Marie Thérèse Hosey is Head of Paediatric Dentistry at King's College London and Honorary Consultant at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. She qualified from the University of Glasgow in 1985 and subsequently completed her MSc (1991) and DDS (1997) postgraduate degrees there. She read Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Glasgow before joining King's College London in 2008. Her research interests are the pharmacological and behavioural management of anxious children, especially those who require general anaesthesia, as well as children with clefts. She has received research funding, mainly for clinical trials, from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Scottish Chief Scientist Office.