Dundee Dean of Dentistry named as next editor of the British Dental Journal
Professor Philip Preshaw has been working with the BDJ as an Associate Editor managing themed issues.
Professor Philip Preshaw, Dean of Dentistry and Professor of Periodontology at the University of Dundee, has been named as the next editor of the British Dental Journal (BDJ).
Professor Preshaw was previously Professor and Chair of Periodontology at the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore. He received his dental degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991 and his PhD in 1997. He is a registered specialist in Periodontics and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He has been awarded a UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) National Clinician Scientist Fellowship, a Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research, and a King James IV Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for his contributions to dental research. He is currently President of the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry.
I look forward to working with all the authors, article reviewers, associate editors, and the entire editorial team at the journal over the coming years.
Professor Philip Preshaw
“I am absolutely delighted to be named as the next Editor for the BDJ,” said Professor Preshaw. “I am hugely passionate about publishing and knowledge dissemination, and I look forward to working with all the authors, article reviewers, associate editors, and the entire editorial team at the journal over the coming years.
“It is a privilege and honour, as well as truly humbling, to have been appointed to this important role. I will endeavour to build further the success of the journal which continues to go from strength to strength, and I sincerely and gratefully acknowledge the tremendous work undertaken by Stephen Hancocks over the last 20 years under his highly successful editorship.”
Professor Preshaw was previously working with the BDJ as an Associate Editor managing themed issues. At the same time Professor Avijit Banerjee has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the BDJ Portfolio, having already been involved with the BDJ as an Associate Editor, managing BDJ Perspectives.
Professor Banerjee said: “I am truly honoured and humbled to be selected by the BDA and Springer Nature, for this senior strategic role of Editor-in-Chief of the complete BDJ Portfolio.
“Taking over from Stephen Hancocks will in some ways be straightforward, thanks to the measured and thoughtful management approach he has used to develop and guide the Portfolio over his wonderful two decades at the helm.
“However, it will also be impossible to fill his shoes, in terms of the person, the personality and his communication and networking skills.
“Looking forwards and building on Stephen’s hard work and endeavour, I am relishing working with such a fantastic team of people, to increase even more the portfolio’s national/international reach, profile, impact and readership across all the profession’s stakeholders.”