George Alexander

George Alexander is an Associate Professor and Academic Lead in Continuing Professional Development at the Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne. He served as Clinical Director of the Melbourne Dental Clinic for a decade. As a dental practitioner with over thirty-five years of experience, his career spans private practice, public health services, academic teaching, legal practice, management, and administrative roles. Alexander holds the degrees of Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc), Bachelor of Dental Science (BDentSt), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Melbourne; Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB Hons) from Deakin University; and Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (GradCertHE) from La Trobe University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS) and registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Alexander's research specializations focus on restorative decision-making in clinical dentistry, with particular emphasis on dentists' attitudes, knowledge, clinical factors, and educational perspectives regarding the use of dental amalgam and the transition to an amalgamless profession. His major publications include the five-part series 'Dentists' restorative decision-making and implications for an 'amalgamless' profession': Part 1, 'A review' (2014); Part 2, 'A qualitative study' (2014); Part 3, 'Dentists' attitudes' (2016); Part 4, 'Clinical factors' (2017); and Part 5, 'Knowledge factors' (2017), co-authored with M.S. Hopcraft, M.J. Tyas, and R.H.K. Wong. He also published 'Dental educators’ attitudes toward the teaching of dental amalgam' (2020) and presented 'Australian Dentists’ Attitudes to a Phase-down of Amalgam' (conference paper, 2014). These works have garnered over 115 citations and inform policy and practice on amalgam phase-down in Australia. Alexander contributes to dental education through student teaching and learning programs at the Melbourne Dental Clinic, orientation sessions, and collaborative practice curricula in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

Professional Email: george.alexander@unimelb.edu.au