Professor Heiko Spallek serves as Head of School and Dean of The University of Sydney School of Dentistry. In 1993, Professor Spallek graduated from the School of Dentistry, Humboldt University Berlin where he continued his career and was appointed in the Department of Periodontology and also received his Dr. med. dent. in the field of dental material sciences. While at Temple University School of Dentistry, Philadelphia, he earned an MSBA with a concentration in Computer and Information Science from the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple in 2000. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course.
Professor Spallek is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, a graduate of the American Dental Education Association’s Leadership Institute and a Fellow of the International College of Dentists. His research has as its focus the development of educational resources for dental professionals, the innovative use of clinical decision support systems to improve health outcomes and the creation of online communities. He published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and a textbook for Dental Informatics that has been published in Germany and in the US. His projects have a foundation in the fields of education, usability engineering, medical and dental informatics and computer science. He has served as principal investigator of several NIH-supported research projects aiming to improve the adoption of Evidence-Based Dentistry. Recently, he was appointed as the Academic Lead Digital Health and Health Service Informatics for the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney providing leadership and guidance to ensure that digital health education and training is embedded in all health profession programs. In 2019, he became a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. Professor Spallek publishes a weekly Leadership Travel Guide Newsletter that provides first- hand guidance on what works and how it can be applied in leadership positions (https://www.subscribepage.com/leadership_signup) and member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Dentroid Technologies (https://dentroid.com/).
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Contact
- Phone: +61 439 320 490
- E-Mail: heiko.spallek@sydney.edu.au
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