Submissions - consultation on new registration pathways and prescribed qualification changes

The consultation closed 29 January 2026. A response document will be published shortly.

Dentists/dental specialists

Zainab Abbas	Hyun Ahn	Yasmin Mohamed Akrum
Zeina Al Nassan	Monty Al-Ansaree	Nazrul Amzad
Kate McElroy	Harini Archana	Ashfaq
Abdul Aziz	Michael Bahjejian	Laith Balushi
Claudia Bawden	Christine Bellmann	Vincent Bennani
Richard Berman	Christian Blaschke	Doreen Ng
Angus Cameron	Su Teng Chan	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
Ashwin Prabhu	Karun Gaba	Finn Gilroy
Anup Gopal	Frances Ruddiman	Anthony Greenstein
Ian K Hamilton	George Hannalla	Madhan kumar Seenivasan
Supriya Shahasane	Julian Haszard	Sundar Jagadeesan
Linda Jiang	Joseph Joseph	Jessica Buchanan
Sherif Keriakes	Imran Khan	Sampada Khatiwada
Xin Wen Tan	Tinu Kurien	Shuo Li
Dave Lovrich	Kerina Lynch	Keya Mahant
	Subhayu Roy	Zina Matejovsky
Lucija Matkovic	Ernest Meshack-Hart	Sushitra Muttaiyah
Ellie Knight		Thejas P
John Partington	Sienna Pat	Adriana Perez
Shephina Mary Philip	Catalina Pizarro	Ajith Polonowita and Simon Guan
Avikash Prasad	Abhinayaa Sree Premkumar	Muhammad Nabeel Rafi
Lawanya Rathninde	Reuben Martin Hendrie and Jong Yoon Won	Kimberly Ruiz
Soorya Sam	Kullasit Chutipongpisit	Elizma Schoeman
Neemu Sebastian	Afifa Shahid	Fadi Abu Shqara
Rebecca Sinclair	Janice Sommerville	Sim Sood
Joseph Tan	Ray Te Moananui	Michael Simon
Yolin Govender	Adith Venugopal	Geoff Williamson
Arnd Wolvetang	James Dawson	Jatinder Bachu
Chris Waalkens	Simon Chan	Martarwee Charoenviboonphan
Tessa Chirayath	Aee Chou	Hung Bun Choy
Quinn Du	Eduard Durrheim	Saud Ibrahim
Andy K	Bun Kong	Esther Cheong
Felicity Leov	Jacob Linn	Lena Mahgoub
Jamie Mckenzie	Matthew Mitchell	Aftab Moosa
Mark Parry	Ethne Roberts	Anita Nolan, Hadleigh Clark, Kim Gear and Philippa Greer

Oral health therapists

Elizabeth Fong	Grace Hsu	Alaina Kalyan
Henrietta Nair	Suvarna Pattanshetti	Ye Ye
Shivani Reed	Leo Yang	Xinran Sun
Sachi Wijeyekoon

Dental and clinical dental technicians

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

Dental hygienists

Sheryne Beeby	Yasir Kirmani	Brooke Holmes
Filip Sowa	Megan Wilkinson

Dental therapists

Prarthana Priyatham Kumar

Professional associations

Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons	Lumino	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

Educational institution

Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago

Other/unspecified

Rathinavel Saravanan	Princess Bucawit	Louise Cautley
Hayley Hawkins	Albert Yip	AMR Elseragy
Sayeda Mahin Fatima	Diane Kurian	Enzo Evangelisti
	Ashleigh Howlett	Fadi Issa
Brendon Johnson	Theertha Kannoth	Harpreet Kaur
Anton Cherniak	Lydia Chan	Roddy McMillan
Firas Adheem	May Mei	Vivek Mukkagala
Wiktoria Nowakowska	Anuja Patil	Mousmi Rohit
Katharina Visser	Manu Sehdra	Peter Sipos
Richa Vats	Rajas Surendran	Muhammad Syed
Joe Yeung	Atini Tyiso