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Dr. Mark J. Storrs serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, within the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University on the Gold Coast campus. He holds a Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc) from the University of Queensland, graduating in dentistry in 1975, a Master of Public Health (MPH), and a PhD. Storrs has held positions as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in General Dental Practice at Griffith University, contributing to dental education since at least 2009. He is an associate member of the Population and Social Health Research Program, previously part of the Griffith Health Institute and now the Menzies Health Institute Queensland.
Dr. Storrs's research specializations include interprofessional education assessment, team-based treatment planning in clinical dentistry, intraprofessional and interdisciplinary training, peer learning among dental students, and strategies to reduce patient non-attendance in university dental clinics, such as short message service reminders. His PhD research involved a three-year evaluation of interprofessional team-based clinical education at Griffith University's School of Dentistry and Oral Health. Key publications in the Journal of Dental Education include: 'Intraprofessional, Team-Based Treatment Planning for Oral Health Students in the Comprehensive Care Clinic' (2012, co-authored); 'Measuring Team-Based Interprofessional Education Outcomes in Clinical Dentistry: Psychometric Evaluation of a New Scale at an Australian Dental School' (2015); 'An Investigation into Patient Non-Attendance and Use of a Short Message Service Reminder at a University Dental Clinic' (2016); 'A 3-year quantitative evaluation of interprofessional team-based clinical education at an Australian dental school' (2022); and 'A 3-year qualitative evaluation of interprofessional team-based clinical education at an Australian dental school' (2023). These works examine student perceptions, educational outcomes, and clinical efficiencies in dental training programs.
