In Person Exams Held in Belfast and Jordan

Faculty of Dentistry

Belfast Jordan FFD MFD Exams Dentistry

In Person Exams Held in Belfast and Jordan

FFD (OSOM) Examination held in Belfast: April 26 - 28, 2023

The Faculty of Dentistry is delighted to have successfully completed a face-to-face sitting of the Fellowship of the Faculty of Dentistry (FFD) examination in OSOM in Belfast in April 2023. The Fellowship Examination represents the pinnacle of success and achievement for dentists and marks the culmination of specialist and advanced training in selected fields of dentistry. Candidates from Ireland, United Kingdom, India, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Singapore attended Belfast for the FFD examination. The Faculty of Dentistry wishes to congratulate the successful candidates from this examination.

Faculty of Dentistry RCSI returns to Jordan: May 6, 2023

The Faculty of Dentistry RCSI is delighted to have returned to Jordan for the first time since pre-Covid to collaborate once again with our colleagues from both the University of Jordan and JUST (Jordan University of Science and Technology). The Faculty successfully delivered a face-to-face MFD Part 2 examination at the University of Jordan on Saturday, May 6^th 2023. In an effort to support candidates, the Faculty also held a focused MFD preparatory course the day before the examination. All MFD Part 2 exam candidates were successful on this occasion. Successful MFD Part 2 examination candidates will be awarded the prestigious internationally renowned qualification (Membership of the Faculty of Dentistry) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The Faculty of Dentistry wishes to congratulate the successful candidates from this examination. The Faculty of Dentistry RCSI looks forward to returning to Jordan again to host future face-to-face diets of the MFD2 in Jordan.

For further information on our examinations please visit facultyofdentistry.ie/examinations

Jordan pic

The RCSI Examinations Team in Jordan, pictured top row from L-R: Prof. Albert Leung, Prof. Mohammad Hakam Al-Shayyab, Dr. Ebrahim Al-Awadhi, Ms. Fiona Allen, Mr. Sean Sheridan
Pictured bottom row from L-R: Prof. Susan Al-Khateeb, Prof. Chris Lynch, Prof. Zaid Al-Bitar, Prof. Zakereyya Albashaire

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Chitta Chowdhury

Qualifications:

PhD (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Asahi University School of Dentistry, Japan - 1991)
FFDRCSI (By exam : Oral Surgery with Oral Medicine, RCSI - 2004)
MPH (The University of Manchester, UK - 2009)
MFDS Glasgow (Ad Eundem : RCPS Glasgow - 2019)
BDS (Dhaka University - 1980)
DAND (PG Dip Applied Nutri and Dietetics, Dhaka University, 1982)

Current Posts:

Honorary Professor and PhD Co-supervisor, Faculty of Health, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Visiting Professor, Osaka Dental University, Japan.

Grace Kelly

Qualifications:

BDS 2003
MFDS 2009
Dip Hyp UCL 2011
DSCD 2013
MSCD RCSP (Glas) 2013
FFD RCSI (Ad Eundem) 2016
MSc 2017

Current Post:

Hospital Practice - Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Special Care Dentistry, Cardiff University, UK.

Richeal Ni Riordain

Qualifications:

BDS 2002
MFD RCSI 2007
PhD Oral Medicine 2011
MBBS 2014
MA Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2018
Certificate in Healthcare Management 2018
FDS Oral Medicine RCS(Eng) 2018
FFD RCSI (Ad Eundem) 2020

Current Posts:

Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Oral Medicine, University College Cork.
Honorary Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, University College London.
Regional Dental Academic and Research Advisor, Health Education England in London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, UK.

Deepak Thomas

Qualifications:

B Dent Surg 1992
MB BChBAO 2003
MRCS (Intercollegiate) 2007
MSc 2018
FFDRCS (OSOM) 1997

Current Posts:

Consultant Oral Surgeon at the Beacon Hospital Dublin and Kingsbridge Hospital Sligo.
Specialist Oral Surgeon at Northwest Oral Surgery, Sligo and Northern Cross Dental, Dublin
Limited to Private Practice.

Fergal Rory Maguire

Qualifications:

BDS NUI 2001

MFD RCSI 2003

M. Phil. Biomaterials Science (University of Birmingham) 2007

M. Dent. Ch. Periodontics (U. Dubl.) 2008

FFD RCSI Periodontics 2008

Diploma of the European Federation of Periodontology 2008

Ph. D Oral Biosciences (U. Dubl.) 2014

Current Post:

Private Practice limited to Periodontics and Implant Dentistry

John Ed O'Connell

Qualifications:

BDS NUI 2004

MFD RCSI 2007

FFD (OSOM) RCSI 2009

MB, BCh, BAO, BA 2012

MRCS RCSI 2014

FRCS (OMFS) 2019

Current Post:

Fellow in Head and Neck Oncology with Reconstruction, UK.

Deepak Thomas

Qualifications:

B Dent Surg 1992

MB BChBAO 2003

MRCS( Intercollegiate)2007

MSc 2018

FFDRCS (OSOM )1997

Current Post:

Consultant Oral Surgeon at the Beacon Hospital Dublin and Kingsbridge Hospital Sligo

Specialist Oral Surgeon at Northwest Oral Surgery, Sligo and Northern Cross Dental, Dublin

Limited to Private Practice

Albert Yeung

Qualifications:

BDS Glasgow 1989

MMedSci Sheffield 1999

DDPH RCS 2003

MPHe Manchester 2004

FFD (DPH) RCSI 2006

FDS (DPH) RCPS 2006

FHEA 2007

FFPH 2007

MPhil Manchester 2010

ACIEA 2020

MCGDent 2021

Current Post:

Consultant in Dental Public Health, NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow

Professional Adviser, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman