Principal Officers 2022 – 2024
President
Mrs Fakhteh Ayatollahy
Secretary
Dr Kathleen Long
Medical Doctor
MBcHB MPH DRCOG MFHom NLP Master Practitioner
Accreditation of British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis (Scotland)
European Certificate of Hypnosis
Suite2, Waterloo Chambers Glasgow G2 6AY
07753 744028
kathleen@maxamind.co.uk
www.maxamind.co.uk
Treasurer
Michael Alan Gow MFDS RCPS (Gla) BDS (Gla) MSc Hyp (Lon) PGCert (Edin)
Mike is a general dental practitioner working in private practice at ‘The Berkeley Clinic’ in Glasgow. He graduated from the University of Glasgow dental school in 1999 and undertook formal hypnosis training with the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis (BSMDH) soon after. By 2005, he had a Masters in Hypnosis Applied to Dentistry (Lon) having achieved a ‘distinction’ in his Diploma year. Mike has a Postgraduate Certificate in ‘The Management of Anxious Patients’ from the University of Edinburgh and is a Member of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow). Mike holds the European Society of Hypnosis Certificate. He is currently the Treasurer (2022-) and is also a Past President (2008-10, 2014-16) of “The BSMDH (Scotland)”.
Mike lectures nationally and internationally on dental hypnosis. He has published many articles, case studies and book chapters on hypnosis and dental anxiety management and has appeared on TV several times (including BBC’s Horizon) demonstrating the use of hypnosis in dental pain control. He has also appeared on ‘Tony Robinson’s History of Britain’ to talk about the history of dentistry. He is Chairman of ‘The Henry Noble History of Dentistry Research Group’. Mike also has an interest in the history of hypnosis and is filming a documentary about the life of Dr James Braid who is credited with the ‘discovery’ of hypnosis.
Mike has four children who all keep him very busy. He enjoys travelling overseas with his wife and family, going to the football, family tree research, fly-fishing and Scotch whisky (he also has an SVQ Diploma in Single Malt Whisky!)
Office Administrator / Course Organiser
Angela Samson
Council Members
Dr. Alan Dewar – alandewar@hotmail.com
Mrs Mary Downie – marydownie1@gmail.com
Anne McGovern – annehardie21@hotmail.com
Desislava Toncheva – desislava24@yahoo.com
Jodie Nelson – jodie.nelson@live.co.uk (Co-opted August 2023)
List of Past Presidents
Alan Dewar – 2020
Kathleen Long – 2018 – 2020
Alan Dewar – 2016 – 2018
Michael A. Gow – 2014 – 2016
Ros Carmichael – 2012 – 2014
Kathleen Long – 2010 – 2012
Michael A. Gow – 2008 – 2010
Lesley M. H. Barbenel – 2006 – 2008
Alasdair Dobbin – 2004 – 2006
Emanuel Kyermateng – 2002 – 2004
Andrew D. Davies – 2000 – 2002
G. C. McGlone – 1998 – 2000
C. A. M. Roan – 1996 – 1998
Iain McIntosh – 1994 – 1996
James Gall – 1993 – 1994
Norton Grossman – 1991 – 1993
Nicol Gray – 1989 – 1991
Prem. C. Misra – 1987 – 1989
M. S. Seltzer – 1985 – 1987
Peter Weston – 1983 – 1985
Gordon J. Ker – 1981 – 1983
George Reid – 1979 – 1981
S. Jno.T. Robertson – 1977
G. W. Fairfull Smith – 1975 – 1977
D. C. Cameron – 1973 – 1975
J. A. Crocket – 1971 – 1973
J. Gail – 1968 – 1971
J. Gilmour – 1965 – 1968
F. Hamilton Leckie – 1962 – 1965
David K. Fisher – 1959 – 1962