FGDP: Malcolm Pendlebury Lecture to be delivered online
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- Published: Friday, 30 October 2020 10:09
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The 2020 Malcolm Pendlebury lecture will take place on Thursday 12 November at 7pm, and will be delivered by Professor Liz Kay MBE FFGDP(UK), Trustee of the College of General Dentistry, on the theme of The Future of Dentistry - Lessons From COVID-19. The lecture will be delivered online via ProDental CPD, and introduced by Stephen Rear MBE FFGDP(UK), Founding Dean of the Faculty.
Prof Kay is President-Elect of the British Dental Association and was the Founding Dean of Peninsula Dental School, where she also led the MBA in Healthcare. With a particular interest in inequalities in oral health, she has published over 180 papers and six books, and lectures locally, nationally and internationally on clinical care, dental education, communication and her research.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Topic Expert in Oral Health, and former President of the Oral Health Foundation, she also chairs the Shirley Glasstone Hughes Foundation Management Committee, which oversees the commissioning of research in dentistry. Also Vice Chair of the British Medical and Dental Students Trust, Non-Executive Director of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, and Editor of Evidence-Based Dentistry, she graduated from Edinburgh in 1982, and was awarded a Master’s in Public Health and PhD from Glasgow in 1984 and 1991. A Fellow of the FGDP(UK), she is also a member of the joint FGDP-BDA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme Board.
Ian Mills, current Dean of FGDP(UK), said: "The Malcolm Pendlebury Memorial Lecture commemorates an inspirational colleague who had a significant influence on general dentistry, and on the establishment and evolution of the Faculty. Though we cannot meet in person this year, I am delighted that we can uphold this important tradition virtually, and that in so doing we can invite the whole profession to join us."
The event is free for all dental professionals to join, and early registration is encouraged at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OIjVf3xDRm2j6eaBddwOYQ.
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