Brian F Conroy MBE
M.Univ.FIMFT. LCGI.
Cranio Maxillofacial Prosthetist and Technologist

Currently Held Positions

Senior Research Fellow: Eastman Dental Institute. UCL. University of London.

Research Fellow. Biomedical Engineering Centre University of Surrey Guilford Surrey.

Honorary Secretary of the Norman Rowe Educational Trust (humanitarian aid foundation that provides medical and educational support in compromised and under developed parts of the world)

Previously Held Positions

1950-57 Senior Dental Technologist. Edinburgh Hospital and School. University of Edinburgh.

1957-59 Maxillofacial Technologist. Maxillofacial, Burns and Plastic Surgery Centre. Rooksdown House, Basingstoke, Hants.

1959-99 Chief Maxillofacial Technologist and Clinical Scientist. The Norman Rowe Maxillofacial Unit, Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton, London. SW15.

Associated Professional Appointments

1961-70 Honorary Secretary and Honorary Chairman. The Maxillofacial Technicians Association (the founder member).

1961-87 Honorary Chairman; Honorary Editor and Honorary Education Offer of the Institute of Maxillofacial Technology (a founder member).

National and International Teaching Commitments

Presentation of over 350 major and key note lectures in 50 countries. Director and or Co organiser of 30 National and International Congresses, Conferences, Seminars and Workshops.

Special Clinical, Scientific and Technical Interests

The Management of the Cranio Maxillofacial Post Resection Patient.

Prosthetic Involvement in the early and late Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Cranio Maxillofacial Trauma Patient.

The planning of Surgical Correction of the Cranio Maxillofacial Deformity Patient.

Osseointergration procedures in the Cranio Maxillofacial Region.

Orthopaedic Osseointergration procedures.

Material’s Science.

Cranio Facial Human Engineering.

Bio-medical Engineering.

Teaching Commitments

Over 50 years involvement in education and training at Hospital, College and University Levels both in the UK and Overseas. Accredited lecturer in 4 Universities.

Special Appointments and Distinctions

Appointed to a World Health Organisation Fellowship in 1967.

Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire June 1976.

Awarded the Honorary Degree of Master of the University by the University of Surrey 1996.

Awarded the George Barnhart Memorial Fellowship by the University of Chicago 1980.

Appointed Visiting Professor by the University of Manitoba Canada 1981.

Appointed Visiting Professor by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 1991.

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine 1995.

Appointed Honorary Member of the City and Guilds of London Institute 1995.

Recipient of the Hellenic Medical Society Hippocratic Orator’s Award.

Awarded the JG Schuiringa Senior Prize by the Schuiringa Foundation in the Netherlands.

Publications

Main Author of Over 50 Major Contributions made to Clinical Journals and Medical Publications including the following

1. Maxillofacial Technology: Chapter in Fractures of the Facial Skeleton Authored by Rowe NR and Killey HC.

2. Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Technology: Chapter in Maxillo Injuries. Edited by Rowe NR.

3. Four Chapters in Operative Surgery, Head and Neck, Edited by Wilson JSP.

4. Prosthetic Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Oral Facial Cancer Patient, in Oral Cancer. Edited by Shah JP, Johnson NW and Batsakis JG.