Professor Elizabeth Davenport has been appointed as Chair of a new GDC board to ensure the successful delivery of its new examination for overseas dentists applying to work in the UK - the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE).

She will now help establish and lead the Overseas Registration Examination Board (OREB), playing a key role in recruiting members of the Board. Professor Davenport was originally involved in the review of the International Qualifying Examination (the predecessor to the ORE) and the implementation of the ORE. She is Professor of Dental Education and Director of Quality with the Institute of Dentistry at Barts and The London Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry.