Janice Fearne is new President of BSPD
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Janice Fearne, NHS Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at Queen Mary’s University, Barts and the London NHS Trust, is the new President of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD). She qualified in 1978 from Kings College Dental Hospital and completed SHO posts in Oral Surgery and Paediatric Dentistry at King’s before moving to the London Hospital as Registrar in Paediatric Dentistry.
While working as a lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry, she completed a PhD on Development of the Dentition in Low Birth Weight Children. She was then accredited and took up a post as NHS consultant in Paediatric Dentistry in 1995. Her research interests include Amelogenesis Imperfecta, Dentinogenesis imperfecta and Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation (MIH) as well as the dentition of twins. She was on the Medical Advisory Panel of the Multiple Births Foundations for several years and was Dental Advisor to the Williams Syndrome Foundation.
Dr Fearne has a significant role in specialist training. She has been a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC), Chair of the Intercollegiate Fellowship Examination Board and a member of the working party for Curriculum Development for Specialist Training in the UK. She was UK representative on the Council of EAPD (European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry) for five years and was Chairman of its Constitutional Committee.
The President’s role in BSPD carries many responsibilities, including chairing both the Executive and the Council. In the immediate build-up to the year of office, the President is the organiser of the BSPD annual conference and then once the term of office starts, the President embarks on a UK lecture tour. Janice’s topic for her lecture tour is The Developmental Defect of the Dentition; an in-depth review. She will be visiting seven centres over seven months. This month, Janice’s presidential lecture tour takes her to Merseyside and Newcastle and between February and May she will be speaking in London, Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and Birmingham.
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