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Meet the SAAD Trustees

 
 

Yi Loo
President
Yi is a Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at King's College Hospital, London providing specialist care under sedation for children and young people with dental anomalies, dental trauma and medical complexity. She completed the Diploma in Conscious Sedation at Newcastle University and has a background as a GDP providing advanced adult and paediatric sedation, as part of an experienced multidisciplinary team.
 
 
Manni Deol
Hon. Secretary

Manni has been a general dental practitioner for 25 years working in NHS and private practice, based in the West Midlands. Her special interests include Sedation and Teaching. She provides intravenous sedation at her practice and has worked in the Department of Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Guys Hospital in the past. Manni's other roles include Foundation training (17 years experience) and being an elected member of the LDC Coventry.

 
Paul Howlett
Treasurer
Paul works as a GDP in a private multi-disciplinary dental practice in Teesside. His specific areas of interest are managing anxious patients and more complex restorative care including dental implants. Previously, Paul spent 5 years working as part of a dedicated team providing advanced conscious sedation techniques for paediatric patients and continues to use single drug intravenous and inhalation sedation as part of his daily clinical practice. Paul has been a SAAD trustee since 2012.
Carole Boyle
Course Director

Carole is a Consultant and Clinical Lead for Special Care Dentistry at Guy’s, and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London. Her particular interests are using sedation for people who require special care, teaching sedation both to undergraduates and postgraduates and providing dental care under general anaesthesia. She is a member of Dental Council at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

 
Simon Chaplin-Rogers

Simon qualified in December 1979 at University College Hospital Medical & Dental School [UCHMS]. Post qualification followed six months as a Dental House Surgeon at UCH, before being awarded the medical place qualifying in Medicine in 1984. Then followed a medical rotation training for the next 5 years – his last year being as an SHO/registrar in Anaesthetics / Intensive care based on the Middlesex Hospital rotation.
He would describe himself as a traditional family dentist with a wide range of skills to support this role. His special interest both as a tutor and in practice is sedation dentistry and taking care of the very nervous patients.
Simon is currently the clinical lead for a 12-surgery dental partnership led group and has played an active role in the executive of the LDC Hampshire, with a period as Chairman – mentoring colleagues and practices in need of support.


Stephanie Fenesan

Stephanie is a specialist in Special Care Dentistry working across Hertfordshire and London. She completed her speciality training in the Department of Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London and completed her Masters in Special Care Dentistry at King’s College London Dental Institute in 2021. Her clinical interests include providing dental care and conscious sedation for patients with learning disabilities and additional needs.


Rick Kerr
Rick is an oral surgeon (OS) working in both secondary care as an Associate Specialist within a maxillofacial unit and in primary care with an OS specialist contract and a specialist dental practice.
He obtained a diploma in conscious sedation from Newcastle Dental Hospital and provides IV sedation in both primary and secondary care and IHS in hospital. We also trains both DCTs and STRs in sedation.

Ronan Lee

Ronan is a private dentist practicing in Leicester Square and Stanmore, and is currently undertaking a part-time postgraduate MSc in Implant Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Hospital. He has an interest in working with dentally anxious patients while integrating sustainable practices into sedation, by utilising a combination of traditional pharmacological with non-pharmacological methods.

 
Thomas Lees
Thomas is a Specialist in Oral Surgery and departmental clinical lead for sedation at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust. He completed a Post-graduate diploma in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry at Cardiff University and provides clinical sedation teaching / mentoring to Dental Core Trainees, Oral Surgery Specialty Trainees and Specialty Dentists. He also runs sedation study days for NHS England and local / regional dental teams.
Thomas also undertakes IV sedation in a local specialist dental practice.

Nigel Robb
Editor of the SAAD Digest
Nigel is a Reader/Hon. Professor Restorative Dentistry and Educational Lead for Sedation and Special Care Dentistry at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. He has a vast experience in the subject of Conscious Sedation having co-authored one of the standard text books on the subject. He is an authority and renowned international speaker on the subject of Conscious Sedation.
Laleh Sharifian

Laleh has been a GDP in a private practice in London for over 20 years, providing IV Sedation in primary care and started a peripatetic IV sedation service 6 years ago following a demand in this niche. She now limits her service to this field and sedates in over 30 practices in the South East of England. Laleh is part of the faculty at SAAD; teaches and runs life support training courses, (D)ILS, for sedation practices and also undertakes expert witness work in relation to sedation. Laleh is an examiner for the royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh and a sedation mentor for dentists.


Zahra Shehabi
Zahra is a Consultant in Special Care Dentistry at the Royal London Dental Hospital. She completed MSc's in Sedation and Special Care Dentistry in 2011 (Kings College, London) and Healthcare Management in 2016 (City University, London). Zahra is heavily involved in undergraduate and postgraduate sedation teaching and is a member of the SAAD Teaching Faculty. Her clinical interests include intravenous sedation (basic and advanced techniques) for patients with challenging behaviour and those undergoing implant surgery.

Ashleigh Stamp

Ashleigh is a Clinical Fellow at Newcastle University School of Dental Sciences. She works within paediatric dentistry providing patient care and clinical teaching to dental and dental therapy undergraduates as well as supporting postgraduate education within the region. Ashleigh completed the Diploma in Conscious Sedation at Newcastle University and has a background working as a GDP providing conscious sedation to adults and children in primary care. Ashleigh is currently undertaking a PhD relating to behavioural support for young people receiving surgical dental care.

 
Imran Suida

 

Advisor to the Board

Christopher Holden
SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Committee Lead

Chris led a practice devoted to pain and anxiety control for over 40 years. He has been an author of many national guidance documents on dental sedation since chairing the first dental sedation standards document in 2000. His awareness and interest in quality assurance risk management is underpinned by having a variety of aircraft licences. Chris provides expert evidence in the UK, Europe and worldwide and is a past president of SAAD and of The International Federation of Dental Anaesthesiology Societies. He leads the SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Committee.

 

Updated 05.10.2025

Member Documents

These downloads are available only for logged in SAAD members.

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The current issue of the SAAD Digest

 

Sedation Policy and Standard Operating Procedure Template

Please download the template and adapt it to the needs of your Practice.

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SAAD National Course in Conscious Sedation

SAAD Course Handbook

 

Use of the SAAD Logo

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SAAD / DSTG List of Mentors

The IACSD ‘Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care’ (2015, 2020) state that practitioners offering supervised clinical experience in conscious sedation must now be accredited by a university, deanery or IACSD (p34, 86).

 

IACSD, SAAD and DSTG recognise the contribution ‘Mentors’ have made to training for inexperienced sedationists and are working together to devise a system which will retain this valuable resource. It is likely that ‘Mentors’ will henceforth be known as ‘Accredited Sedation Supervisors’. More information will be available shortly.

 

 

The SAAD Symposia

2024 - Who does what to whom, where and when?
SAAD Symposium 2024 - programme

2023 - Caring for an increasingly complex population
SAAD Symposium 2023 - programme

2022 - The best way to predict your future is to create it
SAAD Symposium 2022 - programme

2021 - Thinking outside the box
SAAD Symposium 2021 - programme

2020 - COVID no symposium

2019 - SAAD Symposium
SAAD Symposium 2019 - programme

2018 - Challenges for the future
SAAD Symposium 2018 - programme

2017 - SAAD Diamond Jubilee: a Strong Foundation for a Bright Future
SAAD Symposium 2017 - programme

2016 - Sedation is Alive and Well in General Dental Practice
SAAD Symposium 2016 - programme

2015 - Dental Sedation: Staying Ahead of the Curve
SAAD Symposium 2015 - programme

2014 - Drugs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
SAAD Symposium 2014 - programme

2013 - Commissioning Sedation: Delivering for Patients
Commissioning Sedation: Delivering for Patients

2012 - Who Needs Sedation?
SAAD Symposium 2012 - programme

2011 - Conscious Sedation Beyond the Basics
SAAD Symposium 2011 - programme

2010 - Dental Sedation 2010: New Guidance and Best Practice
SAAD Symposium 2010 - programme

2009 - Practical Sedation: Trances, Needles and Consent
SAAD Symposium 2009 - programme

2008 - Fundamentals of Safety Culture in Sedation Practice
SAAD Symposium 2008 - programme

2007 - Sedation in Primary Care: Progress and Politics
SAAD Symposium 2007 - programme

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