Lecturer profile | I qualified as a Dental Hygienist from Manchester Dental Hospital in 1993 and as a Dental Therapist in 1999 from Liverpool University Dental Hospital and in 2013 I gained my MSc in Medical Education from Cardiff University. I currently work three days clinically, one day a week I teach dental nurses in preparation for the NEBDN Diploma in Dental Nursing for the North Wales Community Dental Service and one day a week I am Postgraduate Tutor for Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists at Cardiff University. I’m also a Quality Assurance Inspector for the GDC and an Examiner for the RCS Edinburgh and Immediate President of the British Association of Dental Therapists. I have been fortunate to work as a dental therapist in practice, in hospital, the community dental service and in personal dental service and I have a keen interest in treating anxious patients with Inhalation Sedation. I have been awarded two Oral and Dental Research Trust DCP Awards, one in 2013 and another in 2015. I am currently carrying out Health Service Research at Bangor University for my PhD and working on the proposal for the use of exemptions in medicines legislation by dental hygienists and dental therapists across the United Kingdom.
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