Our staff

Zoe is a Clinical Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Birmingham Dental School.

Zoe is the Head of Admissions for Dentistry, Head of Firm and is also the lead for several modules on the BDS course. She is a personal tutor to a group of BDS undergraduates and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Zoe is currently undertaking her PhD (PT) alongside her other roles.

Olaitan obtained her MSc in Drug Delivery and her PhD in Pharmaceutics, investigating novel dry particle layering for drug delivery to the lungs, both from Aston University.

During her PhD, she worked as a laboratory demonstrator on the MPharm programme at Aston University. She also worked as an associate scientist in formulation development at Aston Particle Technologies, gaining experience in ...

Dr Rasha Abu-Eid qualified as a dentist and completed a PhD in Oral Pathology focused on oral cancer.

Her cancer research portfolio is focused on using different technologies for identifying markers of disease progression and targets for immunotherapy.

Nick Adams is a part-time Clinical Dental Tutor at the School of Dentistry in Institute of Clinical Sciences, responsible for one-to-one teaching of dental students during patient treatment sessions. Outside of the School he is a specialist endodontist in referral practice in Madeley, Telford, Shropshire.

Nick is a regular presenter of postgraduate endodontic courses run by the West Midlands ...

Thomas Addison is an Associate Professor responsible for clinical teaching of dental students during patient treatment sessions in Clinical Practice, Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics. 

Alia is Assistant professor in primary care pharmacy teaching primarily within applied pharmacy practice. She is lead for GP practice placements throughout the 4 years of the MPharm programme understanding the importance of experiential learning.

Hanene is a lecturer in pharmaceutical nanoscience and part of the team developing the new Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) undergraduate degree programme within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.

Hanene teaches and researches in pharmaceutics, drug delivery and nanomedicine. Her primary research interests are in the development and engineering of drug delivery systems to efficaciously ...

Salma teaches at the Birmingham Dental Hospital once a week where she supervises third and fourth year students on Clinical Practice.

Yazdana Arrain has been a part-time Clinical Dental Tutor at the school of Dentistry in the Institute of Clinical Sciences since 2007. She is responsible for clinical supervision and teaching  on a one to one basis, of dental students during patient treatment sessions. Outside of the dental school she is an associate  general dental practitioner previously in Tutbury ...

Jean Assender is a Lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Sciences with an interest in breast cancer.

As Programme Lead for the MSc in Clinical Oncology she has increased the scope of the programme introducing new modules, an FRCR route and now a full time programme with clinical observership. The programme offers students from a variety of oncology related disciplines a high quality ...