Rachel Evans

Blog Post

My Dad was the type of man whom held the attention of a room full of people with his charismatic chat and charm. He was significantly slowed by a massive stroke 20 years ago, but he was still a conversationalist and social individual. He was surrounded by family and friends celebrating his 80^th year, when not three months later he was poorly in hospital with very limited communication skills and suffering episodes of acute confusion and states of paranoid delusions.

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Tara Renton – Outgoing President

It has been an amazing privilege to represent BAOS and Council over the last two years. I cannot thank the Council members enough for their extra-ordinary commitment and energy – unfunded and on top of busy professional and personal lives. Our past lead Administrator Roger developed sound foundations in the infrastructure of the Association, further built on by our new admin team Sophie with Rita…my sincere thanks.

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Rhian Jones

BAOS Honorary Treasurer

Another annual conference is on the horizon as I write this and the AGM will be held as usual. It’s always heartening to see so many members of BAOS attend the AGM but I know it’s not possible for everyone. Therefore, I felt this article was a good opportunity to discuss the new annual membership fee structure that will be proposed for 2018 during the AGM. Also I’d like to remind the membership of all of the benefits of belonging to BAOS as well giving you an insight to the ‘behind the scenes’ work that Council members undertake on behalf of the Specialty.

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Pippa Blacklock

Past President

It was with some trepidation that I attended to the recent BAOS joint Council and Regional Representatives training day in London.

I was looking forward to meeting up with our fantastic BAOS reps who do such an amazing job organising Oral Surgery study days all across the British Isles, I was eager to catch up on OS news, national politics and training issues from my Council colleagues. So why the anxiety? As a digital immigrant my concern lay in my general ignorance and fearfulness about the training days subject matter ‘digital professionalism’.

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