Dr Raj Joshi has recently been installed as the Hospitals Group President, and takes over the role from Dr Peter Nicholson. Dr Joshi qualified at the Royal Dental Hospital, London in 1975 and after postgraduate and specialist training at Guy's and Eastman Dental Hospitals was appointed Consultant in Restorative Dentistry (with a special interest in Periodontology) in 1988 in Sheffield.

He has been involved with the BDA since his undergraduate days and has been a member of the CCHDS, the Representative Body and the President of the South Yorkshire Branch of the BDA.

He is currently Chairman of the Association of Consultants and Specialists in Restorative Dentistry and the SAC in Restorative Dentistry, and runs the MClinDent and specialist training programme in Periodontics in Sheffield.