Biography

Christine Goodall graduated from the University of Stirling with a BSc (Hons) First Class in Biology in July 1985. After a summer working on acoustic seal scarers for the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, she started her PhD in the Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow in October 1985. Her studentship was funded by the SERC and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland and looked at the neurophysiological and behavioural response of the Norway lobster to acoustic stumuli. She obtained her PhD in 1988.

She was then awarded a competitive postdoctoral research fellowship by the Multiple Sclerosis Society for Scotland to work on the role of MHC molecules in multiple sclerosis for three years.

She entered the undergraduate dental course in Glasgow University as a mature student in 1991 and graduated with BDS Honours as the most distinguished graduate in of 1996 with the Dean Webster medal and several other awards. She then worked for two years in Glasgow Dental Hospital as a junior and then senior house officer, before spending a further 3 years as an SHO in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Lanarkshire. During this period she obtained her FDS from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

From 2002-2004 she worked as a Staff Grade in the Department of Oral Surgery at Glasgow Dental Hospital and School. In 2004 she was appointed as Clinical Lecturer in Oral Surgery/ Honorary Specialist Registrar in Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery based in Glasgow Dental School and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

She was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice by Glasgow University in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She passed her Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow in November 2007.

Dr Goodall was Deputy Registrar for the Part C MFDS from 2002-2007 and is currently deputy convenor for the Part 2 MFDS at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.  She is the trainee representative on the Specialist Advisory Committee in Oral Surgery and as such has played a role in helping to design the new Oral Surgery Higher Specialist training programme.

Research interests

Dr Goodall's main research interest is in alcohol-related facial injury with a subsidiary interest in the role of the dental team in screening for alcohol misuse. This is one of the key research themes in the Craniofacial and Biotechnology Sciences Section.

She works as part of the Alcohol Research Consortium, a large multidisciplinary team along with fellow surgeons, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, statisticians and the police. She is a grant holder on a multi-centre randomised controlled trial of brief interventions for alcohol and violence in facial trauma patients which is currently underway in the West of Scotland, funded by the Violence Reduction Unit.

She was invited to speak about this work at a recent WHO conference in Scotland. She played a major role in the group's previous randomised controlled trial on brief interventions for alcohol misuse in facial trauma patients which is about to be published.

In addition, she has small grants for work on the role of dentists in alcohol screening. Her work on alcohol and facial injury has attracted considerable media interest. She is an invited member of the Scottish Alcohol Alliance, a multi-professional organisation which aims to find new ways of tackling the alcohol problem in Scotland.