Dr Ian James
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Principal Dentist Biography:
(University of Leeds, UK, 1993) MFGDP(UK) (Royal College of Surgeons
of England). GDC Registration Number 69610.
He qualified from the University of Leeds in 1993 and immediately joined the Royal Navy as a Dental Officer. He ‘retired’ from the Royal Navy in 2012 as a Surgeon Commander.
He has had an extremely varied career which included deployments to the Persian Gulf in HM Ships Manchester and Gloucester, 3 years at Taunton’s 40 Commando Royal Marines and the Senior Dental Surgeon at both the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines and most recently the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton.
He has also deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, the later of which was in 2010-11, where he was the Deputy Medical Advisor for all Coalition Forces at the NATO Headquarters in Kabul.