Fellow

Jan Clarkson is Professor & Personal Chair of Clinical Effectiveness at the University of Dundee. She is an internationally acknowledged leader in Oral Health for the generation, synthesis and implementation of evidence to prevent and treat oral disease world-wide. She leads multidisciplinary health services research to challenge established clinical practice and delivery of routine dental care. She has led the largest primary dental care trials in the world to establish the evidence for common, costly treatments and the development of minimally invasive dentistry. The evidence generated has informed clinical practice guidelines across the world and changed policy. As founder of the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme within NHS Education for Scotland, she has created the only NICE accredited dental guideline group worldwide.