International Keynote Speakers

Professor Krishnamurthy Bonanthaya
MBBS, MDS, FDSRCS, FFDSRCS
Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences India

Professor Xudong Wang
DDS, MD
Professor
Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
Vice President
Ninth People's Hospital

International Invited Speakers

Dr Alfred Lau
BDS, MDS(OMS), MSc(HCM), MOSRCS, AdvDipOMS, FDSRCS, FDSRCPS FHKAM, FCDSHK(OMS)
Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Dr Alfred Lau works in private day surgery center. He is appointed as an honorary clinical associate professor of OMFS, HKU. He is currently the honorary consultant in OMS in Queen Mary Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.

Dr Lau held the position of the president of the HK Association of OMS from 2016 to 2019. He is the founder and past president of Young Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Group of HK....

Dr Gary Bouloux
DDS, MD, MDSc, FRACDS, FRACDS(OMS), FACS
J David Allen Family Professor
Division Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Department of Surgery
Emory University School of Medicine

Dr Nicholas Kalavrezos
FRCS, FFD, MD
Senior Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgeon
Head and Neck Centre
University College London Hospital

Dr Benjamin Ng
Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS)

Dr. Benjamin Ng is a consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) at the National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS). He plays a pivotal role in the delivery of oral health services across multiple hospitals within the SingHealth Cluster, including Singapore...

National Invited Speakers

Dr Annalene Weston
BDS, MHL, FACD, FPFA, FICD
Dental Protection Australia

Dr Annalene Weston is a Dentolegal Consultant for Dental Protection Australia, providing collegiate support and advice. Annalene completed her undergraduate dental degree in the UK and worked in NHS and private dentistry before immigrating. She has worked across three Australian states, in private and public dentistry, and gained her Masters in Health Law through the University of Sydney, Faculty of Law...

Professor Krishnamurthy Bonanthaya
MBBS, MDS, FDSRCS, FFDSRCS

Krishnamurthy Bonanthaya is a Maxillofacial surgeon with over three decades of experience. His subspeciality area of interest is Cleft lip and palate deformities .

He believes that empathy towards patients is the cornerstone for an ethical practice and strives to achieve this in practice

He built the Smile Train supported Cleft leadership Center and over the years, his team performed over 10,000 fully funded cleft procedures. He was the program's project director from 2005 - 2023 (Feb) and was the fellowship director for over 25 cleft surgeons during this period. The fellowship programs are run under the auspices of the Rajiv Gandhi University of health sciences and the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. His trainees are successful cleft surgeons in different parts of the world. Over the years, he has also engaged in clinical research and has tried to contribute -through his publications of this research -to the body of evidence for management of cleft deformities .

He is also a Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences.

He is the former President of the Indian Society for cleft lip palate and craniofacial anomalies (ISCLPCA) and the Indian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (AOMSI). In addition, he is the president of the International Board for Certification of Specialists in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

He also is the Chairman of the Indian medical advisory council for Smile Train.

Professor Xudong Wang
DDS, MD
Professor
Department of Oral and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
Vice President
Ninth People's Hospital

Xudong Wang, Professor, Chief Physician, Vice President of the Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He is the Deputy Director of the National Center of Stomatology (Shanghai), Vice President of the Digital Medicine Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Director of the Shanghai Children's Craniomaxillofacial Deformity Screening and Diagnosis Center. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma and Orthognathic Surgery of Chinese Stomatology Association, Deputy Chairman of the Oral Genetic and Rare Diseases of Chinese Stomatology Association,etc.

Research Focus: Mechanisms of craniomaxillofacial development and deformities; research and application of key technologies for digital and AI-based diagnosis and treatment of craniomaxillofacial defects and deformities; development of new biomaterials for craniomaxillofacial reconstruction.

In the recent five years, he has led over 20 research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and National Natural Science Foundation projects, and has published over 120 international peer-reviewed articles.

Dr Alfred Lau
BDS, MDS(OMS), MSc(HCM), MOSRCS, AdvDipOMS, FDSRCS, FDSRCPS FHKAM, FCDSHK(OMS)

Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Dr Lau held the position of the president of the HK Association of OMS from 2016 to 2019. He is the founder and past president of Young Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Group of HK. Currently, he is appointed as the Advisor of the NextGen section and elected as an Executive Committee member (members-at-large) of the International Association of OMS. He is also elected as the Members-at-large for the Asian Association of OMS. He serves also as a Councilor of both the Asian and International Association of OMS. He also holds the position of an International Faculty of the AOCMF and as a founding committee member of the Hong Kong Association of Dental Sleep Medicine and the Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Implantologists. He Serves as a Hong Kong Dental Council examiner and a trainer in OMS for the specialist board in CDSHK. He is appointed as the Hong Kong Convention Ambassador by the HK Tourism Board of Hong Kong in 2020-2022.

He organizes and frequently speaks in conferences and courses regionally and internationally. He also organized international conferences such as ACOMS 2006, ICOMS 2017 and the upcoming ACOMS 2026 in Hong Kong. He has also been invited to be interviewed at TV programs, media and magazines, and he writes articles in relation to OMS topic in newspaper columns regularly. He recently published a book related to OMS to promote the knowledge to the public in Hong Kong.

He also is the Chairman of the Indian medical advisory council for Smile Train.

Dr Gary Bouloux
DDS, MD, MDSc, FRACDS, FRACDS(OMS), FACS

J David Allen Family Professor

Division Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Department of Surgery

Emory University School of Medicine

· Dental School, Sydney University, 1989

· Graduate Program Residency, Westmead hospital, 1990-1992

· Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency, Westmead Hospital, 1993-1996

· Masters of Dental Science (OMFS), Sydney University, 1996

· Australasian Board certification FRACDS (OMS), 1997

· Fellowship TMJ surgery and orthognathic surgery, Emory University, 1997-1999

· Medical School, Emory University, 2004

· Faculty, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Emory University, 2006-current

· Residency Program Director, OMFS, Emory University 2013- 2020

· Division Chief 2020 - current

Committees/Scholarly activity

· American Association of oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Chair, Special Committee of Temporomandibular Joint Care, 2019-current

· American Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons

Immediate past President 2023- 2025

· American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Member, Committee on Education and Training, AAOMS, 2016-2019, 2023-current

· Section Editor, Anesthesia, Temporomandibular Disorders, and Facial Pain for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Awards

· American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

The National Research Award Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, 2017

· American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

The Daniel A Laskin award (most robust scientific paper published in JOMS 2018), Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, 2018

Publications

· 32 peer reviewed articles

· 29 book chapters

· 3 book Editorships

Current Grants

· CI: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research R00

Central mediated pain in Temporomandibular Disorders; Grant $765000

· PI: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation. Metal hypersensitivity following Temporomandibular Joint Total Joint Replacement; $75000

Nicholas Kalavrezos
FRCS, FFD, MD

Nicholas Kalavrezos is a Senior Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgeon in the Head and Neck Centre at University College London Hospital with a background in Oral and Maxillo-Facial surgery. Nicholas is also the Lead Head and Neck Sarcoma Surgeon for the London Sarcoma Service. His clinical practice includes ablative and reconstructive surgery for the head and neck with a special interest in bone sarcomas and functional outcomes following reconstructive surgery. His clinical practice also includes surgical treatment of salivary gland tumours as well as thyroid surgery. Nicholas' research interests include applications of “tissue engineering” in head & neck reconstruction. Nicholas is a founding member of the “Centre for Reconstructive Surgery” at University College London and holds a Senior Lecturer post at the same Institution. He is also a member of the “Face Transplant Group” based at Royal Free Hospital aiming to perform the first face transplant in the UK. He has joint research projects in the Nanotechnology Lab of UCL on “tissue engineered bio-scaffolding” aiming to replace defects of the head and neck with tissue– engineered based micro-vascular flap reconstruction. The FORTE flap is a paradigm to this direction. Nicholas lectures regularly at national and international meetings and holds the position of the President Elect at the Executive Board of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS).