Pierre Lahoud

Resume

Pierre Lahoud is a Doctor in Dental Surgery (DDS) with Postgraduate Training in Advanced Medical Imaging (PGD).

In 2024, he completed his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine of KU Leuven (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Imaging and Pathology Research Group) focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Biomechanical Modelling Towards Patient-Specific Oral Surgical Procedures.

He is currently a Clinical Assistant in Periodontology and Implant Surgery (KU Leuven, Belgium) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow (OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium) focusing on Artificial Intelligence, In-Silico Modelling, Periodontology, Implant and Muco-Gingival Surgery.

He is also a Guest Professor at the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and a Principal Investigator for Benchmarking within the UN’s Global Initiative on AI for Health (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as a Board Member of the Junior Committee of Digital Dentistry Belgium.

He has published over 25 peer-reviewed international publications, lectured nationally and internationally and is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the IADMFR Maxillofacial Research Award (First Prize - 2021, Gwangju, South Korea), the Albert J. Stichting Travel Award (Brussels, Belgium), the 2022 Journal of Endodontics Award (Chicago, IL, USA) and the 2022 Scientific Award of the Brazilian Association of Dental Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging (Goiânia, Brazil).

Experience

Board Member - Junior Committee

Digital Dentistry Belgium
Fall 2022 - Present

Scientific Collaborator

ITU-WHO-WIPO Global Initiative on AI for Health (TG Dental)
Fall 2022 - Present

Clinical Assistant - Periodontology, Implantology and Muco-Gingival Surgery

Division of Periodontology & Oral Microbiology, UZ Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2021 - Present

Consultant for Transalveolar Dental Transplantations

Department of Oral & MaxilloFacial Surgery, UZ Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2020 - Summer 2023

Doctoral Researcher

Department of Oral & MaxilloFacial Surgery and Imaging & Pathology - OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2020 - Fall 2024

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

Department of Oral & MaxilloFacial Surgery and Imaging & Pathology - OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium
Summer 2019 - Fall 2020

Guest Professor

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Fall 2024 - Present

Educational
background

Ph.D (Faculty of Medicine)

KU Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2020 - Fall 2024

MSc. Dent. in Periodontology & Implant Surgery (EFP Accredited)

KU Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2021 - ongoing

Postgraduate Studies in Advanced Medical Imaging (PGD)

KU Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2019 to Summer 2020

Erasmus+, Dental Medicine (MSc.)

Université Catholique de Louvain (UC Louvain), Belgium
Fall 2018

Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)

Lebanese University
Fall 2014 to Summer 2019