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DAY 2

CONFERENCE SPEAKER

PROF. DR CAMILE S. FARAH
Professor Farah is a dual trained and practicing oral medicine specialist and oral &
maxillofacial pathologist with public and private appointments at Central Queensland
University, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Hollywood Private Hospital, Precision
Pathology, Genomics for Life, and the Australian Centre for Oral Oncology Research
& Education where he oversees a research program focussed on optical imaging and
molecular genomics of head and neck cancer.
Professor Farah is the former Dean of Dentistry at the University of Western Australia
and Chief Executive of its Oral Health Centre, former Chair of the Australian Dental
Research Foundation, former President of the ANZ Division and Asia Pacific Region
of the International Association for Dental Research, and former and Inaugural
President of the Oral Medicine Academy of Australasia. He is currently President
of the IADR Oral Medicine and Pathology Group, and Honorary Treasurer and Non-
Executive Director of the Australian & New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society.
Professor Farah has treated 40,000+ patients with oral medicine conditions,
undertaken 7,500+ surgical procedures, reported 450,000+ maxillofacial datasets,
and interpreted 25,000+ head and neck pathology cases. He has authored more
than 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is senior editor and author
of the textbook “Contemporary Oral Medicine” which is recognised globally as the
authoritative textbook in this discipline. He has repeatedly been independently
ranked by expertscape.com as #1 Australian and top 10 international expert in oral
medicine and oral pathology.

In addition to his clinical and research appointments, Professor Farah is CEO &
Managing Director of Optiscan Imaging, a publicly listed Australian medical device
company which develops, manufactures, and commercialises miniatured confocal
laser endomicroscopes for clinical and research use, allowing real-time, live dynamic
microscopic imaging of tissue, enabling optical biopsy for diagnostic and surgical
applications.
Lecture:
Common Oral Pathology - How to Tell Them Apart and What to Do
with Them
This lecture will provide a back to basics approach with a contemporary slant,
designed to provide the oral health practitioner with diagnostic approaches and
referral pathways to deal with common oral lesions, but also to update attendees
on novel ways to visualize and detect sinister pathology. Topics to be covered
include white and red lesions of the oral mucosa, common bumps and lumps and
their treatment needs, and a contemporary decision making protocol for mucosal
precancerous lesions.

Learning Outcomes:
Appreciate differences in the presentation of common oral lesions and the use of a
diagnostic algorithm for management and referral pathways.

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