Professor Raman Bedi  

 

Raman Bedi was Chief Dental Officer – England from October 2002 to October 2005.

Professor Bedi was an NHS consultant in Paediatric Dentistry for over 14 years.  He specialises in young children with extensive caries and especially in their full mouth reconstruction under General Anaesthesia.   His focus is upon early childhood caries especially as it impacts upon children from the Middle East.   Each year he leads a senior dental leadership programme which is a partnership between King’s College London and Harvard University.

 

He has been asked to establish the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce and is Chairman of the charity The Global Child Dental Fund.   He is also the clinical director of the charity Dentaid.

 

Professor Bedi is based at King’s College London and also holds an honorary chair at University College London where he was the co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the Eastman Dental Institute (1998-2008).  He also has an honorary “Extraordinary Professorship” in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2007-2010), and chairs at  I.T.S. Centre for Dental Studies & Research, India and   Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi. He has examined and lectured in over 40 countries.

 

He was past President of the British Society for Disability and Oral Health (2002), President of the Education Research Group of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) (2002-2004) and chair of the IADR Regional Development Programme Committee (2002-2004). 

 

He has published over 170 scientific papers and 4 books.

 

Professor Bedi has extensive experience in the voluntary sector, he was an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England (1995-2005) and chaired the Archbishop’s Council (Church of England) Urban and Community Affairs Committee (1996-2001). He was a founding Board member of the Higher Education Leadership Foundation, Member of the HE National mentoring scheme for senior staff (2003-7) and a Member of the HEFCE Strategic Committee for Wider Participation (2003 -9).

 

In 2003 he was given the national Asian Guild award and in 2004 the Asian Jewel award.  In 2005 he featured on the front cover of the Asian Power 100 and was awarded the annual national British Association for Physicians of Indian Origin award. 

 

In 2005 he was given the USA Public Health Service medal.

 

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