Ana Poveda BDS, MSc, FDS(OM) RCS, FHEA

Ana Poveda

School of Dentistry
Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 466 5570
Email
p.g.ana@bham.ac.uk

After having successfully completed her Specialty Training Ana Poveda was appointed as Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant. She is the Academic Lead in Oral Medicine in the School of Dentistry.

Qualifications

  • FDS (OM) RCS (Eng) 2016
  • MSc in Oral Medicine. Eastman Dental Institute. UCL (UK) 2007
  • Postgraduate in Adult Dentistry. 2003. Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain
  • BDS- Lic Odon 2002. Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain 
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Fellow in Higher Education) University of Birmingham, 2018

Biography

Ana Poveda qualified in Dentistry by the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain in 2002. Following completion of the postgraduate course in Adult Dentistry by the same school, She moved to Aberdeen (Scotland) to work as an Associate in General Dental Practice until 2006.

She spent some time in Guatemala working as a volunteer before starting her Master Degree in Oral Medicine at the Eastman Dental Institute- University College London in 2007.

She then moved to Barcelona to work as an Associate Dentist with interest in Oral Medicine as well as a Lecturer in the Maxillofacial Unit at the Universitat International de Catalunya until 2009. Following year she moved to Birmingham to work as a Specialist Dentist before starting her formal specialty training in Oral Medicine in Birmingham Dental Hospital in 2011. She continues to collaborate with her University as a visiting Lecturer.

Having been successful in the Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination (ISFE) in Oral Medicine in 2016, she has been elected FDS (OM) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and appointed as Lecturer and Honorary Consultant and Academic Lead in Oral Medicine in the School of Dentistry. 

Teaching

Dr Poveda has a broad experience in under and postgraduate teaching in oral medicine at a national and international level, delivering regular lectures in the U.K and Spain, and being a tutor for undergraduate students in the school. She is a regular speaker in conferences and congresses on the specialty field.  

  • Head of the Bachelor of Dental Sciences (BDS) Oral Medicine teaching speciality
  •  Teaching and assessment for BDS and Dental Therapy courses
  •  Tutor for BDS students
  •  Postgraduate lectures in Oral Medicine

Research

During her career, Dr Poveda has been actively involved in research projects including the NIHR portfolio TRACTISS study, a Randomized Control trial that studied the effects of anti-B cell therapy for primary Sjögren’s syndrome.

She also collaborated with the LEONIDAS study: the aim of this pilot study was to study the effects of the use of electro-stimulator device to treat dry mouth in patients with Sjogren’s syndrome. This feed into the multi-center study SALRISE with the results due to be published.

She is involved in OASIS study: This study aims to enrol patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome attending the multidisciplinary Sjogren’s clinic at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, (U.K) into a large, long-term observational study.

She is currently undertaking her Doctorate studies in autoimmune/autoinflammatory diseases studying the phenotype of Behcet’s ulcers as well as the salivary proteomics and the senescent cells on Behcet’s disease patients.

Dr Poveda is a well published author, collaborating in numerous papers related to the oral medicine specialty field and is a peer reviewer in different journals and editorials.

Other activities

  • MChD/BChD Dental Surgery Leeds: External examiner (2016-2019)
  • Universitat Internacional Catalunya- Visiting Lecturer (2010-)
  • Universitat de Barcelona- Visiting Lecturer (2016-)
  • Peer reviewer in following journals:
  • 2014- Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology
  • 2016- Oral Surgery
  • BSOM Junior in Training Representative (2014)

Publications

  • BAD-BSR Living guidelines for patients living with Behcets disease: June 2024
  • Poveda-Gallego A, Chapple I, Iacucci M, Hamburger J, Murray PI, Rauz S, Wallace GR; Behçet's Disease Expert Panel. How to recognise a Behçet's ulcer from other types of oral ulceration? Defining Behçet's ulceration by an International Delphi Consultation. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2023 Oct;41(10):2048-2055. doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/joeacu. Epub 2023 Oct 30. PMID: 37902271.
  • Fedele, S, Al-Hamad, A, Mercadante, V, et al. Long-term effectiveness of a novel intra-oral electro-stimulator for the treatment of dry mouth in patients with Sjogren's syndrome: A randomised sham-controlled feasibility study (LEONIDAS-1). J Oral Pathol Med. 2023; 1- 9. doi:10.1111/jop.13452
  • Blake T, Pickup L, Carruthers D, Damato EM, Denniston A, Hamburger J, Maxton C, Mitton D, Murray PI, Nightingale P, Poveda-Gallego A, Richards A, Whallett A, Situnayake D. Birmingham Behçet's service: classification of disease and application of the 2014 International Criteria for Behçet's Disease (ICBD) to a UK cohort. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2017 Mar 11;18(1):101
  • Lugonja B, Yeo L,Milward MR, Smith D, Dietrich T, Chapple IL, Rauz S, Williams GP,Barone F,de Pablo P  Buckley C, Hamburger J, Richards A, Poveda-Gallego A, Scheel-Toellner D, Bowman SJ. Periodontitis prevalence and serum antibody reactivity to periodontal bacteria in primary Sjögren’s syndrome. J Clin Periodontol. 2016 Jan;43(1):26
  • Shelat D,Albuquerque R, Khan Z, Poveda Gallego,A, Higham J, Zafar K,  Monteiro L, Richards A. Successful management of oral plasmacytosis mucosae with fluticasone proprionate mouthwash. Oral Diseases. 2016
  • Albuquerque,R, Khan, Z, Poveda Gallego,A, Higham,J, Richards,A, Monteiro,L Jané-Salas, E, Lopez-Lopez, J, Warnakulasuriya,S Management of oral Graft versus Host Disease with topical agents. A systematic review. Medicina Oral, Patologia Oral y Cirugia Bucal. 2015
  • Poveda Gallego A, Mylonas P, Albuquerque R, Higham J, Richards A. Autoimmune neutropenia: case report and review of the literature. Oral diseases. 2014
  • Brown S1, Navarro Coy N, Pitzalis C, Emery P, Pavitt S, Gray J, Hulme C, Hall F, Busch R, Smith P, Dawson L, Bombardieri M, Wan-Fai N, Pease C, Price E, Sutcliffe N, Woods C, Ruddock S, Everett C, Reynolds C, Skinner E, Poveda-Gallego A, Rout J, Macleod I, Rauz S, Bowman S; TRACTISS trial team. The TRACTISS protocol: a randomised double blind placebo controlled clinical trial of anti-B-cell therapy in patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2014
  • Raja S, Richards A, Albuquerque R, Poveda-Gallego A, Hamburger J. Neoplasia or inflammation?a diagnostic dilemma. Oral Diseases. 2014
  • Albuquerque R, Higham J, Poveda-Gallego A, Lopez-Lopez J, Monteiro L, Mylonas P. Treatment of erosive lichen planus with topical tacrolimus. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 2014