Shaam Shamsi

Shaam Shamsi qualified from the Royal London in 1994 and is the Principal / Clinical
Director of Horizons Dental Centre. As a former lecturer in the restorative
department at Manchester Dental School teaching final year students, he continues
to instil this ethos of learning in his current practices. Shaam has also been involved
with Vocational Training since 2001, teaching and mentoring new graduates in
practice.

In 2008, he was appointed to the post of Training Programme Director in Health
Education England running one of the training schemes at Stafford & Stoke Hospitals.
Shaam sits on the Local Dental Committee panel in North Staffordshire and is also
involved in examining. He is a former examiner for the Faculty’s MJDF examination
and currently examines for Overseas Registration examination in London, the Royal
College of Surgeon’s LDS examination and the MFDS for overseas.
He clinically mentors GDPs who have FTP allegations brought against them. In 2006,
he acquired a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law and has worked as a
Clinical panellist for the GDC’s Dental Complaints Service. He enjoys General
Dentistry in particular the field of Implant Dentistry. He enjoys lecturing nationally
and internationally.

His affiliation with the GDC involved sitting as a panellist for the Fitness to Practice
procedures adjudicating matters on clinical and professional misconduct. His other
roles include Specialist Advisor to the CQC, Risk Management workshop presenter
for Dental Protection Society and was appointed on the Advisory Board for Medical
Protection in 2020.

He has a passion for teaching and delivering education at Postgraduate Level and
lectures for many authoritative bodies such as HEE, BAIRD (British Academy of
Implant and Restorative Dentistry), ADI (Association of Dental Implantology), Smile
Academy, Practical Implantology and Dentinal Tubules.
Shaam was awarded a double Fellowship by the College of General Dentistry and the
Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2022.