The College has announced Dr Ian Dunn FCGDent and Professor Jim McCaul as the speakers at its next annual study day in Glasgow.
Dr Dunn will deliver Passionate Perio for the Dental Team, a series of sessions covering all aspects of contemporary periodontal management from the latest concepts of aetiology to assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning, including the S3 Treatment Guidelines and minimally invasive periodontics such as non-surgical regeneration and MINST.
Professor McCaul will then deliver the annual Caldwell Memorial Lecture, entitled Oral Cancer: What you need to know, what you need to do!
The annual study day, organised by CGDent Scotland, takes place at Glasgow Science Centre on the first Friday in December – 5 December this year. With six hours of CPD, the day is attended by up to 400 dental professionals from across the UK, and finishes with a drinks reception which marks the start of the festive season for its many regular attendees.
Ian Dunn is a specialist periodontist working in private practice in the North West of England, taking referrals for all aspects of periodontology. A Fellow of the College, he qualified BDS from the University of Leeds in 1998, was awarded Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practice UK in 2001, gained an MSc in Periodontology in 2010 and completed specialty training in 2013. He runs the Short Course in Periodontics of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has recently been appointed Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Periodontics at the University of Central Lancashire.
He was on the teaching staff in the Periodontology Department at Liverpool Dental Hospital for sixteen years, including as Undergraduate Teaching Lead and five years as a Senior Clinical Teacher. He was elected to the Faculty of the British Society of Periodontology in 2014, serves on the organisation’s Council as Honorary Treasurer and is its regional representative for Merseyside and Cheshire. He was the Deputy of the European Federation of Periodontology Communications Committee and is on the editorial board of Dental Update.
Jim McCaul is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bradford Institute for Cancer Therapeutics and Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Surgery and IJS Case Reports. Dual-qualified in medicine and dentistry, he was previously a Consultant Surgeon in Yorkshire and at the Royal Marsden and Northwick Park hospitals in London, and completed a PhD in Cancer Science at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute. His private practice encompasses all aspects of facial surgery including removal of facial lesions, skin cancer surgery, facial plastic surgery, salivary gland surgery and dentoalveolar surgery. He is a former Associate Editor of the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, reviews for 14 other international medical research journals, and is author of the book Face to Face as well as five book chapters, 105 peer-reviewed research papers and over 160 abstracts.
With 13 national and international awards for research, he is currently Chief Investigator of the Lugol’s iodine in head and neck cancer surgery and Lugol’s Iodine in Surgical Treatment of Epithelial Dysplasia in the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx trials with the aim of minimising impacts and optimising outcomes from head and neck cancer surgery and effectively treating after-effects such as osteoradionecrosis. He is also investigating dysbiosis in the microbiota in the gut, circulation and oral cavity in oral cancer patients. He is a past winner of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons’ President’s Award, Surgery Prize and Norman Rowe Clinical Research Prize.
The Caldwell Memorial Lecture is held in memory of Robert Craig Caldwell, who graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1950 and became a much-loved Dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, before he died of leukaemia at the age of just 44.
The study day is open to all dental professionals, and can be attended in person or virtually.
Fee discounts are available to College members as follows: College dentist members can buy their tickets for just £149 (£249 once ‘early bird’ places are sold out), compared to the full rate for non-member dentists of £349. The concessionary rate for dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental nurses, practice managers and retired practitioners is £149, but for College members in these categories it is just £129.
Breakfast rolls, a two-course lunch, refreshments throughout the day and evening drinks are all included in the attendance fee, and there is an accompanying trade exhibition to visit.
Attendees at the CGDent Scotland Study Day 2024
Other discounts to the full rate are available to Foundation Dentists / Vocational Trainees and their trainers, as well as members of the Glasgow Odontological Society and the Royal Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland.
For further information, visit our events pages.
A review of the CGDent Scotland 2024 Study Day is available here
