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Presentation Details
Date: Friday, April 10th, 2026 (Registration deadline: Wednesday April 8th, 2026)
Title: Poverty, the Canadian Dental Care Plan: Oral Health Advocacy?
Presenter: Dr. Mario Brondani
Presenter bio: Dr. Mario Brondani is a Professor and Chair of the Division of Dental Public Health at UBC’s Faculty of Dentistry. He holds a DDS, MSc, MPH, and PhD, and has authored over 150 publications. His work focuses on dental public health, education, and geriatrics, with an emphasis on equity, access to care, and social responsibility. He collaborates internationally and served as President of the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry (2017–2019).
Presentation Archives
Presentation occurred on: Wednesday, November 21, 2025
Title: Learning, Unlearning, and Practicing Cultural Safety in Clinical Dentistry
Presenter: Ms. Kim Trottier
Presenter bio: Kim graduated from the National School of Dental Therapy in 2001 and has been practicing for over two decades. Her cultural learnings have profoundly shaped her clinical practice and continue to guide how she supports both patients and providers. Through her teaching and mentorship, Kim brings warmth, humility, and honesty, sharing her own journey of learning and unlearning to encourage others in advancing their own cultural safety practice.
In this session, Kim will share her personal journey of learning, unlearning, and growing in cultural safety, shaped by more than a decade of working in partnership with Indigenous communities. Through story and reflection, she will highlight the pivotal experiences that transformed her approach to patient care, and the clinical insights that continue to influence her practice as a dental therapist.
Participants will be invited to reflect on cultural safety as an ongoing process of humility, self-awareness, and accountability. The session will also explore practical ways oral health professionals can weave these principles into their own practice, contributing to safer and more respectful healthcare experiences for Indigenous patients.
Presentation occurred on: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Title: Public Uptake of and Opinions on the Interim Canada Dental Benefit and Canadian Dental Care Plan – The Good and the Bad
Presenter: Dr. Bob Schroth, University of Manitoba
Presenter bio: Dr. Schroth is a Professor in the Departments of Preventive Dental Science and Pediatrics and Child Health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health, a dental clinician-scientist practicing out of two inner-city community-based clinics in Winnipeg, and is a leading expert on early childhood caries (ECC).
There are four sub-themes to his research:
- Relationship between early childhood oral health and well-being
- Epidemiology of ECC
- Promotion of early childhood oral health and prevention and management of ECC
- Access to care
In 2024, Dr. Schroth was awarded a five-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Applied Public Health Chair in Public Health Approaches to Improve Access to Oral Health Care and Oral Health Status for Young Children in Canada.
Presentation occurred on: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Presenter: Dr. Abdulrahman Ghoneim
Presenter bio: Dr. Abdulrahman Ghoneim is a dentist, registered dental hygienist, and dental public health specialist. He is a PhD candidate in the Discipline of Dental Public Health at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. He has over six years of research experience in dental public health and has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. His master’s research investigated the impact of non-clinical factors, specifically the competition between dental clinics, on the clinical decision-making of dentists in Ontario. His PhD is focused on estimating the return on investment of providing dental services to individuals who experience financial barriers to care. He strives to translate his research into evidence demonstrating the economic benefits of reducing oral health inequalities in Canada.