Sakher Jaber AlQahtani صخر جابر سالم القحطاني

Education:

10th International Course in Forensic Odontology
 
Personal Identification by Dental Methods, Oslo, Norway

Intensive 40 hour hands on workshop covering:

• Principles of comparative identification:

  • Theoretical aspects

  • The INTERPOL forms

  • Practical work in the mortuary (Institute of Forensic Medicine)

  • Obtaining post-mortem dental status of a dead person

  • Retrieving relevant information from dental records

  • Comparison of ante- and post-mortem data

  • Evaluation of similarities and differences

  • Formulation of conclusions and summarizing comparable details

• Principles of reconstructive identification:

  • Estimation of age, sex, height, race, habits, social status, occupation, etc.

  • Theoretical aspects

  • Practical training

  • Contribution to the announcement for a missing person

• Mass disasters

  • Theoretical aspects

  • The DVI team

  • Computer programs:

    • DVI System International

  • Mock accident 

Diploma course in Forensic Human Identification  

Given by The Academy of Forensic Medical Sciences, London, UK

• Legal and human rights issues in identification
• Identification of the body at different stages of decay
• Victim Identification from crime scene investigation
• Forensic odontology
• Forensic osteology
• Investigation of clandestine graves
• Craniofacial identification
• DNA analysis including the human genome/molecular biology techniques and tool used in human identification
• Identification from prints
• Emergency planning and victim identification in mass disasters, psychological profiling, voice recognition

Phd

Thesis title: The London Atlas: developing an atlas of tooth development and testing its quality and performance measures
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Developed a new age estimation method using Dental Development (The Atlas of Tooth Development and Eruption). It has been translated into 18 languages. The Atlas is being taught in Dental, Forensic and Anthropology programs around the world and is adopted by Forensic Societies on a global level.
www.atlas.dentistry.qmul.ac.uk
 

Masters in Clinical Pediatric Dentistry (MClinDent)

Two years covering Pediatric Dentistry clinical training and a masters thesis 
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

BDS
Bachelor in Dental Surgery, College of Dentistry, King Saud University

Awards:

2012        Awarded the Excellence Award by HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, the Embassedor to the United Kingdom

2010       Awarded the High Achievement Award by the Ministry of Higher Education Saudi Arabia

2009      Selected to present at the prestigious annual research showcase on William Harvey Day, Queen Mary University of London, London,                                UK

 2008      Semi-finalist for the President's prize, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK for the study titled “Atlas of tooth                                              development and eruption”.

2008      Awarded a scientific excellence Award by the 3^rd International Saudi Conference, Surry, UK

2007     Awarded by the Saudi Innovation Conference, Newcastle, UK for the study titled "the effect of different types of media on knowledge retention in Saudi Arabia"

2005     Semi-finalist for the best young dentist research award by the Saudi Dentist Society, for the in vitro research " The effect Saudi plants' extracts on selected microorganisms"

2003-2004  Awarded certificates for presenting lectures on infection control and oral health by the Ministry of health, Saudi Arabia