Dr
Evelyn C Sheehy qualified from Trinity College Dental School, Dublin, in 1983.
She was awarded her Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons,
Edinburgh. She specialised in Paediatric Dentistry at Tufts University,
Boston, USA, and obtained Board Certification from the American Academy of Paediatric
Dentistry in 1992. While working as a Lecturer and Honorary Senior Registrar
at Guys Hospital, London, she was awarded a Phd from the University of
London, and her FDS(Paed Dent) and Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training
in Paediatric Dentistry in 1998. She is currently a Senior Lecturer/Honorary
Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at Guys, Kings College and St
Thomas Dental Institute, and works part-time in Specialist Practice in
London. Her research interests included oral microbiology, cariology, dentalveolar
injury and behaviour management in children, and she has lectured both in the
UK and abroad in these fields.