Lecturer Details: Core topics in oral surgery

Lecturer nameDr Julie Burke BChD FDSRCS(Eng) PhD.
Lecturer profileJulie qualified from the University of Leeds in 1995 and is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Oral Surgery at Edinburgh Dental Institute. She has been on call for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for 15 years. Her research interests include skeletal tissue engineering using self-assembling peptides. Julie is co-founder and designer of the ResusPod which provides the complete solution for medical emergency management in primary dental care. Julie delivers regional and local training in medical emergency management and is certified in PILS and ALS.

Julie is so dedicated to the training of medical emergencies that she once self-administered an IM dose of adrenaline into her right thigh, in front of a live audience, to make it real , or it may have been by accident... make up your own mind when you meet her .
Lecturer nameDr Kate Taylor (See profile)
Lecturer profile PhD FDS.RCS (Oral Surg) FDS.RCS (Eng) BDS BSc (Hons) PGCLTHE (ILTHE) Dip. Con. Sed.

Kate qualified in dentistry from the University of Sheffield in 1993 and is a specialist Oral Surgeon. She is Senior Lecturer /Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery at the Liverpool University Dental Hospital (University of Liverpool).

She is an expert in the management of medical emergencies in dental practice and regularly lectures in national and international conferences. She is a provider of advanced life support and a trainer in medical emergencies for the British Dental Association.

Her research interests are Educational research, human factors research, medical emergencies management and Conscious sedation in dentistry