Lecturer Details: The Transformation, Sustainability and Resilience of Dental services in the New World

Lecturer nameBernard Alston
Lecturer profileDental Surgeon
Partner in large GDP practice for 25 years
Clinical Director in Community Dental Service for 8 years
Oral Health Strategy Lead and PEC member for Blackpool PCT from 2005 to 2011
Clinical Director FCMS Dental Service from 2004
Vice Chair Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Dental Network from 2014
Chair Routine Dental Network from 2014
Secretary Lancashire and South Cumbria LDC Executive
Lecturer nameNick Barkworth
Lecturer profileContracts Manager/Fragile Services Manager
Lecturer nameDr Joanna Dancer
Lecturer profileConsultant in Orthodontics

After completing specialist Orthodontic training in Leeds in 1993 and Senior registrar training in Birmingham, in 1996, Joanna took up post as Consultant in Orthodontics in North Cumbria. She has since worked in private practice in Australia and has completed postgraduate studies in Business and Management, including an MBA and PhD. She is currently Consultant in Orthodontics at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, as well as an MFDS examiner at RCS Edinburgh.
Lecturer nameMax Harrison
Lecturer profileSenior Contracts Manager – Dental and Pharmacy
Commissioning/Contracting Mangers for Lancashire and South Cumbria each with 15 years plus NHS experience
Lecturer nameMr Finbar O'Mahony BDS
Lecturer profileFinbar qualified from Cork University Dental School and Hospital in 2010. Following graduation, he undertook vocational training on the West Coast of Scotland. He spent foundation training in Glasgow, split between Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Paediatric Dentistry and Special Care Dentistry.

Finbar spent 6 months as a Senior House Officer in Special Care Dentistry and Oral Surgery in Dundee Dental Hospital before Moving to the North West to take up his specialist training post. Finbar qualified as a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry in 2016 and worked for Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust before joining Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as a consultant in March 2017
Lecturer nameEric Rooney
Lecturer profileChair of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Local Dental Network
Qualified as a dentist in 1983, Eric has worked in clinical practice and also held a number of roles in the National Health Service including Clinical Director, Medical Director and Dental Public Health Lead.
He has wide experience of Dental Policy development, initially through the British Dental Association in the 1990’s and since 2002 directly with the Department of Health for England.
In 2008/9 he co-authored NHS Dental Services in England, An Independent Review led by Professor Jimmy Steele, looking at the future of NHS Primary Dental Care.
Since then he has facilitated the development, agreement and review of the clinical pathways being delivered in the governments NHS dental contract reform programme.
In 2013 he was invited to be a board member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and is president of BASCD for 2016/17
He was appointed Deputy Chief Dental Officer at NHS England in November 2015 and was awarded an MBE for services to Dentistry in the 2015 New Year’s Honours.
In October 2016 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Oral and Dental Health Policy at the University of Central Lancashire
Lecturer nameDr Shahzad Tahir BDS (Hons), LLB (Hons), Dip Rest Dent, MFDS RCS,
Lecturer profileNo profile available