Appointments and promotions boost dental postgraduate offering

Eithne Fyfe has been appointed to the role of consultant in oral surgery and Tim O’Brien to the role of associate professor/honorary consultant in restorative dentistry. Kamran Ali (who recently achieved his PhD) has also been appointed to consultant status and is now an associate professor (senior lecturer) and consultant in oral surgery.

Eithne and Kamran are working together to develop a new certificate, diploma and masters in oral surgery.

Eithne qualified at Guys Hospital and went on to undertake her junior training posts in oral and maxillo-facial surgery at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

She works part time at Bristol Dental School where she is clinical governance lead for oral surgery and teaches both undergraduates and postgraduates in oral surgery.

She has recently returned to Exeter to lead the new postgraduate programme of PgCert, PgDip and MSc in minor oral surgery, designed to enable working dental practitioners to develop both competence and confidence in minor oral surgery while also enhancing skills in critical effectiveness and reflective practice