2016, issue 4

Why I decided to become...an academic and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon

ByDr Keith Smith

Published23 May 2016

DDU council member Dr Keith Smith describes his career path and offers some timely words of advice.

For anyone contemplating a career in clinical academia I cannot emphasise more the need to obtain both a good clinical training and a good research training.

Dr Keith Smith

Keith qualified from Newcastle in 1981. He completed his oral and maxillofacial surgery training in Sheffield and was awarded his PhD 1994. Keith was appointed Senior Lecturer and Hon. Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Sheffield in 1995. He lives in Bakewell in the Peak District with his wife Joy, and has three stepdaughters.