BDA Museum appoints new honorary curator

Margaret was appointed following the retirement of Professor Stanley Gelbier, who had held the position since 1989.

Margaret has been a member of the BDA for 43 years, first joining as a student member. After graduating from the University of Liverpool she pursued a career in hospital dentistry and as a dental academic holding posts including consultant in restorative dentistry and then clinical head of division at Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Trust, honorary senior lecturer in restorative dentistry at the University of Manchester, and director at The National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Dental Education. She has also held a variety of visiting professorships and advisory positions in both the UK and the United States.

A former honorary curator of the Dental Hospital Museum in Manchester, a position she held for ten years, she is currently editor of the Dental Historian journal for the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry and president of the East Lancashire and East Cheshire Branch of the BDA.