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Dr Parul Khare Sinha

Dr Parul Khare Sinha

Associate Professor , Oral Medicine & Radiology

Parul.khare@sharda.ac.in

About

Dr. Parul Khare Sinha is Forensic Odontologist and Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologist with dual masters degrees — MDS (India) and MSc in Forensic Odontology (KU Leuven, Belgium). She is certified by HarvardX  on “Child protection” and by WHO in “Infection prevention and control (IPC) for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)”, from IIM B on “Naturing Future Leadership Program”.

Presently she is Incharge of the Unit Forensic Odontology and Associate Professor at the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology & Oral Microbiology School of Dental Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, where she also serves as a member of the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Imaging & Forensics.

She has rich clinical, academic, and global teaching experience including general practitioner at Alpha dental clinic Shanghai, China. Foreign Visiting faculty positions at Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), SRM (Chennai), and adjunct appointments at Saveetha Dental College (Chennai) and Saraswati Dental College (Lucknow).

Dr. Parul has delivered invited lectures and workshops worldwide, to name few at the INTERPOL (Singapore & Lyon), American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Las Vegas),   Countries like Budapest, Oslo, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Shanghai, Peru. Notably with national organizations at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). She has trained Dy. SPs, NCB police officers and prosecutors at the Central Academy of Police Training, Bhopal.

Dr. Parul serves as the Principal Investigator for the WHO/ITU/WIPO Dental Focus Group on AI & Oral Health, leading work in AI applications for Oral & Maxillofacial Oncology, and has showcased her research at WHO conferences in Berlin, Finland, Harvard, Munich, and Geneva.”

She is Indias first member in multiple global bodies like INTERPOL DVI Sub-Working Groups (Friction Ridge & Face Comparison and Forensic Odontology), ISO (Forensic odontology) BIS “Dentistry” and “Forensic Sciences introducing forensic odontology. Convener for Oral Cancer at BIS. She is also member of Kenyon International Emergency Services, US, UK. American Dental Association “Standards Committee on Dental Informatics”. Her contributions have earned her the Young Scientist Award (SPIC) and editorial roles in several reputed international journals. Dr Parul has authored a book “The Future Odontologist a Manual for Forensic Experts in a Changing World, with Dr. Jared Murray from UK” on AI and Indian Atlas showing non metric traits of teeth.

Experience
  • 5 years
Qualification
  • BDS, MDS, Masters Forensic Odontology (Belgium)
Award & Recognition

  • YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD” by SPIC
  • First Indian Forensic Odontologist to present at DVI INTERPOL
  • First to initiate Forensic Odontology under Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), India
  • First to represent India from BIS at International Standard Organization (ISO)
  • Principal Investigator, ITU/WHO/WIPO FG-AI4H, TG Dental- Oral & Maxillofacial Oncology
  • Joint Secretary INPAFO, Awards in International & National Conferences for paper & posters.

Research

  1. 1. Legala, A., Sonal S, Parul Khare et al. "Quantification and mitigation of site-specific differences in digital pathology datasets", Proc. SPIE 13413, Medical Imaging 2025: Digital and Computational Pathology, 134130W (10 April 2025).
  2. Brandon V, Kenneth A, Parul Khare. An Overview of Artificial Intelligences Role in Dental Care. Dentistry Transformed. New York State Dental Association 2023. https://issuu.com/brownst303/docs/nysdj_january24_final/s/42855939
  3. Parul Khare, Jingjing S, Lizhen W, Zhen T, Chunye Z, Yuhua H, Ronghui X, Jiang L. Nine cases of soft tissue keratocysts arising from buccal mucosa and lateral fascial deep region: Clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2021;64(2):339-342
  4. Parul Khare, Jiang Li, Luz Andrea Velandia Palacio, Ivan Galićb, Luigi Ferrante, Roberto Cameriere. Validation of the third molar maturity index cut-off value of < 0.08 for indicating legal age of 18 years in Eastern Chinese region. Legal Medicine 42 (2020) 
  5. Parul Khare, Adarsh K, Ashok K, Pooja R, M. Siddharth. The scope of Artificial Intelligence in Human Identification through Forensic Odontology. Indo Pacific Acad Forensic Odontology.2023 sept;12(1):39-43 - 45 publication tills date in National & International Journals

Certifications

  • Fellow of Pierre Fauchard Academy 2017
  • Certificate course from HarvardX. On Child protection: Childrens rights in theory and practice- 2020
  • WHO: Infection prevention and control (IPC) for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) -2020
  • Certificate of Training Completion by nVIDIA and GI Ventures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2024-25 Batch, Sharda University.
  • Residential training Certificate course at IIM Bangalore on Nurturing Future Leadership Program (NFLP) under the aegis of Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Program (MMTTP), Ministry of Education, fully funded by Government of India

Area of Interest

  • Forensic Odontology
  • Oral Pathology
  • Oral Oncology
  • Oral Microbiology
  • AI in Forensic Odontology
  • AI in Oral Oncology