Trustees
Steve Jones
President
Francis Collier
Immediate Past President
francis.collier@saad.org.uk
Francis is a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry, who gained a Diploma in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry from Guy's Hospital in 2002. Since then, he has held appointments in hospital and community services, as well as providing sedation on a peripatetic basis in General Dental Practice. He is a member of the SAAD Teaching Facilty, and has extensive experience providing sedation training for all members of the dental team. He has a special interest in mentoring colleagues in their own workplace. He relocated to his current home in North Aberdeenshire in 2007.
Kellie Downie
Hon. Treasurer
kellie.downie@saad.org.uk
Kellie is the owner of a dental practice in West Sussex where she runs a referral service for intravenous and inhalation sedation for anxious patients. She is also an educational supervisor for foundation dental training in general practice. Kellie is also involved with Kingston Hospital sedation and GA dental services. She completed the Newcastle University post graduate diploma in sedation in 2012.
Paul Howlett
Communications Secretary
Nigel Robb
Editor of the SAAD Digest
Nigel is a Reader/Hon. Professor Restorative Dentistry and Educational Lead for Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. He has a vast experience in the subject of Conscious Sedation having co-authored one of the standard text books on the subject. He is an authority and renowned international speaker on the subject of Conscious Sedation.
Leah Adams
Leah is a GDP and Sedation Lead in a practice in Cheltenham. Her special interests are conscious sedation for both children and adults and sedation teaching. She completed her MSc in Conscious Sedation in 2013 (Cardiff University) and has taught at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. Leah is currently a member of the SAAD teaching faculty.
Christopher Holden
Chris practises as a general dental practitioner in Derbyshire. He has been an author of most national guidance documents on dental sedation in the last 15 years. Chris regularly provides expert evidence in the UK, Europe and worldwide and is immediate past president of The International Federation of Dental Anaesthesiology Societies.
Sadie Hughes
Dr Sadie Hughes is a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry and Sedation Lead for Hertfordshire Special Care Dental Service. She completed an MSc in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry in 2003 at King’s College London Dental Institute. Her clinical interests include sedation and behavioural management for adolescents requiring dental treatment and the dental management of adults with special care requirements.
Yi Kwan Loo
Dave Pearson
Dave is a Consultant Oral Surgeon based at Birmingham Dental Hospital. He is an honorary lecturer in oral surgery and sedation for the University of Birmingham and has been fortunate to lecture locally and nationally on the topics. He has a special interest in the dental management of oncology patients pre/post radiotherapy utilizing RA and IV sedation.
Shilpa Shah
Shilpa currently works in several established private practices in the North West as a GDP and sedationist. She is also part-time at Manchester Dental Hospital treating anxious adults under conscious sedation and supervising other practitioners to achieve competency in intravenous sedation. Shilpa completed her MSc, with a merit award in 2017. She also runs a peripatetic sedation service and lectures on Conscious Sedation.