Ewen McColl
Director
Ewen obtained his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Edinburgh in 1993, and following House Officer and Senior House Officer positions, joined the British Army as a Dental Officer in 1995. During his military career, he served as Senior Dental Officer in Afghanistan and for two years on Loan Service to The Sultan of Brunei’s Armed Forces. After six years of General Dental Practice experience in the military, he undertook three years of Specialist Training in Periodontology at The Eastman Dental Hospital in London, passing MClinDent with distinction.
Following this, Ewen completed three years of training at Guy’s Dental Hospital in order to become an accredited Restorative Consultant. During this period, he also attended an internship in endodontics at Loma Linda University in California. Following accreditation as a Restorative Consultant in 2009, he was then employed as a Consultant by the military, taking restorative referrals from military General Dental Practitioners. Ewen joined Peninsula Dental School in September 2012, and took up his current position as Head of School in August 2023.
Ewen is on the Editorial Board of Dental Update, a leading peer-reviewed clinical journal for the dentist in general practice. He was recently awarded the prestigious Fellowship (Ad Eundem) of The Faculty Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The award was made in recognition of an “outstanding contribution to Dentistry and significant contribution to dentistry as a teacher, clinician and researcher on a national and international level.”
