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Mike is Emeritus Professor of Oral Medicine at Cardiff University.  He has held a number of senior professional positions including, Dean of the School of Dentistry at Cardiff University, Dean of the Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, President of the British Society for Oral Medicine and President of the British Society for Oral & Dental Research.  Mike has published over 200 scientific articles, authored six medical textbooks and delivered more than 800 invited presentations worldwide. He has worked in the field of mouth cancer for more than 40 years and regularly lectures on the subject to all members of the dental profession.  He is a Clinical Ambassador for the Mouth Cancer Foundation and Council Member of the GDC.

After qualifying from Manchester University Pat took up a resident oral surgery post prior to joining a general dental practice in Manchester as an Associate. She went on to combine her role in practice with teaching oral surgery at the Dental School. In 1982 Pat became a partner in a general practice in Surrey and continued teaching oral surgery at Guy’s Hospital. In 1986 she started up a new practice in Berkshire.

Pat was a founder member of the Denplan team and held the post of Deputy Chief Dental Officer from 1987 to 2003. Her role at Denplan included the development and implementation of Denplan’s much respected quality assurance and clinical governance programmes and she was instrumental in developing Denplan’s Excel Accreditation Programme.

In 2003 Pat was appointed Group Clinical Director at Oasis Dental Care, a post she held for 7 years.

In 2010 Pat co-founded Apolline with the aim of providing a complete dental compliance solution to dental practices and dental groups of all sizes, offering innovative software, in-practice support and online and in-practice training. She has lectured widely on all compliance based subjects, including on safeguarding. Pat combines her role as CEO of Apolline with being Chief Dental Officer at Dentex Healthcare.

Alice is a currently a Resuscitation Officer at University Hospital Southampton; responding to medical emergencies and cardiac arrests across the hospital. Alice initially started as a staff nurse on a surgical unit, but her main background is in intensive care nursing. She worked for 6 years on a General Intensive Care Unit, initially as a staff nurse and then a deputy sister. She instructs on both Adult and Paediatric advanced, immediate and basic life support courses.

Dani is a registered nurse working at Southampton General Hospital, a trauma centre in the South East. Dani has worked in Acute and Emergency Medicine for 6 years covering the Acute Medical Unit and the Emergency Department. For the past three years, Dani has been working as a Resuscitation Officer at Southampton Hospital; covering the emergency bleep for medical emergencies and cardiac arrests, whilst also teaching paediatric and adult advanced Life Support courses.

Rebecca Peckham works for Southampton General hospital as an Emergency Department Sister and Resuscitation  officer. She has been working within Emergency Medicine for 12 years. Rebecca deals with medical emergencies, the critically unwell and cardiac arrest patients daily as part of her role within ED and Resus Services. Alongside this Rebecca also teaches Resuscitation skills to hospital staff and is a course director for Advanced life support courses for both adults and children.

Ed Walker is a Consultant in Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology in West Yorkshire. Prior to specialty training he gained experience in both general dental and hospital settings. This included periods of training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,​ Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine. He has experience reporting a broad range of Dental and Maxillofacial two-dimensional and cross-sectional imaging including plain radiography, Cone Beam CT, Conventional CT and MRI. He also performs sialography, and diagnostic and interventional ultrasound.

Ed has a postgraduate certificate in medical education and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Leeds. He has a number of peer-reviewed journal publications relating to Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology.

Shaam Shamsi qualified from the Royal London almost 30 years ago and is Clinical Director of Horizons Dental Centre. He lectures nationwide on Medico-Legal topics in Dentistry for a number of institutions.

In 2008, he was appointed to the post of Training Programme Director in Health Education England running one of the training schemes at Stafford & Stoke Hospitals. Shaam sits on the LDC for Staffordshire and is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons for Edinburgh, the Faculty in London for the LDS and more recently as the DTP lead for the Overseas Registration Exam.

He clinically mentors GDPs who have FTP allegations brought against them. In 2006, he acquired a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law and has worked as a Clinical panellist for the GDC’s Dental Complaints Service. He enjoys General Dentistry in particular the field of Implant Dentistry. His affiliation with the GDC involved sitting as a panellist for the Fitness to Practice procedures adjudicating matters on clinical and professional misconduct. His other roles include Specialist Advisor to the CQC, Risk Management workshop presenter for Dental Protection Society and was appointed on the Advisory Board for Medical Protection in 2020.

Shaam was awarded a double Fellowship by the College of General Dentistry and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2022.