Maxillofacial Surgeon awarded Honorary Clinical Associate Professorship at Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, University of Liverpool
25-07-2025
We are pleased to announced that Mr Patrick Magennis has recently been awarded the title of Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre.
Mr Magennis is a consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) in the regional OMFS unit at Aintree Hospital. His sub-specialty interests are facial trauma and complex oral surgery. He is President of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) from July 2025 - June 2026 and is currently the President of the OMFS Section1 of the Union Européenne Des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS) for which he is also the Chair of the Surgical Group (Grouping II).
Under his leadership, the OMFS Section of UEMS has published the OMFS European Training Requirement (ETR) 2 which Patrick co-authored.
In BAOMS, Patrick is unique in having been an elected member of BAOMS Council three times. He was Honorary Secretary of BAOMS 2013-2016 and then Chair of Council until December 2020. In December 2022 he was elected as the BAOMS President 2025-26.
In June 2025 Patrick was elected as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of England. He has just started his second term as an elected member of the FDS Board at the college. The FDS is an independent professional body committed to helping the entire dental team achieve and maintain excellence in practice and patient care https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/dental-faculties/fds/ .
Patrick’s research interest and focus has always been OMFS training in the UK and worldwide. He has published over 100 papers and supported trainees of all levels to present and publish. It is partly in recognition of this work that the University of Liverpool made him an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in June 2025.
During September of every year he runs a course for young doctors and dentists considering a career in OMFS who are aiming to apply for second degree studies. Notices are found on the BAOMS website www.baoms.org.uk
Patrick graduated in dentistry (1984) and medicine (1992) at The Queen’s University Belfast. He holds Fellowships in Dental Surgery (FDS) in all 4 Royal Colleges and was the first FRCSI (OMFS) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland where he passed is FRCSI (Clinical Surgery in General). His OMFS specialty training started in 1994 in London with Iain Hutchison and finished in Liverpool with David Vaughan, Olda Pospisil, David Richardson, James Brown, John Cooper and John Cawood.
Patrick has been elected three times to the national specialty training body, which is called the OMFS Specialty Advisory Committee (OMFS SAC) and served as its Vice-Chair 2015-17.
Innovations for which Patrick is responsible include creating the OMFS specialty eLogbook www.elogbook.org , 20 in-training formative OMFS assessments https://omfs.examfolio.com/ which are free to use for anyone interested in OMFS, and the BAOMS Mentoring and Support Programme (MSP)3 from which 98% entered specialty training in OMFS.
Patrick was awarded the Down Prize in 20204, which is the most prestigious award that BAOMS makes for contributions to OMFS in the widest sense. He also received the BAOMS prize in 20075 which is the award for consultants of less than 10 years standing. He has been awarded the BAOMS President’s Prize on 3 occasions for the best presentation by a consultant at the Annual Scientific Meeting. This is an honour shared with only one other person, Professor James Brown.
