Dr Ilona Johnson
BDS MFDS RCPS (Glasg) MPH FDS (DPH) RCPS (Glasg) PHD FHEA
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Ilona is currently a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health at the School of Dentistry in Cardiff University. She is the Deputy Director for Assessment across all taught programmes and the lead for student experience and engagement within the School of Dentistry. Her role involves research, teaching and dental public health consultant practice. Ilona's main research interests involve improving oral health for older adults in hospitals and care settings. She is currently the topic lead for the undergraduate professionalism, law, ethics and communication skills programme in the School of Dentistry. She is also currently the module lead for the Masters in Public Health Dental Public Health Module. She is particularly interested in the application of evidence based practice, professionalism, communication skills and quality. Ilona has been developing video based assessment tools and and electronic learning environments for quality assurance and learning.
Career Profile
Ilona is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health in Cardiff. After graduating from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas hospitals in 1997, she undertook General Professional Training in the South West of England, working in both practice and hospital. She then entered General Dental Practice in 2000. She was appointed as a Senior Dental Officer in Community Dentistry in 2003 and undertook a 6 month secondment to a generic public health team in 2006. Following the completion of her Masters in Dental Public Health in 2008, she was appointed as a Walport Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Dental Public Health working at Cardiff University and Public Health Wales. During her specialist training, she undertook a number of pieces of work including, pandemic influenza planning, work to develop dental contract pilots in Wales, domiciliary care pathway development and a needs assessment for special care dentistry. She was awarded her Completion of Specialist Training, submitted her PhD thesis and was appointed to her present post in 2013. Her PhD research used mixed methods and explored non-dental healthcare workers$acirc; (i.e. nurses and carers) emotional experiences of caring for the adult mouth. She has developed an interest in working across disciplines to reduce health inequalities and improve health care quality as a result of her research.
Undergraduate Education
1997 United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas Hospitals (UMDS) Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)
Postgraduate Education
2014 PhD
2012 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow Fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (Dental Public Health)
2009 Cardiff Univerity MPH dental module
2008 Master of Public Health MPH (Distinction)
2002 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery MFDS RCPS
Specialist Training:
Registered as Specialist in Dental Public Health, General Dental Council 2013
Teaching Profile
Undergraduate
Ilona Johnson is currently the topic lead for the undergraduate professionalism, law, ethics and communication skills programme in the School of Dentistry. She provides lectures, seminars, workshops, small group teaching and elearning across all 5 years of the curriculum.
Ilona is a member of the Dental Public Health Team at Cardiff University and provides Dental Public Health teaching for undergraduates. Teaching responsibilities include:
- Dental contractual arrangements and systems
- Critical appraisal skills
- The roles and responsibilities of the dental team
Ilona supervises final year research projects and is a personal tutor for undergraduate dental students.
Postgraduate
Ilona is currently the module lead for the Masters in Public Health Dental Public Health Module. She provides teaching relating to law, ethics, professionalism, workforce planning, socio-dental indicators, funding of health care systems, resource allocation emergency planning and pandemic influenza for this module. .
Ilona provides teaching for Foundation trainees working in Dental Public Health, and has provided teaching for Special Care Dentistry Masters degree students.
Current Administrative Roles:
Senior Clinical Lecturer Cardiff University
Lead for Student Engagement and Experience in the School of Dentistry
Member of the Research Ethics Committee in the School of Dentistry, Cardiff University
Consultant in Dental Public Health Cardiff & Vale Local Health Board
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
* BDS University of London (United Medical Schools of Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals)
* MFDS RCPS (Glasg) Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
* MPH (distinction) Masters Public Health
* MPH Dental Public Health Modules
* FFPH (DPH) RCPS (Glasg) Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
* PhD Cardiff University
2020
- Perry, J.et al. 2020. Professional consensus on orthodontic risks - what orthodontists should tell their patients. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
2019
- Jones, R., Johnson, I. and Morgan, M. 2019. Family and friends: supporting oral care in care homes. Gerodontology 36(3), pp. 258-266. (10.1111/ger.12404)
- Jones, K. E.et al. 2019. Reducing anxiety for dental visits. Presented at: 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Paphos, Greece, 2-6 September 2019 Presented at Lamas, D. et al. eds.Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019: 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, September 2–6, 2019, Proceedings, Part IV, Vol. 11749. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer pp. 659-663., (10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_57)
- Jenkins, S., Johnson, I. and Ginley, J. 2019. Work, stress and play: students’ perceptions of factors impacting on their studies and well‐being. European Journal of Dental Education 23(3), pp. 349-354. (10.1111/eje.12436)
2018
- Johnson, I. 2018. Reflections on the development and implementation of interprofessional education between pharmacy and dentistry. CollectivED 6, pp. 77-85.
- Johnson, I., Crawford, O. and Llewellyn, C. 2018. Walking through the OSCE: Creating an immersive virtual experience. Presented at: ADEE 2018 Annual Meeting: Dental education in a changing society, Oslo, Norway, 22-24 August 2018.
- Johnson, I. and Jenkins, S. 2018. Personal networks for support: Roles beyond the tutor. Presented at: ADEE 2018 Annual Meeting: Dental education in a changing society, Oslo, Norway, 22-24 August 2018.
- Perry, J.et al. 2018. Adolescent perceptions of orthodontic treatment risks and risk information: a qualitative study. Journal of Dentistry 74, pp. 61-70. (10.1016/j.jdent.2018.04.011)
2017
- Keenan, J. and Johnson, I. 2017. Professionalism and social media in healthcare: Inter-professional perspectives of what we need to teach and how we should do this. Presented at: Learning together to improve oral health and quality of life, Vilnius, Lithuania, 23-26 August 2017. pp. 44-44.
- Shah, S., Morgan, M. and Johnson, I. 2017. Dietary sugar oral health advice: A Delphi Study. What are the main messages that we should include in teaching for the dental team?. Presented at: Learning Together to Improve Oral Health and Quality Of Life, Vilneus, Lithuania, 23-26 August 2017. pp. 43-43.
- Johnson, I.et al. 2017. Learning how "professions can work together to provide the best care": Dental-pharmacy inter-professional education presenter. Presented at: Learning together to improve oral health and quality of life, Vilnius, Lithuania, 23-26 August 2017. pp. 45-45.
- Cunningham, I. M., Johnson, I. and Lynch, C. D. 2017. Implementing peer review of teaching: a guide for dental educators. British Dental Journal 222(7), pp. 535-540. (10.1038/sj.bdj.2017.316)
- Monaghan, N.et al. 2017. Measuring oral health impact among care home residents in Wales. Community Dental Health 34(1), pp. 14-18. (10.1922/CDH_3950Morgan05)
- Johnson, I., Yeung, Y. and Oliver, S. 2017. Exploring shared understandings, student experience and viva assessment performance arising from an interactive "act as the examiner" video tool for students and staff. Presented at: ADEE Annual Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 23-26 August 2017.
- Khalid, M., Oliver, S. and Johnson, I. 2017. How to validate the cut score for OSCE assessment in undergraduate dental education. Presented at: Association of Dental Education in Europe, Vilneus, 24 August 2017.
- Johnson, I. 2017. Signposting to excellence - oral cancer referral, care and advice. Dental Health- The Journal of the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy 56(4), pp. 19-19.
- Johnson, I., Rhiannon, J. and Morgan, M. 2017. Oral care, loss of identity and dignity in care homes. Presented at: IADR/AADR/CADR General Session, San Francisco, California, 25 March 2017. pp. -.
- Morgan, M., Jones, R. and Johnson, I. 2017. Family and friends: supporting oral care in care homes. Presented at: IADR/AADR/CADR General Session, San Francisco, California, 25 March 2017. pp. -.
2016
- Morgan, M. Z.et al. 2016. Dentist skill and setting to address dental treatment needs of care home residents in Wales. Gerodontology 33(4), pp. 461-469. (10.1111/ger.12185)
- Kenny, P. and Johnson, I. G. 2016. Social media use, attitudes, behaviours and perceptions of online professionalism amongst dental students. British Dental Journal 221, pp. 651 -655. (10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.864)
- Kelly, C., Johnson, I. G. and Morgan, M. Z. 2016. Oral cancer: exploring the stories in UK newspapers. British Dental Journal 221, pp. 247-250. (10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.643)
- Oliver, S. and Johnson, I. G. 2016. Exploring the use of videos to explain case report viva examinations and marking criteria to third year dental students. Presented at: The 42nd Annual ADEE Scientific Meeting Science and the competent dentist an inter-professional perspective, Barcelona, Spain, 24 - 26 August 2016.
- Jones, K., Popat, H. and Johnson, I. G. 2016. Dental students' experiences of treating orthodontic emergencies - a qualitative assessment of student reflections. European Journal of Dental Education 20(3), pp. 156-160. (10.1111/eje.12155)
- Kenny, P. and Johnson, I. 2016. "A patient who viewed my social media profile would question my professionalism": An analysis of dental student attitudes towards professionalism online and self-reported online behaviours.. Presented at: The 42nd Annual ADEE Scientific Meeting Science and the competent dentist an inter-professional perspective, Barcelona, Spain, 24-26 August 2016.
- Stonehouse-Smith, D. and Johnson, I. 2016. Randomised controlled trial to compare e-Learning with a nutrition training handout for dentists, hygienists and therapists. Presented at: The 42nd Annual ADEE Scientific Meeting Science and the competent dentist an inter-professional perspective, University of Barcelona, 24-26 August 2016. pp. 163.
2015
- Johnson, I. G.et al. 2015. Approaches for adult nursing and residential care homes on promoting oral health, preventing dental health problems and ensuring access to dental treatment: Draft Review 3: Barriers and Facilitators. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-PHG62/documents/evidence-review-4
- Morgan, F.et al. 2015. Approaches for adult nursing and residential care homes on promoting oral health, preventing dental health problems and ensuring access to dental treatment. Draft Review 2: Best Practice. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-PHG62/documents/evidence-review-3
- Weightman, A. L.et al. 2015. Approaches for adult nursing and residential care homes on promoting oral health, preventing dental health problems and ensuring access to dental treatment. Draft Review 1: Effectiveness. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-PHG62/documents/evidence-review
- Johnson, I. G. 2015. Learning from a special care dentistry needs assessment. Primary Dental Journal 4(2), pp. 61-66.
- Kelly, C., Johnson, I. and Morgan, M. 2015. Oral cancer: exploring the stories in United Kingdom newspaper articles. Presented at: BSODR British Division Meeting, Cardiff, UK, Sep 2015.
2014
- Johnson, I. G., Treasure, E. T. and Smith, A. P. 2014. Student nurses' subconscious responses and intentions to provide patient mouthcare. Presented at: IADR-PER Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 9-13 September 2014.
- Johnson, I. G.et al. 2014. Does dental disease presence equate to treatment need among care home residents?. Journal of dentistry 42(8), pp. 929-937. (10.1016/j.jdent.2014.05.010)
2013
- Johnson, I., Treasure, E. and Smith, A. 2013. Disgust and attitudes towards inpatient oral care. Presented at: BSODR 2013 British Division Meeting, Bath, England, 9 Sep 2013.
- Johnson, I. G. 2013. Nurses' emotions and oral care for hospitalised adults. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2012
- Johnson, I. G. 2012. Editorial: Obesity. Journal of Disability and Oral Health 13(4)
- Johnson, I. G., Hunter, L. M. and Chestnutt, I. G. 2012. Undergraduate students? experiences of outreach placements in dental secondary care settings.. European Journal of Dental Education 16(4), pp. 213-217. (10.1111/j.1600-0579.2012.00744.x)
2011
- Johnson, I., Treasure, E. and Smith, A. 2011. Nurses' emotional encounters with the mouth and patient oral care. Presented at: IADR 2011 British Division Meeting, Sheffield, England, September 2011.
2010
- Johnson, I. G., Chestnutt, I. G. and Smith, A. P. 2010. Dental Decisions - An emotional experience?. Dental Update 37(10), pp. 700-705.
Undergraduate
Ilona Johnson is currently the topic lead for the undergraduate professionalism, law, ethics and communication skills programme in the School of Dentistry. She provides lectures, seminars, workshops, small group teaching and elearning across all 5 years of the curriculum.
Postgraduate
She provides teaching relating to law, ethics, professionalism, workforce planning, socio-dental indicators, funding of health care systems, resource allocation emergency planning and pandemic influenza for this module.
Ilona provides teaching for Foundation trainees working in Dental Public Health, and has provided teaching for Special Care Dentistry Masters degree students.
Enriching Student Life : Most Innovative Staff Member 2015
Enriching Student Life : Shortlist 2016
Sharing Innovative Practice
Open Day Talks
Student Champions Awards
Ilona Johnson has research interests across the dental public health field. She particularly enjoys working across disciplines. Her interests include:
- Older adult oral health and oral care,
- Emotional psychology and its role in oral health and oral care provision
- Oral health improvement for vulnerable and special care groups
- Information technology for health improvement and education
- Educational research
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ADEE Poster Prize 2016
Student Research BDJ 3rd Most Read Article 2016
