International Health Humanities Network Membership

Flora is a practising General and Restorative Dentist. She trained at University College London and subsequently gained further qualifications from: Birkbeck College London, the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, the Royal College of Surgeons England and most recently King’s College London. She carries out all aspects of General and Restorative Dentistry and has a Special Interest in Periodontology.

Flora also works as a Clinical Teacher in Periodontology and Conservative Dentistry within the Restorative Department at King’s College London Dental Institute based at Guy’s Hospital. She very much enjoys her teaching role working within the UK’s top Dental Institute and sees herself very much in the role of a mentor feeling privileged to share her experience of the complexities of clinical practice with such high calibre Dental students.

At school in N. Ireland, she was allowed to take Art and Pottery classes without committing to exams, along side the necessary A level Science subjects. Unable to also timetable her favourite subject of English Literature at school, she subsequently studied for a BA in English and Humanities in the evenings at Birkbeck College London whilst carrying on in full time Dental practice. The experience of having both an Arts and Humanities and Clinical Sciences background to post graduate level has formed the basis of her research interests in Clinical Education. These lie in the development and maintenance of Clinical Expertise, working within a Clinical team and the application of Arts and Humanities  to improve observational, listening and haptic  skills, develop communication skills and  help novices control their own nerves and become more comfortable dealing with the ambiguity and  complex  decision making of real life Clinical practice with the aim of  becoming  open and reflective practitioners, able to deal with a wide range of patients compassionately and to also look after the wellbeing of themselves and their colleagues.