Professor Hector appointed at Dundee

Professor Mark Hector has been appointed Dean of Dentistry at the University of Dundee. Professor Hector, who will also occupy a Chair in Oral Health of Children, was previously at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Head of Dental Services

Dr Susan Willatt BDS MBA LLM has been appointed Head of Dental Services (London) at Dental Protection Ltd with effect from 1 October 2011.

Dr Willatt joined Dental Protection as a Dento-legal Adviser in 1999 and is also Secretary to the Board.

Mature Educator Certificate

Susan Cunningham, Professor of Orthodontics at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute (EDI), has been awarded the Mature Educator Certificate for Excellence in Dental Education by the Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) in recognition of her prolific contribution to dental education.

BDA Roll of Distinction

NASDAL member Andrew Lockhart-Mirams, a Senior Partner in the law firm Lockharts, has been awarded the British Dental Association's Roll of Distinction for his outstanding service to the British Dental Association (BDA).

Lockharts have been the BDA's lawyers for a quarter of a century and Mr Lockhart-Mirams is the first solicitor to be entered on the Roll of Distinction.

New King James IV Professor

Professor Lakshman Samaranayake, Dean of Dentistry, Tam-Wah Ching Professor in Dental Science and Chair of Oral Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, has been awarded the King James IV Professorship 2011/2012 by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

The professorship is awarded in open competition to practitioners of surgery/dental surgery who have made a significant contribution to the clinical and/or scientific basis of surgery. The award was established in 2001 to mark the millennium.