Dr. Amar Sholapurkar

Dr. Amar Sholapurkar is a full time academician, Senior lecturer (Clinical Dentistry and Oral Radiology) & discipline lead of Oral Radiology at College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University (JCU), Cairns, Australia. He brings to the table over 17 years of global teaching and research and experience in Dental Radiology (for both undergraduates and postgraduates), 11 of which were in Australia. Dr. Sholapurkar is presently doing a part-time PhD at JCU, Cairns Campus. In the year 2021, Dr. Amar has received the JCU Dean's learning at JCU. In addition to this he recently received the "2022 James Cook University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning Award" for his radiology teaching.

 He has completed his Masters in Oral Medicine and Radiology at the prestigious Manipal University, India. His career started in Manipal University as an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) followed by Ready in Oral medicine and Radioilogy. He also worked as Assistant Professor at University in the Middle East for coupe of year.

He has published more that 50 articles in reputed peer reviewed dental journals; have contributed 11 chapters in book and has extensive conference presentations. He has published (edited) a book titled: "Publish and Flourish - Practical Guide for effective scientific writing" and selected in the editorial board/peer review committee of about 5 dental Journals. He has delivered Guest lectures/keynote lectures in Dental conventions/specialty conference/CPD activities in Australia and abroad.

Over the past few years, he has received approval from various state Radiation health authorities running the Cone-beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) licensing course and OPG/Lat Ceph licensing course across Australia. He is also actively involved in conducting two highly interactive Dental Radiology lectures titled "Interpretation of CBCT - What a dental practitioner should know?" across Australia and NZ. These courses are verified by the NZ dental association.