Professor Michael Woods

Professor Michael Woods has practised specialist orthodontics for children and adults in Malvern/Armadale for 25 years continuously. He spent his school years locally at Scotch College, before moving on to the University of Melbourne and Ormond College. He is married to Dr Nevenka Tadic, also an orthodontist. He has three daughters - Brett, Shannon and Annabelle and two sons, Peter and James. Brett and Shannon went to Korowa Anglican Girls' School in Glen Iris.

Michael received his formal orthodontic education in Australia and the United States. He has Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Melbourne. He also has a Diploma in Orthodontics from The Royal College of Surgeons of England, a Certificate of Specialty from the University of Oklahoma and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. He has been elected to full membership in the prestigious Edward H Angle Society and to Fellowship in the International College of Dentists. He has received the Australian Society of Orthodontists' Distinguished Service Award (2008), the ASO's PR Begg Research Award (2014) and the Australian Dental Association (Victorian Branch) Distinguished Service Award (2019).

Michael has combined an academic career with specialist private practice. He is presently the Professor of Dentistry and Oral Health and Academic Lead in Orthodontics at Latrobe University. Prior to that, he held the inaugural Chair in Orthodontics at the University of Melbourne. For 28 years, has also been the Consultant Orthodontist to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is involved in a wide range of academic, research and clinical pursuits. He has examined widely in Australia and abroad. He has presented more than 150 invited lectures world-wide and has made more than a 100 contributions to the clinical and scientific peer-reviewed literature. He has especially introduced new concepts in late mixed-dentition treatment, orthognathic surgery and the clinical implications of different underlying vertical facial patterns. Having reviewed for all the major peer-reviewed journals in the field, he has previously been a member of the formal Editorial Boards of the Australian Dental Journal and the Australasian Orthodontic Journal. He is at present a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the World Federation of Orthodontists and the Japanese Journal of Orthodontics.

 Dr. Nevenka Tadic

BDS (Adel), BScDent (Adel), DCD (Melb), MOrthRCS (Edin)
Certified by the Australasian Orthodontic Board
Member of the Australian Society of Orthodontics

Dr. Tadic received her Dental degree from the University of Adelaide with a number of clinical prizes. She then gained wide experience in general dental practice in both Adelaide and Mildura and completed a Research Degree in Dentistry before entering the full-time three year Graduate Specialist Training Orthodontic Program at the University of Melbourne.

At the end of that program, she was awarded her Doctorate degree and was registered with AHPRA as a specialist orthodontist in 2006. Dr. Tadic was then appointed to a specialist private practice fellowship position in Sydney, where she completed additional training in Lingual Orthodontics and other advanced techniques.

As well as her dental and orthodontic degrees, Dr Tadic has also been awarded Membership in Orthodontics of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and has been formally certified by the Australasian Orthodontic Board. In 2008, Dr Tadic also founded Footscray Orthodontics, her own specialist private practice.