Personal Profile:
Editorial Board Journal of Disability and Oral Health |
| Name: Dr Shelagh Thompson |
Present appointment:
Reader / Honorary Consultant in Special Care Dentistry and Conscious
Sedation,
Programme Director, MSc in Conscious Sedation, Cardiff University
Editor, Journal of Disability and Oral Health |
Qualifications: BDS, MPhil, Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis,
PhD, MSND RCSEd, FHEA,
Specialist in Endodontics, Specialist in Special Care Dentistry.
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Work contact details:
Email: Thompsonsa@cardiff.ac.uk, JDOHEditor@Cardiff.ac.uk
Address: Sedation and Special Care Suite
University Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry Cardiff University
Heath Park, Cardiff, Wales, CF23 5NN |
Memberships / External Activities:
Treasurer/Membership Secretary: Dental Sedation Teachers Group
2000-date
Committee member: British Society of Disability and Oral Health
2004 -date
Chair: Teachers Group, British Society of Disability and Oral
Health 2006 to date
Joint Advisory Committee in Special Care Dentistry 2000 to
2007
President of the British Society of Disability and Oral Health
2007-2008
Specialist Advisory Committee for Special Care Dentistry 2007-date
Co-Chair Education Committee, International Association of
Disability and Oral Health 2008-date
Member:
British Society of Disability and Oral Health
British Society of Gerodontology
Dental Sedation Teachers Group
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK,
British Dental Association, Association of Dental Anaesthetists
Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry
British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis
British Dental and Medical Acupuncture Society
British Endodontic Society |
Teaching Profile:
Undergraduate: Development of undergraduate curriculum as:
Topic Leader of Special Care Dentistry, Cardiff University
Topic Leader in Pain and Anxiety Control, Cardiff University
Postgraduate: Programme Director, MSc in Conscious Sedation,
Cardiff University.
Conscious Sedation Tutor for Wales, PGMDE, Wales Deanery
Educational Supervisor, Specialty Training Programme in Special
Care Dentistry, Wales Deanery.
Co- Chair Education Committee, IADH, Special Care in Postgraduate
Education Task Force to develop curricula for developing world
and ADEE
Research Supervision: MPhil, MSc in Conscious Sedation
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| Awards / Prizes: British Endodontic Society Research
Grant 1994 |
| Research Interests: Undergraduate and postgraduate
education in Special Care Dentistry, medically compromised patients,
conscious and alternative sedation techniques, simulation training.
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Clinical Interests- adolescents to older age
All aspects of Special Care Dentistry using behavioural management
including hypnosis, LA, conscious sedation, alternative sedation
techniques and general anaesthesia. |
| Selected Publications: List titles of up to 4 publications
Nunn JH, Boyle C, Thompson S, Wilson K. Developing an undergraduate
curriculum
in special care dentistry. Journal of Oral Health and Disability
2005; 6: 3-15.
http://www.bsdh.org.uk/journal/volume6_1.php
Chadwick BL, Thompson S, Treasure ET. Sedation in Wales:
a questionnaire. British Dental Journal 2006; 201: 453-456.
http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v201/n7/index.html
Smith RB, Thompson SA. An audit of patient assessment and
treatment outcomes in anxious patients referred for conscious
sedation. Journal of Disability and Oral Health 2007; 8/2:
57-62. http://www.bsdh.org.uk/journal/volume8_2.php
Gordon F, Morgan M, Thompson S. A survey of the quality and
quantity of Special Care Dentistry Teaching, including Gerodontology,
in Dental Schools of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Journal
of Disability and Oral Health 2009; 10/1: 03-10.
http://www.bsdh.org.uk/journal/volume10_1.php
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| Selected Projects/Publications in Special Care Dentistry:
list up to 4
Hunter ML, Hunter B, Thompson SA, McLaughlin WS. Special
Care Dentistry: attitudes of Specialists in Restorative Dentistry
practicing in the UK to the creation of a new specialty.
Journal of Disability and Oral Health 2004; 5/1: 23-26.
http://www.bsdh.org.uk/journal/volume5_1.php
Hunter ML, Hunter B, Thompson SA, McLaughlin WS. Special
Care Dentistry: attitudes of Specialists in Paediatric Dentistry
practicing in the UK to the creation of a new specialty.
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 2004 Jul;14(4):246-50.
PMID: 15242380 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118794233/issue
Thompson SA, Davies J, Allen M, Hunter M, Oliver S, Bryant
S. Cardiac risk factors for dental knowledge among dental
practitioners in Wales. British Dental Journal 2007 Nov 24;203(10):E21;
discussion 590-1. Epub 2007 Sep 21. PMID: 17891117 [PubMed
- indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v203/n10/index.html
Manley MCG, Ransford NJ, Lewis DA, Thompson SA, Forbes M.
Retrospective audit of the efficacy and safety of the combined
intranasal/intravenous midazolam sedation technique for the
dental treatment of adults with learning disability. British
Dental Journal 2008 Jul 26;205(2):E3; discussion 84-5. Epub
2008 Jun 13. PMID: 18545267 [PubMed- indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v205/n2/index.html
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