Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
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Completed specialist training in Endodontics in 2021 at the University of Adelaide and South Australian Dental Services. The DClinDent program included 9 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 1 article currently in press and one book chapter.
Completed a PhD which included 11 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Completed the JBI Comprehensive systematic review training program.
Recipient of multiple research and travel grants.
Awarded a Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy – an international dental association that recognizes and supports leaders of the dental profession.
Active researcher actively presenting research findings, locally and internationally, at scientific meetings as well as publishing multiple scientific articles.
Active contributor to dental teaching, research and philanthropy.
Committee member for the International Association of Dental Traumatology
Affiliate of Centre for Orofacial Regeneration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (COR3)
Centre for Orofacial Regeneration, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Professor of Endodontics
School of Dentistry
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Availability:
Available for supervision
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Dr. Ove A. Peters is a clinician-scientist at the UQ School of Dentistry; his expertise is in endodontics, including root canal treatment and vital pulp therapy, combining lab research with clinical studies and >35 years of experience as a dentist.
Dr. Peters joined UQ in 2020 after faculty positions in Heidelberg, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland, as well as at the University of California, San Francisco. He also was the founding director of the postgraduate endodontic program at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco, a professor with tenure and the Chair of the Department of Endodontics at that school.
Dr. Peters has published more than 250 manuscripts related to endodontic technology and biology and has authored two books as well as book chapters in several leading textbooks in dentistry; he is an associate editor for the International Endodontic Journal, an academic editor for PLOS One and serves on the review panels of multiple other journals. Among other honours, Dr Peters has received the Hans Genet Award of the European Society of Endodontology, the Louis I. Grossman Award of the American Association of Endodontists and recently the Distinguished Scientist Award in Pulp Biology by the IADR. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics, a member of OKU and a Fellow of both the International and American Colleges of Dentistry.
