Introduction
Run for Research
Pictured (from left to right) are Anthony Summerwill, Senior Registrar, Caroline Jeffrey, Caroline Abbott and Craig Barclay, Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry.
Caroline Jeffrey and Caroline Abbott, two fourth year dental students from Birmingham Dental School recently completed the Great Northern Run in aid of Cancer Research, Leukaemia Research and Breast Cancer Charities. The students raised over £1,000 for the charities.
GDC seeks views of the profession
The General Dental Council is to consult with the dental profession about the next steps forward in the Council's constitutional change.
This consultation follows the meeting on 14 November, where the Council agreed to a pioneering programme of reform to produce a smaller, more strategic Council comprising 12 professional members, including the President, and 11 lay members with the four Chief Dental Officers as associate members.
Professor Nairn Wilson, President of the GDC, is now writing to all members of the profession to seek views regarding the Council's new formation with regard to:
- Whether the members of a separate Fitness to Practise Panel should be elected or an alternative mechanism be considered such as an appointments system.
- The mechanisms to be used to provide the new-style Council with professional members who collectively reflect the growing diversity of dentistry and the profession throughout the U.K.
National President for BPW UK
Dental surgeon, Dr Pamela Jane Coates, has been elected as National President of Business and Professional Women UK Ltd (BPW UK), taking over during National Conference in Manchester on April 7th 2001.
Pam qualified as a dental surgeon in 1976. In 1989 she was the North West winner of the BPW/Nat West Young Career Woman Award and in 1995 she was named as one of the country's 12 'A1' dentists by Harpers & Queen magazine.
Journal launched
Pictured are members of the Editorial Board with the first issue.
A new journal dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and expertise in the field of special care dentistry has been launched.
The Journal of Disability and Oral Health will be published twice a year, in April and October, and is the journal of the British Society of Disability and Oral Health (BSDH).
The journal was unveiled at the British Dental Association headquarters in London. It aims to give readers a wide variety of contents including clinical and scientifically-based papers, practical management techniques, case reports and news and information on special care dentistry. The editor is June Nunn from the Newcastle Dental School.
Greenspan elected to Institute of Medicine
Deborah Greenspan, Professor of Clinical Oral Medicine in the Department of Stomatology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr Greenspan was educated at the University of London before moving to the University of California . She has distinguished herself as an international leader in the study and care of oral mucosal diseases, in particular of oral diseases associated with HIV infection.
Dr Greenspan is a prolific contributor to the scientific literature and a sought after speaker.
Forty years of golf at Liverpool Dental School
Pictured (left to right) are Alan Newton, Jim Mumford, 'Monty' Oliver, Tony Melville and John Rostron (Honorary Staff Captain.)
Liverpool University Dental School recently held their 40th annual golf match at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club.
The match is a triangular tournament played between staff, students and alumni as well as an individual competition. Several members of staff who had played in the early years of the tournament were present at the match.
A field of 72 golfers contested the individual competition, with the winner of the men's competition being Ed Starkey while Ann Budenberg won the Ladies plate.
Any Liverpool Alumni who would like to play in the match should contact Sally Hibbert at the Department of Clinical Dental Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX.
Two honoured from the profession
John Cullen has been appointed as an OBE for services to dentistry.
John Cullen has been appointed as an OBE for services to dentistry.
He is the chief dental officer (CADO) for the Northern Board in Northern Ireland based in Ballymena. He is to retire this autumn. John Cullen qualified in 1966 and joined the Community Dental Service in 1978, working his way up to become Director of Dental and Ophthalmic Services, NHSSB. He helped establish area-wide out-of-hours dental relief and has worked closely with Homefirst Trust Community Dental Service in their successful Charter Mark applications. He is currently working with Causeway and Homefirst Community Trusts in projects funded by primary care development monies for the DHSSPS.
Bernard Sims has been appointed as an MBE for services to forensic odontology in the Queens New Years Honours list.
Bernard Sims has been appointed as an MBE for services to forensic odontology in the Queens New Years Honours list.
He qualified in 1960 and spent twelve years working in the NHS. He worked for many years as a full-time forensic odontologist in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, before taking early retirement in 1986. He maintained his links to forensics as a freelancer, working for the law enforcement courts, the coroner courts and the legal profession until retiring fully in 1998.
He is known to many in the dental profession for his writing about forensic dentistry.
