Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

John Bulman was born in 1933 in Twickenham. After education as a scholarship pupil at Christ’s Hospital, from 1953 to 1955, he was a National Serviceman in the Fighter Control Branch of the RAF. John then studied dentistry at the London Hospital, graduating in 1959. After a house post and with the e

Victoria Harrison was a consultant in dental public health at King’s College, London. She was born on 28 June 1950. She gained her fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1983. She joined Northampton Dental Public Health and then King’s College.

Geoffrey Layton Slack – known as the ‘father of UK dental public health’ – played a leading role in establishing the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and the specialty of dental public health. He was born in Southport on 27 March 1912, the son of Charles Garrett Slack and Ger

Mario Chaves was chief dental officer at the World Health Organization and a distinguished specialist in dental public health. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 July 1920 and trained at the University of Brazil, qualifying in dentistry and medicine, gaining a doctorate in dentistry and pas