Universities of Queensland and Athens become latest institutions to teach EFP-accredited postgraduate programme

Two universities – in Australia and Greece – have received approval to teach the EFP-accredited postgraduate programme in periodontology.

The University of Queensland, where the postgraduate programme is directed by Saso Ivanovski, is the second non-European university to gain accreditation, following the University of Hong Kong in 2019.

It received its accreditation in November and was soon followed by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, where the programme in periodontology is directed by Phoebus Madianos, former EFP president and chair of the EuroPerio10 congress.

There are now 21 EFP-accredited universities in 14 counties:

• Australia: University of Queensland (accredited in 2022)
• Belgium: Catholic University of Leuven (2001), University of Liège (2016), Ghent University Hospital (2021).
• France: University of Strasbourg (2021), Paris-Diderot University/Rothschild Hospital (2012).
• Greece: University of Athens (2022).
• Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong (2019).
• Ireland: Trinity College Dublin (2007).
• Israel: Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem (2003), Rambam University Hospital, Haifa (2008).
• Italy: University of Turin (2017), University of Florence (2022).
• Netherlands: Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (1998).
• Spain: Complutense University of Madrid (2002), International University of Catalunya (2015).
• Sweden: Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg (2000).
• Switzerland: University of Bern (2008).
• Turkey: Yeditepe University, Istanbul (2005).
• United Kingdom: University College London Eastman Dental Institute (2000), King’s College London (2021).