Professor and Consultant in Endodontics
Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Received his dental degree from the University of Glasgow and his 4-year endodontic speciality training KCL, UK. For ten years, he worked part-time in specialist referral endodontic practice. He completed his PhD in the University of Birmingham on the subject of ‘Epigenetic approaches to the role of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (HDACi) in promoting dentine-pulp reparative mechanisms’. As an Academic Professor and Consultant in Endodontics, he has led endodontic teaching, service delivery and research in Dublin-Dental-University-Hospital for the last 15 years. He has published over 100 international peer-reviewed scientific articles, 40 abstracts, 18 book chapters and edited 2 textbooks. He was the primary author of the recent ESE position statement on ‘Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp’ and is the lead of the ongoing ‘ESE S3-level Guidelines for the Treatment of Endodontic Disease’. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Endodontic Journal. Hal has completed three sponsored research fellowships in New York University/Rutgers University investigating the role of epigenetic-modifying agents on tooth development and regeneration as well as receiving multiple research grants as principal investigator. In DDUH, he currently maintains a research lab and is the principal supervisor of clinical and scientifically trained PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in basic/translational pulp biology and endodontics. Currently, he is the Director of Research in the DDUH, a Member of the Executive Board of the ESE, the President Elect of the ESE, the President of the Irish Division of the IADR, the Vice-President of the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the IADR and a Board Member of the Pan European Region of the IADR. He is a past president of the Irish Endodontic Society.
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Friday, May 5, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM CT