Prof Dave W Thomas
Career Profile
2010-Present Implant Programme Director
2008 present IATP Programme Director Dentistry Wales
2005-2010 Vice-Dean Research School of Dentistry Cardiff
2004- 2010 Clinical Executive Manager CITER (www.citer.org)
2002-Present Professor /Honorary Consultant in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery University Hospital of Wales / Cardiff University*
2001 – 2002 Reader /Honorary Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1996 – 2001 Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1992 - 1996 Lecturer / Honorary Senior Registrar in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1989 - 1992 Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow / Honorary Registrar Bristol
1988 - 1989 Specialist Registrar in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Ipswich Hospital
Memberships / External Activities
2010-Present US Department of Defence External Scientific Consultant
2010-Present UK Specialist Advisory Committee Oral Surgery
2008-Present Elected President Association British Academic Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
2008-2010 Elected Secretary European Tissue Repair Society (currently Board Member)
2008-2010 Elected Organising Committee ESF Nanomedicine Meeting (Barcelona)
2006-2009 Professor (visiting 2006-2011) University of Trondheim
Recent invited international lectures
2010 Polymer therapeutics in human wound healing European Polymer therapeutics meeting Valencia
2010 Microbiology of impared human wound healing European Wound Management Association Annual meeting Geneva
2010 Bacteria and wound healing French Wound Healing Society Paris
2009 The clinical challenge of Tissue Repair EU European Summer School in Nanomedicine Lisbon
2009 The microflora of impaired wound healing Wound Healing Society meeting Limoges
External examiner
MD theses (London, Manchester), PhD (Manchester, QMW, Sheffield)
External scientific consultant
Algipharma AS, previously Smith & Nephew, Johnson & Johnson
Teaching Profile
Programme Director full-time, 12 month, taught clinical MSc in Implantology and the modular longitudinal programme for Family Dental practitioners. DWT was until 2009 Programme Director of the MSc in Tissue Engineering which he established with his colleagues in 2005.
Awards / Prizes
DWT has been awarded numerous international and national prizes for research as have the group. PhD, MD students and Post-Docs in the group have received many awards for their work including the European Tissue Repair Society Young Investigator prize on three separate occasions since 2000, the Colgate Prize of the BSDR and the Jackson Prize of BAPRAS.