Lecturer Details: Orthodontic Study Circle/Orthodontic MCN: Psychosocial Outcomes of Malocclusion and Orthodontic Treatment

Lecturer nameProf Sarah Baker BSc, PhD, Chartered Psychologist
Lecturer profileSarah Baker is a Professor of Psychology as applied to Dentistry at the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, and is a Chartered Health Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is currently head of the academic unit of Oral Health, Dentistry and Society which includes Orthodontics. She collaborates with dental researchers around the world on a diverse range of projects relating to oral epidemiology, dental public health, and social and behavioural sciences in dentistry. Her primary research interest, however, is in the psychological, social and behavioural factors which influence how individual’s experience oral health conditions and dental treatment; including appearance-related conditions such as cleft lip and palate, malocclusion, and orthognathic surgery. She is Past President of the Behavioural, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research group of the International Association for Dental Research and has received many awards for her contributions to social and behavioural sciences in dentistry. Most recently, she received the 2018 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Behavioural, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research. She is Editor-in-Chief of the leading international journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.