Professional Development

The Professional Development Directorate will have overall responsibility for:

  • The work of the Conference and Meetings Committee which is responsible for organising the British Orthodontic Conference, and any other meeting held by the Society.
  • The Chair is also responsible for the optimal coordination of all special interest meetings such as those currently proposed by or run by the Groups of the Society.
  • The Chair will be the chair of the Conference and Meetings Committee.

Director for Professional Development

Trevor Hodge

Trevor Hodge is a Consultant Orthodontist at the Leeds Dental Institute. Prior to this he was an undergraduate at the University of Bristol and completed his specialist training at the University of Birmingham and the Eastman Dental Institute.

At Leeds he provides postgraduate clinical training and his clinical practice has focused on the management of orthognathic cases and more recently patients with cleft lip and palate.

In 2015 he was appointed Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Orthodontics at University of Leeds with research areas including clinical and applied research, health services research, and research in dental education. To date he has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals including 2 book chapters.

In 2007 he co-founded the first UK course to train Orthodontic Therapists and since this time has also been active in specialist practice. In 2018 he achieved European Board accreditation, won the Maurice Berman Prize for Clinical Excellence for the second time, and was a recipient of a World Federation of Orthodontists Regional Award of Merit.