Dr Joseph Ryan

BMed Sc (USyd) BDSc (CSU) BSc (Hons 1) (CSU) MSc (Pain Medicine) (USyd) DCD (Oral Medicine) (MelbU) Senior Lecturer in Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology at Charles Sturt University 

Dr Joseph Ryan is originally from Canberra where he worked as a dentist alongside his father and brothers in private practice. In addition he held the position of Senior Dentist for ACT Health working at The Canberra Hospital, public clinics and in the Alexander Maconchie Correctional Centre. He graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medical Science Degree in 2009 and from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Dental Science in 2014. He was the only student in his graduating dental class to complete a two year research honours in facial pain graduating with First Class Honours in 2016. .  Joseph was awarded winner of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), Western Region competition for 2015 on Pain Perception and Changes in Masseter Muscle Activity During Clenching Exercises With Isotonic and Hypertonic Bolus Injections. After winning this prize he was granted funding to present at the IADR conference in Seoul, South Korea in June 2016. Joseph  was awarded the same prize again in 2016 for my work on the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders Using Stabilising Appliance Therapies in a General Dental Practice Setting and was granted funding to present at the IADR conference in San Francisco, USA in 2017. 

More recently he has completed a Masters of Pain Medicine at Sydney University graduating in 2019 and graduating from Melbourne University with a Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry in the specialty field of Oral Medicine. During his Doctorate in Clinical Dentistry he completed a research project on Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Management and Prevention of Oral Mucositis at the Sydney Adventist Hospital. He received the Melbourne University Post-graduate research prize for this research and the Research prize in innovation from the Sydney Adventist Hospital. 

Joseph currently works in a specialist practice in Canberra Capital Orofacial Surgery  and in Shellharbour  Shellharbour Dental Specialists.