Stephen J Challacombe Author & Editor

Stephen J. Challacombe, Professor Oral Medicine at King's College London, is a consultant in diagnostic microbiology and immunology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and Dean for External Affairs at King's College London Health Schools. He is a fellow of King's College London, the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Professor Challacombe has made significant contributions to the clinical speciality of oral medicine and to his research specialty of mucosal immunology. He is widely recognised as a translational scientist in oral medicine and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, 160 other publications and seven books. Professor Challacombe has established multiple interdisciplinary clinics that changed the management of oral disease and that have become nationally recognised centres of excellence. In many years at Guy's and King's College London, he has taught oral medicine to more than 5,000 dental students - a significant proportion of practicing dentists in the United Kingdom. He has been President of the International Association for Dental Research, British Society for Oral and Dental Research, European Association of Oral Medicine, British Society for Oral and Dental Research, European Association of Oral Medicine, British Society for Oral Medicine, Hunterian Society, and Odonatological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has been Chair of the Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Consultants Committee, International Steering Committee on Oral Manifestations of HIV Infection, and World Workshops on Oral Health & Disease in HIV/AIDS. Dr Jane Setterfield qualified in Dentistry from The Royal London Hospital and in Medicine from University College Hospitals, London. She has specialist training in Dermatology from St John's Institute of Dermatology and is a specialist in Oral Medicine. She has undertaken clinical research at the University of Connecticut, USA and at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. Her current posts are as a Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in Dermatology in relation to Oral Disease, Departments of Oral Medicine & Pathology, Guy's Hospital Dental School & St John's Institute of Dermatology, London and Consultant Dermatologist at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare Trust. Dr Setterfield's clinical and research interests are in the area of mucocutaneous diseases with a particular emphasis on the immunobullous disorders and lichen planus.