Mick Armstrong
Yorkshire and Humber region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2021 | Mick was elected as Chair of the BDA's Principal Executive Committee in March 2014. He has been a member of the PEC since June 2012. He qualified in 1985 from Newcastle and has spent all of his practising life in General Practice. For the last 20 years he has been a partner in Armstrong & Haire Ltd a six surgery, mostly NHS practice in Castleford, West Yorkshire.
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.
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Paul Blaylock
Northern region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2021
BDS Newcastle 2001
MFDS Edinburgh 2003
PG Cert HCL 2016 PG Cert Med Ed 2017 FDTFEd 2017 FHEA 2017 Regional Dental Workforce Development Advisor & GPT Training Programme Director, HEE North East Associate Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle Dental School | Paul graduated from Newcastle University in 2001 and soon completed the MFDS from Edinburgh. 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 is a part-time Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Trainers RCS Edinburgh. He has been a member of the BDA's Principal Executive Committee since 2012. His responsibilities include Chair of Pensions Committee, Chair of Students Committee, and membership 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. His other roles include membership of Gateshead and South Tyneside LDC. |
Victor Chan
South East regionTerm of office ends on 31 Dec 2019 BDS London (King's College) 1982 LDS RCS Eng 1982 Practice owner and single-handed private practitioner | BDA Representative Board 1990 - 1993
BDA Representative Body 2006 - 2012
BDA Principal Executive Committee 2012 -
Chair International Affairs Committee 2013 -
Council of European Dentists BTF Internal Market FDI World Federation UK National Liaison Officer BDA Southern Counties President 2017 |
Peter Crooks Northern Ireland Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2021 | Newly elected – bio to be provided shortly
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 Eddie Crouch
West Midlands region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2020
BDS London 1984
LDS RCS London 1984
Special Interest in Orthodontics
Orthodontic PDS Provider
Associate at a Specialist Orthodontic Practice | Eddie is the Deputy Chair of the BDA Principal Executive Committee and has been Secretary of Birmingham Local Dental Committee for the last 10 years and now the Vice 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, held the post of President of the Central Counties Branch and served on the GDPC Committee for the past 8 years. He Chairs the West Midlands Association of LDCs.
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. |
Len D’Cruz
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2020
BDS Royal London 1989
LDS RCS
Dip FOd
MFGDP
LLM
PGCert Med Ed
General Dental Practitioner
Dento-legal advisor (Dental Protection Ltd) | I own and work in a mixed NHS/private practice on the outskirts of London.
I combine clinical practice up to 3 days week with work as a dento-legal advisor at Dental Protection and lecturing on NHS regulations and the prototypes and dental law and ethics topics including consent, clinical negligence, confidentiality and record keeping.
I am lead lecturer in the MA in Dental Law and Ethics at the University of Bedfordshire and am on the Editorial Board of Dental Update. |
John Edwards
North West Term of office ends 31 Dec 2020
BDS (Liverpool) 1974 MFGDP (UK) 1993 | 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 2020
BDS (Lond) 1984
PDDS (Wales)
PG Cert Med Ed (Wales)
Practice Owner | 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.
He is currently Chair of the Audit Committee. |
Derek Harper
Scotland
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2019 BDS Edinburgh 1978 DGDP 1992 | I qualified BDS Edinburgh 1978 and was awarded DGDP in 1992. I have been in the same general practice since 1978. It is now incorporated and I am one of four directors. I have served on Fife LDC and ADC since 1984. I have had an interest in VT since 1986. I chaired SDVTC from 1990 - 93. I also trained for 3 years and was a VT Adviser for 4 years. I was elected to SDPC and GDPC in 2000 and have served on both since. I served as Vice-Chair of SDPC for 6 years and was on the Executive of SDPC from 2004 until my election to the PEC. |
Nigel Jones
South West region
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2021
BDS London 1980
DPDS Bristol 1996
PGCert (University of Bedford) 2011 MDFTEd (RCS Ed) 2017
Special interest in Orthodontics & Education
General Dental Practitioner
Practice Owner
VT trainer (Educational Supervisor) | My career so far has touched many aspects of our profession.
On qualifying at Kings 1980, I joined the Royal Navy for a five-year commission, being based mainly in the south-west.
After a short spell as an associate, I bought my practice in Dorset, where I see patients both under the NHS & privately.
I’ve been a VT trainer fifteen times and personally find the process a constant honour and delight.
I was an Orthodontic Clinical Assistant for six years and have a small NHS Orthodontic contract.
I have also been a “local adviser” to DPL since 2000.
I was elected to the PEC in 2012 and have been involved in BDA work locally and nationally for over 20 years. I have particularly enjoyed my role in relation to our Annual Conference. |
Tony Kilcoyne
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2019 BDS 1983 LDS 1984 MGDS RCS Eng 1990 FFGDP (UK) 1998 M.Med.Sci. (U.Sheff.) 2001
Dentist and Specialist in Prosthodontics (UK)
| Tony runs his own Private referral practice in the beautiful village of Haworth, Bradford, West Yorkshire which has gone through several tranformations, starting as an NHS squat Practice in 1986, then mixed, then totally Private Practice and Teaching Centre, over the last 30 years. Tony is a Training Programme Director for Foundation Training in the Yorkshire and Humber region, a post he has held for over 25 years.
Tony also brings a wealth of past experiences including being both an Elected and then Appointed GDC Council member (2003-2013), an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London (1992-2002) at both Membership examinations and Fellowship Assessment levels, a Clinical Teacher in Restorative Dentistry to Undergraduates at the University of Leeds ( 1986-1991) and the Eastman Dental Institute (1999-2002) and also a Clinical Supervisor at the Dept.Psychology University of Sheffield 1996-2001), amongst other things.
Tony was also one of the 2012 Olympic Games Dentists selected to look after all the visiting Athletes Worldwide at the Olympic Village Polyclinic, which was the most advanced/specialised clinic provision in the World at that time. Tony also advises various companies from time to time about dental matters and in the last few years has got more involved with National Media, both giving interviews and also advising producers, authors and programme makers in the background too. He feels for Dentistry this is a very under-ultilised aspect to improve communications, knowledge and public informed choice in the 21st Century.
Tony is married, has three grown up children and within 5 days of originally meeting his American wife Erin in Romania, proposed, accepted and it's been a wonderful 22+years together.... he says sometimes you just know! But be warned if you ask him about it he WILL tell you every detail! |
Russ Ladwa
Greater London
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2019
BDS London 1975
LDS RCS Eng 1976
DGDP (UK) 1992
MGDS RCS Eng 1997
FFGDP (UK) 2004
FDS RCS Eng 2010
General Dental Practitioner | BDA Trustee & member of Education, Ethics & the Dental Team Working Group, International Affairs Committee and Chair of Health & Science Committee.
Past posts held:
President, Odontology Section, the Royal Society of Medicine 2012-13
Dean, FGDP(UK) 2009-12
Chair, Dental Vocational Training Authority 2004-06
Chair, Federation of London LDCs 2004-06
Postgraduate Dental Tutor (University of London) Central Middlesex Hospital London NW10 1990-2013 |
Alison Lockyer
East Midlands and Central
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2019
BDS Edinburgh 1980
Special interest in general dental practice
Practice owner (three practices) and full time practitioner | PEC member since its inception, initially holding a UK-wide seat. Member of the following committees on behalf of the PEC: Honours & Awards, Finance, English Community Dentist, plus attendance at English Council and UK Council. She is currently Chair of the Education, Ethics and the Dental Team Working Group. |
 Jason Stokes
Eastern region Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2020 BDS (Hons) Birmingham 1992 MFGDP RCS PGCert General Dental Practitioner Dental Foundation Training Programme Director (Ipswich Scheme) Dental Tutor (Ipswich Hospital) Dental Multi-professional Education Adviser (HEEoE) Independent Educator | Jason qualified from Birmingham Dental School in 1992.
After a brief stint in Birmingham he moved to Norfolk. Since 2007, Jason has been the co-owner of The Cathedral Street Dental Practice in Norwich.
In addition, he undertakes a range of other roles including:
Dental Tutor (Ipswich Hospital)
Dental Foundation Training Programme Director (Ipswich Scheme) - since 2000
Fitness to Practise Panel Member at the GDC (2004-2013) and former member of the Council of the GDC.
Jason has been involved in local Dental politics for many years – he has previously served as Assistant Secretary and Chairman of the Norfolk LDC. |
Paul Woodhouse
UK wide
Term of office ends on 31 Dec 2021
Qualifications BDS Newcastle 2000 | I qualified from Newcastle University in December of 2000
and went immediately to work in the Kingswalk Practice, which essentially served the staff and students of the university. I completed my VT there before the lure of my homeland became too much and I made the epic 40 mile journey back to Teesside. I then worked as an associate at the Grange Dental Practice until 2012 when I initially became a partner and then sole owner in 2014.
In my time at the Grange, I have acted as both a VT trainer
and a mentor, helping to transition dentists into the mysteries of the NHS system! I am also a member of the Tees LDC.
Outside of dentistry my main distractions are my family, principally my little girl Ava, and rugby, originally as a player but of late mainly as an ill-informed know-it-all spectator! |
