Executive Officers

Nicholas Kalavrezos is a Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgeon and the Lead Clinician in the Head and Neck Centre at University College London Hospital with a background in Oral and Maxillo-Facial surgery. He 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.
Mr Kalavrezos’ research interests include applications of “tissue engineering”. He is a founding member of the “Centre for Reconstructive Surgery” at University College London. He holds a Senior Lecturer post at the same Institution. 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.

Consultant OMFS, Clinical Professor
Head Unit of Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery – St. Anna University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy
Formal training in Medicine MD and Dentistry DMD
Specialization: Maxillo-Facial Surgery and ENT Surgery
Over 70 indexed papers, 3 booksEditorial Board Member JCMFS, JCMTR, AMSJ
International Fellow UCLA, Craniofacial Center
Fellow of the European Board OMFS
EACMFS Education & Training Officer
European Clinical Network Member: EUROCRAN and ORPHANET.
Associations: EACMFS, SILPS, SICMF, IAOMS, ISCFS.

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. Dent Stefaan J. Bergé studied Dentistry and Medicine in Louvain, Belgium. He trained as a resident at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) of the Academic Hospital in Saarbrücken, Germany. From 1998 until 2005 he worked at the department of OMFS at the University in Bonn, Germany as a full stafmember. His qualification for “Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” followed in 2002. Clinical and animal experimental studies on the prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery of orofacial clefts, resulted in a PhD. Since 2005, he is Full University Professor and Head of the department of OMFS at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is founding member of the 3D-Facial Imaging Group Nijmegen and President of the Nijmegen Cleft and Craniofacial Center. Since 2006, more than 4 Million Euro could be raised within the 3D-LAB for research-projects and hardware investment. Prof. Bergé has published over 290 peer reviewed publications, has done several book publications and has given hundreds of international lectures all over the world. He has won several international awards and is promoter of over 25 doctoral theses. In 2016 he was awarded as the best Teaching Professor of the Netherlands. Since 2018, he is the President of the Innovation Board of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is a passionate musician, builds cembalo’s and is the proud father of 6 great children.

Satheesh Prabhu FDS RCS, MRCS, FRCS (OMFS)
Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustTraining- Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham
Founder of ProjecTrain-Weblecture Concept
Past Assistant SAC Representative for TIG fellowship in Head & Neck Cancer
Past e-learning lead (English) for IAOMS

Positions held & present position
1988 – 1998: Scientific staff at the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Göttingen University Hospital (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. H. G. Luhr)
1998 – 2004: Associate professor at the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Erlangen-Nürnberg University Hospital (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. F. W. Neukam)
Since 1st April 2004: Chairman of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Kiel University
2007 – 2018: Editor in chief of the European Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial-Surgery
2013 – 2015: Chairman of the working group of maxillofacial surgery (AGOKi)
Since 2017: Member of the executive committee of the German Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG)
2018-2022: Managing director of the European Training Academy for Medicine and Dentistry, EFMZ
2019 – 2022: President elect of the German Association for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK)
2022 – 2025: President of the German Association for Dental, oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK)
Since 06/2024: President of the German Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG)
Since 07/2024: Interim editor in chief of the European Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial-Surgery
Main Areas of Activities:
The focuses of the experimental activities are the use of osteoinductive and osteoconductive bone replacement materials and on studies for controlled bone regeneration, callus distraction and tissue engineering.
The focus of the clinical research activities are on the use of various microvascular reconstruction techniques within the scope of functional rehabilitation following surgical treatment, on surgical treatment of obstructive sleeping apnoea and traumatology.

FDSRCS (Eng), MBBS, MRCS (Eng), FRCS (OMFS)
Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
East Grinstead, UK
Specialist interests – Head & neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction
Fellowships – Microvascular – Munich, National Head & Neck Interface Group – East Grinstead
Reviewer – JCMFS
Past EACMFS Trainee representative
Previous assistant SAC representative for TIG Fellowship in Head & Neck Oncology

Titiaan Dormaar is a cranio-maxillofacial and cleft surgeon working in the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Radboudumc (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and the UZ Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He obtained his MD and DDS in the Netherlands. He was trained in OMFS in the UK and the Netherlands. Subsequently, he specialised in cleft surgery in London. His clinical focus is on cleft surgery, craniosynostosis, other congenital craniofacial anomalies, cranio-maxillofacial trauma and orthognathic surgery.

Christos Perisanidis is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Athens, Greece. Scientific Director of the International Master Program in Periodontology and Implantology at the University Clinic of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Section editor of the Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery. He organizes and chairs international courses and practical workshops covering the whole spectrum of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Center of Anatomy of the Medical University of Vienna. He leads several basic and clinical research projects in the field of head and neck cancer.

MD , DDS. PhD. Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery trained in Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona). Fellow of the European Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Zurich, 1996)
Dr Gonzalez Lagunas is the Head of Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hospital Quironsalud Barcelona.
He is a member of EACMFS since 1996, he acted as General Secretary of the Barcelona EACMFS meeting in 2006, chaired by Prof. Guillermo Raspall. He was the Spanish councillor in UEMS from 2013-2017.
He served as President of the Spanish Association of Oral and Maxilofacial Surgery (SECOM) in 2013-2015, and he was Member at Large of the Executive Committee of IAOMS from 2014 to 2019. He chaired the 21st International Conference of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2013 (ICOMS) in Barcelona
Dr González Lagunas was the Editor-in-Chief of the IAOMS magazine Face to face from 2014 to 2020, and co-author of the books “Advanced Implant Surgery” and “Basic Handbook of Implantologyl”

Head and Chairman, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at RWTH Aachen University Hospital. Co-author of 2 Textbooks, more than 500 International Publications, Scientific Posters and Oral Presentations. Organization and Performance of more than 75 Congresses, Workshops and Training Courses in the field of Oncology, Reconstructive Surgery, and Dental Implantology.

Native in north France, Sylvie TESTELIN trained in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery in AMIENS and has been part of Professor Bernard Devauchelle’s team since 1990 with the same interest in the scope of the speciality but particularly reconstructive surgery.Having become a Professor in 2002, she is involved in all training and courses in France and also in Europe. As a result of the first face transplantation 2005, she has been invited to give conferences all over the world on transplant and all reconstructive surgery subjects particularly on secondary cases. She belongs to many transversal scientific societies in FRANCE and EUROPE on the same subject: cancer, transplant, malformations, microsurgery. Her research interest is focused on reconstructive innovations, imaging, tissue engineering and all other fields on social and human sciences (ethics, history and art). Prof Testelin has participated in the EACMFS Executive Committee since 2008 and is in charge of networking on research subjects.