Lecturer Details: Human Factors, Never Events and Erroneous Extractions

Lecturer nameMr Rupert Hoppenbrouwers
Lecturer profileRupert Hoppenbrouwers BDS LDSRCS is currently a part-time (3 days per week) Senior Dento-legal Adviser at the Dental Defence Union (DDU). He was Head of the Dental Defence Union from 1997 to 2015. He is the most experienced dento-legal adviser in the UK, having joined the then Dental Division of the Medical Defence Union in January 1987. He is a former general dental practitioner and was Director of the School of Dental Hygiene at University College Hospital, London from 1980 to 1986. He has lectured and written widely on risk management and dento-legal matters, and has a particular interest in complex ethical and legal issues affecting the DDU’s dental members. He is a former Chairman of the UK Dental Law and Ethics Forum.