Mr Jonathan Dixon, Clinical Academic Fellow in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Sheffield United Kingdom is being recognoised with an ADEE 2021 Excellence in Dental Education Early Career award for 2021. Jonathan is Clinical Academic Fellow in Restorative Dentistry at teh University of Sheffield. He attained his Bachelor’s Degree in Dentistry with Honours from Universidad Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain with distinctions in numerous subjects, including: Conservative Dentistry, Endodontics, Periodontics and Prosthodontics. After qualifying as a dentist he worked in a variety of dental settings in the UK before starting his role at the University of Sheffield in 2017. He has experience dentistry and dental eductaion in a wide variety of European settings including the UK, Spain and Sweden.

Dr Nathan Moreau, Associate professor (Tenured) in Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, University of Paris, France is being recognoised with an ADEE 2021 Excellence in Dental Education Early Career award for 2021. As an academic Oral Surgeon with a special interest in Orofacial pain, he has dedicated most of his clinical, teaching and research activities to the -still insufficient- diagnosis and management of orofacial pain conditions and related disorders. This includes the creation and management of the orofacial pain diagnostics unit of Bretonneau Hospital, the training of undergraduate and postgraduate dental and medical students on the subject of orofacial pain and translational research on trigeminal neuropathic pain. Such academic activities provide an opportunity for integrative curricular development both in the faculty and hospital settings as well as interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborations.

Dr Igor Blum, Reader in Primary Care Dentistry and Clinical lead/Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Kings College London UK, is being recognoised with an ADEE 2021 Excellence in Dental Education Mature Career award for 2021. Igor Blum qualified from Semmelweis University, Budapest, in 1995. Following graduation, he completed an MSc in Oral Surgery and a PhD in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Manchester. Whilst doing his PhD in Manchester Igor also completed a Dr med dent degree at the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 2002. Following several years in general dental practice Igor completed the membership examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 2005 Igor was appointed Clinical Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry at the Bristol Dental School where he also completed the 5-year higher Specialist Clinical Training Programme in Restorative Dentistry. In 2013 he was appointed Consultant/Hon. Senior Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry at King’s College Hospital.  

In 2018, Igor was appointed as Reader at King’s College London. He completed an MA in Education in 2021.