BDA CDS Group general anaesthesia study days

Louise is a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry with wide experience in community dental service working across clinics and hospital settings.

Her clinical practice involves treating anxious and phobic children and young people as well as special care patients. She offers a range of non-pharmacological and pharmacological behavioural management techniques to support patients achieve optimal dental health with a holistic patient centred approach.

Louise has led the adult and paediatric General Anaesthetic lists developing the service after COVID-19. She was awarded the Jane Goodman scholarship in paediatric dentistry. She is the Paediatric Dental lead with a strong interest in paediatric service development within a community setting. She is involved in wider dental education and outreach community work.

Daniel is a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry with extensive experience delivering care for adults and children with additional needs across community settings. His clinical practice includes receiving internal referrals and supporting other senior dentists with treatment for complex patients. In his current specialist role, he has established and led on an intravenous sedation service.

He has won NIHR funding and led a clinical research project as chief investigator; the results of which has been published and presented nationally. Prior to his specialist training he held a university clinical lecturer role with Kings College London and gained valuable experience in additional dental specialties such as Tier 2 accreditation in oral surgery.

Alongside his clinical work he has developed a strong interest in leadership, service development and quality improvement. As an active committee member of the British Society of Gerodontology, he has contributed to national domiciliary guidance, organised national conferences and taught medical colleagues.

Conor is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Ulster Hospital in Belfast. His main subspecialist interests are in maternity and head and neck anaesthesia. He has been doing a community dental every Friday since 2017 and is currently is also involved in training and education of the anaesthetic resident doctors at his hospital. 

Benjamin is a Consultant Orthodontist based in North Wales since 2009. His main interests are the clinical management of complex multidisciplinary cases, dental education and workforce recruitment and retention.

Benjamin is involved with orthodontic postgraduate training and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He has written many articles and has also contributed six chapters to the 5th Edition of Littlewood and Mitchell’s Introduction to Orthodontics. He is currently undertaking a PhD investigating dental recruitment and retention in Wales.

Outside his clinical roles, Benjamin is the Chair of the North Wales and Powys Orthodontic Management Clinical Network, Chair of the All Wales Strategic Advisory Forum on Orthodontics, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthodontics, and has been involved with the organisation of the British Orthodontic Conference and the World Orthodontic Congress.

Lucy is a Registered Learning Disability Nurse at the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust and works for both the Learning Disability Service and the Community Dental Service. Lucy is Neurodivergent and passionate about working in partnership with people who have disabilities and/or additional support needs, to access healthcare and ensuring they receive person centered support. 

She is also a Doctor of Education (Autism Pathway) student at the University of Strathclyde and is currently completing research around the experiences of unpaid Caregivers of Autistic Adults.

Sarah qualified from Bristol University in 1997. Following completion of GPT training Sarah held positions in Hospital and Community Dental Service in the South West of England. These included Dental Officer and Senior Dental Officer positions until 2011. She obtained her Post Graduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation in Dentistry from Newcastle University in 2008.

She relocated back to Northern Ireland and joined the Northern Health & Social Care Trust in 2013. She provides sedation and GA services for children and adults with special requirements.

Samina Nayani-Low is a Consultant in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. Her areas of interest include the provision of dental care under general anaesthesia for medically complex patients, and dental care for people living with cancer.

She graduated with honors from Barts and the London School of Dentistry in 2012 and holds an MSc in Special Care Dentistry from King’s College London. She completed her Membership in Special Care Dentistry in 2020 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Dr Nayani-Low has a wealth of experience in the provision of dental care in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has led the inpatient general anaesthetic service at Guy’s since 2022. This has included the foundation of a SCD-anaesthetics MDM which has significantly improved the planning of complex GA cases.

Graduating from the University of Navarre, Spain, in 2001, Rebeca began her career in London before moving to the north of England to complete her anaesthetic training in East Yorkshire. She was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at Pinderfields Hospital in 2015 and moved to Airedale Hospital in 2022 to be closer to her husband’s family.

Her main clinical interests are obstetric anaesthesia and shared airway surgery, particularly within dentistry and ENT.

Sinead is a SDO NHSCT NI (2013- present) undertaking care for patients with complex needs under GA and sedation. She is also the Lead for CDS, HDS and DPH SPPG, DoH, NI.

Sinead qualified Queen’s Belfast in 1992. Msc DPH Manchester University 2000, Diploma Clinical Education QUB 2014. She has worked as a GDP in Wales and NI, Dental Officer and Senior Dental Officer Manchester and North Wales. Clinical attachments in Manchester, Liverpool and QUB Dental Hospitals. Held Honorary Lecturer posts with Manchester, Cardiff and QUB.

Nicola is a Consultant in Special Care Dentistry and Clinical Lead at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. She is passionate about improving access to dental care for people with complex medical conditions, disabilities and additional support needs, ensuring care is tailored to each individual. Nicola has a particular interest in reducing health inequalities, implementing reasonable adjustments and developing patient-centred pathways for sedation and general anaesthesia.

She is an Examiner for the Dental Specialty Fellowship Examinations (DSFE), a member of the BDA Community Dental Services Committee and Group Management Committee, and a cross-representative on the England Community Dental Services Committee (ECDSC).