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Orthodontist wins award

Joanne Collins, an FTTA in orthodontics at the Eastman Dental Institute/Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has received the British Orthodontic Society's (BOS) Chapman Prize.

Awarded annually to a BOS member for the best published article of that year, the prize is awarded to an article that contains original material on an orthodontic or allied subject.

Entitled Changes in the gender and ethnic balance of the United Kingdom orthodontic workforce, Joanne Collins' article was published in the British Dental Journal and based on research she undertook for her MSc project whilst on the MOrth training programme at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute.

The project was supervised by Dr Susan Cunningham, Professor Nigel Hunt, Professor John Galloway and Professor David Moles, who are co-authors of the paper (Collins J M, Hunt N P, Moles D R, Galloway J, Cunningham S J. Changes in the gender and ethnic balance of the United Kingdom orthodontic workforce. Br Dent J2008; 205:E12).

Courtesy of BDJ
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