Rate My Professor Rícheál Ní Riordáin

Professor Rícheál Ní Ríordáin is a Professor/Consultant in Oral Medicine in the Cork University Dental School and Hospital at University College Cork, within the College of Medicine and Health. She has professional experience in both medicine and dentistry, holding a PhD in Oral Medicine, an MA in Higher Education, and an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education completed in 2018 with a dissertation on universal design for learning. Throughout her career, she has taught Oral Medicine at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She served as a Teaching Fellow with the Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning at University College Cork, contributing to teaching on the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Appointed by Health Education England as Regional Dental Academic and Research Advisor for London and Kent Surrey Sussex, she also acted as the Oral Health Research Fellow with the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement. In 2021, she was appointed co-programme director for the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in Oral Surgery.

Professor Ní Ríordáin’s research specializations encompass patient-reported outcomes and educational research. Her PhD focused on developing and validating an Oral Medicine-specific quality of life questionnaire for patients with chronic oral mucosal diseases, establishing the basis for her independent research. She has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, supervised more than 30 research students to completion, and designed numerous Masters and Doctoral-level research projects. An active member of the British, European, and American Oral Medicine societies as well as the Association for Dental Education in Europe, she presents annually at meetings in the US and Europe. She serves on the Steering Committee for the World Workshop on Oral Medicine and is a Steering Committee Member for the forthcoming World Workshop on Oral Medicine X. Her leadership in Oral Medicine outcomes research has fostered worldwide academic and industry collaborations. Key publications include “Important learning points for setting up a dental-oncology service in Ireland” (2026, Irish Journal of Medical Science), “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Evidence-Based Dentistry Among Final-Year Dental Students: A Multinational Study Across 6 Countries and 8 Universities” (2026, European Journal of Dental Education), “Can Large Artificial Intelligence-Based Linguistic Models Help to Obtain Information About Burning Mouth Syndrome?” (2025, Oral Diseases), and “Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Oral Epithelial Dysplasia Informational Needs Questionnaire” (2025, Oral Diseases). In 2020, she received the Association for Dental Education in Europe Excellence in Dental Education Award (Early Career). Her contributions support Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 4 (Quality Education), with research featured in nine press and media clippings on topics such as oral epithelial dysplasia, temporomandibular joint disorders, and medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw.