Hal Duncan

Received his dental degree from the University of Glasgow and his endodontic speciality training in Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London.

For ten years, he worked part-time in specialist referral endodontic practice. 

He completed his PhD in the University of Birmingham on the subject of ‘Epigenetic approaches to promoting dentine-pulp reparative mechanisms’.

He has published over 100 international peer-reviewed scientific articles, 45 research abstracts, 17 book chapters as well as editing 2 textbooks.

He was the primary author of the recent European Society of Endodontology (ESE) position statement on ‘Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp’ and is the lead of the ongoing ‘ESE S3-level Guidelines for the Treatment of Endodontic Disease’. 

He is the current Editor-In-Chief of the International Endodontic Journal. In DDUH, he currently maintains a research lab and supervises several clinical and scientifically trained PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in basic and translational pulp biology and endodontics. Currently, he is the Director of Research in the DDUH, the president-elect of the ESE, a Member of the Executive Board of the ESE as well as a past-president of the Irish Endodontic Society, and ex-European Representative of the ESE of the Irish Endodontic Society.