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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 7047
Email
susan.moffat@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor and Convenor Bachelor of Oral Health programme
Department
Department of Oral Sciences
Qualifications
PhD BA (Otago) CertDentTher DPH
Research summary
Dental workforce, dental public health, and dental education

Research

Susan Moffat's principal research interests are in the fields of dental public health, dental therapy history, and dental therapy / oral health therapy education and workforce. Dental therapy is an academic discipline which has not (until recently) had a research tradition of its own, having relied traditionally on work undertaken in the disciplines of paediatric dentistry and dental public health. In that respect, Susan has been one of the pioneers in dental therapy research, and her work has laid some of the groundwork for an ongoing research foundation for both the dental therapy and oral health therapy disciplines.

Publications

Rudland, J., Al-Busaidi, I., Aldabe, D., Bryant, K., Jones, V., Kane, P., Ma, S., Moffat, S., Noller, G., Peterson, A., Ross, J., Sopoaga, F., & Anderson, L. (2024). Addressing unacceptable behaviours in clinical learning environment. In S. Marshall (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand (TERNZ) Conference. (pp. 47-48). HERDSA Aotearoa/New Zealand. Retrieved from https://www.herdsa.org.nz/ternz Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Al-Busaidi, I. S., Noller, G., Ross, J. M., Gray, A. R., Peterson, A., Aldabe, D., Rudland, J., Pōtiki Bryant, K., Kane, P., Moffat, S. M., Ma, S., Jones, V., & Anderson, L. (2024). Unacceptable behaviors towards health professional clinical students: Protocol for a mixed-methods study. Health Science Reports, 7, e70190. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70190 Journal - Research Other

Boyd, D. H., Foster Page, L. A., Moffat, S. M., & Thomson, W. M. (2023). Time to complain about pain: Children's self-reported procedural pain in a randomised control trial of Hall and conventional stainless-steel crown techniques. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 33, 382-393. doi: 10.1111/ipd.13059 Journal - Research Article

Choi, J. J. E., Chen, J., Choi, Y. J., Moffat, S. M., Duncan, W. J., Waddell, J. N., & Jermy, M. (2023). Dental high-speed handpiece and ultrasonic scaler aerosol generation levels and the effect of suction and air supply. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 44, 926-933. doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.196 Journal - Research Article

Carruthers, K. A., Adam, L. A., & Moffat, S. M. (2022). Dental and oral health therapists' perceptions of continuity of patient care. New Zealand Dental Journal, 118(3), 97-103. Journal - Research Article

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