Dr Laura Gartshore BDS (Hons), MFDS RCS(Ed), MPaed Dent RCS(Eng), FDS RCS(Eng), MFDT RCS(Ed), FHEA, PhD

Dr Laura Gartshore is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Liverpool School of Dentistry, where she became Undergraduate Programme Director in 2019. Laura completed the RCS England Lady Estelle Wolfson Emerging Leaders Fellowship in 2018-2019. Following this, Laura has taken up opportunities to work with RCS England and WinS as a speaker, mentor and educator.

Laura has published her experiences of the Emerging Leaders Programme with advice on how to make the most of it in the RCS England Bulletin, 'From Fellowship to Leadership' and for the RCS England 'Choose to Challenge' initiative earlier this year. Laura has presented widely as an invited speaker about the challenges faced in leadership and about how we can all choose to challenge these. She has an active interest in gender bias in our professions and in our supporting each other to access leadership opportunities.