Biography

A/Prof Nghiem Doan

PhD, BDSc (Qld), MSc (London), MPH (Qld), GDCD (Sydney), FDS RCS (Ed), MRACDS (DPH),

FRACDS (DPH), FIAO, FIAOMS, FAACP

Oral Surgeon, TERM Scientist, Specialist in Public Health Dentistry & Dental Sedationist

Griffith University and The University of Queensland

Dr Doan received his Dental degree from the University of Queensland in 1988 and his multiple postgraduate educations from several universities in different parts of the world:

  1. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Eastman Dental Institute, University of London (1998);
  2. Master in Public Health, University of Queensland (2000);
  3. Postgraduate PhD Research and Oral Surgery Registrar from the University of Queensland (1999-2000);
  4. Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry in Conscious Sedation and Pain Management from University of Sydney (2003);
  5. PhD at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology.
  6. Fellow of International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS);
  7. Fellow of the International Association of Orthodontics (FIAO), achieved Senior Instructor from the International Association of Orthodontics (IAO) (2011);
  8. Specialist Membership in the field of Dental Public Health [MRACDS (DPH)] from the Royal Australasian College (2012).
  9. Fellow in Dental Surgery Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FDS RCS (Ed) (2019)
  10. Fellow of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain (FACCP) (2019)
  11. Specialist Fellowship in the field of Dental Public Health [FRACDS (DPH)] from the Royal Australasian College (2019).

He has multiple Specialist Registrations with the Dental Board of Australia: Oral Surgery, Public Health Dentistry (Community Dentistry), and Conscious Sedation.

Dr Doan is an Associate Professor at Griffith University School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and the Department of Biomedical Engineering School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and Queensland University of Technology Institute of Biomedical Innovation. Apart from the above institutes, Dr Doan also carried out collaboration research with Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy; Can Tho Oncology Hospital, and Fujian Medical University, China.

For the last 20 years, he has been as invited speaker to a number of conferences both locally and internationally on the Surgical and Regenerative Medicine, Sleep Apnoea and Pain Management, Implant Dentistry and Public Health Dentistry. Dr Doan has reviewed for numerous peer-reviewed journals. He has published more than 70 papers and abstracts on international referred journals and he is continually searching for new and innovative techniques to improve OMS Regenerative Medicine, Sleep related Craniofacial Pain and Implant Dentistry

Abstract

Healthcare informatics is defined as the area of science and engineering that intends at fostering approaches and technologies for the procurement, handling, and learning of patient data, that can derived from various sources and procedure, for an example electronic health information, diagnostic test outcomes, medical scans. The health field contributes a hugely broad diversity of issues that can be addressed utilizing computational techniques. Public Health informatics, which is the convergence of human, technology, and information to enhance the quality and safety of patient healthcare, can be seen in multiple ways. For examples encompass patient portals, electronic medical records (EMRs), telehealth, healthcare apps, and a variety of data reporting tools. Healthcare informatics is a continuum of multidisciplinary areas that consists of learning of the blueprint, progress, and application of computational transformation to enrich health care. The disciplines entailed integrate  medicine  discipline with computing domains, especially computer engineeringsoftware engineeringinformation engineeringbioinformaticsbio-inspired computingtheoretical computer scienceinformation systemsdata scienceinformation technologyautonomic computing, and behaviour informatics.

Several academic organizations, medical informatics investigation concentrates on use of artificial intelligence in healthcare and fabricate medical instrument built on embedded systems.  Moreover, in certain part of the world, the word informatics is employed in the situation of applying library science to information administration in healthcare settings.

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