**Meet the editor**

Jane Francis Manakil is an academic and a clinician in the School of Dentistry at Griffith University, Australia. She holds a PhD degree and a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Dentistry from the University of Queensland, Australia, and she is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. She completed her speciality in the field of periodontology (1989) and BDS in 1985.

She has three decades of clinical experience, with skills covering all aspects of general dentistry, primarily in the speciality of periodontology. She has clinical and research interests include learning and teaching, relationship between periodontitis and systemic health and practice in the field of periodontics. She has edited a book, reviewed articles and has publications in peer-reviewed journals with multiple citations.
