The ADM proudly presents

2026 Webinar and Live Q & A

Thursday, March 12, 2026

6:00 pm Malaysia Time (MYT), 11 am Europe (CET – Belgrade/Paris)
10:00 am United Kingdom (GMT), 7:00 am Brazil (BRT), 5:00 am USA (EDT – New York)

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(Webinar to be held on Zoom and will last about an hour and a half.)

Making Dental Adhesion Last: Practical Advances in Adhesive Modification for Everyday Clinical Success

 

Presenter:

Associate Professor Dr Umer Daood
PhD (HKU), MSc Dent. Mater. (QMUL London), MSc Oral. Sci. Biomat. (NUS Sing.), MSc Molecular Medicine (IMU, MY), MFDS RCPS Glasgow, Cert. Perio. (Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolich Center London, BDS (Pak).
Head of Restorative Division, School of Dentistry, IMU University Research Lead, School of Dentistry, IMU University
IRDI Academic Research Fellow, IMU University
Honorary Assistant Professor, Dental Materials Science, Applied Oral Sciences & Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong
Editor-in-Chief, The International e-Journal of Science, Medicine and Education (le)SME), IMU University

 

 

Panelists:

Prof. Abdul Samad Khan is a distinguished academician, clinician, and researcher in Dental Biomaterials at the College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He obtained a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 1999 from Pakistan, earned his MSc (2005) in Dental Materials with Distinction, and PhD (2009) in Dental Biomaterials from Queen Mary University of London, UK. He had his postdoctoral associateship at the University of Sheffield, UK. Holding fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the UK Higher Education Academy. Prof. Khan teaches Dental Materials and Clinical Restorative Dentistry to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and actively supervises numerous postgraduate research projects. His scholarly work focuses on developing a strategy towards amalgamation of clinical and basic science research. His area of interest is the development of bioactive restorative materials for dental and biomedical applications. He has been providing consultancies to dental and biomedical Industries.

Professor Khan has successfully secured multiple national and international research grants, published extensively in leading journals, presented regularly at scientific conferences, and holds several U.S. patents in dental biomaterials. A Fellow of the Academy of Dental Materials and an active member of the IADR Dental Materials Group, Prof. Khan has been consistently listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022–2024) by Stanford University, recognizing his global research impact and academic excellence.

 

Dr. Vesna Miletic is Professor and Director of Restorative Dentistry and Director of Academic Career Development at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Dental School. Prof. Miletic is also Adjunct Senior Scientist at The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston, The Houston Center for Biomaterials and Biomimetics (USA) and Visiting Professor at University of Belgrade School of Dental Medicine (Serbia). She has more than 20 years of clinical practice, research and teaching in dentistry, particularly restorative dentistry and endodontics.

Her research interests involve all aspects of restorative dental materials and more recently innovations in dental education. Prof. Miletic has more than 80 bibliographic references (scientific papers and book chapters), multiple invited talks at national and international events and 4 national patents. She supervised 8 completed PhD and 1 MPhil theses and is currently supervising 5 PhD/MPhil students.

Prof. Miletic is an expert evaluator for the European Research Agency and editorial board member in three leading dental journals. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Dental Materials (FADM) and Senior Fellow of Advanced HE (SFHEA). She was awarded several international and national awards for excellence, including the IADR Centennial Emerging Leader Award in 2020.

 

Professor Dr. Jukka P. Matinlinna is a tenured professor of applied dental sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the immediate past division head at the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Jukka has been also working in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Hong Kong, where he joined HKU in 2008 to work 12 years. He possesses multiple honorary professor affiliations. His team at HKU has launched two massive open online courses (MOOC) on dental biomaterials. He is into inter alia e-learning in dentistry, problem-based learning, 3D-printed biomaterials in prosthetic and implant dentistry, AI in dentistry, and adhesive & silane chemistry in dentistry. Jukka’s h-index is today 65 with 17,000 citations since 2002, with over 400 publications. He is a member of editorial boards of several dental journals and a frequently invited and keynote speaker at universities and international fora.