Justin Durham

Justin is a Professor of Orofacial Pain and Deputy Dean of Clinical Medicine at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant Oral Surgeon at Newcastle- Upon-Tyne's Hospitals' NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.

Justin was appointed Clinical Fellow/Hon SpR in Oral Surgery at Newcastle University in 2003. He obtained his Ph.D., "Ideologies and outcomes in Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)", from Newcastle University in 2008. He subsequently completed his oral surgery specialist training and also became the first person in the UK to pass the American Board of Orofacial Pain. He held a prestigious NIHR Clinician Scientist award from 2012-2017, which funded his research into the care pathways in chronic orofacial pain and was promoted to a personal chair in 2017.

In addition to holding a prestigious NIHR award, he has previously received the outstanding postdoctoral award from the Behavioural, Epidemiology, and Health Services Research group of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), for his research into TMDs. His teaching was also acknowledged through the Vice-chancellor's award for excellence in teaching.