Dr Evelyn Howe
Associate Dean, Students
Faculty of Dentistry
Phone: +61 2 9351 8347, +61 2 9845 7410
Fax: +61 2 9361 8333
Email: evelyn.howe@usyd.edu.au
C12 - Faculty of Dentistry
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
About Evelyn
Dr Evelyn Howe is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Dentistry and Associate Dean of Students. She is responsible for teaching the Communication Skills strand in the degree and heads the Personal and Professional Development Theme. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in the treatment of oral behavioural disorders with Professor Noel Martin in Dentistry and Professor Wendy-Louise Walker in Medicine.
Dr Howe is in private practice as a clinical and health psychologist. She has held consultancies to the Pain Clinic within the Faculty of Dentistry, the Menopause Clinic at King George V Hospital, Queen Elizabeth II Rehabilitation Centre, Mt Wilga Private Rehabilitation Hospital Spinal Pain and Lymphoedema Clinics, the Pain Education Programme at Macquarie University and the Phobia Clinic at Westmead Centre for Oral Health. She also consults to employee assistance programs for local government and is an accredited assessor for the NSW Victims Compensation Tribunal. In Psychology she has held National Executive membership of the College of Clinical Psychologists and was Inaugural State President, National Executive member and University Course Accreditation representative of the College of Health Psychologists.
Faculty Titles and Offices
- Associate Dean (Students)
- Theme Head (Personal and Professional Development)
Teaching Areas
- Communication and behavioural sciences in dentistry
- Personal and professional development
Projects Undertaken and Underway
- Explanation of dental conditions and procedures
Research Interests
- Management of dental anxiety
- Abnormal gag reflex
- Chronic tempero mandibular dysfunction (TMD) pain
- Health psychology
- Behavioural sciences in dentistry
- Health promotion
- Habit control
- Teaching communications skills
- Health literacy and communication in dentistry
- Explanation of dental conditions and procedures
- Interprofessional learning
Selected Publications
- Howe, ELC (2004) Principles of applied psychology and communication, Dental Assistants' Manual Revised edition ed. J Harcourt,C.P.H.Printing House.
- Howe, ELC (1985) Behaviour Therapy in the Treatment of Oral Behavioural Disorders, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Sydney.
- Howe, ELC (1983) Stress in dentistry, Dental Outlook, 9, 10-17.
- Howe, ELC (1975) Dental Patient Management - A Trilogy of Errors, 16mm Eastman Colour Film, and Instructor's Manual. Copy held by National Library of Australia.
- Howe, ELC, Evans W, Dennison P and Robinson J (2006) Media liaison: teaching Written Communication Skills in Dentistry, Presentation, International Association of Dental Research
- Dennison PJ, Hyde S and Howe ELC Use of Personal Qualities Assessment and Interviews to Select Students Presentation, International Association for Dental Research
- Howe ELC (2006) Life’s ups and downs, Invited presentation, Conference on Special Needs, Westmead Centre of Oral Health
- Civadelic S & Howe ELC (2006) Hypnosis in Dentistry Presentation, Graduate Research Seminar, Westmead Centre for Oral Health
- Howe ELC Teaching the new BDent student, presentation, staff development seminars at Sydney Dental Hospital and Westmead Centre for Oral Health
- Howe ELC (2007) Body image in dentistry, ADA Bulletin, special edition for oral health awareness week
- Howe ELC (2007) Health promotion: learning communication skills for publication and audiovisual media presentation, presentation and prize-winning paper, EdHealth Conference
- Howe ELC (2007) Teaching communication skills for community engagement Faculty of Pharmacy research seminar, University of Sydney
- Howe ELC (2007) Positive psychology and dentistry, invited presentation, Australian Dental Association, South Coast Division
- Evans RW, Pakdaman A, Dennison PJ &Howe ELC (2008) The caries management system: an evidence-based preventive strategy for dental practitioners – application for adults Australian dental journal,53,83-92
- Schnabel MA & Howe ELC (2008) Teaching visual communication skills for professional practice presentation accepted for Oxford conference on architectural education
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