Charles Sturt's School of Dentistry and Health Sciences in Orange was in the spotlight at the recent Conference of the Asian Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (CASOMP) in Kuala Lumpur, when Orange-based senior lecturer and clinician, Dr Muhammed Yakin, addressed leading oral medicine specialists from Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, South Korea, Indonesia and other Asian countries on the topic of specialist oral pathology in Australia.
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Dr Yakin said it was an honour and a privilege to represent the university on a global scale. "Most of the delegates were not familiar with or had not heard about Charles Sturt University, so I was delighted I was able to put the university on their radar as a leading centre for dental education in regional Australia," he said.
"I took this chance to talk about Charles Sturt and the meaning of 'Yindyamarra Winhanganha', the Wiradjuri phrase which translates to 'the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in', which reflects the University's ethos and approach to education."
In 2008 at the age of 23 Dr Yakin completed a Bachelor of Dental Surgery at Hawler Medical University in Erbil, Iraq, before also finishing a Masters of Medical Science in Diagnostic Oral Pathology with Distinction from the University of Sheffield in England in 2011. Five years later he earned his Doctoral degree in Clinical Dentistry-Oral Pathology from the University of Otago before obtaining his Australian Dental Council Certificate the following year.
In May 2017 he joined CSU as a senior lecturer where he teaches and coordinates general and oral pathology subjects in the Bachelor of Dental Science. In that role he has made both Orange and Australia his home, a fact that was underscored during one of his personal highlights of his time at CASOMP.
"The organisers held a roll call of all of the nations represented at the conference," he said. "The Australian flag was shown and I stood up as the Iraqi specialist representing Australia, something of which I feel very proud."
