Mr Grant Creaney

  • Clinical Lecturer in Dental Public Health (Dental School)

email: Grant.Creaney@glasgow.ac.uk

Room L7 Glasgow Dental School & Hospital, 378 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JZ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9972-7629

Biography

Having graduated from the University of Glasgow with BDS(Hons) in July 2015 and completing his MFDS with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow in 2016, Grant worked across various fields in Dentistry both in Scotland and abroad before joining the University of Glasgow as Clinical Lecturer in Dental Public Health in November 2020. He is also undertaking his Dental Public Health Specialty Training as an Honorary Specialty Registrar with NHS Geater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Forth Valley Health Boards in Scotland.

Grant completed his PhD research in Health Systems Factors in Advanced Stage Diagnosis of Head and Neck Cancers in South America and Europe as part of the EU Horizon 2020-funded HEADSpAcE project (Grant No: 825771) in early 2025.

Grant has wide ranging teaching interests that include public health, oral health inequalities, health systems, head and neck cancer, and sustainability in dentistry and healthcare.

Research interests

Head and Neck Cancer; Oral Cancer; Dentistry; Dental Public Health; Planetary Health; Health inequalities; Qualitative Research; Health Systems

Research groups

  • Head/Neck/Thyroid

Publications

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2025

Creaney, G. et al. (2025) Advanced stage head and neck cancer diagnosis: HEADSpAcE consortium health systems benchmarking survey. Head and Neck, (doi: 10.1002/hed.28094) (PMID:39994901) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Smith, C. D.L., McMahon, A. D. , Purkayastha, M., Creaney, G. , Clements, K., Inman, G. J. , Bhatti, L. A., Douglas, C. M., Paterson, C. and Conway, D. I. (2024) Head and neck cancer incidence is rising but the sociodemographic profile is unchanging: a population epidemiological study (2001-2020). BJC Reports, 2, 71. (doi: 10.1038/s44276-024-00089-z) (PMID:39301277) (PMCID:PMC11408244)

Homer, J. J. et al. (2024) Head and Neck Cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines, Sixth Edition. Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 138(S1), S1-S224. (doi: 10.1017/S0022215123001615) (PMID:38482835)

2022

Creaney, G. , McMahon, A. D. , Ross, A. J. , Bhatti, L. A., Paterson, C. and Conway, D. I. (2022) Head and neck cancer in the UK: what was the stage before COVID-19? UK cancer registries analysis (2011-2018). British Dental Journal, 233(9), pp. 787-793. (doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5151-4) (PMID:36369569) (PMCID:PMC9650177)

Gormley, M., Creaney, G. , Schache, A., Ingarfield, K. and Conway, D. I. (2022) Reviewing the epidemiology of head and neck cancer: definitions, trends and risk factors. British Dental Journal, 233(9), pp. 780-786. (doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5166-x) (PMID:36369568) (PMCID:PMC9652141)

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Articles

Creaney, G. et al. (2025) Advanced stage head and neck cancer diagnosis: HEADSpAcE consortium health systems benchmarking survey. Head and Neck, (doi: 10.1002/hed.28094) (PMID:39994901) (Early Online Publication)

Smith, C. D.L., McMahon, A. D. , Purkayastha, M., Creaney, G. , Clements, K., Inman, G. J. , Bhatti, L. A., Douglas, C. M., Paterson, C. and Conway, D. I. (2024) Head and neck cancer incidence is rising but the sociodemographic profile is unchanging: a population epidemiological study (2001-2020). BJC Reports, 2, 71. (doi: 10.1038/s44276-024-00089-z) (PMID:39301277) (PMCID:PMC11408244)

Homer, J. J. et al. (2024) Head and Neck Cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines, Sixth Edition. Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 138(S1), S1-S224. (doi: 10.1017/S0022215123001615) (PMID:38482835)

Creaney, G. , McMahon, A. D. , Ross, A. J. , Bhatti, L. A., Paterson, C. and Conway, D. I. (2022) Head and neck cancer in the UK: what was the stage before COVID-19? UK cancer registries analysis (2011-2018). British Dental Journal, 233(9), pp. 787-793. (doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5151-4) (PMID:36369569) (PMCID:PMC9650177)

Gormley, M., Creaney, G. , Schache, A., Ingarfield, K. and Conway, D. I. (2022) Reviewing the epidemiology of head and neck cancer: definitions, trends and risk factors. British Dental Journal, 233(9), pp. 780-786. (doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5166-x) (PMID:36369568) (PMCID:PMC9652141)

This list was generated on Sat May 17 02:59:59 2025 BST.

Professional activities & recognition

Selected international presentations

  • 2023: IADR: BEHSR Satellite Event (Bogota, Colombia)
  • 2023: IADR: HEADSpAcE Workshop (Bogota, Colombia)
  • 2023: ICOHIRP: Health Systems Factors in Advanced Stage Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis (Online)