Kerry Lancaster has been given the Award for Distinguished Service for her training of orthodontic technicians. She is the deputy chief orthodontic instructor at the Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences working mainly with postgraduate dentists on the MSc and M.Orth programmes in Orthodontics.

Always supportive to her professional colleagues, Kerry has organised numerous presentations and workshops for dental technicians. In many cases, this meant giving up her own time to facilitate this training.

Kerry was a member of the OTA council from 2003 until 2013 and during that time she served in a number of roles including the OTA Newsletter Editor and Membership Secretary. She has demonstrated consistently throughout her career a passion for orthodontic dental technology and its ongoing development.