Lecturer Details: BSPD Ridings Branch Junior Presentation Evening

Lecturer nameHiba Al-Diwani BChD MFDS RCS (Ed) PG Dip Con Sed
Lecturer profileHiba graduated from Leeds having completed her BChD in 2009. She spent a year travelling Africa, Australia and New Zealand providing voluntary dental care to remote communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi. She completed foundation dental training in Pontefract and completed a year in Maxillofacial surgery in Pinderfields hospital. She spent a year in restorative dentistry before spending 6 years working in the community dental service in Greater Manchester and Kirklees. She is a member of the faculty of dental surgery at the royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh and has a diploma in conscious sedation in dentistry from Newcastle University. She has worked at the Leeds Dental Hospital since 2020 as a specialty dentist and clinical teaching fellow in paediatric dentistry. She is completing her specialty training in paediatric dentistry at Leeds. Hiba has been a training programme director for dental trainees in community dental services across Yorkshire. She has represented SAS dentists on the FDS board at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was honorary secretary for the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Ridings Branch. Asides from clinical dentistry, Hiba enjoys teaching and training paediatric skills and is actively involved in undergraduate teaching. Away from dentistry Hiba enjoys nature and the great outdoors and spends her spare time hiking and exploring with her family and friends.