Professionalism Community Of Practice

Dr. Andreas Agouropoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He received a Certificate in Paediatric Dentistry from Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine, Boston, USA and a M.Sc. Degree and PhD in Oral Biology from the University of Athens. Since 2003 he is also working in private practice limited to Paediatric Dentistry. His research interest and work is focused in epidemiology, oral biology, clinical research in healthy and patients with special needs, caries risk assessment, biomaterials, patient behaviour and evidence based clinical guidelines development. He is the President Elect of the Hellenic Society of Paediatric Dentistry, former Member of the Membership Committee and current member of the Education Committee of the International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD). He has participated as a speaker in national and international congresses, has published several articles and he has received international awards for his research work

Corrado Paganelli DDS, MD is currently chair of the Board of IFDEA (International Federation of Dental Educators and Associations) and FEHDD (Forum of European Heads and Deans of Dental Schools), Former President CECDO (Council of European Chief Dental Officers) and ADEE (Association for Dental Education in Europe). Dean of dental school / clinic, and previously hygienist school and orthodontic program, Erasmus coordinator for medical school at University of Brescia – Italy. President-elect of IADR Nutrition group. He also chairs the dental expert panel (Expamed) for the EU Commission of the Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on Medical Devices.

Maria José Serol de Brito Correia. Completed the PhD in Biology Sub Program in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in 2001 at the City University of New York, where she also got the Master of Philosophy in Biology in 1996. She has a Licenciatura in Biologia Marinha e Pescas in 1994 by Universidade do Algarve. She has been Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa since 2018 where she had served as an Auxiliary Professor since 2001 at the Faculty of Dental Medicine. She has been a Coordinator of the 1st Cycle of the Integrated Masters Degree in Dental Medicine since 2017 and has been in the consulting bodies of the Faculty since 2001. She is currently part of a Project for the Institutionalization of Service Learning in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and has interest in the application of this and other pedagogical innovation approaches to Dental Sciences.

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
melanie.nasseripour@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Melanie Nasseripour DDS, MSc, PhD is a Reader in Ethics and Dental Education at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London. She is Module Lead for Dentistry In Society and co-Lead for Professionalism. Her main research interests are in the field of Ethics, Professionalism, Conservative and Minimal Intervention Dentistry, in particular as applied to oral health education and assessment. She has been teaching for over 15 years in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Dental Education supervising clinical care, masters and PhD level research projects as well as being module lead in the Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry MSc programme.