New chair of CCDAS: Professor Deborah White
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- Published: Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:15
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Deborah White, associate professor and director of education at the School of Dentistry at Birmingham, has been elected as the new Chair of the British Dental Association’s Central Committee for Dental Academic Staff (CCDAS) for the 2012/14 triennium. She was Vice Chair of CCDAS in the last triennium. The new Chair of CCDAS will be supported by Jeff Wilson, the newly-elected Vice Chair. Jeff is a senior clinical lecturer in restorative dentistry at Cardiff University Dental School. |
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Deborah joined the University of Birmingham in 1993 as a part-time researcher and joined the staff full time in 1999. She completed her PhD in 2000 and, as head of dental public health, has research interests in dental epidemiology and health services. She undertakes clinical teaching and clinical work in the salaried services in Birmingham.
Thanking CCDAS members for electing her to the office of Chair, Professor White said: “It is a great honour to be elected Chair of CCDAS. As dental academics we are acutely aware of the changes taking place in higher education and also in dentistry that will have an impact on the next generation of dentists.”
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