siobhan Moyes, Plymouth, UK.)

Free Oral Presentations:

• From hypothesis to curricular content in biomedical science: Methodology for projects applied to European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in Dentistry. (Dr Aranzazu Balfagon , Universitat Interacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
• From Biomarkers to a Regeneration Model – A Journey Inside Salivary Glands. (Dr Mihnea-Ioan Nicolescu, Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania)

Friday 8^th April 2016

Session 4 (Chair: Dr Louise Belfield)

• Saliva and Biomineralisation (Professor Paul Anderson, QMUL, London, UK.)
• Function of Salivary Glands (Professor Gordon Proctor, Kings, London, UK)

Session 5 (Chair: Dr Ben Scheven)

• Student Learning and Staff Involvement in the Biomedical Sciences in Contemporary Clinical Curricula (Professor Anton de Goeij, Maastricht, Netherlands.)

Free Oral Presentation:

• Understanding Saliva – yesterday, today and tomorrow. (Dr Josie Beeley. Glasgow, UK)

Session 6 (Chair: Dr Henk Brand)]

• Salivary Diagnostics (Dr Toon Ligtenberg, ACTA, Amsterdam, Netherlands.)
• Key issues in Salivary Pathophysiology (Professor Arjan Vissink, Groningen, Netherlands.)

Session 7 (Chair: Dr Josie Beeley)

• New Frontiers for Biomedical Science in Oral Curricula – the Needs of Emerging Dental Professions (Dr Louise Belfield, Peninsula, UK)
• Concluding Remarks and Close