Dr Hanya Mahmood
BDS (Birm), MFDS RCS, PGDip Con Sed, PGCert Med Ed, FHEA, MClinRes, MOralSurg, PhD
School of Clinical Dentistry
Senior Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Consultant Oral Surgeon
+44 114 215 9370
Full contact details
School of Clinical Dentistry
19 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
- Profile
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Dr Mahmood graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2012. Following this, she completed Dental Foundation Training (2012-2013) and multiple Dental Core Training posts in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Radiology (2012-2018). During this time, she gained MFDS at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education (2017), Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2017) and Diploma in Conscious Sedation (Merit, 2018). She was subsequently appointed as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Oral Surgery during which she completed higher surgical training with award of MOralSurg (2021).
She has an outstanding track record in research, having completed a Masters in Clinical Research with Distinction (2021) and a prestigious NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (2021–2024), which supported her PhD on the application of Artificial Intelligence for early oral cancer detection. Her work has been recognised nationally and internationally, earning several notable awards, including the BSODR Presidents Prize (2025) for significant contributions to translational clinical research and the BSODR Senior Colgate Award (2023), the UK’s most prestigious PhD-level prize in Oral & Dental Research. Additional accolades include the IADR Oral Medicine & Pathology Research Prize (2022), ABAOMS Research Prize (2023), and BSOMP Potts Research Prize (2022). In recognition of her academic and clinical achievements, she was promoted to Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Oral Surgeon at the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, in 2024.
- Research interests
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Dr Mahmood’s main research focus is the study of oral precancer progression to malignancy. She is a key member of the NEOPATH research group leading innovation in oral, head and neck cancer research. Her NIHR funded PhD (worth £353K) developed novel digital, computational and quantitative models for oral cancer risk prediction (supervisors Professors Syed Ali Khurram, Daniel Lambert and Nasir Rajpoot) and received various national and international research prizes.
She is involved in a number of national and international collaborative projects exploring novel digital and spatial biomarkers in oral cancers and pre-cancers using state-of-the art approaches, including AI, Deep Learning, single-cell analysis and multiplex imaging.
Current projects
- AI-Powered Mechanobiology Platform for Predicting Oral Cancer Risk & Therapeutic Response in Fanconi Anaemia (Fanconi Hope funded)
- Novel antimicrobial and osteogenic calcium phosphates for the treatment and prevention of MRONJ (EPSRC funded)
- Data Innovation Award: Curation of a digital multimodal dataset for oral, head and neck precancers and cancers (Cancer Research Horizons funded)
- Clinical incubator for oral health research: informing policy across the UK (NIHR funded)
- Single cell sequencing and spatial biomarker analysis in oral epithelial dysplasia (FDS-ABAOMS funded)
- Publications
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- Research group
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As part of the NEOPATH Research Group, she works closely with Prof Ali Khurram to supervise and mentor clinical academic trainees, postgraduate and post-doctoral research students to drive forwards translational projects in oral, head and neck cancer research.
PhD students
- Eiman Ali* (UoS Scholarship)
- Harriet Owen (EPSRC Landscape Award, University of Sheffield)
- Agata Janina Wronecka (external, Aarhus University)
Research staff
- Setareh Khazaei* (Cancer Research Horizons, Data Innovation Award)
Clinical academic trainees
- Chris Platais (ACF in Oral Medicine, Sheffield)
- Mollie Clark (ACF in Oral Pathology, Sheffield)
- Sophina Mahmood (ACF in Oral Surgery, Sheffield)*
Masters students
- Hrishikesh Sathyamoorthy
- Najla Nadiah
(*primary supervisor)
- Teaching interests
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Dr Mahmood has completed a PGCert in Medical Education and obtained Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2017).
She provides regular hands-on practical teaching in Oral Surgery to undergraduates, postgraduates and clinical trainees. She provides formal teaching to BDS students as part of the Integrated Clinical Practice, Oral Diseases and Integrated Human Diseases courses.
She is a personal tutor to BDS students, a registered Clinical Supervisor for speciality trainees in Oral Surgery, and a trained peer mentor for postgraduates in the Yorkshire & Humber Deanery.
She teaches on the Sheffield Implant Foundation Course and has previously led the RCS MFDS exam webinars for Oral Surgery broadcast to students in the UK, Burma and Kuala Lumpur (2017-2019).
- Professional activities and memberships
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Current roles
- Chair, BSODR Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery Research Group (2025–present)
- Councillor, IADR Oral Pathology & Medicine group (2025–present)
- Scientific Advisor, British Dental Association Health & Science Committee (2022–present)
- Member, Research Working Group, Salivary Gland Cancers UK (2024–present)
- Member, INTERCEPTOR Research Working Group (2024–present)
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board for Fanconi Hope (2024–present)
- Member, Sheffield University Research Integrity Steering Group (2024–present)
- Chair, ABAOMS Education Committee (2023–present)
- Sheffield Representative, Dental Sedation Teachers Group (2023–present)
- Lead, Sedation Journal Club, Charles Clifford Dental Hospital (2020–present)
- Member of learned societies: BAOS, ABAOMS, BDA, BSOMP, IADR, BSODR, DSTG
- Reviewer for Oral Surgery Journal, British Dental Journal & British Journal of Cancer
Previous roles
- Academic Trainee Representative & Webmaster, ABAOMS (2018–2024)
- Trainee Representative, Sheffield Hospitals Junior Doctor Forum (2018–2023) & Oral & Dental Research Directorate (Charles Clifford Hospital, 2021–2023)
- Member, Athena Swan Assessment Team (School of Clinical Dentistry, 2023–2024)
- BAOS Yorkshire Regional Representative (2018–2019)
- Clinical treatments
Dr Mahmood provides a range of oral surgical treatment under local anaesthetic, conscious sedation and general anaesthetic. Her main clinical interests include the management of medically compromised patients and treatment of oral soft/hard tissue disease and pathology.