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And the winner is… V


Scottish Dental


Lifetime Achievement Award 2012


oting for the first ever Scottish Dental Life- time Achievement Award will close on ı May, with the winner


announced at the Scottish Dental Show’s evening drinks reception on Thursday 24 May. So there are only a few short weeks to cast your vote for one of our four candidates: Graham McKirdy, Hew Mathewson, Jim Rennie and William Saunders.


HEW MATHEWSON


Hew is a general


dental prac- titioner from Edinburgh who has held a number of roles within the British Dental Association (BDA) and


the General Dental Council (GDC). He served as GDC president from 2003 until 2009 and was the coun- cil’s first-ever chairman from 2009 until 2010.


His BDA roles have included branch president, chair of the Scot- tish Dental Practice Committee and the Sick Dentist Scheme Management Group and vice chair of the (UK) General Dental Practice Committee.


Hew continues to be active both in the wider healthcare world and elsewhere in the not for profit and charity sector.


He was awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours List for services to healthcare.


GRAHAM MCKIRDY


Graham qualified BDS from the University of Glasgow in 1979 and was awarded DGDP 1993. He has worked since qualification in general practice and the last 29 years as a partner in practices in Glasgow and Hamilton. He is 98 per cent NHS income based. He has been a member of the BDA’s Scottish Dental Practice Committee (previously SGDSC) since 1991, the SDPC Executive since 2003 and was chairman from 1997 to 2003.


He has also served on several other BDA bodies including the Scottish council, the General Dental Practice Committee, the GDPC Remuneration sub-committee and the BDA Pensions committee. Since 2005, Graham has also served on the BDA’s Representative Body and as vice chair of the BDA’s Audit Committee.


He is currently chairing the NHS pensions negotiations for the BDA on a UK-wide basis. For 20 years, until 2001, he also held a part-time teaching post at Glasgow Dental Hospital.


DR JIM RENNIE


Dr Rennie is the former dean of


postgraduate dental


education for Scotland. Before retiring in March


2011, he was responsible to the chief


executive of NES for the management and delivery of postgraduate dental education in the NHS in Scotland. Working closely with SGHD through the office of the Chief Dental Officer, Jim played a key role in the development and implementation of national strategy and resource allocation for dentistry and the professions complemen- tary to dentistry in Scotland.


He was responsible for managing the workforce development aspects of the ‘Action Plan for improving Oral Health and Modernising NHS Dental Services’. Jim also undertook a three-year term as deputy chief executive of NES.


He was awarded the CBE in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to dentistry.


PROFESSOR WILLIAM SAUNDERS


Prof Saunders has made a very substantial contribution to dentistry in Scotland over many years, having been closely involved in undergraduate


and postgraduate dental teaching in both restorative dentistry and endodontics. His research has had a significant impact looking at, among other topics, the periodontal and cellular responses to endodontic materials, and has sat on two RAE (Dentistry) panels, being vice chair of the 2008 panel.


He has edited specialist journals and acts as consultant to specialist dental manufacturers of endodontic instruments. He is an accomplished clinician who has maintained his clinical practice throughout the periods where he was deeply involved in dental politics and specifically as dean of Dundee Dental School, chair of the Dental Schools Council, and council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.


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