Executive Committee Members

Sobia Rafique

Chair 

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

Kings College Hospital

 

 

Prof. Tim Newton

Journal Editor 

President

Professor of Psychology as Applied to Dentistry

Honorary Consultant Health Psychologist

Helen Patterson

Immediate Past President

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Andrew Geddis-Regan

President-Elect

IADH Representative

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

UDH Manchester

Sarah Buckingham

Honorary Treasurer 

ACCD Representative

Specialist in Special Care Dentistry, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

Rebecca Willis

Honorary Secretary

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry 

Birmingham

Fatima Alsayer

Committee Member 

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

London

 

Nicholas Beacher

Teaching and Learning Representative 

 

 

Alexandra Bird

Committee Member

DCP representative

 

Sarah Bux

Committee Member 

 

 

Ayman Dhanji 

Committee Member 

Deputy Communications Officer

Specialist in Special Care Dentistry
Birmingham

Richard Fitzgerald 

Research/Academia Representative

Consultant/Clinical lecturer/PhD fellow in Special Care Dentistry

East Surrey Hospital/QMUL

Deborah Gray

Assistant Honorary Secretary 

StR Special Care Dentistry 

Sheffield Teaching Hospital

Gillian Howie

Committee Member

Prizes Co-ordinator

Owens Iguodala

Learning and teaching Group StR representative

 

Rebecca Iles

BSSSCD representative on the SAB for SCD RCS Edinburgh

 

Andrew Kwasnicki 

BSSSCD representative on the SAC

Pavni Lakhani

Lead Communications Officer

 

 

Naomi Murray

SCD StR Representative 

StR in Special Care Dentistry



Emma O'Donnell

Committee Member

 

Panna Shah

Committee Member 

Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

 

 

 
 

Updated 10.12.25 FT