David Felix is the Postgraduate Dental Dean and Director of Dentistry for NHS Education for Scotland.  He graduated in dentistry in 1978 from the University of Glasgow and after completing a number of training grade posts within the Hospital Dental Service returned to study medicine, graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1988.  Following completion of higher specialist training in Oral Medicine he was appointed to the post of Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Dental Hospital and School in 1992.  

In 1995 he took on the role of Postgraduate Tutor for the West of Scotland. He was appointed to the post of Associate Dean for Postgraduate Dental Education NHS Education for Scotland in 2002 and subsequently Postgraduate Dental Dean in 2011. He has contributed to the peer reviewed literature in dentistry and education.  He is a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.  He was one of the first to be awarded Fellowship status in the Faculty of Dental Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.   

Over the years he has gained extensive experience of the structure of postgraduate education within the UK and overseas and has held a number of key strategic UK-wide roles – President, British Society for Oral Medicine (2003 – 2005), Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for the Additional Dental Specialties (2007–2010), Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery in The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2008–2011), Chair of the Joint Committee for Postgraduate Training in Dentistry (2013–2017) and Chair of the Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors (2019–2021).  He is an Honorary Professor in the University of Glasgow School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing and an adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at Jordan University of Science and Technology.