The editorial board of Dental Update welcomes professor Mike Lewis PhD, FDS RCPS, FDS RCS(Eng), FRCPath, FFGDP(UK), FHEA

I am delighted to advise readers that Professor Mike Lewis has indicated that he is happy to join the Editorial Board of Dental Update. Professor Lewis is Professor of Oral Medicine at Cardiff University. He served as Dean of the School of Dentistry at Cardiff University from 2010–2017. He is also past Dean of the Dental Faculty of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (when the idea of their Fellows and Members receiving a copy of the journal was hatched) and Director of the Clinical Board for Dentistry, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

Professor Lewis has published over 200 scientific articles and co-authored six medical textbooks. He has delivered more than 600 postgraduate lectures worldwide. In addition, he has been President of the British Society for Oral Medicine, President of the British Society for Oral and Dental Research, Dental Representative on the Advisory Council for Misuse of Drugs (Home Office) and Dental Representative on the Scientific Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (Department of Health). From all of these attributes, readers will realize that Prof Mike Lewis is an outstanding addition to our Editorial Board. He has long been a supporter of Dental Update and I am advised that it is just over 33 years since his first paper in the journal was published, in May 1985!