Once again, the Dentistry Top 50 poll was inundated with a record number of votes from readers of Dentistry magazine and Dentistry.co.uk.
Ans this year, chief dental officer for England, Barry Cockcroft was voted by the profession as the most influential figure in dentistry.
At a time when NHS dentistry is undergoing major changes in the way it delivers oral health care, you saw the CDO as the biggest mover and shaker in the industry.
Barry Cockcroft qualified from Birmingham Dental School in 1973. He worked for 27 years in mainly NHS general dental practice before joining the Department of Health as deputy chief dental officer (England) in November 2002.
He was appointed chief dental officer (England) in July 2006. Prior to his appointment as CDO, he had served on the Warwickshire Local Dental Committee, including terms as chairman and secretary, been chairman of the West Midlands Association of LDCs and was elected to the General Dental Services Committee of the BDA in 1990.
Following the recent restructuring of the health and social care system, he provides clinical and professional advice and leadership to NHS England, the Department of Health and Health Education England. Away from dentistry, he served as a magistrate on the Warwickshire bench between 1992 and 2000 and is married with three children. Barry received a CBE in 2009 for services to dentistry.
Meanwhile, the lifetime contribution award went to Professor Nairn Wilson, honorary Professor of Dentistry at King’s College London.
Throughout his career he has held numerous senior executive and academic positions within dentistry. Nairn’s many other positions have included President of the General Dental Council (1999-2003) and more recently co-chair of the Forum of European Heads and Deans of Dental Schools (2007-2012). His interests and special expertise encompass the regulation of dentistry, international trends in dental education, tooth-coloured filling materials and related systems, and modern, minimally invasive approaches to, in particular, conservative dentistry. Although now retired, Nairn continues to author and edit a wide range of books and other dental publications.
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For full biographies and focuses on our Top 50, see the 18 April issue of Dentistry magazine. Here below, the top 150:
1 Barry Cockcroft
2 Kevin Lewis
3 Evlynne Gilvarry
4 Martin Fallowfield
5 Judith Husband
6 Peter Ward
7 David Cameron
8 James Goolnik
9 Chris Orr
10 Nairn Wilson
11 Tif Qureshi
12Amarjit Gill
13 Ellis Paul
14 Mhari Coxon
15 Matthew Perkins
16 Seema Sharma
17 Linda Greenwall
18 Gordon Christensen
19 Anoop Maini
20 Edward Lynch
21 Monik Vasant
22 Laura Horton
23 Earl Howe
24 Nilesh Parmar
25 Michael Wise
26 Tony Jacobs
27 Ashley Latter
28 Zaki Kanaan
29 Sia Mirfendereski
30 Crispian Scully
31 Roger Matthews
32 Sue Gregory
33 Trevor Burke
34 Kevin Rose
35 Andrea Ubhi
36 Julian English
37 Pam Swain
38 Stuart Harding
39 Lorenzo Vanini
40 Simon Tucker
41 Les Jones
42 Paul Tipton
43 Ken Finlayson
44 Elaine Halley
45 Quentin Skinner
46 Nick Dilworth
47 Liz Kay
48 Wakkas Khan
49 Chris Barrow
50 James Russell
51 Shubbam Mittal
52 Manny Vasant
53 Larry Rosenthal
54 Cemal Ucer
55 Shaun Howe
56 David Hornbrook
57 Clifford Ruddle
58 David Winkler
59 Dennis Tarnow
60 Angie McBain
61 Tony Kilcoyne
62 Ian Needleman
63 Ron Jackson
64 Sara Holmes
65 Nasser Barghi
66 Martin Kelleher
67 Hien Ngo
68 Jason Smithson
69 Mike Mulcahy
70 Amit Varsani
71 Russ Ladwa
72 Chris Kettler
73 George Freedman
74 Raman Bedi
75 Vinod Joshi
76 Sir Paul Beresford
77 Beverley Carlyle
78 Ian Peace
79 Julian Webber
80 Hilt Tatum
81 Paul Stone
82 Rupert Hoppenbrouwers
83 Harris Sidelsky
84 Damien Walmsley
85 Ruby Austin
86 Jamie Newlands
87 Van Haywood
88 Phil Bennett
89 Brian Lux
90 Amjad Malik
91 David Bloom
92 Arjun Kachhala
93 Rob McAndrew
94 Stephen Buchanan
95 Koray Feran
96 Steve Moulder
97 Eric Van Dooren
98 Stephen Porter
99 Daniel Cheung
100 Martin Trope
101 Krishan Joshi
102 Hazel Adams
103 Derry Rogers
104 Ed Attenborough
105 Nicki Rowland
106 Bob Khanna
107 Mark Willings
108 Siobhan Owen
109 Martin Mayhew
110 Philip Lewis
111 Ashish Parmar
112 Edgar Gordon
113 Cathy Jameson
114 Ashok Sethi
115 Sunita Verma
116 Simon Hocken
117 Chris Potts
118 Andrew Lansley
119 Philip Friel
120 Moona Malik
121 Martin Mills
122 Jimmy Steele
123 Gertrude Huss
124 David Nicholson
125 John Renshaw
126 Joe Rich
127 Trent Smallwood
128 Chris Lucas
129 Paddi Lund
130 Derek Mahony
131 Michael Norton
132 John Lowry
133 George Kirtley
134 Rahul Doshi
135 Eddie Crouch
136 Stephen Hancocks
137 Hassan Mushaid
138 Mark Atkinson
139 Raymond Bertolotti
140 Bill Robbins
141 Margaret Ross
142 Philip Newsome
143 Peter Briggs
144 Basil Mizrahi
145 Roger Levin
146 Andrew Warren
147 Hew Mathewson
148 Mike Gow
149 Jerry Watson
150 Laurence Lando
