Dr. Alaa Bani Hani is a specialist in paediatric dentistry and currently she is completing her consultant training in Eastman Dental Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for children in UK. She is the chair elect of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Teacher’s Branch, and the Teacher’s Branch representative at the Quality Improvement Research and Committee. In addition, she is the Prize and Research Abstract Committee representative at the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry and the leader of the multidisciplinary tooth auto-transplantation clinic both at Leeds Dental Institute (previously) and recently at Eastman Dental Hospital.

Alaa obtained the Bachelor Degree in Dental Surgery in 2006. Following that she worked as a General Dental Practitioner for three years before she obtained her clinical MSc in Paediatric Dentistry in 2010. In 2016, she was awarded PhD in Peadiatric Dentistry from School of Dentistry, University of Leeds-UK. For her PhD project, she evaluated the outcome, cost-effectiveness and treatment acceptance of the conventional and biological approaches for the treatment of carious primary dentition. Following that she was appointed as NIHR funded a Clinical Lecturer and Specialty Registrar in Paediatric Dentistry at University of Leeds and Leeds Dental Institute in 2017-2021.