Northern Ireland Council members
NI Council Members are elected for three-year terms. The current NI Council triennium runs from 2018-2020.
NI Council has 14 members, 11 of whom are voting and 3 who are non-voting. Three are directly elected from the Northern Ireland Branch membership, others are there by merit of their position on another committee or by co-option.
NI Council provide the link between the BDA's membership and the policy decisions taken on their behalf.
To get in touch with any of your representatives please contact:
northernIrelandoffice@bda.org
The current make up of Northern Ireland Council is:
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Caroline Lappin, NI Council Chair (BDA NI Branch elected member)
Caroline qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 1999. She worked in general dental practice and hospital dental service before spending 13 years primarily in prison dental services. Caroline is currently clinical Director of Community Dental Services in the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. Caroline also sits on BDA CDS Group Northern Ireland and the DoH Obesity Prevention Steering Group.
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Richard Graham, NI Council Vice Chair (BDA NI Branch elected member)
Richard is the Chair of NIDPC and Vice Chair of NI Council. Richard has spent his career in general practice and is a previous practice owner in Clogher and Fivemiletown. He is currently a part time Associate. Richard currently sits on the BDA UK Council and the external contract negotiations, probity and amalgam sub groups.
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Roz McMullan (BDA NI Branch elected member)
Roz is currently BDA National President for 2019. She will return to the role of NI Council Chair upon completion of her time as National President. She is an elected member of the Northern Ireland Council, and has been since 2015. She Chairs the multi-organisational ‘Probing Stress in Dentistry’ group, supported by the PHA. Roz previously practiced as a consultant orthodontist the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
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Derek Manson Chair of NI Dental Practice Committee (Vice Chair in Lieu)
Derek was re-elected as NIDPC Vice Chair in January 2018. Derek has worked in general dental practice for over 27 years and is a practice owner in Ballymena. Derek is the NI DPC Levy fund treasurer, a position he has held for over 10 years. Derek represents NIDPC on Northern Ireland Council and on the external HSCB ICT Programme Board. He is the NIDPC cross rep for NISDC.
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Grainne Quinn Chair of the NI Salaried Dentists Committee
Grainne is elected to NISDC on behalf of the Clinical Directors. She qualified from The University of Manchester in 1983. She currently works as Clinical lead for Community Dental Services and as a Senior Dental Officer in the Western Health and Social Care Trust. As well as NI Council Grainne currently sits on the NI Joint Negotiating Forum (NI JNF).
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Paul Brennan President of the BDA Northern Ireland Branch 2020
Paul has been in general practice in Strabane for 33 years
since qualifying from Queens University Belfast in 1986.
Paul has completed a certificate in Restorative dentistry and
an MSc in endodontics at the Eastman. Since then he has
lectured both locally and at the Eastman and runs a referral
endodontic service.From the early 1990s, Paul has been involved with dental representation. He served as Secretary and then Chairman of the Western Area LDC, Deputy Chairman of Western
Area Dental Advisory and is currently Chair of CAPRAP.
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Gerry McKenna Chair of the BDA Hospitals Group, NI Division
Gerry is a specialist in Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics working as a Consultant in the Belfast NHS Health and Social Care Trust. His clinical duties are based in the Centre for Dentistry, Queens University Belfast where he also provides clinical supervision and teaching for dental undergraduates. He is a Principal Investigator based within the Centre for Public Health and a member of the Nutrition and Metabolism and Health Services Research Groups. His research is centred around optimising treatment options for older patients which positively impact their dental and overall health. His current position combines research, clinical teaching and specialist patient care.
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Ross Livingston Co-Chair of the BDA Young Dentists Group, NI Division Ross graduated from Glasgow in 2010 and has recently been awarded a Membership to the Joint Dental Faculties of the Royal College of Surgeons. He is currently a lead Tutor for the MJDF Northern Ireland Study Club and has special interests in Preventative and Aesthetic dentistry
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Darren Johnston Co-opted member
Darren qualified as a dentist from Queens University Belfast Dental School. He trained as a specialist orthodontist at Glasgow Dental School and undertook further training to become an Accredited Consultant Orthodontist. Darren is now the Consultant Orthodontist for the Northern Health and Social Care Trust based at Antrim Hospital.
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Philip Henderson Co-opted member
Philip qualified from Queen’s University in Belfast in 1973 and was a partner in what is now known as Bachelors Walk Dental Surgery in Lisburn for over 30 Years. Throughout his career Philip, has been involved in representing his colleagues and profession at a local and national level. Philip sat as a member of the BDAs Principle Executive Committee from 2012 – 2017.
Philip retired in 2010 from clinical practice but continues to act as a charitable trustee of the BDA’s Benevolent fund and as a dental adviser to Dental Protection Limited.
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Meabh Owens Co-opted member
Meabh Owens is a General Dental Practitioner and Practice Owner based in Derry~Londonderry. Meabh previously sat on NIDPC from 2015 – 2018. Meabh is currently the secretary for the Western Area LDC.
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Mick Armstrong PEC Chair (non-voting)
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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Eddie Crouch PEC Vice Chair (non-voting)
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.
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Peter Crooks PEC member elected from Northern Ireland (non-voting)
Peter 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 two 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. Peter is a BDA Trustee and a member of the Audit Committee.
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