Professor Farida Fortune

Name: Farida Fortune CBE

Qualifications/Post Nominals: BDS, MBBS, FRCS, FRCP, FDSRCS, FGDP, DipEdTMD, PhD

Job title: Dean for Dentistry; Director, Clinical Academic Unit

Where qualified: UniversityCollegeLondon

Year of initial qualification: Dentistry 1975; Medicine 1980

Currently practicing at: Dental Institute, Barts and The London NHS Trust

Member of: British Society of Oral Medicine, British Society of Immunology, British Society of Dental Research, Royal Society of Medicine

Special interests: Oral manifestations of systemic disease including immune related/autoinflammatory conditions such as Behçet’s disease, Sjogren’s syndrome, orofacial granulomatous and oral Crohn’s disease, pemphigus and pemphigoid. Oral mucosal effects generally in relation to diagnosis and monitoring of disease. Clinical research in inflammatory mucosal disease, especially Behçet’s disease. Undergraduate and postgraduate dental and medical education, specialising in teaching the medical support subjects for dentistry.