Justin Durham

Justin is a professor of orofacial pain and dean of research and innovation of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University and an honorary consultant oral surgeon at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’s Hospitals’ NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.

His primary research interests are in orofacial pain both at the first and second translational research gaps. He has wide experience in a variety of methodologies involved in health services research and has received international awards both for clinical and pedagogical research.

He has held several national and international leadership roles within orofacial pain and is currently the British Dental Association’s chief scientific advisor and chair of NIHR’s DSE fellowship panel. He is currently leading the world’s largest ever trial in myalgia TMD.

Justin is a co-director of Jawspace and its chief clinical and scientific officer.

He is boarded in orofacial pain in the USA and was the first person in the UK to attain this qualification, the gold standard globally for clinical expertise in orofacial pain. He is also on the UK’s specialist list for oral surgery.