This Year's Entrants

Aberdeen Dental School

 

Barts and the London

 

Belfast Dental School

 

Birmingham Dental Hospital

 

Bristol Dental Hospital

 

Cardiff University Hospital of Wales

 

Cork University Dental School

 

Dublin Dental Hospital

 

Dundee Dental School

 

Glasgow Dental Hospital and School

 

Leeds Dental Institute

 

Liverpool University Dental School

 

London - Kings College Dental Institute

 

Manchester - University Dental Hospital of Manchester

 

Newcastle School of Dental Sciences

 

Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry

 

University of Central Lancashire

 

 

 

34th Student Clinician Research Programme

 

2011 DENTSPLY/BDA Student Clinician Programme

The 34th annual Student Clinician Programme Awards, sponsored by DENTSPLY, and supported by the BDA and DDU, celebrated the hard work of the dental students involved and the valuable contribution they made to the future of their profession.

 

Participating students each completed a research project on an area of their choice. The shortlisted entries demonstrated original thinking and their projects were written logically in a professional style.  

 

Entries from 16 dental schools across the UK and Ireland saw their projects scrutinised by a panel of experts including Professor Nairn Wilson, CBE, Head of School and Dean of King’s College London Dental Institute; Professor Robert McConnell, Dr. Susan Hooper, Consultant and Senior Lecturer at Bristol Dental School; and Dr. John R. Drummond, Consultant Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee School of Dentistry. As usual, the standard of work was incredibly high.  

 

The names of the winners and runners up were announced at the prestigious gala event held in Wicklow, near Dublin in February:  

First place went to Deema Marzouq for her presentation on ethical issues with the use of animal-derived products in periodontics. 

 

Second place went to Thomas Hughes for his presentation on the suspension bioreactor culture of embryonic stem cells for cost-effective applications within regenerative dentistry. 

 

The professionalism and presentation skills award went to Katherine O’Donnell for her presentation on the role of LL-37 in periodontal wound healing.  

 

The programme’s winner received an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas as an honored guest of DENTSPLY International which will take place at the American Dental Association in October. The runner up received a cash prize of £500.  

 

Nick Torlot, dento-legal adviser at the DDU said, "Congratulations to all the student finalists and winners whose projects have clearly demonstrated the innovation and enthusiasm which the DDU advisory team often sees during our visits to dental schools. We are delighted to be supporting these awards as they are another way of rewarding excellence in dental education, alongside our own Educational Awards for inspiring dental teachers which DENTSPLY has sponsored for the last eight years."  

 

Investing in dental students is just one way that DENTSPLY continues to promote better dentistry, along with the range of courses held by the DENTSPLY Academy.  

 

For more information, or to book an appointment with your local DENTSPLY Product Specialist, call 0800 072 3313 or visit www.dentsply.co.uk