Lecturer Details: Mentoring Development Refresher Summer 2025

Lecturer nameGhazala Ahmad-Mear BDS(Lond), FDSRCS(Eng)
Lecturer profileAfter 32 years of training and working within the realms of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, I have recently retired from clinical work in the NHS. Since 2014, I have been HEE YH Associate Dental Dean for Core and Specialty Training, recently focusing solely on Dental Core Training. I sit on DCT National Boards and am passionate about innovating training opportunities to enhance the development of the DCT.
As the NHS continues to come under greater pressures to perform, I recognise and champion aspects of training that support, develop and strengthen our mental and emotional wellbeing, building resilience to be and give our best, safely.
I am very mindful about leaving the world a better place and how we can all make a difference in our lives, including in our workplace in the NHS.

Away from work I enjoy the hills and mountains with biking and rock-climbing with my family. I also ski and open-water swim.

Lecturer nameJulia Pokora BSc, MSc, Grad Dip Counselling
Lecturer profileJulia Pokora is a founder member of Coaching and Mentoring Consultants, an innovator in Coaching and Mentoring training in the Health Service. She is co-author of the best selling text, Coaching and Mentoring at Work (Open University Press 2017), now in its third edition.
She has designed and delivered Mentoring Development Programmes across the UK for Trusts, Deaneries and Royal Colleges, for dentists, doctors, managers and health professionals.
She has worked as a coach and mentor using Egan’s The Skilled Helper framework, and she uses the framework and mentoring skills in everyday life.