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Eddie Crouch
West Midlands region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2023
BDS London 1984
LDS RCS London 1984
Special Interest in Orthodontics
Orthodontic PDS Provider
Associate at a Specialist Orthodontic Practice
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Eddie was elected as Chair of the board in September 2020. Before that, he served as Deputy Chair between 2014 and 2020.
He was Secretary of Birmingham Local Dental Committee for over ten years and was also Chair.
He qualified in 1984 from Kings and now provides Orthodontic Care for patients in South Birmingham in two locations, having previously been a Clinical Assistant in Orthodontics.
He has previously Chaired the Annual Conference of LDCs and the West Midlands Association of LDCs, held the post of President of the Central Counties Branch and served on the GDPC Committee for over ten years.
He has been married to Jane for over 30 years and has a daughter Laura and a grandson and granddaughter.
In 2007 he successfully challenged a termination clause in PDS Agreements in the High Court.
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Mick Armstrong
Yorkshire and Humber region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2024
BDS Newcastle 1985
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Mick has been a member of the board since June 2012. He served as Chair from 2014 until 2020.
He qualified in 1985 from Newcastle and has spent all of his practising life in General Practice. He was a partner in Armstrong & Haire Ltd, a six surgery, mostly NHS practice in Castleford, West Yorkshire for over 20 years where he is now an associate.
He has served on BDA's Representative Body and was Chair of LDC Conference in 2010.
Mick is a board member and treasurer of
CED.
He was previously an FD trainer.
He is currently Chair of the Health and Science Committee.
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Paul Blaylock
Northern region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2024
BDS Newcastle 2001
MFDS RCSEd 2003
PG Cert HCL 2016
PG Cert Med Ed 2017
FDTFEd 2017
FHEA 2017
MSc 2019
Deputy Postgraduate Dental Dean & GPT Training Programme Director, HEE North East
Associate Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle Dental School
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Paul graduated from Newcastle University in 2001. In 2006 he acquired two primarily NHS practices in South Shields, which he subsequently expanded prior to sale in 2015. After seven years as a GPT trainer, he became a Dental Foundation Training Programme Director in 2012 and oversees the GPT scheme in the North East. Since 2017 he has been the Regional Dental Workforce Development Advisor for HEE in the North East. He became Deputy Postgraduate Dental Dean in 2019. He is a part-time Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Trainers RCS Edinburgh. His MSc in healthcare leadership was completed in 2019.
He has been a member of the board since 2012. His responsibilities include Chair of Pensions Committee, Chair of Students Committee and Chair of BDA Trust Fund board of Trustees. He is a member of GDPC Remuneration Committee. Prior to election onto PEC, he was on BDA Representative Body from 2004–2012. He spent five years as BDA Northern Counties Branch Treasurer before becoming Branch President from 2012-2015. He is also a member of Gateshead and South Tyneside LDC.
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Victor Chan
South East region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2025
BDS London (King's College) 1982
LDS RCS Eng 1982
Practice owner and single-handed private practitioner
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Victor started his single-handed private practice as a squat in 1985 and is now seeing the fourth generation of his loyal patients.
Prevention has been at the heart of his practice.
BDA Representative Board 1990 - 1993
BDA Representative Body 2006 - 2012
BDA Principal Executive Committee 2012 -
Chair BDA International Affairs Committee 2013 -
Council of European Dentists 2013 -
CED BTF Internal Market 2016 -
FDI World Federation 2013 -
FDI UK National Liaison Officer 2018 -
FDI Audit Committee 2020 -
Chair BDA Indemnity Governance Committee 2019 -
BDA Southern Counties President 2017
BDA Fellowship 2019
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Peter Crooks
Northern Ireland
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2024
BSc (Hons) Belfast 1981
BDS Belfast 1983
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Peter is Deputy Chair of the board.
He worked entirely in general practice, first as an associate for four years and then as a practice owner in Ballymena for thirty years. The practice began life fully NHS but was a mixed practice when it was sold in 2017.
Since then Peter has worked as a dentist on three visits to West Africa with Mercy Ships.
He was Chair of Northern LDC from 2009 to 2011 and Chair of Northern Ireland DPC from June 2010 until January 2018.
He has been married for 37 years and has one daughter, two sons and three Scottish grandchildren.
Peter is a BDA Trustee, Chairs the BDA Finance Committee and is the Board nominee on the Board of Trustees of the BDA Benevolent Fund.
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Laura Cross
Scotland
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2025
BDS 1990
FDS RCPS 1993
PhD 1998
FDS (Rest Dent) RCPS 2003
FHEA 2013
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Laura graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and has always been based in the Hospital Dental Service, completing specialist training and a PhD to become a Consultant and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Restorative Dentistry in Glasgow in 2004.
An active BDA member since graduation, Laura has represented Hospital Dental Consultants on BDA and BMA committees including SCHDS, SHRDG (as Co-Chair), CCHDS and BMA Scottish Consultants' Committee and Negotiating Sub-Committee and is a member of the West of Scotland BDA Branch.
In addition to her role on the PEC, Laura is a BDA Trustee, Co-Chair of the BDA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and a member of the Education, Ethics and Dental Team Working Group. As PEC Member for Scotland she attends Scottish Council, SDPC, SPDSC, SHRDG and UK Council.
She is currently Chair of Education, Ethics and the Dental Team (EE&DT) Working Group
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John Edwards
North West
Term of office ends 31 Dec 2023
BDS (Liverpool) 1974
MFGDP (UK) 1993
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John qualified from Liverpool in 1974 and gained an MFGDP in 1993. He has worked throughout his career as a GDP in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast area.
He was appointed a VT trainer in1988 and went on to be appointed to the Dental Vocational Training Authority and as a visiting panel member to several schemes.
He has served his local Fylde Section as Secretary and Chairman and been both Secretary and President of the North Western Branch in 1998 and 2015.
He was elected to serve on Lancashire LDC in 1986 and is currently Chairman of Lancashire Coastal LDC. He is a clinical adviser to the local area team serving on the Routine Care Network and Performers List Decision Panels. In 2002, he was appointed as a Local Adviser for Dental Protection Ltd.
He was appointed to serve on GDSC in 1986 representing the Lancashire region continuously on the GDPC until the present time. He is currently a member of the Legislation Sub Committee.
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Tim Harker
Wales
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2023
BDS (Lond) 1984
PDDS (Wales)
PG Cert Med Ed (Wales)
Practice Owner
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Born in Yorkshire and, after qualifying from Guy’s, Tim has spent his career in general practice in South Wales, and has been a Vocational Trainer for 10 years.
He is a former Chair of Gwent LDC, and was Treasurer of the Annual Conference of LDCs for many years.
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Sushil John
Greater London
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2025
BDS 2000
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Qualifying in 2000, Sushil has worked as a GDP in South London for over 20 years. Throughout his career he has been actively involved with the local dental committee, BDA section and Health Education England.
Following his dental foundation training at the formerly named London Deanery, Sushil worked as an associate in London and King's College Hospital for two years, before buying his own dental practice. Located in the heart of Croydon, his four-surgery practice provides comprehensive dental treatment to the local community.
In addition to his work in general practice, he has been the chair of the Croydon Local Dental Committee, Founding Director of South West London Local Dental Committee and GDPC Representative for South London. Sushil is also currently the Regional Training Programme Director for Dental Foundation Training for London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
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Alison Lockyer
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2025
BDS Edinburgh 1980
Practice owner and full time practitioner
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Alison has been a board member since its inception in 2012 and served as Chair of the Education, Ethics and the Dental Team Working Group until 2020.
After qualifying from Edinburgh she was an early VT, as they were then known, and has always worked in general practice, for several years owning and running 5 practices in Leicestershire and Oxfordshire, as well as holding prison contacts, being a VT trainer, and running a dental practice within the Oxford BMW factory.
She is very grateful to the electorate who have recently re-elected her and thoroughly enjoys the privilege of working for the BDA membership.
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Chris Morris
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2023
BDS, LLM, MBA, Solicitor
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Chris first qualified as a dental surgeon, and practised dentistry in the UK and overseas for ten years before training as a solicitor, becoming a partner at Hempsons, a national healthcare law firm, where he specialised in defending dentists.
He has served as legal adviser to the British Dental Journal for twenty years, and as President of the Dental Law and Ethics Forum since 2000.
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Jonathan Mynors-Wallis
South West region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2024
BDS, LDS, RCS, Dip. Sed., M. Clin. Dent., MFGDP, DPDS
Practice Owner
VT Trainer
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Jonathan qualified from the Royal London Hospital in 1989 and has spent his entire career working in general practice. Together with his wife Jayne, he runs a six-surgery practice in Corfe Mullen near Wimborne in Dorset. He is an educational supervisor and is currently looking after his seventeenth foundation dentist.
Jonathan believes that everyone has the right to good-quality, affordable dental care and has worked as an NHS dentist for over thirty years. He feels saddened that successive governments have eroded the principles and finances of NHS dentistry.
Jonathan is a former president of the Wessex Region of the British Dental Association and is currently treasurer for the region. He is the chair of Dorset LDC and is also a member of the GDPC Committee. He has always attempted to pursue lifelong learning, and has several postgraduate qualifications including a master's degree in Clinical Dentistry from King's.
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Nilesh Patel
East Midlands and Central
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2025
BDS Bristol 2003
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Nilesh qualified from Bristol Dental school in 2003 and has worked in general practice and prison dentistry in that time.
He has been an Educational Supervisor for dentists and therapists since 2010 and has been Chair of Buckinghamshire LDC since 2011.
Prior to being elected to the PEC, Nilesh has held various positions in the BDA. These include:
- BDA Rep Body from 2006-2012
- Chair of BDA Students Committee 2006-2009
- Chair of Young Dentists Committee 2007-2009
- BDA Executive Board 2009-2012
- Vice-Chair BDA English Council 2012-2018
- Executive BDA GDPC 2015-2022
He has also been Chair of the Thames Valley LDN since 2017.
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Jason Stokes
Eastern region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2023
BDS (Hons) Birmingham 1992
MFGDP RCS
PGCert
General Dental Practitioner
Associate Postgraduate Dean for Early Years (East of England Region)
Secretary of Norfolk Local Dental Committee
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Jason qualified from Birmingham Dental School in 1992.
After a brief stint in Birmingham as a Foundation Dentist he moved to Norfolk. Since 2007, he has been the co-owner of the Cathedral Street Dental Practice in Norwich. Jason works in a mixed practice and is an NHS provider and performer.
In addition, he undertakes a range of other roles including:
Jason has been involved in dental politics for many years and sits on Norfolk LDC. He has previously served as Assistant Secretary and Chairman of Norfolk LDC.
He is currently Chair of the Audit Committee.
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Paul Woodhouse
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2024
BDS Newcastle 2000
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Paul qualified from Newcastle University in 2000 and completed VT in the city before moving back to his home on Teesside. Starting life as an associate in his practice in 2002 he has moved through the journey of associate, partner, sole owner until he joined forces with his wife Ruth becoming a partner in 2018.
This has allowed him the freedom to focus on the dentistry aspect of running a practice.
Outside of work, Paul spends most of his time with his two young girls, Ava and Penny and desperately tries to teach their young puppy how to behave. Any free time is spent either hiking, watching rugby or practicing Aikido.
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