{{short description|British Dentistry educator (born 1953)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Cynthia Margaret Pine | image = Cynthis_Pine.jpg | image_size = | caption = Cynthia Pine in 2009 | birth_name = | birth_date = October 1953 | education = University of Manchester, Bachelor of Dental Surgery, 1976 University of Manchester, PhD, 1982 University of Dundee, MBA }} '''Cynthia Pine''' CBE (born October 1953) is a British dentistry educator at the London School of Dentistry.<ref name="'Brown babies' born in the 1950s">{{Cite web |title='Brown babies' born in the 1950s |url=https://mixedmuseum.org.uk/brown-babies/brown-babies-born-in-the-1950s/ |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=The Mixed Museum |language=en}}</ref> In 2003, she became the first woman appointed to head a dentistry school in the UK.<ref name="do" />

Pine is part of the group of highly successful Guyanese people in Britain (Michael White of ''The Guardian'' refers to them as the "Guyanese mafia"), which includes Waheed Alli, Raj Persaud, Herman Ouseley and David Dabydeen, Keith Waithe and Rudolph Dunbar.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Guyanese Achievers UK|last=Vidur|first=Dindayal|year=2007 |publisher=Trafford |isbn=9781425167417|ol=OL8502271M}}</ref>

==Life== Pine was born in 1953 in Guyana.<ref name="yudu" /> She graduated from the University of Manchester with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 1976 and a PhD from the same institution in 1982, and has an MBA from the University of Dundee.<ref name=":0">{{Who's Who |id = U245351|title=Pine, Prof. Cynthia Margaret}}</ref>

She was appointed dean of the University of Liverpool School of Dentistry in 2003. She was later appointed as pro vice chancellor, international at Salford University.<ref name="yudu">[http://content.yudu.com/A1zgh3/PowerList2013/resources/59.htm Cynthia Pine], Power List 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.</ref>

Pine was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2006.<ref name="do">{{Cite web|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dentistry/people/profiles/professorcynthiapine.html|title=Profile : Cynthia Pine|website=qmul.ac.uk|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330130334/https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dentistry/people/profiles/professorcynthiapine.html |archive-date=2020-03-30 }}</ref> She has been included in the Powerlist of the UK's 100 most influential people of African and Afro-Caribbean descent.<ref name="yudu" />

Since 2013 Pine has been a professor of dental public health at the Institute of Dentistry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and academic lead and head of the Unit of Dental Public Health since 2014.<ref name=":0" />

In 2018, Pine was awarded the EW Borrow Memorial Award at the International Association for Dental Research Conference in London, in recognition of her research in oral health prevention for children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bda.org/news-centre/latest-news-articles/dental-researcher-honoured-for-work-on-childrens-oral-health|title=Dental researcher honoured for work on children's oral health|website=bda.org|language=en|access-date=20 December 2019|date=31 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220121727/https://bda.org/news-centre/latest-news-articles/dental-researcher-honoured-for-work-on-childrens-oral-health|archive-date=20 December 2019 }}</ref>

In 2020 a portrait of Pine was included in the exhibition ''Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors''.<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 March 2020|title=Portraits of Black Female Professors|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51800467|access-date=10 June 2020}}</ref>

== Family and early life == Pine's father was from British Guiana but was studying in the U.S. in 1941 and came to Britain as a G.I. during the Second World War.<ref name="'Brown babies' born in the 1950s"/> While in Britain, he met Pine's mother and they wed after the war. Inter-relationships were discouraged during this time as racial mixing was seen as a threat to the British national identity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rose |first=Sonya O. |date=1997 |title=Girls and GIs: Race, Sex, and Diplomacy in Second World War Britain |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40108089 |journal=The International History Review |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=146–160 |doi=10.1080/07075332.1997.9640780 |jstor=40108089 |issn=0707-5332|url-access=subscription }}</ref> As a result, Pine's father experienced racism in Britain and struggled to find work, meaning it was difficult for the family to find somewhere to live. Eventually, they settled in Birmingham, but as the only Black child in the school, Cynthia was also subjected to racism.<ref name="'Brown babies' born in the 1950s"/>

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