Prof.David Bearn
Prof David Bearn graduated from Sheffield Dental School in 1985 and after achieving his Royal College Fellowship in Dental Surgery undertook orthodontic specialist training in Newcastle and Carlisle getting his MSc in 1993 and MOrth in 1994. Moving to the University of Manchester he took an academic post to complete his training as one of the first to sit the new ISFE, and was appointed Consultant at Booth Hall Children's Hospital in 1998 prior to completing his PhD in Cleft Lip and Palate outcomes in 2000. He was then appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2001 where he was the Training Programme Director and introduced the innovative Problem Based Learning curriculum.
In 2007 he moved to University of Dundee as Professor of Orthodontics where he also held a number of roles across the University including Head of Learning and Teaching for Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, Head of the College Graduate School, Director of Tayside Clinical Trials Unit and University Academic Lead for the MENA region. He is currently an examiner for MOrth of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and previously for the ISFE in Orthodontics and was the Chair of the ISFE Examination Board. He has been Director of Education for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and is also a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He established the MSC in Orthodontics forming a full time UK equivalent orthodontic PG training programme for University of Dundee in Cairo in 2012 in which trained 100 orthodontic specialists, the majority now hold MOrth and are well respected in the specialty. His ongoing links to Egypt developed when he left Dundee in 2019 to become the founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire International Branch Campus hosted by Global Academic Foundation - a role cut short by the COVID pandemic in 2020 when David returned to the UK and joined NHS Fife as Consultant Orthodontist, where he has is Clinical Lead and is currently TPD for SE Scotland. He also has an active medico-legal practice and works for the General Dental Council as a Clinical Advisor and Expert.
When not working he relaxes at home in his garden with his wife Ruth, and is chairman for a local charity working with young people, and avidly follows his home town Premiership team – Newcastle United.
