Executive
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Name: Andrew Devine Position: Immediate Past President I am Andrew Devine, married for 30 odd years to my beautiful, intelligent friend Sharon. I have three amazing children, and three gorgeous, talented grandchildren. My father, Brian is a clinical dental technician and my son Te Rangi O Te Ora is a dental technician. I am a second generation, dental technician who along with my wife operates a medium sized full service laboratory, excluding orthodontics, in the exotic city of Napier. |
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Name: Mike Smith Position: President I have been in the industry for 30 years and have worked in a variety of labs both here and overseas, mostly in crown and bridge. I am self employed (Dental Mechanics Ltd), live in Christchurch and now concentrate on clinical. |
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Name: Tracy Burke I have been a Registered Dental Technician since 1983. I spent 6 years tutoring at CIT when Dental Technology began the 3 year full time course. For the past 14 years I have worked in a small Crown and Bridge Laboratory in Wellington, which I have owned for the past 5 years. I also spent a short term on the Dental Technicians Board and now have a position on the Executive of the NZIDT. |
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Name: Steve Russell Position: Vice President I am a qualified Dental Technician and Clinical Technician. Started training on the first CIT block course, cadet scheme in 1974. Qualified as a Clinical Technician in 1990. Most of the work is Clinically based, about 75%, the remainder is to Dentists and Dental specialists. On the NZIDT executive my primary task is looking after complaint procedures, and misunderstandings btween Clinical Techs and members of the public. What I would like to do is, carry on with the Mentoring, or dispute resolution, that I have been doing up untill now, but add to that a branch liaison position, to help with branch development, and promotion of the NZIDT role. |
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Name: Johanna Hearn Qualified Dental Technician CIT Wellington. I have been a Crown and bridge technician for 10 years. I started out in Auckland with two laboratories, before heading down to the lovely Bay of Plenty. Where I have been here in a crown and bridge lab for the last 5 years. I'm also the President for the Waikato/ BoP branch, and loving it. |
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Name: Jo Harris Qualified Dental Technician (CIT Wellington), Clinical Technician (Otago). I have been a Technician for 10 years. I started out doing crown and bridge in Nelson before moving back to my home town of Christchurch where I worked in a clinical laboratory as the Denture Technician while completing my clinical training, part-time over two years at Otago. Then I spent a couple of years working in Manchester (UK) and another year travelling about. Now back home for just over two years and have worked at the Oral Health Centre in Christchurch ever since. Mainly doing removable pros, sleep appliances, orthodontic appliances and starting to do some maxillofacial pros when time permits. About 10% of the week work is clinical work. Currently the secretary of the Canterbury branch and looking forward to contributing to the NZIDT in my role on the executive. |
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Name: Barry Williams I would like to help the the NZIDT along the path to being a more professional organisation, ideally with certain positions being paid ones. i.e. president, vice president and treasurer. The organisations we are dealing with have a huge head start on us with regard to organisation and support from within, therefore getting members and non members united would be a priority from my point of view. |
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Name: Minshym Chan Wong Since graduating from University of Otago in Dental Technology, I have worked for the Otago Dental School’s Combined Laboratory Services. In 2011, I had been employed by the Fiji National University’s Department of Oral Health to teach and supervise Dental Students and Technology Students in Prosthetic Laboratory work. Returning 2012 to work at the Otago Dental School, I look forward to representing my fellow NZ colleagues, and contributing to the NZIDT executive board. |
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Name: Ludwig Jansen van Vuuren I qualified as a Dental Technician at the end of 2000. In 2003 I completed my masters degree in Dental Technology. I started lecturing Dental Technology in 2001 at the Technicon Pretoria in South Africa until 2008. My family and I moved to New Zealand in 2009 and since then I have been lecturing Dental Technology at The University of Otago. |
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Name: Peter Ritchie I have been working in the dental industry since 1977, graduating from CIT in 1982. I gained clinical registration in 1991. I am co-owner of Advanced Ceramics in Christchurch, and these days I concentrate on crown and bridge, implant restorations and implant prosthesis. In my spare time I enjoy cycling, skiing, photography and motor cycling |
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Name: Graham Askew I do a lot of thinking about current problems within the industry. I participate on a personal basis by organizing our local branch meetings, including organising points, ringing other techs etc. l do anything that is asked of me, and will put in as much time as it takes to get things done. |
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Name: John Batchelor I have been involved in dental technology for over 30 years, first being employed at Ken Priors Dental Laboratory in Wellington as a cadet. I have also worked in Nelson and the Otago Dental school for six years as sole charge of the Hospital Dental Laboratory. I left the Dental school in 1985 to open my own dental laboratory initially concentrating on orthodontics and prosthetics. Later expanding into crown and bridge. In the last eight years I became clinical and with this new direction our laboratory once again is centred around the fields of orthodontics and prosthetics. |