03 July 2025
BDS5 Prize Winners
Congratulations to the Prize Winners from the graduating BDS5 class, 2025.
Khushpreet (Khushi) Dhadda
The Jelf Medal
- In 1868 the Reverend Richard Jelf DD retired from the office of Principal of King's College London, which he had held since 1844. It was to commemorate his services to King's College that his colleagues and friends established the endowment of the Jelf Medal.
One medal is awarded to a student in each of the Faculties. The students chosen are those who, in the view of the Principal, have most distinguished themselves during their undergraduate programme.
In making the awards there is regard to the students' academic proficiency but also to their prominence in social and athletic activities.
Arta Nickfarjam
The Newland Pedley Prize
Awarded for achieving the highest aggregate of marks in the BDS5 exams (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Priyasha Tanna
The Saunders Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for having achieved the joint second highest marks in the BDS Part 5 Examinations (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Seijal Adhikary
The Robert Woodhouse Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for achieving the joint third highest aggregate of marks in the BDS5 exams (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Angela Chen
The Robert Woodhouse Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for achieving the joint third highest aggregate of marks in the BDS5 exams (Finals).
Sanjana Sudeshkumar
The Alfred Woodhouse Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for achieving the joint fourth highest aggregate of marks in the BDS5 exams (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Shivali Vaya
The Alfred Woodhouse Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for achieving the joint fourth highest aggregate of marks in the BDS5 exams (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Ebunoluwa Adebanjo
The Laurence Usiskin Prize
Awarded for having achieved the fifth highest marks in the BDS Part 5 Examinations (finals).
The H. Arthur & J. Bernard Cohen Prize
Awarded for the best submitted short educational video on the subject of Conscious Sedation in Dentistry.
Searan Karamchandani
The Warren Birnbaum Prize
Awarded for being the medically-qualified dental student with the most meritorious overall performance in the BDS part 5 examinations (finals).
Deepani Vimalrajh
The A. M. Clover Prize
Awarded to the final year student who has best epitomised the Guy's motto Dare quam accipere by showing that it is better to give than to receive in their attitude and wholehearted involvement in all aspects of school life during their student career.
Tapan Hebballi
The Geoffrey Forman Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for the best submitted essay on the subject of Oral Diagnosis.
Hamzah Kader
The Geoffrey Forman Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for the best submitted essay on the subject of Oral Diagnosis.
Harmanpreet (Harman) Singh
The Jack Wheatley Carlton Hunter Prize
Awarded to the final year student judged to have set the highest standard of exemplary conduct as regards courtesy, humanity and kindness in the treatment of patients.
Ria Pandey
The Parris Prize
Awarded for having shown the greatest inventive genius.
Jonathan Age
The Portsmouth Prize
Awarded to the Final Year Dental Student who attended the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy and who, in the opinion of their peers and teachers, ‘has added most to the ethos of the Academy by providing excellent holistic care to their patients and contributed enthusiastically to the concept of team working with the whole Academy during the year’.
Mohammad Sarwar
The Academy of Operative Dentistry Award
Awarded to a final year student in recognition of excellence and outstanding achievement in operative dentistry.
Leila Zahedi
The Saunders Prize (joint winner)
Awarded for having achieved the joint second highest marks in the BDS Part 5 Examinations (Finals).
University of London Gold Medal nominee
Mei-Kwan (Mei) Fung
The Tom Pitt-Ford Prize
Awarded to the most outstanding final year undergraduate student in the field of Endodontology.
