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Personal Profile:
Editorial Board Journal of Disability and Oral Health
Name: Professor Nicky Kilpatrick

Present appointment:

Professor/Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
University of Bristol.
Honorary Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Qualifications: BDS, PhD, FDS RCPS, FRACDS (Paeds)
Work contact details:
Email: nicky.kilpatrick@bristol.ac.uk
Address: School of Oral and Dental Science, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LY
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 34 24355. Fax: +44 (0) 117 3422601

Memberships / External Activities:
Chair: Board of Studies, Paediatric Dentistry, Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgery. 2007 – to date.
Chair of examiners: Special Care Dentistry, RACDS 2005 - 2009
Editorial Board: International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry; 2000 – to date
Assistant Editor: European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry: 2010 – onwards
President of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry (Vic) : 2006 – 2008.

Memberships
British Dental Association
British Society of Paediatric Dentistry
Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Dentistry
Australasian Academy of Paediatric Dentistry
International Association of Dental Research
American Cleft Lip and Palate Association

Teaching Profile:
Undergraduate:
Development of curriculum for graduate dental programme, University of Sydney. 1996 – 1999.
Topic teaching – special needs paediatrics for the Oral Health Therapy programme at the University of Melbourne

Postgraduate:
Clinical director of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Melbourne and Royal Children’s Hospital.
Oral health teaching module for the Australian College of Physicians (Paediatrics and Child Health Division). Paediatric training programme.

Research Supervision:
5 completed PhD’students, MDSc and DDS supervision, fellowship supervision,

Awards / Prizes:

The Joan Chong Award for Dental Materials Science (IADR, ANZ Division) 1997
Leadership Award, Australian Women in Dentistry 2009.
Presidential Commendation, Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons, 2010

Research Interests:

All aspects of Cleft lip and palate
Paediatric oral health.

Clinical Interests-

Oral health care of children with special health care needs
Cleft lip and palate care

Selected Publications:

Reid J, Kilpatrick N and Reilly S (2006). A prospective, longitudinal study of feeding skills in a cohort of babies with cleft conditions. Cleft Palate Craniofacial J 43: 702 - 709.

Kilpatrick NM and Neumann A (2007). Durability of amalgam in the restoration of class II cavities in primary molars: a systematic review of the literature. Eur Arch Paed Dent 8: 5 -13.

Gussy M, Waters E, Riggs E, Lo SK and Kilpatrick N (2008). Parental knowledge, beliefs and behaviours for infant oral health of infants residing in rural Victoria. Aust Dent J 53: 52 – 60.

Jugessur A, Farlie P and Kilpatrick N (2009) The genetics of isolated orofacial clefts: From genotypes to subphenotypes. Oral Diseases. 15: 437 – 453.

Selected Projects/Publications in Special Care Dentistry: list up to 4

Kilpatrick NM, Weintraub RG, Lucas JO, Shipp A, Byrt T and Wilkinson JL (1997). Gingival overgrowth in paediatric heart and heart-lung transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant 16: 1231 – 1237.

Kilpatrick NM, Awang H, Wilcken B and Christodoulou J (1999). The implications of Phenylketonuria on oral health. Paed Dent 21: 433 – 437.

Kilpatrick NM, Johnson H and Reddihough D (2000). Sialorrhea: a multidisciplinary approach to saliva control in children. J Oral Health Disability 1: 3 – 9.

Efron D and Kilpatrick NM (2002). Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: a review and guide for dental professionals. J Oral Health Disab 3: 7 – 12.

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