Liz Kay to be next BDA President
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- Published: Thursday, 26 November 2020 10:26
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At its first ever online AGM, the BDA elected Professor Elizabeth Kay to be the next President of the Association. She will be installed next year and serve for two years, instead of the usual 12 months. The AGM, chaired by Eddie Crouch, received a report on its activities and finances during the year ending September 2019.
Professor Kay’s impressive career has been marked by enthusiasm, concern for colleagues and a determination to improve the care patients receive. She graduated from Edinburgh in 1982 and proceeded to gain a Masters and PhD from Glasgow. She was then employed as a Senior Lecturer at Dundee and Manchester, gaining her specialty qualification in Dental Public Health in 1994.
She was later appointed the inaugural Dean of the then new Peninsula Dental School. Since then she has been Foundation Dean and the Medical, Dental and Biological Sciences Faculty Associate Dean and all the while Professor of Dental Public Health. Her pioneering work at Peninsula, saw her devise and deliver a curriculum that placed excellence in primary care at its centre, and impacted dental education across the country.
She also undertakes substantial research and publishes widely, being in receipt of over £2.65m in research and community development funding and having published six books and more than 200 articles and papers. She is currently Editor of Evidence Based Dentistry, the BDJ’S sister publication and a Non-Executive Director of an NHS Acute Trust. Her overall contribution to the profession has also been recognised with the award of an MBE, as well as a Fellowship at the Faculty of General Dental Practice.
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