Professor Marie Therese Hosey

Head of Department of Paediatric Dentistry at the King’s College Dental Institute. Marie Therese holds honorary Professorships at the University of Warsaw and the University of Jordan and is the Deputy Chair of the pan-London managed Clinical Network in Paediatric Dentistry.

Graduating in Glasgow in 1985, she is among the few dentists in the United Kingdom with training in administering general anaesthesia, and she is a world-recognised expert on paediatric dental sedation and as such has authored the British, European and Brazilian guidelines. Her research interests are the pharmacological and behavioural management of anxious and socially and economically disadvantaged and excluded children, especially those who need general anaesthesia and sedation, and the genetics of children with clefts.

Marie Therese is co-founder of a UK-Brazil collaboration named CEDACORE (Children Experiencing Dental Anxiety Collaboration on Research and Education). Her research funding has been mainly for Phase III randomised controlled clinical trials from NIHR and the Scottish Chief Scientist office. She is currently collaborating with colleagues in Beijing to develop biomarkers of caries activity.

Professor Hosey has contributed and edited dental and medical textbooks and is a reviewer and external assessor for NIHR, New Zealand and Hong Kong.