March 2015


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School of Dentistry Director

Professor Montgomery Raymand McAulay-Rieger has been appointed Director of the School of Dentistry, at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The UWI, St. Augustine.

Professor McAulay-Rieger earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering in 1973 and his Master of Science degree in Engineering, specializing in Bioceramics in 1974 at the Ohio State University. While at OSU, he was a Ralph D. Mershon Scholar and an Edward Orton, Jr. Fellow and was an inaugural member of the OSU Judicial Committee overseeing all student courts at OSU. From 1974 to 1980, he attended the University of Virginia as a National Institutes of Health Research Associate and a DuPont Fellow. He received his PhD in Materials Science specializing in biomaterials and biomechanics in 1980. After several years in academia as an assistant and associate professor in Dentistry and Biomedical Engineering, he entered the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston Dental Branch where he received his DDS and completed a collaborative internship in international healthcare through Richmond College in London. With his dual doctorates in Dentistry and Engineering, he headed the division of Oral Biomaterials at King Saud University in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a professor and consultant and created the first PhD programme in Clinical Oral Biomaterials in the Middle East.