Lecturer Details: FREE CPD Day for NHS staff - relevant to the whole oral health team

Lecturer nameMr Anthony Asquith
Lecturer profileAnthony Asquith Dip Hyp Psych (UK) – Hypnotherapist and Personality Profiler, has been a provider of CPD courses to dental professionals since 2003 and is a published author in several dental industry magazines. He is passionate about supporting dental professionals and adding the “WOW into dentistry for practitioners and patients alike”. Anthony is also a solution-focused psychotherapist and, although his range of work experience is broad, tends to specialise and most enjoy, working with people who are highly anxious or phobic
Lecturer nameKaty Kerr
Lecturer profileKaty Kerr BDS DDPH RCS (Eng) PGCertCE. Katy was a Senior Dental Officer with Berkshire Community Dental Service and has always had a special interest in quality in healthcare, helping to develop systems for clinical audit within the profession. Katy currently chairs the Dementia Friendly Dentistry Group. She is passionate about improving access for people with dementia to visit the dentist and is working to support the establishment of dementia friendly dental care environments. She was the project lead for the dementia awareness film, “The Appointment” now hosted on the national NHSE website as part of dementia training for all health professionals.
In her role for NHSE WT&E, Katy works across Thames Valley and Wessex to provide training and workforce development opportunities for all members of the team. She has trained extensively about the impact of poor oral health for older people in residential and hospital settings, she was a member of the External Expert Advisory Group for the CQC report, Smiling Matters, on oral health in care homes and developed training resources for the Public Health England toolkit: Adult Oral Health in Care Homes, to address the findings in the report.
Katy generated the content for the E-learning package, “Improving mouth care", on E-Learning for Health, and was part of the national training group that developed training resources to support the Starting Well programme for 0-5 year old children.
Lecturer nameMr John Lawrence Makin
Lecturer profileNo profile available
Lecturer nameDr Sophia Morris BDS
Lecturer profileSophia graduated in Dentistry from King’s College London she has worked in roles within GDP, Community and Secondary Care dentistry, with her current role being a Speciality Doctor in OMFS. Having a strong motivation for closing the gap on equalities, she took up a System Clinical Lead for Inequalities in MSE ICS Sophia addresses inequalities improvement across Mid & South Essex. Sophia is an alumni of the OCDO FMLM Leadership Fellowship program and has supported her leadership development through further training with a special focus on Inclusive Leadership. Through her newly appointed role of Chair of Diversity In Dentistry Action Group she champions adoption of inclusive practices across dentistry.
Lecturer nameDr Safiyyah Yacoobali BDS
Lecturer profileA dentist by day and writer by night, Safiyyah is passionate about challenging the status quo to drive change that is sustainable, innovative and inclusive. Various roles over the last decade (OCDO clinical fellow, NUS delegate, Dental Strategic Lead at Medic Mentor) have equipped her with invaluable leadership experience into policy and workforce planning and education and systems reform.