Submissions - consultation on new registration pathways and prescribed qualification changes

The consultation closed 29 January 2026.

Submissions

Dentists/dental specialists

Zainab Abbas	Hyun Ahn	Yasmin Mohamed Akrum
Zeina Al Nassan	Monty Al-Ansaree	Nazrul Amzad
Kate McElroy	Harini Archana	Wassam Ashfaq
Lena Mahgoub	Michael Bahjejian	Laith Balushi
Claudia Bawden	Christine Bellmann	Vincent Bennani
Richard Berman	Christian Blaschke	Doreen Ng
Angus Cameron	Aftab Moosa	Hamish Milmine
Clarine Cheah	Danni Chen	Nicholas Cheng Ta Pan
Emma Courtney	Calebe de Melo	Willem Peinaar
Huda Dhabi	Meredith Dugoni	Callum Durward
Dusane	Enzo Araujo Evangelisti	Holly Eydenberg
Anton Cherniak	Karun Gaba	Finn Gilroy
Anup Gopal	Frances Ruddiman	Anthony Greenstein
Jamie Mckenzie	Jacob Linn	Madhan kumar Seenivasan
Supriya Shahasane	Julian Haszard	Sundar Jagadeesan
Linda Jiang	Joseph Joseph	Jessica Buchanan
Sherif Keriakes	Imran Khan	Bun Kong
Mark Parry	Andy K	Shuo Li
Dave Lovrich	Kerina Lynch	Keya Mahant
Matthew Mitchell	Subhayu Roy	Zina Matejovsky
Lucija Matkovic	Ernest Meshack-Hart	Sushitra Muttaiyah
Ellie Knight	Esther Cheong	Hung Bun Choy
John Partington	Sienna Pat	Adriana Perez
Shephina Mary Philip	Catalina Pizarro	Ajith Polonowita and Simon Guan
Avikash Prasad	Abhinayaa Sree Premkumar	Saud Ibrahim
Lawanya Rathninde	Reuben Martin Hendrie and Jong Yoon Won	Kimberly Ruiz
Soorya Sam	Kullasit Chutipongpisit	Quinn Du
Eduard Durrheim	Afifa Shahid	Fadi Abu Shqara
Rebecca Sinclair	Janice Sommerville	Sim Sood
Joseph Tan	Ray Te Moananui	Michael Simon
Yolin Govender	Adith Venugopal	Ethne Roberts
Arnd Wolvetang	James Dawson	Jatinder Bachu
Chris Waalkens	Simon Chan	Martarwee Charoenviboonphan
Tessa Chirayath	Aee Chou	Anita Nolan, Hadleigh Clark, Kim Gear and Philippa Greer
Theertha Kannoth

Oral health therapists

Elizabeth Fong	Grace Hsu	Alaina Kalyan
Henrietta Nair	Suvarna Pattanshetti	Ye Ye
Shivani Reed	Leo Yang	Ashwin Prabhu

Dental and clinical dental technicians

Mustafa Alsaffar	Kevin Haung	Rafik Hanna
Khushwant Singh	Johannes Hendrik Schoonwinkel	Gareth McMurdo

Dental hygienists

Sheryne Beeby	Yasir Kirmani	Brooke Holmes
Filip Sowa

Dental therapists

Prarthana Priyatham Kumar

Professional associations

Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons	Specialty Advisory Committee for the Additional Dental Specialties (SACADS)	NZ Society of Oral Implantology
New Zealand Oral Health Association (NZOHA)	NZ Society of Periodontology	New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA)
New Zealand Society of Hospital and Community Dentistry	Waikato DHB - Head of Department	New Zealand Institute of Dental Technologists (NZIDT)

Educational institution

Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago

Employers

Dental Surgeons - Brendon Johnson	Streaky Bay Dental - Peter Sipos	Lumino - Craig Kirkland
Gentle Dental Cambridge - Firas Adheem	Tulip Dental - Katharina Visser

Other/unspecified

Rajas Surendran	Princess Bucawit	Louise Cautley
Hayley Hawkins	Albert Yip	AMR Elseragy
Sayeda Mahin Fatima	Richa Vats	Mousmi Rohit
Joe Yeung	Wiktoria Nowakowska	Manu Sehdra
Vivek Mukkagala	Lydia Chan	Harpreet Kaur