Double glory for Ioannis

Ioannis Levisianos, a third year orthodontics student at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute and Specialist Registrar at the Eastman Dental Hospital, has been awarded the celebrated J K Williams Medal of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England. The award is made annually to the candidate who secures the highest marks in the BiCollegiate Membership in Orthodontics examination.

Ioannis also received the extremely competitive Houston Research Poster Prize at the 87th European Orthodontic Society Congress in Istanbul in June this year. The award is for the best research poster of unpublished research on a topic of orthodontic interest.

New Dean for King's College London Dental Institute

Dr Dianne Rekow has been appointed new Dean to King's College London's Dental Institute. Dr Rekow is president of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and an internationally renowned authority on the performance of new materials and products for use in aesthetic and restorative dentistry. Dr Rekow succeeds Professor Nairn Wilson, who is due to retire at the end of this year.

Olympic torchbearer nomination

Sixty-two years after winning a bronze medal in athletics in the Empire Games (the former name for the Commonwealth Games), 91-year-old Vice President of the BDA Benevolent Fund, Tony Chivers, has been nominated by the Fund to be a Torchbearer in the 2012 Olympic Games. Tony has been successful in making it through to the regional selection stage.

Gold for Cockermouth

St Helen's Dental Practice in Cockermouth, Cumbria, has won the prestigious Investors in People Gold standard. This is the only dental practice in the North West to achieve the gold award and it puts the practice in the top 1.5% of over 21,000 UK businesses that have achieved the Investors in People Standard.

Best student presentation

At the grand old age of 51 (her words), dentist Julia Beaumont has won an award for the best student presentation at the annual conference of the British Association for Biological and Anthropological Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) held in Edinburgh this month. Julia is studying part-time for a PhD in the Department of Archaeological Sciences, Bradford University, supervised by Dr Janet Montgomery, and also practises dentistry in Littleborough alongside her husband.

New Chair for Warwick

The Dental Directory is funding a new Chair in Dentistry at the University of Warwick, to celebrate its 40 years in business. The new Chair will focus on primary care and will be appointed later this year.