Lecturer Details: INTERMEDIATE LIFE SUPPORT

Lecturer nameCaroline Harvey
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS (Lon) LDSRCS (Eng) FDSRCS (Eng) DipMedEd (Bris)

Caroline qualified from University College Hospital, London in 1989. Since qualification she has gained extensive surgical experience working in various Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Departments, including University College Hospital London, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and Poole Hospital. She has also gained surgical experience whilst working overseas in Barbados and New Zealand. Caroline was awarded the Fellowship of Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1996 and has been registered with the GDC Specialist List in Oral Surgery since 1999.
Caroline moved to Devon in 2002 and since then she has been working at Torbay Hospital where she holds the post of Associate Specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Her professional interests include surgical orthodontics, therapeutic uses of Botulinum Toxin in the Head & Neck and all aspects of dentoalveolar surgery under both general and local anaesthesia.
She also works one day a week as a Specialist Oral Surgeon at Devon Dental Centre of Excellence where she undertakes a range of minor oral surgery procedures including extraction of retained dental roots, difficult wisdom teeth and apicectomies, under local anaesthesia.
Caroline takes a keen interest in teaching postgraduate dentists and gained her postgraduate Diploma of Medical Education (DipMedEd) from Bristol University in 2015. In 2014 she was appointed as the Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean for Dental Core Trainees in the South West Region. She has been working as an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 2010.