TEAM FOCUS


Alison Gilliatt Alison qualified from Glasgow in 1988 and worked full-time in NHS general practice for 26 years,


including nine hugely enjoyable years as a vocational trainer. She was a sessional Dental Adviser for a year before joining the team on a full-time basis in 2014. Alison originally joined the DA


team on a part-time temporary basis in 2013 and immediately loved the role’s diversity and challenge.


Joanna Duthie Joanna graduated from Glasgow in 1991 and got an MSc from the University of Edinburgh in


1998. She worked mainly in general practice, with a three-year spell in the Community Dental Service, before joining the SDRS in 2006. Meeting patients, working with


good team of people endeavouring to protect patients and intellectual stimulation are some of the highlights of the job for Joanna. Outside of work she has, in her


own words: “Te dubious pleasure of being mother to two teenagers.” Her main interest is music –


being involved in the local brass band and singing in a choir.


Pippa Arbon Pippa graduated from the London in 1979 and worked in general dental practice for 20


years. She has worked in salaried services, the community, prisons,


oral surgery and as a health board dental director. Five years providing care and


treatment, on a sessional basis, to the inmates of a high-security prison was a career highlight. She and her colleagues turned the previously failing service around. Pippa currently enjoys working


beside like-minded professionals, committed to the NHS in Scotland. Outwith her busy day job, any


spare time that she has is taken up with reading, running, cycling and fishing, not necessarily in that order.


John Whyte John graduated from Glasgow more than 40 years ago. He still works part-time in


practice and has special interests in occlusion, periodontology and oral rehabilitation cases. John considers his work with


young dentists, encouraging them and seeing their subsequent progression throughout the years, as a key achievement. In his current role John says: “I


enjoy giving something back to the profession, in the form of advice and encouragement.” Away from work, John loves


fly-fishing, golf and being lucky and healthy enough to share quality time with his grandchildren.


Monica Downie Having graduated from Glasgow in 1983, Monica spent some 15 months in community


dentistry, before starting up full-time in general dental practice


17


in January 1985. She practices part-time as a general dental practitioner after taking up her Practitioner Services role in 2010. Monica enjoys all the challenges


that life chooses to throw at her, and as such has fully maintained her commitment to NHS dentistry – through thick and thin. She comments: “My Dental


Adviser position affords me the diversity in a dental career and brings my 30 years of clinical GDP experience into an even more challenging role. “I am a people person (I hope all


who know me would agree) and I love to talk and cycle, and can even do both at the same time!”


Karen Polland Karen has worked as a part-time member of the Dental Adviser team


at Practitioner Services for 18 months. After graduating from Glasgow, she completed vocational training and then worked in various maxillofacial departments, where she gained her MFDS. She returned to general dental practice where she continues to work four days a week. Karen relishes her role as a


Dental Adviser, with its challenges and the experience she has gained. She is married, has a daughter and is expecting a second baby.


Due to availability and space, not all of the Dental Advisers and DROs could be featured here, those not included are: John Cameron, Senior Dental Adviser Derek Logan, Dental Reference Officer David Mateu, Dental Reference Officer Katie Stirling, Dental Adviser/Dental Reference Officer


Chor Chung, Orthodontic Adviser Mel Easton, Orthodontic Adviser Sumithra Hewage, Orthodontic Adviser


SCO TTISH DENT AL


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52