Interview By Bruce Oxley


relevant and controversial


Academic,


Dr Sean Malone explains what makes the RCSI Dental Faculty’s Annual Scientific Meeting special and what attendees can expect to gain from the 20ı5 event


T


here are three things that set the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland’s (RCSI) Annual Scientific Meeting


(ASM) apart, according to the event’s programme committee chairman, Dr Sean Malone. He said: “The ASM has three


aims in general – to be academically strong, to be relevant to general practice and, finally, we always like to have a bit of controversy as well.” The 20ı5 meeting will take place


on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October at the RCSI headquarters in Dublin with the theme ‘New Horizons in Dental Practice’. As a former president of the


Irish Dental Association (IDA), Dr Malone has plenty of experience organising the scientific programme for a major event, having been tasked with organising the associa- tion’s conference during his term in charge (20ı3/20ı4). A board member at the RCSI for the last ı0 years, he was then tasked with chairing the new programme committee two years ago when John Walsh took over as dean of the dental faculty.


New horizons Along with his fellow committee members, Edward Cotter and Billy Davis, along with additional input


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