Dr. Hani Nazzal

Dr. Hani Nazzal

Dr. Hani Nazzal

Senior Consultant, Paediatric Dentistry, Hamad Medical Corporation and visiting lecturer, paediatric department, school of dentistry, University of Leeds

BDS, MFD RCS (Ireland), PhD Paediatric Dentistry, FRCD (Canada) Paediatric Dentistry, MPaed Dent RCS (Glasgow), FDS Paed Dent (Glasgow).

Dr. Hani completed three years clinical training in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Leeds in 2008 after which he obtained a Fellowship in Paediatric Dentistry from the Royal College of Dentists in Canada in the same year. He then worked as a Senior Dental Officer in Paediatric Dentistry at Bradford and Airedale Salaried Dental Services between 2008 and 2012. He became a member and then a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (Paediatric Dentistry) in 2015 and 2016. He worked as an academic Paediatric Dentist consultant at University of Leeds in 2017. In 2018, Dr Hani was appointed as a senior consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at Hamad Medical Corporation.

Academically, he obtained a PhD in paediatric Dentistry from the University of Leeds, School of Dentistry in 2008. In 2012, he was appointed as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in the paediatric dentistry Department where he was involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education. Dr Hani is also the founding president of the Arabian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry.

His research interests are in the field of fluoride anticariogenic effect; slow releasing fluoride device, dental plaque, regenerative endodontics and the use of laser Doppler flowmetry. Hani has multiple publications and co-authored several book chapters in addition to presenting in several UK national and international conferences. In addition, Dr Hani is currently an associate editor of the Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontic sections of Dental Traumatology Journal.