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Dr. Daniel Sundaresan serves as a Senior Professional Practice Fellow in the Special Needs Dentistry section of the Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences department within the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Otago. He holds qualifications including BDS, GCHPEd, DSCD, DCD, MFDTEd, MSCD, and FRACDS(SND). He completed his Doctor of Clinical Dentistry at the University of Melbourne, where he undertook specialist training in Special Needs Dentistry. Earlier in his career, Sundaresan was a BDS student at the University of Otago, where he received the Pat Cragg Summer Student Prize from the Otago Medical School Research Society in 2012 for his project investigating the oral bacterial diversity of Dunedin children. He has also been awarded first prize by the Otago Medical Research Foundation in 2012. His professional experience includes roles as a Consultant in Special Needs Dentistry at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, positions at Waikato District Health Board in Hamilton, and work in London. Currently based in Dunedin, he practices as a Special Needs Dentist.