Dr Patel with the MBE award

Hampstead based dentist, Dr Rashmi Patel received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June this year, in recognition of her achievements in the field of dentistry. In nearly thirty years of work in the field, as well as working in her own practice Dr Patel is an appointed dentist to the Royal School of Hampstead and at Howard House Home for Children in Hampstead.

She is an examiner for the national dental nurses qualification, a core mentor for the Central London Study Group for Dentists and an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons. Dr Patel was also one of the early founders of the AngloAsian Odontological Group as well as its President during the establishment of the National Centre for Transcultural Health at the Eastman. She is also a serving member of the Standing Dental Advisory Committee.

She spends much of her spare time fundraising for charities and is currently involved with the Drug and Alcohol Action Programme (www.daap.org.uk).