Prof. Alastair Sloan

PhD, PGCert, FHEA, CBiol, FRSB, FICD, FFDRCSI

Alastair is Head of Melbourne Dental School. He obtained his BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Wales in 1993 and his PhD in Oral Biology and Pathology from Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at The University of Birmingham, UK in 1997. Following postdoctoral research, he was appointed Lecturer in Oral Biology at the School of Dentistry, The University of Birmingham in 2000. In 2005, he moved to the School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. He was Head of Oral and Biomedical Sciences at the School of Dentistry (2010-2015), Director of International (2012- 2015) and Director of Research (2015-2017). Between 2015-2017 he was Director of the Cardiff Institute for Tissue Engineering and Repair (CITER), a cross-University research Institute. He was appointed Dean of the School of Dentistry at Cardiff University in 2017, a post which he held until January 2020 when he relocated to The University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). In 2020 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the International College of Dentists (FICD) and in 2022 was awarded an Ad Eundem Fellowship of the Faculty of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (FFDRCSI). As an educator, Alastair has developed curricula and programmes for BDS and BSc degree programmes alongside MSc programmes in tissue engineering and acted as external examiner for numerous Faculties and Schools globally. He has sat on various government bodies during his time in the UK and was appointed as Chair of the Australasian Council of Dental Schools (ACODS) in 2023. He has recently been appointed as Chair of the Board of the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) and has joined the Board of the Australian Dental Research Foundation (ADRF). He has been awarded in excess of $10M of research grant funding and published over 100 peer reviewed papers. He currently sits on research funding panels in the EU and Australia having previously been a member of the UK research council panels. He was the Chair of the Nominations Committee of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and is a Past President of the Pulp Biology and Regeneration Group of the IADR and in 2023 was elected Vice-President of the Australian/NZ Division of the IADR. In 2022 he was awarded the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award, The Isaac Schour Memorial Award.

Special Responsibilities: Member of Teaching Clinics Strategy Advisory Committee.