Pierre Lahoud

DDS, PGD, Ph.D Researcher

pierre@lahoud.org

Resume

Pierre Lahoud is a Doctor in Dental Surgery (DDS) with Postgraduate Training in Advanced Medical Imaging (PGD). He concluded a clinical internship at UCL in 2018 (Erasmus Scholarship) and performed his pre-doctoral research at the OMFS-IMPATH Research Group (KU Leuven, Belgium), focusing on Artificial Intelligence driven planning for dental autotransplantations - graduating Magna Cum Laude in July 2020 (KU Leuven, Belgium).

He is currently a Clinical Assistant in Periodontology and Implant Surgery (KU Leuven, Belgium) and a Ph. D. Researcher (OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, KU Leuven, Belgium) under the promotership of Prof. Dr. Reinhilde Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium), Prof. Dr. Marc Quirynen (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Prof. Dr. Michael Bornstein (Universität Basel, Switzerland).

He is also a scientific collaborator with the World Health Organisation and International Telecommunication Union’s Focus Group on AI for Health (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (Utrecht, Netherlands), a Junior Committee Board Member of Digital Dentistry Belgium and a consultant for transalveolar dental transplantations (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium).

His research topics focus primarily on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry, In-Silico Modelling, Periodontology and Oral Implantology.

He is the recipient of numerous 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 - ongoing

Scientific Collaborator

ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI for Health
Fall 2022 - ongoing

Clinical Assistant - Periodontology & Implantology

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

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 - ongoing

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

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

Educational
background

Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Sciences

KU Leuven, Belgium
Fall 2020 - ongoing

Masters Student in Periodontology (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