Lecturer Details: Mentoring Development Refresher 2021

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 nameElizabeth O'Sullivan BChD, MDent Sci, FDS(Paeds)RCS(Eng), PhD
Lecturer profileElizabeth has been a Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry based in the Community Dental Services at City Health Care Partnership Hull for the last 23 years. She completed a PhD at the end of her Paediatric Specialist Training on the Risk Factors for Dental Erosion in Children and is Lead Author for the National Clinical Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Dental Erosion. She is Educational and Clinical Supervisor for JDFCTs, DCTs, STRs and L2 practitioners in Hull.
Lecturer nameJulia Pokora BSc MSc Grad Dip
Lecturer profileJulia Pokora is a founder member of Coaching and Mentoring Consultants, one of the innovators in Coaching and Mentoring training in the NHS. She has designed and delivered training and development in a wide range of NHS organisations across the UK, including Royal Colleges, Trusts and Dental Deaneries. Participants have included consultants, GP and GDPs, medical students, managers and health professionals. Julia has been a tutor on the Sheffield Dental Mentoring Programme since its inception in 2005. She holds a BSc Psychology, an MSc in Occupational Psychology and a Graduate Diploma in Counselling. She is co-author of the best selling text, Coaching and Mentoring at Work (Open University Press 2012) now in its second edition.
Lecturer nameJune Smailes MBChB DCH DRCOG
Lecturer profileAfter graduating from Sheffield University Medical School, June worked a GP in Sheffield, combining this with working as a Breast Physician in an NHS Breast Clinic. She now enjoys a varied career which includes GP Appraisal and she is Chair of a cancer charity, Cavendish Cancer Care.

She strongly believes that coaching and mentoring should be available for healthcare professionals and recently helped to begin to develop coaching services for GPs in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Since attending the Mentoring Programme in 2007 she has regularly facilitated on programmes for doctors, dentists and health professionals, and is an Associate of Coaching and Mentoring Consultants.