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

Lydia Katrova studied dentistry at the Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated as a MDS in 1981. She received her Ph.D. degree at the Sofia University “Saint Kliment Ohridski” in 1997. She is a co-founder of the department of dental public health at the FDM-Sofia and the author of the full textbooks series on professionalism for dentists in Bulgarian and English. She lectures and teaches the courses to undergraduate and graduate students and dental practitioners in: Social Medicine, Medical Ethics, Public Health; Community Dentistry, Dental Practice Management; Ethics and Deontology; Dental ergonomics, Research methods, and Burnout prevention. She directs PhD students, including international students; leads student research groups. Recently she was recognized with the GSK and ADEE SCHOLARSHIP “Sociology in dentistry” for 2020.

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.