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Dr Anthea Senior

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Dentistry Dept

Pronouns: She

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Dentistry Dept
Email
senior@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 885-5194
Address
5-521 Dianne and Irving Kipnes Health Research Academy
11405 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 1C9

Overview

About

Dr Senior obtained her bachelor of dentistry degree from the University of Newcastle (UK) in 1992. After house officer positions in pediatrics, oral surgery, radiology and removable prosthetics she joined the Community Dental Service. For the next 9 years she provided dental care to mainly children and special care adult populations. Her work also included participation in national screening surveys, clinical audit and clinical governance issues. During this time Dr Senior was a part-time undergraduate dental student instructor in the department of pediatric dentistry at University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2003 she completed a 3-year postgraduate diploma from the University of Bristol (UK) in Pediatric Dentistry, Special Care Dentistry and Oral Health and Disease.

Dr Senior joined the School of Dentistry, University of Alberta in 2003. She is a full-time Professor in the radiology department and teaches dental radiography and radiology to undergraduate dentistry and dental hygiene students. She has held various senior administrative leadership roles within the Mike Petryk School of dentistry including Associate Chair DDS Clinical Education, acting Associate Chair Academic and Acting Chair. 

Dr. Senior's research interests include oral radiography techniques, curriculum development and access to care.

Featured Publications

Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene. 2023 January;


Journal of Dental Education. 2022 January; 10.1002/jdd.12871


Senior A., Lai H., Lunardon D., Patterson S.

Journal of Dental Education. 2021 August; 86 (S1):845-846 10.1002/jdd.12777


Camila Pacheco-Pereira, Anthea Senior, Sharon Sharon Compton, Luiz Francisco Vargas-Madriz, Luis Fernando Marin, Ellen Watson

The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 2020 December; 10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2020.3.8263


JOURNAL OF THE CANADIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION. 2020 October; J Can Dent Assoc 2020;86:k16


European Journal of Dental Education. 2020 January; 10.1111/eje.12541


Journal (Canadian Dental Association). 2020 January;


European Journal of Dental Education. 2020 January; 10.1111/eje.12500


International Journal of Dental Hygiene. 2019 January; 10.1111/idh.12394


International Dental Journal. 2019 January; 10.1111/idj.12411


Journal of Dental Education. 2018 January; 10.21815/JDE.018.011


Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene. 2017 January;


JDR Clinical and Translational Research. 2016 January; 10.1177/2380084416645291


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