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Abhi Pal

Dr Abhi Pal qualified with BDS Honours from Guys Hospital in 1987 and has been in general dental practice since ...

Andrea Sutcliffe CBE

Andrea Sutcliffe CBE joined as the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) as Chief Executive and Registrar in January 2019. Andrea ...

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Ashley Byrne

Ashley is the associate director of Byrnes Dental Laboratory, a leader in modern dental technology. The lab is also part ...

Dhru Shah

Graduated 2003 with BDS from university of Sheffield. After many years of experience in general practice and hospital jobs, embarked ...

Debbie Reed

Debbie Reed

Dr Debbie Reed is NIHR ARC KSS lead, Professional Development Programmes and a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of ...

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Fiona Sandom

Fiona qualified as a Dental Hygienist from Manchester Dental Hospital in 1993 and as a Dental Therapist in 1999 from ...

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Jason Wong

Jason Wong MBE was appointed as the interim Chief Dental Officer for England in July 2023. Jason joined the Office of ...

Shawn Charlwood

Shawn Charlwood graduated from Birmingham Dental School in 1986 and has postgraduate dental qualifications form the University of Bristol and ...

Executive Team
Stefan Czerniawski

Stefan Czerniawski

Stefan joined the GDC as the Executive Director, Strategy in October 2019 and is responsible for policy and research, communications ...

Executive team
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Theresa Thorp

Theresa joined the GDC in September 2023 as Executive Director, Regulation. Theresa is a Solicitor-Advocate (Criminal), with over 15 years’ ...