Dental Council Election and Honorary Secretary Appointment
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The Faculty of Dental Surgery is delighted to announce the election of Professor Nigel Robb and Mr Ahmed Tarek Elshanawany to Dental Council. Professor Robb has been appointed for a five year term and Mr Elshanawany will take up his position as Member’s Representative on Dental Council for five years. They have taken up their roles today at the Faculty AGM.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Ivor Chestnutt has been appointed as Honorary Secretary to the Faculty, and will serve a term of three years commencing in December 2024.
Dental Council
Professor Nigel Robb
Professor Robb is a Professor of Restorative Dentistry. He attended dental school in Edinburgh and worked as a research assistant at Guy’s Dental School, completing a PhD in “Epidemiological Studies of Toothwear”. He developed an interest in general anaesthesia and sedation due to time served in the Territorial Army. He then developed and ran the first university sedation qualification which commenced in 1996. Nigel has held positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Wales College of Medicine,, Glasgow and Bristol, and recently worked at the Griffith University in Australia. Professor Robb has published 81 papers in refereed journals and contributed to seven textbooks and 15 standard and guidelines publications.
Mr Ahmed Tarek Elshanawany (Members' Representative)
Mr. Ahmed Tarek Elshanawany is an Orthodontic Consultant based in Cairo, Egypt. He was qualified in Egypt, further awarded the MSc in Orthodontics in Distinction from the University of Dundee, UK, followed by Speciality Membership in Orthodontics (MOrth) awarded from the Royal Colleges of England, Glasgow and Edinburgh (RCSEng, RCPSG and RCSEd) and dental memberships of the Royal Colleges of Ireland and Glasgow (MFD and MFDS). Mr. Elshanawany is involved in orthodontic postgraduate education in Egypt through En Masse Dental Institute. His clinical and research interests are patient-centered-orthodontics, 3D-orthodontic appliances, orthodontic biomechanics and orthodontic retention.
Honorary Secretary
Professor Ivor Chestnutt
Professor Ivor G. Chestnutt is Professor in Dental Public Health at Cardiff University and Hon. Consultant to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and received both his MPH and PhD degrees from the University of Glasgow. He leads the Dental Public Health Unit in Cardiff (2006 – present), has been Director of Postgraduate Dental Education in the University (2011-2022) and was Clinical Director of the University Dental Hospital of Wales (2016-2022). He has researched and published extensively in the field of Dental Public Health and Health Services Research. He has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh since 1990.
