About Robert Kirschen

qualified as a dentist from Guy's Hospital, London, and successfully completed his specialist orthodontic training in 1980. He is registered as a specialist by the General Dental Council (Number 49493). He opened an orthodontic practice in Reigate in 1982 and has also developed a varied career outside the practice. He is a part-time senior clinical lecturer at the Royal London Hospital, training postgraduate specialist registrars. He was appointed for six years by the Royal College of Surgeons to examine the specialist registrars from all parts of the United Kingdom at the end of their training. Dr Kirschen supervises research and has published scientific and clinical papers in professional journals in the UK and the US. He also presents courses to orthodontists in the UK and overseas, most recently in Moscow and Vienna. Dr Kirschen is also involved in furthering British orthodontics. He has given expert evidence to the House of Commons' Health Select Committee and, for two successive years, he was Chairman of the 1,000 delegate four-day British Orthodontic Conference. For a period of nine years, he was Scientific Advisor to the British Dental Journal and a member of its International Editorial Board. He has also served for four years as chairman of the Ethics Committee of the British Orthodontic Society and has been asked on several occasions to prepare expert witness reports. The British Orthodontic Society has honoured Dr Kirschen with a Special Service Award and he is also a member of the European Orthodontic Society and the American Association of Orthodontists.