Full Academic CV
Michael Geoffrey Woods
Professor of Dentistry and Oral Health, Academic Lead in Orthodontics
Latrobe University Rural Health School
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Senior Consultant, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit
The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Melbourne Health network
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Career Highlights
1979 The University of Melbourne, First Class Honours and First Place on the BDSc degree class list
1987 The University of Oklahoma, The University President's Award for the best applied research projects by a graduate student or junior faculty member in the university. The mechanics of lower incisor and molar intrusion - experiments in growing and non-growing baboons
1993 American Board of Orthodontics, certified as Diplomate (the first Australian to take Australian records to the American Board)
1994 Australian Society of Orthodontists, Appointed to Federal Council as Chairman of
Federal Public Relations committee
1996 The University of Melbourne, appointed Associate Professor, Head of Orthodontics, Director of the orthodontic graduate program and orthodontic research
1997 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Australian Orthodontic Journal
1999 The University of Melbourne, Doctor of Dental Science. (Chief examiner, Dr. Thomas Graber, Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics)
2000 American Association of Orthodontists, Nominated by the South-western Society of Orthodontists for the Joseph and Ida Jarabak International Teachers’ Award
2002 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Australian Dental Journal
2004 Inducted as a full member of the Edward H Angle Society of Orthodontists (North Atlantic component)
2004 The University of Melbourne, promoted to Professor and appointed Inaugural Chair of Orthodontics in the university
2005 The University of Melbourne, appointed Head of Growth and Development Unit,
Melbourne Dental School
2008 Australian Society of Orthodontists, Inc ., Distinguished Service Award
2014 Australian Society of Orthodontists, Inc., PR Begg Research Award, “the ASO
Foundation’s most prestigious Award” (Medal and AU$10,000)
2015 Australian Society of Orthodontists’ Foundation for Research and Education, the Gerry Dickinson lecture
2016 The first recorded lecture to be placed on the ASOFRE website:
Studies in the effects of contemporary orthodontics: Art and Honesty
http://www.asofre.org.au/continuing-education/#michael-woods
2017 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the World Federation of Orthodontists
2017 “Leela Kharbanda Oration” and award for 20 years continuous volunteer university teaching throughout South and South-East Asia. 2nd South Asia International OrthodonticCongress, Kathmandu
2017 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Japanese Journal of Orthodontics
2017 Appointed as Assessor for the major Australian Society of Orthodontists’ research awards
2018 Australian Society of Orthodontists’, the Stephen Seward lecture
2019 Latrobe University, appointed Professor of Dentistry and Oral Health, Academic Lead in Orthodontics
2019/20 Australian Dental Association (Victorian Branch), Distinguished Service Award
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