Professor Krishnamurthy Bonanthaya
MBBS, MDS, FDSRCS, FFDSRCS
Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences India
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...
Professor Xudong Wang
Chief Physician
Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
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...
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
Chief Physician
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.