Dr. Robert Carmichael

Specialty:

Prosthodonist

About The Speaker

Dr. Robert Carmichael is a prosthodontist with over 25 years of experience in oral rehabilitation of patients of all ages with complex needs including: cleft lip and palate, oligodontia, craniofacial anomalies, trauma, tumor resection, and other rare disorders. He has well-established track records in clinical practice, teaching, research, hospital administration and outreach to communities in northern Ontario where he supervises the care of individuals with cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial disorders.

Dr. Carmichael is Chief of Dentistry and Director of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care Cleft Lip & Palate/Craniofacial Dental Programme at Holland Bloorview Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. He is also Coordinator of Prosthodontics at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. At both hospitals, Dr. Carmichael has pioneered dental treatments and technologies that have given several thousands of individuals with craniofacial and dental deformities the tools to participate fully in life. At Holland Bloorview, Dr. Carmichael leads a department fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, that offers the full range of specialized dental services, including pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics for children, adolescents and young adults with special health care needs. He has built a multidisciplinary department that integrates cutting­-edge research and teaching of future oral health­care specialists in the field of special care dentistry.

Dr. Carmichael is a life-long learner and educator. He received his undergraduate training at the University of British Columbia and his graduate training at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the University of Toronto. At Holland Bloorview, Dr. Carmichael has created a department which has garnered recognition at every level – internationally, nationally, and provincially. In education, Dr. Carmichael has supervised the training of many dozens of general dentistry residents, pediatric dentistry residents, prosthodontics residents and oral and maxillofacial surgery residents who have since gone on to pursue leadership positions across the country and beyond. He has been recognized nationally and internationally, notably by the International Team for Implantology (ITI) in Switzerland with their designation of his department in 2007 as a Clinical Scholarship Centre (along with 19 other centres around the world). The primary goal of the ITI Clinical Scholarship Program is to help young clinicians further their training in implant dentistry. The program also aims to foster international exchange as an enriching educational experience. Scholars have come from countries around the world, including Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India, Thailand, UK and Japan. Again, under Dr. Carmichael’s leadership, Holland Bloorview was selected by the International Team for Implantology in 2009 to join an international network of 6 other educational institutions around the world, including Harvard, the aim of which is to enhance dental implant education worldwide through formal educational programs.

Dr. Carmichael has been tireless in his pursuit of knowledge for the betterment of patient care. He values scholarship and has spent his career advancing the study of dental implantology. He has lectured worldwide, has more than 50 publications, and has translated several texts from German to English.  Currently his research ranges in scope from documenting the impact of dental implant therapy on the quality of life of youth with congenitally missing teeth, to the effects of antidepressant therapy on the success of dental implants in youth, to the use of virtual reality technology in managing the behaviour of children with autism undergoing dental treatment, and to the effect of inflammation around dental implants on circulating immune cells.

Dr. Lydia Hatcher

Specialty:

Pain Management

About The Speaker

MD, CCFP, FCFP, CHE, D-CAPM

Dr. Hatcher graduated with her MD in 1982 from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN).  She received certification with the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian College of Health Service Executives and holds a Diplomate with the Canadian Academy of Pain Management.

She has received the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s Mental Health Awareness Award.  As well, the College of Family Physicians of Canada awarded her a fellowship.

She has been a full-service rural family doctor, an emergency physician, full time academic and has a specialty in pain management and psychotherapy which she now does exclusively. Her focus is on a bio-psycho-social approach to pain management.   She uses pain-focused psychotherapy using CBT, ACT, Mindfulness and Positive Thinking.

She teaches chronic pain management across the country and internationally; this includes medical trainees, all health care providers, veterans and their families as well as many public lectures.

She is a medical inspector for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and an expert witness for the CMPA.   She Chairs a subcommittee for the National Opioid Use Guideline Group.  She is President of the Canadian Academy of Pain Management and a member of the Canadian Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain.

She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and a Clinical Associate Professor at MUN.

Dr. Brian Jafine

Specialty:

Endodontics

About The Speaker

Dr. Brian Jafine graduated with a Bachelor of Science and received his DDS degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry in Ontario, Canada. He has been a practicing Endodontist for 30 years, and received his post graduate degree in Endodontics from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, MA. Dr. Jafine’s emphasis is on patient comfort, as well as keeping up-to-date with the latest advancement in endodontic techniques, enabling him to provide the best quality of care for his patients. He has a wide range of experience in different areas of endodontics, from root canal treatments to microsurgery. His expertise is also frequently called upon by referring dentists for endodontic retreatment. Dr. Jafine is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Dental Associations, as well as the American Association of Endodontics. He is also a member, and has served as President, of three specialty organization: the Canadian Academy of Endodontics, the Ontario Society of Endodontists and the George Hare Endodontic Study Club. Dr. Jafine’s specialty practice, Partners in Endodontics, strives to utilize the best in current sterilization and endodontic treatment techniques. Specialty equipment in his two office locations includes surgical operating microscopes and digital radiography systems in order to provide the optimum in endodontic care for patients requiring root canal treatment.