Lecturer Details: Hands on course of common Paediatric Treatments for DHT

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.
Lecturer nameFrances Hellowell BSc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences, BChD/MChD , MFDS
Lecturer profileI am a Dentist having graduated from Leeds University in 2016 in the first cohort of students to complete the MchD/BchD course. Since qualifying I completed my Dental Foundation Training year in the Midlands before completing a year as a Dental Core Trainee in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Wakefield. I gained my MFDS in 2017 with the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. Following completion of the DCT year I divided my time between general practice in a busy mixed (NHS/Private) clinic in North Yorkshire and the Community Dental Service in Wakefield.
I have always fostered a keen interest in paediatric dentistry. This eventually drove me to fully transition into the Community Service. Within my role as a Dental Officer, I treat adults and children with complex behavioural or medical needs under local anaesthetic, inhalation sedation and general anaesthetic. I have recently been awarded Level 2 accreditation in Paediatric Dentistry after completing a two-year course run by the Yorkshire Deanery.
I have always fostered a keen interest in teaching, having acted as clinical supervisor to JDCFT’s in paediatric dentistry within my role as Dental Officer and completing my PGCert in Medical Education from Stafford University in 2021.