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Colin Levey obtained his BDS from Dundee in 2011. He intercalated as an undergraduate dental student and gained a first class honours degree (BMSc) in Anatomy with Forensic Anthropology in 2008. He passed the membership examinations (MFDS) at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2013 while working in Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.
In 2014, he was appointed as Clinical Lecturer and Honorary StR in Restorative Dentistry in Dundee. He completed his PhD in 2020 and obtained his FDS (Rest Dent) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2022.
Following successful completion of this training programme, he commenced his current post as Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry in 2023. Clinically, Colin’s main area of interest is in the prosthodontic management of patients requiring treatment for head and neck cancers.
Research
Colin completed his PhD entitled “Overcoming Avoidable Research Waste in Carious Lesion Management Research” in 2020 under the supervision of Professor David Ricketts and Professor Jan Clarkson. The focus of his thesis was in developing a Core Outcome Set (COS) for caries management clinical trials.
Working with colleagues in Dundee and Berlin, he is led consensus exercise involving patients and professionals to agree which outcomes should be routinely measured in such trials. This COS has informed the design of two large NIHR-funded clinical trials co-ordinated by the trials team in Dundee: SCRiPT (Selective Caries Removal in Permanent Teeth) and PIP (Pulpotomy for Irreversible Pulpitis). Colin has presented work related to this COS at two IADR congresses as well as ORCA 2018.
Teaching
Colin is the academic lead for the final year of the Undergraduate BDS programme in Dundee. He is responsible for co-ordination of a range of clinical placements both within the dental hospital itself and in outreach clinics. In addition, he has responsibility for organising the Finals Examination for the BDS programme. Within the 5BDS course, Colin is a Final Year tutor, providing weekly tutorials for a group of around 12 students.
Colin is co-lead of the dental local anaesthesia course delivered to early BDS clinical students. This teaching involves the use of Theil embalmed cadavers which retain their flexibility, allowing students to practise these techniques before providing them as part of clinical care within the hospital. This has eliminated the practising of such techniques on peers at Dundee Dental School. Colin has contributed to poster presentations about this work at ADEE and IADR congresses.
Other teaching responsibilities include contributions to the Caries and Teamworking teaching themes within the undergraduate programme.
Postgraduate teaching responsibilities have included supervision of clinical PhD and MDSc (Prosthodontics) students.
Other Contributions
- Advisor of studies to UG and PG students
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow MFDS Part 2 examine