Thursday 28 January 2027, 11am-12.30pm, London (registration from 10.30am)
The Court Room, Cutlers’ Hall, Warwick Lane, London EC4M 7BR
The College will once again host the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry for the delivery of the 32nd annual Lilian Lindsay memorial lecture. The lecture, entitled ‘The development and changing face of implant dentistry’, will be delivered by Professor Craig W Barclay, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry and Honorary Professor in Maxillofacial Rehabilitation at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Prof Barclay qualified BDS from Glasgow Dental School in 1986 and after various training posts became an NHS consultant at Manchester in 2002. Postgraduate Dental Dean for the South West, his additional roles have included Associate Dental Postgraduate Dean for Specialist Training and Director of Education for Manchester Dental Education Centre, clinical lead for Central Manchester in Oral Rehabilitation of Oral Oncology, and Chair of the National Recruitment Team for Restorative Dentistry run by Health Education North West. He is also a past President of the British Society of Prosthodontics (BSSPD), past Director of the MSc implant programme at the University of Manchester, past Chair of the Intercollegiate Speciality Fellowship Examination and past Chair of Chairs of the Specialty Fellowship Examinations Executive.
He is a former Council Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and an examiner for its Specialty Diploma of Membership in Restorative Dentistry. With special interests in endosseous implant-supported oral rehabilitation with prosthesis/dental restorations, 3D computer planning and specialist preventive dental care for cancer patients, he has published over 50 refereed papers, written three books and has lectured both nationally and internationally. He has won two NHS North West Innovation Awards, was awarded a Manchester Academic Health Science Centre Chair in 2014 and won the BSSPD Gold Medal in 2023.
The Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry promotes interest, study and research into the history of dentistry and aims to bring together people who share these interests.
The Society is named after Lilian Lindsay (1871-1960), a leading dental historian and the first woman to be educated and trained as a dentist in the UK. After qualifying from Edinburgh in 1895, she went on to become the first female member, first librarian and first female president of the British Dental Association; President of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics; and President of both the Odontological Section and History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine. She was also the author of A Short History of Dentistry and published the first English language translation of Pierre Fauchard’s Le Chirurgien Dentiste (The Surgeon Dentist).
Registration for the lecture will open at 10.30am. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served. The event is free to attend, however prior registration is required.
A registration link will be added here in due course.
Attendees are also invited to attend a post-lecture lunch at the venue. This is a chargeable event for which separate booking will be necessary. Details will be added to our Events page in due course.
The following event(s) will also be taking place in the same venue on the same day:
- Raising quality in postgraduate dental skills training
- Fellows’ Winter Reception, incorporating the
