Jeanie was awarded a Diploma in Dental Hygiene by the University of Alberta, Canada, followed by further education in Applied Science at the University of Calgary. Subsequent to clinical practice and teaching in Canada, she worked in the Department of Periodontology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Over the past 15 years, Jeanie has been involved in patient care, teaching, and conducting clinical research in periodontology. After being awarded an MSc Degree from the University of Oxford in Evidence-Based Healthcare in 2005, she completed a PhD in Clinical Dentistry investigating the association between obesity and periodontitis. She was also the director of an online postgraduate MSc programme in dental hygiene.