Professor Pitts graduated in Dentistry from the University of London, moved to the University of Hong Kong to help set up a new Dental School in the 1980s and returned to the UK to take up the Directorship of the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee, where he also served as Dean of Dentistry and Director of the Centre for Clinical Innovations. He moved to King’s College London Dental Institute in January 2013.Professor Pitts has assembled a portfolio of research projects supported by external peer-reviewed grants of over £20 million, largely in the fields of Dental Health Services Research, Cariology Research and Innovation for Clinical practice. In Dundee the Centre for Clinical Innovations (CCI) income exceeded £7 million. These activities are now being built on at King’s London in the setting up and developing the Dental Institute’s Innovation and Translation Centre. Professor Pitts has over 200 peer reviewed publications and over 90 Chapters, Books and Equivalent publications. Professor Pitts holds an elected Fellowship from the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (UK) as well as further Fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. These Fellowships are indicative of an unusually broad career involvement spanning science, clinical practice, technology transfer and public health.