Dr. Owen Addison is Professor of Oral Rehabilitation and Head of the Centre of Oral Clinical and Translational Sciences at the UK’s largest dental school, King’s College London. In this role, he provides strategic leadership across research, education, clinical care, and academic development within a large, multidisciplinary academic and clinical setting.
Dr Addison qualified in Dentistry from the University of Birmingham in 2001, completed a PhD in Biomaterials at the same institution in 2007, and undertook five years of specialist clinical training, completed in 2012. He was appointed Lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 2007, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry in 2012, and to Chair in Applied Biomaterials in 2015. In 2016, he was appointed ADA&C Endowed Chair in Oral Health Translational Research at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he spent three years before returning to the UK in 2019 to take up his current role.
Dr Addison has made major contributions to undergraduate and postgraduate dental education, with strengths in curriculum innovation, assessment, and quality assurance. He contributes to professional regulation and examination nationally alongside accreditation and specialty assessment. He leads a funded research programme in oral and dental healthcare technologies that has secured over $12.5 million in competitive funding. His work has been recognised through awards including a five-year NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship and an IADR Distinguished Scientist Award. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 40) and generated translational impact through policy, intellectual property, and a spin-out company. Clinically, Dr Addison remains an active specialist in Prosthodontics, with clinical practice and clinical education comprising around half of his role.
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