Invited Speakers & Moderators

The IAOMS/Asian AOMS NextGen Online Conference is pleased to welcome our 2021 speakers and moderators. Each day of the conference will consist of six back-to-back sessions with presentations by master surgeons from across the specialty as well as the next generation of young OMF surgeons. 

The below list is subject to change. 

Noor Al-Saadi

Oman

About the Speaker 

Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon from Sultanate of Oman. Board certified from the Oman Medical speciality board (OMSB). Interested in trauma and craniofacial surgery. Working in a tertiary hospital with high trauma rate and complex maxillofacial injuries. Member of examination committee of OMFS training program in OMSB. Asia representative in NextGen council. Assistant editor of IAOMS Face to Face magazine.

 

Michael Alterman

Israel

About the Speaker 

President of the Israeli Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Senior lecturer at the faculty of dental medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Director of the residency training program and the outpatient clinic at the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Hadassah Medical Center of Jerusalem, Israel

 

More details coming soon.

Nissia Ananda

Indonesia

About the Speaker 

Nissia Ananda is oral and maxillofacial surgeon from Indonesia. She is part of NextGen Council and currently working in academic medical center (University of Indonesia Hospital)

 

Izumi Asahina

Israel

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

More details coming soon.

R. Bryan Bell

United States of America

About the Moderator 

R. Bryan Bell, MD, DDS, FACS, FRCS(Ed), Physician Executive

Director, Division of Surgical Oncology, Radiation Oncology & Clinical Programs

Medical Director, Head and Neck Cancer Program

Director, Fellowship in Head and Neck Oncologic and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery

Providence Cancer Institute- Oregon

Member and Director, Surgical Oncology Research, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute

Omar Breik

Australia

About the Speaker 

Omar Breik is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon practicing at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Brisbane. Omar completed his OMFS training in Melbourne, Australia before traveling to the UK to complete head and neck fellowships at the Royal Derby Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Birmingham.

 

Zeynep Burcin Gonen

Turkey

About the Speaker 

Dr.Gonen is oral and maxillofacial surgeon and working as an academic staff in Erciyes University, Turkey. She is a member of 'Cell Therapy and Immunology Group' at Turkish Academy of Science. She is one of the representatives of IAOMS- Nextgen.

 

Michael Chen

Taiwan

About the Speaker 

Chief & Associate Professor, Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. Past President of Taiwanese Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. At-Large Executive of Asian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons.

 

Elliot Cheng

Taiwan

About the Speaker 

Professor, School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Director, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Ward, National Taiwan University Hospital

President, Taiwanese Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

 

Jasjit Dillon

United States of America

About the Speaker 

Clinical Professor, Chief of Service & Program Director, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Washington

 

Leander Dubois

Netherlands

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Benny Fang

Taiwan

About the Speaker 

Attending doctor, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Dentistry, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan 2.Assistant professor, School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Stephen Feinberg

United States of America

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Cesia González

Mexico

About the Speaker 

Dental School in Monterrey Mexico, 4 years program in Maxilofacial Surgery At Universidad de Guadalajara, fellow in Pediatric and Craneofacial maxillofacial surgery in Morelos , Smile Train Partner since 2016, Iniciativa UVA Foundation for cleft lip and palate patients with Dr. Alejandro Martínez, Private practice in Christus Muguerza Hospital.

 

Simonas Grybauskas

Lithuania

About the Speaker 

Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon dedicated to treatment of dentofacial deformities. Currently I am holding a position of consultant in orthognathic surgery at private practice in Lithuania - and Adjunct professor at Ferrara University, Italy

 

Yokshiki Hamada

Japan

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Yue He

China

About the Speaker 

Yue He, Prof, is associated Director (Director in the Northern District) and chief physician of Dept.of Oral Maxillofacial & Head and Neck Oncology in Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. Meanwhile, he is also the professor and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is executive Intemational Association of Dental Research (IADR),Committee of Asia Association of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery, General secretary and committee of Chinese Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery(CSOMS), Fellow of Strasbourg Ostheosynthesis Research Group (S.O.R.G) and International Association of Oral &Maillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS). Professional background: clinical and basic transformation research of Oral Maxillofacial & Head and Neck Oncology, and clinical and basic research of Oral Maxillofacial & Head and Neck Oncology related diseases (jaw necrosis).

 

Takashi I

Japan

About the Speaker 

Takashi I, PhD, is an assistant professor in Department of Regenerative Oral Surgery at Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Japan. His research interests lie in developing cell therapy for salivary gland hypofunction. More recently, he has been engaged in phase 1 clinical study of cell therapy with effective-mononuclear cells (E-MNC) for radiogenic xerostomia (first-in-human study).

 

Seunggon Jung

Korea

About the Speaker 

Seunggon Jung, DDS, FIBCSOMS is a graduate of Chonnam National University School of Dentistry, and he also graduated with a PhD in dentistry from same university. Jung trained at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital from 2008 to 2011. Now he works at Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Chonnam National University as associate professor.

 

Nicholas Kalavrezos

United Kingdom

About the Speaker 

Nicholas Kalavrezos is a Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgeon and the senior Clinician in the Head and Neck Centre at University College London Hospital. Nicholas is also the Lead Head and Neck Sarcoma Surgeon for the London Sarcoma Service. His clinical practice includes major surgery for the head and neck with a special interest in bone sarcomas.

 

Saurabh Kamat

India

About the Speaker 

Dr Saurabh Kamat is intensely passionate about Maxillofacial Trauma, Guided Bone Regeneration and Implantology. He graduated from Goa Dental College and Hospital with a University Gold Medal and went on to complete his Masters in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery from the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences (MGPGI) securing the highest marks in the Pondicherry University examination. He is a fellow of Indian and International Boards of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (FIBOMS & FIBCSOMS). He is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Consultant) in the department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Goa Dental College and Hospital.

 

James Kirimi

Kenya

About the Speaker 

Dr Kirimi is an OMFS working is a public hospital in rural Africa, in the Eastern part of Kenya. He received his training in OMFS in Nairobi Kenya and graduated from the University of Nairobi in the year 2015. His area of interest is in maxillofacial trauma and the resultant reconstructive procedures. Dr Kirimi is also the Chief Officer Medical Services in Meru County, Kenya.

 

Alfred Lau

Hong Kong

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Mike Leung

Hong Kong

About the Speaker 

Dr. Mike YY Leung is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Hong Kong. His clinical interests are orthognathic surgery, obstructive sleep apnea management and trigeminal nerve repair.

 

Muino Juan Manuel

Argentina

About the Speaker 

More details coming soon!

 

Gabriele Millesi

Austria

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Jitske Nolte

Netherlands

About the Speaker 

Dr. Nolte (MD,DMD,PhD), is Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and member of the Cleft team at the Amsterdam UMC - Academic Medical Centre / Emma Children’s Hospital, the Netherlands. Her special interests are in the field of orthognathic surgery with emphasis on asymmetry, cleft surgery and developmental disorders

 

Hee-Kyum Oh

Korea

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Jane Pu

Hong Kong

About the Speaker 

Dr. PU Jingya Jane graduated from The University of Hong Kong with Bachelor of Dental Surgery. She is currently the honorary resident and clinical tutor at Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Hong Kong.

 

Gunaseelan Rajaan

India

About the Speaker 

Medical Director of Rajan Dental Hospital,Chennai,India.Former President,Association of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgeons of India.Chaiman,Educational Affairs Committee,Asian Association of Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgeons

 

Majeed Rana

Germany

About the Speaker 

Professor Rana is engaged in computer assisted surgery in cranio maxillofacial surgery. As vice director of the department for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in Duesseldorf he supervises all clinical processes and leads 2 fundet federal research projects.

 

Adrian Shi

Singapore

About the Speaker 

• Dr Adrian Shi is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who works as an Associate Consultation at National Dental Centre Singapore and received his training from National University of Singapore (NUS)

• He is also concurrently a clinical teacher with NUS Faculty of Dentistry and a clinical instructor with SingHealth Duke-NUS Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School.

• He holds the position as the Vice-President of the Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Singapore.

 

Richard Su

Hong Kong

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Shintaro Sukegawa

Japan

About the Speaker 

More details coming soon!

 

Tetsu Takahashi

Japan

About the Moderator 

More details coming soon.

Crystal Wang

Hong Kong

About the Speaker 

Graduated from University of Hong Kong in 2015

Current trainee in department of OMFS, HKU Dentistry

 

Victoria Yaffe

Israel

About the Speaker 

More details coming soon!

 

Hoon Joo Yang

Korea

About the Speaker 

Ph.D, major in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University

 

Zhang Yi

China

About the Speaker 

More details coming soon!

 

Robert Sader

About the Speaker 

Prof. Dr.mult. Robert Sader has received his training in OMF-Surgery at Technical University Munich. After working at University Hospital Basel, in 2004 he was appointed as professor, director and chair of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery at Goethe-University Frankfurt. In his department 29 surgeons workin three operation theatres with full narcosis, and the whole spectrum of OMFS is offered from dentoalveolar and septic surgery, dental implantology, traumatology, orthognatics, TMJ surgery, oncology, plastic-reconstructive, cleft lip and palate and craniofacial surgery.

 

Juan Manuel Muino

About the Speaker 

Oral and maxillofacial surgeon graduated from Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Surgeon go the oral and maxillofacial department of the Cesar Milstein Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 


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