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Staff Profile
Background
Qualifications
- BDS (Hons)
- PhD
- BSc (Hons)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Facilitating Learning in Healthcare Practice
Current positions
- Clinical Lecturer
- Associate General Dental Practitioner (part-time)
Previous positions
- Educational Supervisor for Dental Foundation Training (Health Education North East)
- Guest Lecturer (DFT study days) Health Education North East
- Vocational Dental Practitioner
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Roles and Responsibilities
- Stage 2 BDS Director
- Academic and Clinical Teaching Lead for Periodontology
- Course lead for Microbiology for Dentistry
- Clinical teaching BDS Stage 3, 4 and 5 restorative clinics
- Clinical teaching for Stage 3 ODHS
- Stage 2 Tutor for BSc ODHS course
- UCAS admissions panel
- BDS undergraduate tutor
Teaching
Stage 2
- Microbiology for Dentistry course (Course lead)
Stage 3
- Periodontology lecture course (Course lead)
- Periodontology clinical teaching
Stage 4
- BDS and ODHS restorative clinics / Interprofessional clinic
Stage 5
- Adult restorative clinic
- Current Opinion in Dentistry course
Research
Research Interests - Oral Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Periodontology and the link between periodontal disease and systemic health
Educational Research Interest - The transition from final year undergraduate to Dental Foundation Training (DFT) - preparedness for DFT