Ron Knevel

Vice President

Special Needs and CPD portfolios

Ron Knevel has been a lecturer in Dental Hygiene since 1986. He worked at Academic Centre of Dentistry in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, School for Oral Health Care professionals, as lecturer and pre-clinical and clinical coordinator, international coordinator and as a curriculum coordinator. Next to his work as a lecturer and clinical demonstrator he has worked in general practice and at the department of periodontology of ACTA. He has been an invited speaker on several national and international conferences in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia (including Europerio and the International Symposium on Dental Hygiene). Since 2009 he works as a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University.

He is the Discipline Lead for the Oral Health programme from La Trobe University in Bendigo. Currently he is also Acting Discipline Lead for the Dentistry programme. He was the Director of Learning and Teaching of the La Trobe Rural Health School and is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the International Association of International Education. His PhD was a critical analysis of the introduction of dental hygiene education in Nepal and implications for human resources in oral health.