Vishal Aggarwal

Biography

Vishal is a Clinical Associate Professor in Acute Dental Care and Chronic Pain at the University of Leeds, School of Dentistry. He is internationally recognised for his research in pain diagnosis and management and has particular interest in psychosocial management of chronic orofacial pain. Vishal gained his dental degree with Honors from the University of Manchester in 1998 and a PhD in Epidemiology in 2006. His research career has been been funded by prestigious fellowships: Initially a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in clinical epidemiology funded his doctoral programme of work on epidemiology of chronic orofacial pain and latterly a NIHR clinician scientist award during which he translated his doctoral findings into an evidence based health technology for psychosocial management of chronic orofacial pain. Clinically, Vishal is a generalist and has vast experience in health services research which has been consolidated by a Masters in Public Health in 2013 and a NIHR Clinical Trials Training Fellowship which he completed in 2014. He has used this experience to undertake a number of research studies to inform common interventions used in primary dental care. 

Research Interest

Acute Dental Care and Chronic Pain