Professor Damien Walmsley, Professor of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry and Scientific Advisor to the BDA and BDJ, has been elected as the dental representative to the executive committee of the Health Sciences network of Universitas 21 (
This network was established to provide Faculty within U21 member universities with a framework for exploring opportunities for collaborative research, student centred initiatives, information exchange, and sharing of resources.
The section has met on a regular basis since 2001. Within health sciences there are nine dental schools involved, the Universities of Birmingham, British Columbia, Hong Kong, Korea, McGill, Melbourne, Queensland, Monterrey, and Singapore. Noteworthy projects include a student International Peer Review in blog format, e-learning projects including forensic odontology, benchmarking between schools and trans-cultural communication training.
