Dentistry Implementation at CSU

Dentistry Academic Opportunities

Join us in providing dentistry education in an innovative and progressive organisation. Charles Sturt University is establishing a new dental and oral health therapy program to support education and service delivery to inland Australia. Commencing in 2009, the program will be offered from the multi-campus School of Dentistry and Health Sciences which will operate from two teaching sites (Orange and Wagga Wagga) along with clinics on five campuses across NSW (Albury, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga).

In order to support this exciting initiative we invite suitably qualified individuals to express an interest in joining the dentistry program, firstly in an academic capacity and later in the program in a clinical capacity. Various roles exist for full-time, part-time and specialist participation, with recruitment occurring from now and continuing until the program is fully established in 2013.

Expressions of interest emailed to Professor Ward Massey should include a recent curriculum vitae, a description of qualifications (academic and/or clinical), experience relative to the delivery of dentistry, dental therapy and/or dental hygiene education, and indications of areas of potential contribution. Professor Massey’s contact is wmassey@csu.edu.au or phone (02) 6365 7883.

The following positions have already been filled:

Head of School

Professor Ward Massey commenced as Head of the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences in January 2008. He received his Bachelor of Dental Science from the University of Adelaide prior to commencing practice at the Broken Hill Mines Dental Clinic. After working in clinical practice around Australia for seven years, he took up an academic appointment at the University of Western Australia as Director, Oral Diagnosis & Radiology. He then moved to Sydney University as Sub-Dean for Curriculum before joining the University of Adelaide as the Clinical Director, Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research Centre.

Moving to the United States to pursue his academic career in 2003, he accepted an appointment with the University of Maryland before taking up an appointment as Assistant Professor in Restorative Dentistry & Biomaterials at Harvard University.

In November 2005 he returned to the University of Maryland as Professor in Endodontics, Prosthodontics & Operative Dentistry where he oversaw the construction of a new 7 storey dental education clinic which opened in 2007.

Professor Massey has a strong research background in oral health. In 1988, he was the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia four year postgraduate scholarship. His research has focused on bacterial pathogenic factors in pulpitis and periodontitis as well as auto-immune manifestations in carious pulpitis, chronic adult periodontitis and periapical periodontitis in both human and animal models.

In March 2002, he commenced clinical research activities at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), Gene Transfer and Therapeutics (GTTB) branch in Bethesda where he obtained funding for a protocol investigating the relationship between the presence of auto-immune disease and microflora found in the oral cavity of xerostomic patients.

He has recently been involved in a number of clinical trials, including being a co-investigator in an in-vitro study sponsored by John’s Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratories, in which laser pulse ultrasound is being utilized to detect interfaces in dental tissues.

Professor Massey is committed to the development of an internationally recognised dental and oral health program at CSU.