Dr Shiyana Eliyas
BDS, MFDS, PGCert (Higher Ed), MRD, FDS (Rest Dent), PhD
Having graduated from King’s College London in 2002, with Distinction in Restorative Dentistry, Shiyana has gained experience in a variety of different environments that included dental teaching hospitals, district general hospitals, as well as National Health and Private practice. This included formalised training and staff grade posts in secondary care. She undertook her Specialty Training in Restorative Dentistry at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and completed a Head and Neck Oral Rehabilitation Fellowship in Manchester and Liverpool Dental Hospitals. Shiyana was involved in developing and delivering a 2-year training programme to upskill General Dental Practitioners in Endodontics, and went on to completed a Doctorate on the feasibility of measuring the quality of post-graduate education in endodontics in primary care using outcomes of endodontic treatment and has published widely. She has supported the British Society of Prosthodontics and a number of it’s past presidents during her time as the Honorary Secretary for the society.
Her current position as a Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at St George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust includes the delivery of complex restorative dental treatment and the management of patients who have undergone treatment for head and neck oncology, those with dental developmental disorders and those who have suffered major trauma to the oral cavity, working closely with surgical and medical teams across the hospital. Shiyana has been involved in teaching and training general dental practitioners, dental foundation trainees, dental core trainees and specialty trainees, as well as serving as an external examiner for post-graduate training.