COP in Professionalism

Maria van Harten initially trained as a high school science teacher in Canada at the University of Waterloo and Queen’s University; and then pursued undergraduate dental training at Western University in London, Ontario. After several years in private general practice, she completed graduate study at the University of Toronto, and attained her Master of Science and specialty license in Dental Public Health in 2012. Maria served as a Biostatistics lecturer to graduate dental students at Toronto, as Dental Consultant at the local health agency level, and served on the Executive Committee of the Ontario Association of Public Health Dentistry. Currently, Maria lectures in dental public health and serves as Dental Curriculum Mapping Project Officer at the Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin Ireland. Maria is pursuing a part-time Trinity College Certificate in Teaching, Learning & Assessment for Academic Practice; and continues to engage with Canadian colleagues as licensed dentist and specialist of the Royal College of Dentists of Ontario, and as a Fellow and Examiner of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.

She completed her PhD in Physiotherapy 2003 and Master in Medical Education 2013. She was appointed “excellent teaching practitioner” 2008 and has extensive experience on curriculum design and course development for undergraduate-, graduate- and research education.

She has worked with faculty development since 2008 and was the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the Medical Faculty, Lund University Sweden, 2015-20. Since 2020, she has been working at the Department of Odontology Malmö University, Sweden as a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, where one of the main areas of her work involves development of professionalism, professional autonomy and independence.

Apart from teaching and own research, she also serves as a Senior Editor in Physical Therapy Reviews, is a Member of the Editorial Board in BMC Medical Education and act as reviewer in various journals in medical education.

Lydia Katrova studied dentistry at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated as a MDS in 1981. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Sofia University “Saint Kliment Ohridski” in 1997. She is a co-founder of the department of dental public health at the FDM-Sofia and the author of the full textbooks series on professionalism for dentists in Bulgarian and English. She lectures and teaches the courses to undergraduate and graduate students and dental practitioners in: Social Medicine, Medical Ethics, Public Health; Community Dentistry, Dental Practice Management; Ethics and Deontology; Dental ergonomics, Research methods, and Burnout prevention. She directs PhD students, including international students; leads student research groups. Recently she was recognized with the GSK and ADEE SCHOLARSHIP “Sociology in dentistry” for 2020.

Maria José Serol de Brito Correia. Completed the PhD in Biology Sub Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in 2001 at the City University of New York, where she also got the Master of Philosophy in Biology in 1996. She has a Licenciatura in Biologia Marinha e Pescas in 1994 by Universidade do Algarve. She has been Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa since 2018 where she had served as an Auxiliary Professor since 2001 at the Faculty of Dental Medicine. She has been a Coordinator of the 1st Cycle of the Integrated Masters Degree in Dental Medicine since 2017 and has been in the consulting bodies of the Faculty since 2001. She is currently part of a Project for the Institutionalization of Service Learning in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and has interest in the application of this and other pedagogical innovation approaches to Dental Sciences.