Rakhee Patel

Rakhee is Deputy Chief Dental Officer England, and is also a clinical academic working as a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at Kings College London. Rakhee qualified from Cardiff University in 2006, and has since worked across general dental services, community, hospital and academia, with a clinical focus on gerodontology and domiciliary care. To pursue a career in Dental Public Health she completed a master’s in dental public health in 2010 and commenced an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship and Specialist Training post training in Bristol and London. From 2016- 2024, Rakhee worked as a Consultant in Dental Public Health at Public Health England / NHSE England alongside her role at King’s College London. In 2023, Rakhee was awarded a PhD in Health Services Research, having secured an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship Grant to undertake one of the first dental clinical trials in care homes. Rakhee has a strong focus on education and has held undergraduate and postgradu