Recent Graduations - Dec 2017

The Dublin Dental University Hospital would like to congratulate the following postgraduate students who received their Awards on Friday 8th December 2017 from Chancellor of the University, Mary Robinson at a ceremony in Latin in the Public Theatre.

• PhD Graduation – Dr Caomhin MacGiolla Phadraig. Caoimhin MacGiolla Phadraig defended his thesis in July 2017 and, on Friday 8th December, was awarded PhD by the Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. The title of his thesis is: Total Tooth Loss and Oral Health Service Use among Older People with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland. Co-supervised by Professor June Nunn and Professor Mary McCarron, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, together with her Co-PI on the IDS-TILDA project, Professor Philip McCallion.  Caomhin has worked with the team who have been involved in all three waves of this intellectual disability supplement to the main TILDA study,  ensuring that oral/dental issues are not only included but reported on in policy forming documents arising from the findings of this world - unique study.

• Doctorate Students – Dr Fatmah Aljumah (Orthodontics), Dr Saleh Alkadi (Oral Surgery), Dr Äida Ben Cheikh (Orthodontics)

• Masters Student – Mr Jimmy Swan, MSc in Microbiology.