Jonathan Sandy BDS, MSc, PhD(Lond), MOrthRCS, FDSRCS, FDSRCSEd, FFDRCSI

Dr. Jonathan Sandy is a Professor in Orthodontics and currently Head of the Bristol Dental School. My dental training was in London (Kings College Hospital, The London Hospital and the Eastman). I was awarded an MSc in Orthodontics in 1981 and obtained my Diploma in Orthodontics in the same year. I was awarded FDS by examination the following year at both the English and Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. I completed my Senior Registrar training in Orthodontics in 1985 and was then awarded an MRC Training Fellowship to undertake a PhD. This was completed in 1988 and the MRC funded me as a postdoctoral scientist for two years in the Biochemistry Department, University of Cambridge. I was appointed to Bristol University as a Consultant Senior Lecturer in 1991, promoted to a Reader in 1997 and awarded a Personal Chair in 1999. My main research interests are in cleft lip and palate and the delivery of clinical care by orthodontists. I have co-authored three books and have over 150 peer reviewed publications.

Dr. Jonathan Sandy developed the postgraduate programme in orthodontics, was responsible for setting up the NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship and Academic Clinical Lecturer programme and have had leadership roles in education including Chairing the Dental Education Committee and being appointed as Head of Teaching. I took educational responsibility for the GDC visit in 2003, the discipline audit trail by the QAA in 2004 (where both the BDS and DDS programmes were scrutinised) and the curriculum review in 2005. I was appointed Head of School in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011 for a further 4 year term. I completed a term as Lead Doctor for the UHBristol Trust from 2009-2012