We are all very sad to learn of of the death of Stuart MacDonald, latterly Professor of Clinical & Forensic Anatomy
@UofGlasgow
& one of our favourite
@UofGDental
teachers. His lectures were both entertaining & a work of art. He will be sorely missed
A sad farewell to Professor Lorna MacPherson from her all of colleagues at
@UofGDental
who will miss her very much. Very best wishes for a long and happy retirement from all of us. Pictured here with
@DavidIConway
@AileenB59356865
and Pauline Daniel
Congratulations to
@UofGDental
staff & hon staff on their new
@rcpsglasgow
Dental Faculty roles.
@DrGoodalltweets
was elected as Dean of the Dental Faculty & Vice President Dental, Professor Ayoub as Vice Dean
@cimather
as Honorary Secretary &
@c_wemyss
as ordinary board member
Open day
@UofGlasgow
today and the Head of SoMDN Matthew has found some competition for his trusty friend Toby. Possibly our youngest visitor to the
@UofGDental
stand -Isla 13 weeks old!
@UofGMVLS
@UofGMedicine
Congratulations to our BDS Class of 2020. This morning we are hosting a zoom valedictory ceremony at 11am - the original scheduled time for their graduation. We’re very proud of them all as these UofG World Changers join our profession.
@UofGMVLS
@UofGVPAnna
@UofG_Alumni
👏🥂
Each year our graduation ceremonies begin with a rousing version Gaudeamus Igitur 🎶
As we sadly can't be together to sing this year, students, staff, alumni & friends came together virtually with our brilliant
@chapelchoir
to keep up this tradition 🎵
#UofGgrad20
All face to face teaching, including clinical teaching, at Glasgow Dental School will be suspended from 9am on Monday 16th March. Students should not attend the Dental Hospital or outreach placements and should check e-mail accounts regularly for further updates.
Many congratulations from everyone
@UofGDental
to
@VivBinnie2
on winning a Mature Educators award at
@ADEEorg
in Liverpool
Viv said “I’m just really pleased to have received the award. Takes me back to the buzz you get when you get your PhD!”
The
@UofGDental
@GreatScotRun
10k team are ready to get going on their run in aid of
@macmillancancer
today. Run like the wind Rob Kurt Craig Jess Ashley & Lynne
You can support their efforts in memory of our much missed colleague Ev Wallace here.
Wonderful to see so many from the Class of 2020 at today’s
@UofGlasgow
morning Graduation Ceremony. Great to hear their stories since 2020 - all living up to the expectations of the charge to be World Changers!
@AileenB59356865
Congratulations from all of us to our
@UofGDental
student Evie Rogkoti who won the regional heat of the
@DentsplySirona
dental skills competition run by
@RCSEdFDS
Evie will take part in the final against students from all of UK dental schools in Edinburgh in March. Good Luck!
🎉ENORMOUS congratulations to our Schools of Dentistry, Nursing & Veterinary Medicine, who are all named No.1 in the
@compuniguide
today! Sports Science is also named No.1 in the UK, while our School of Medicine is ranked No.3 on the list!!
#TeamUofG
More👉
It was a real pleasure to join our
@UofGDental
BDS students today for their graduation. It’s been an honour to be on this journey with you all and welcome you today as our colleagues. Congratulations to all of you and to
@UofGVet
and
@UofGLifeSci
on their big day too!
Today
@UofGDental
we said a fond farewell to
@alunscott1966
as he leaves his post in the dental school to become our outreach tutor in Dumfries. He’s been a fantastic BDS5 coordinator and will be sorely missed by all of us but we know he’ll only be down the road!
We are delighted to welcome Carly Ross to the
@UofGDental
team as Clinical Lecturer in Special Care Dentistry/Hon Specialty Dentist. Here she is with the other members of the Special Care Dentistry Academic team Nick Beacher and Emma O'Donnell
Congratulations from all
@UofGDental
to Jenny Eaves who successfully defended her PhD thesis today on: Optimising delivery of the Childsmile nursery supervised toothbrushing programme in Scotland.
Thanks to
@DavidIConway
@SherriffAndrea
@A_R_oss
@VivBinnie2
& Marie-Therese Hosey
Stuart will be fondly remembered by many dental students and colleagues at
@UofGDental
as an inspirational and talented educator. A lovely tribute to him today
@UofGlasgow
Here today to celebrate the life of our much loved and recently departed colleague Professor Stuart McDonald
An absolutely beautiful service with humerous and fitting tributes from Profs Matthew Walters, Tony Payne and
@AileenB59356865
and a reading from
@JackieDocjt
Two of our
@UofGDental
students attended the
@rcpsglasgow
graduation ceremony this evening to receive their undergraduate elective prizes from Dental Vice Dean
@VgreigGreig
Well done from all of us to Sara and Emma!
A huge well done to all of our
@UofGdentsoc
@UofGDental
students for their amazing fundraising efforts with their annual Panto.
This year they raised £6000 for
@MaggiesCentres
and The Canmore Trust
Here are some of the staff getting into the Panto spirit.
Devastated to wake up to news of the fire at the Glasgow School of Art. All our thoughts at UofG are with our colleagues and friends at
@GSofA
this morning. We hope everyone is safe.
Huge congratulations from all of us
@UofGDental
to
@jamie_dickie
who received his Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry at the Diploma Ceremony
@rcpsglasgow
this week. He was presented with his diploma by
@DrGoodalltweets
Vice President Dental of the college
Well done Jamie!!
It’s finally wizard robe day for our fantastic final year students
@UofGDental
@UofGlasgow
@UofGMVLS
We are so delighted to get our robes on to share your
#graduation
day with you, congratulations and all our good wishes for your futures 🦷
More photos to follow
Some of our
@UofGDental
staff were delighted to join our graduating BDS5 students for their final year dinner last night at Norton House Hotel & Spa - we are all looking forward to their graduation next week too. Many congratulations from all of us you make us very proud.
Our Head of School Prof Aileen Bell
@AileenB59356865
& Dr Andrew Forgie were honoured to represent
@UofGDental
at a very moving anatomy memorial service last night to remember give thanks to those who have donated their bodies for medicine and science
@UofGlasgow
@UofGMVLS
At the
@GlasgowOdonto
meeting held in
@UofGDental
last night President Alun Scott welcomed
@Granttmcintyre
who spoke about his experience as Scotland’s most unwell
#COVID19
patient. The story of his 4 months in hospital was the subject of his book ‘Dying to Live’ .
We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues
@UofGDental
This week we welcome
@StefanSerban
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Dental Public Health/Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health
@NHSGGC
Stefan is part of our Community Oral Health Group
Our
@UofGDental
prize giving today with special guest and alumnus
@jasonleitch
along with our many prize sponsors and
@NHSGGC
colleagues. A special day to celebrate with our students. Well done to all the prize winners. ⭐️
Congratulations from all of us
@UofGDental
to Sumaya Abusrewil who successfully defended her thesis on January 23rd. Her supervisory team was
@alunscott1966
@McLeanDr
@ramage_gordon
Title: The endodontic biofilm: effects of chitosan as a novel anti-microbial agent
Congratulations to
@UofGDental
student Jan Horackiewicz who won 1st prize for his presentation on Prognostic Significance of Blood Results in Oropharyngeal Cancer
@TheBDA
student assn conference in London.This was the subject of his BDS elective with ENT surgeon Catriona Douglas
Our admissions team from
@UofGDental
are up at the Wolfson Medical School for Offer Holders Day
@UofGlasgow
we had a great talk about 1st year BDS from
@NeilJNairn
It’s been lovely to meet some of our prospective students come and see us if you are still on campus
A fantastic turn out from Glasgow Dental School at the annual School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing PGR Research Day. Brilliant research presentations and posters from our PGR students – showcasing the wide variety of high quality research studies underway.
PhD Opportunity
@UofGDental
Part of the Multimorbidity PhD programme for health researchers fully funded by
@wellcometrust
Poor oral health in childhood as an early predictor of multimorbidity: the canary in the mine?👇🏻
…
@SherriffAndrea
@DavidiConway
We were very sad to say farewell to
@ramage_gordon
this week after 17 years
@UofGDental
He isn’t going too far though as he leaves to take up a Professorship
@CaledonianNews
Good luck Gordon and don’t be a stranger!
Yesterday we said a fond farewell to Zayneb Makki who retired from her teaching post at
@UofGDental
recently. She celebrated the occasion with friends and colleagues and was presented with some gifts by
@AileenB59356865
Many congratulations to
@CelisSersen
for winning 1st prize
@EADPHEV
Congress in Montpellier for his work on evaluating child oral health improvement programmes in Chile - as part of
@UofGDental
PhD with
@DavidIConway
Alex McMahon and Lorna Macpherson
Finally the final year dinner and ball for our class of 2022. Don’t they scrub up well! Well done to the organisers Julie and Sarah.
Congratulations to you all! Photos from Lezley Ann Walker
Graduation was a family affair for our
@UofGDental
School Manager Frank Bonner this year as his daughter Rachel a student
@UofGMedicine
graduated with first class honours for her BSc Med Sci intercalated degree. Here he is with the whole family, Congratulations Rachel!
We have lost a wonderful friend and colleague with the sudden passing of Laetitia Brocklebank. An outstanding teacher and role model for her many students over the years. If you’d like to donate to Laetitia’s favourite charity
@RetinaUK
there is a link below. Thank you 👇
Great news from the
@UofGDental
team at
@ADEEorg
@jamie_dickie
was awarded an Early Career Educator Award and the Glasgow team were on hand to congratulate him as he picked it up
Congratulations from all of us too Jamie!
Delighted to be number one in the UK again for Dentistry. Many thanks to the fantastic team of staff and our wonderful students who have continued to perform brilliantly over the past year despite the challenges of COVID. 👏
@UofGMVLS
@UofGMedicine
@UofGMedSchoolAS
We are number ONE in the UK
@compuniguide
for:
🥇 Dentistry 🦷
🥇 Food Science 🍏
🥇 Social Policy 🏛
🥇 Sports Science 🏃
🥇 Veterinary Medicine 🐶
and 17 of our individual subjects are in the Top 5 🙌
More success for
@uofgdental
last night! At the
@uofglasgow
Clinical Academic Training Research Prize Meeting 2022 -
@CraigDSmith99
won prize for best pre-PhD work and
@gcreaney1
won prize for best PhD work. Congratulations to both of you and our
@uofgdental
research team.
Congratulations to the team
@UofGDental
Administration Centre who won the Professional Services Excellence Award recognising their exceptional efforts during the pandemic & in relation to challenges they overcame to ensure the smooth delivery of the extra BDS year. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Really great to see a spotlight on our
@UofGDental
students providing dental care to patients in
@DGNHS
a remote and rural area with huge unmet dental need. This is the largest dental outreach facility in Scotland
@UofGMVLS
@UofGlasgow
@AileenB59356865
Well done to our
@UofGDental
students on an amazing pantomime GummaMia this weekend. Proceeds went to two amazing charities close to our hearts
@Beatson_Charity
and
#Canmoretrust
Here are the students along with representatives of the two charities
PhDone! 3 Years, 3 papers, a 242 page thesis and a near 3 hr viva later ... I passed my PhD Viva with minor corrections 🎓✅️
A huge thank you to my supervisors
@DavidIConway
Alex McMahon & Gareth Inman & many amazing colleauges along the way!
@CR_UK
TRACC
@UofGDental
@CRUK_SI
And last but certainly not least some of our hardworking
@UofGDental
admin team who were helping out with our
@UofGlasgow
graduation today. They’ve been a huge part of our students lives over the past 6 years and they’ve got wizard robes too!
Delighted that
@UofGDental
was invited to participate in this exciting launch. Big thanks to
@AHAllardyce
for thinking about us and to
@jamie_dickie
, Sophie & Kirsty for sharing their odontological skills. An interesting case report opportunity! 🦕 🦷 😀
We 💘 this picture of
@UofGDental
students Sophie James and Kirsty Harrower with Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry Jamie Dickie, giving Trix the T.rex’s teeth a long overdue once over! 66 million years too late!! 🦖🦷
#TrexInTown
📸
@MartinShields1
Best universities by subject: The subject rankings are based on student opinion on teaching quality and their wider university experiences, combined with the outcomes of the 2014 research assessments, graduate job prospects and course entry standards
A few more snaps from our
@UofGDental
graduation today our BDS graduates all took their oath and we heard a great and very inspiring oration from
@coton_frank
A special mention for our Dean Webster Prize winner Rebecca Wall.
And finally at the
@UofGDental
prize giving we took a final opportunity to thank
@alunscott1966
for all his hard work for the BDS5 course over the years as he moves to his new post in Dumfries
Hope all of our students have a wonderful summer
Delighted that 4 of our
@UofGDental
final year students were shortlisted to present at the Incorporation of Barbers Medical & Dental Electives evening
@TradesHall
for
@UofGlasgow
students this week. Paul Capanni won the prize for the best dental elective- congratulations Paul!
Dr Will McLean from
@UofGDental
( in the kilt) with Board of Directors and Regents of the International Federation of Endodontic Associations at their meeting in Chile. Will has been elected to serve as European Regent.
We are delighted to welcome another new colleague to
@UofGDental
this week
@MarieKotzur
is joining us Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences and will also be part of our Community Oral Health Group
Great to welcome all our new BDS1 students today the end of a long road and the start of a new journey. Thank you to our
@uofglibrary
for coming to tell them all about your fantastic facilities
@AileenB59356865
A final
@IADR
tweet
@davidiconway
@uofgdental
on public health policy in Scotland including the flagship
@NHSChildsmile
& Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing
with facilitated discussion on upstream policy advocacy inc Lois Cohen, George Tsakos, Carol Guarnizo-Herreno, Finbarr Allen
🎂FUNDRAISING UPDATE 🏅
The wonderful staff
@UofGDental
have raised a total of £2236 for
@macmillancancer
in memory of our colleague Ev Wallace.
Staff held a coffee morning & ran the 10k & half marathon
@GreatScotRun
Here’s our half marathon team with our other fundraisers
We had a visit from the History of Dentistry group today and we’re very excited because they were visiting to see about getting our wee
@UofGDental
museum up and running again
Pat Lilly Kieran Fallon and Mike Gow with
@AileenB59356865
and David Brunton
Congratulations from everyone
@UofGDental
to
@jamie_dickie
who has been recommended for an
@ADEEorg
Early Career Award which will be presented at the awards ceremony at this year’s ADEE conference. 👏👏👏
Our fabulous
@UofGDental
students from
@UofGlasgow
are down at
@gsc1
today with Lezley Ann for
#RestartAHeartday
Pop along to see them to learn how to identify cardiac arrest and perform CPR using anAutomated External Defibrillator (AED). You might just safe a life
We've spoken to John Gibson who, along with wife Isobel and friends, are walking the length of the UK to raise awareness about suicide and prompt a conversation around it.
They've had a tremendous response and are now in Scotland.
#bbcgms
0750
#onemanwalkingamilliontalking
A very busy
#openday
@UofGlasgow
.
Our admissions team from
@UofGDental
in the Wolfson Medical Building with support from some of our amazing students who are getting lots of questions from prospective applicants.
#ourbestasset
Exciting times
@UofGDental
as we unveil our students' inaugural Zirkonzahn M1 Milling project! This is a huge leap forward in our digital workflow journey, and we can't wait to see how this innovative step will shape the future of dentistry here at the
@UofGlasgow
I am very proud to graduate with a Merit MEd and to be supported by such loving family & friends along this amazing journey. We had a wonderful day celebrating and enjoying the occasion 🥂🎉
@UofGlasgow