2015 Canterbury Study Evening 

 An evening with Professor Tara Renton : Minimising and  managing trigeminal nerve injuries
Professor Tara Renton, Specialist in Oral Surgery, is a Dentist with a particular interest in trigeminal nerve injuries and pain. After completing her Oral and Maxillofacial surgical training in Melbourne Tara undertook a PhD in trigeminal nerve injury at King's College London (KCL) 1999-2003. She was later appointed Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary's University, London and then was awarded her chair in 2006 at Kings' College London. Tara leads the teaching of 180 dental students for each year 3, 4 and 5. and has established an academic training programme which now has eight Oral Surgery SpRs of which three are undertaking PhDs and one post doc. In collaboration with the institute of psychology, King's College London and Imperial College. Tara and collaborators  established a leading international programme of trigeminal pain research and have launched a  website on Trigeminal nerve. www.Trigeminalnerve.org.uk  Tara is an elected member of the RCS England Dental Faculty Board,and the RCS national  advisor for Oral Surgery .Council member and president elect for BAOS .