Professor Crispian Scully CBE
MD, PhD, MDS, MRCS, BSc, FDSRCS, FDSRCPS, FFDRCSI, FDSRCSE, FRCPath, FMedSci, FHEA, FUCL, DSc, DChD, DMed(HC), Dr HC

University College London EDI; Professor of Oral Medicine, Pathology and Microbiology, University of London; Professor of Special Needs Dentistry, UCL.

Crispian Scully is Director of Special Projects at the UCL-Eastman Dental Institute (EDI); Professor of Special Care Dentistry, University College London; Chairman of International Federation of Oral Medicine; Past-President of European Association of Oral Medicine; President-elect of International Academy of Oral Oncology, member of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Member of Council, dental faculty of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and member of International Committee of the American Academy for Oral Medicine. Co-director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for oral health, disability and culture, he is also a member of UK Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of National Centre for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) working group on Oral Cancer and advisory subcommittee on CJD, a member of Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) Dental Research Review Panel, a member of Court of Middlesex University, a Trustee of Mouth Cancer Foundation, and member of Oral Cancer Foundation; Science Advisory Board. He has been for some years, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and West of England.
He was Dean at the University of Bristol for 5 years, and Dean at EDI for 15 years to 2008, gaining the Queen’s Award for Higher and Further Education in 2002 - the first in dentistry, bringing the RAE to the top rank, and merging with University College London - one of the top universities.
He has written 30 and edited 11 books and > 880 papers cited on MEDLINE plus >300 others; his book Medical Problems in Dentistry was awarded the Doody Prize; and Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine won the Society of Authors Prize and BMA High Commendation. He is Editor of Oral Oncology, Co-Editor of Oral Diseases and of Medicina Oral, and Associate Editor of Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry. He has received the CBE, University of Helsinki Medal of Honour, University of Santiago de Compostela Medal, University of Granada Medal, Fellowship of UCL, honorary degrees from Universities of Athens, Granada, Helsinki and Pretoria, UK Dental Award for the Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry, the Award of the Spanish Society for Oral Medicine and American Biographical Institute UK Man of the Year.