Impact of oral health on athletic performance and wellbeing: Part 1

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Warrington Wolves and Sale Sharks Team Doctor and England Rugby

Jonathan Collier is a consultant Oral and Craniomaxillofacial surgeon in the Craniofacial Department of the Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. He is the principal orthognathic surgeon in the department. Jonathan has a specific sub-specialty interest in skeletal facial surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea and started one of the first multidisciplinary clinics treating patients with these techniques. Jonathan is on the invited faculty of a number of specialist courses, has a number of research interests and is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons. He is a surgeon with the medical charity Facing The World and lives in central London with his wife and four children.

Bob qualified from University College Cork Dental School in 2003 and completed his endodontic training at the Eastman in London in 2009, before gaining his MRD from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd). He has worked as a specialist in endodontics in Ireland, England and Australia. He currently divides his time as a consultant in endodontics at the Edinburgh Dental Institute and in private practice at Edinburgh Dental Specialists. He is the Training Programme Director for the DClinDent in Endodontology at the University of Edinburgh. He also acts as an examiner for the specialty exit examinations at the RCSEd and is a key opinion leader for Dentsply. He has also lectured on multiple occasions in the past for DentalTraumaUK.