Speakers

KEYNOTE speakers

The organising committee is delighted to present our keynote speakers:

Nils-Claudius Gellrich, MD, DMD

Chairman, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Starting in 1982, Nils-Claudius Gellrich studied both dentistry and medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany, with study periods in Bangor (North Wales/Great Britain, 2 months), Montgomery and Birmingham (Alabama/USA, 4 months) and Zurich (Switzerland, 4 months). After acquiring his license as D.M.D. in 1987 and as M.D. in 1989, he started his specialist training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 1990. He obtained his board certification for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in January 1994 and the qualification in Regional Plastic Surgery in 1996. In 1997 he became the deputy of the chairman at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, rising to the position as Associate Professor in 2001. He is holding a chairman position at Hannover Medical School, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, in Hannover, Germany, since October 2004.

In the course of his career Prof. Gellrich was always very active in research. His major research interests focus on tissue engineering, traumatic optic nerve lesion, neuroprotection, computer-assisted planning using virtual models in craniofacial surgery and intraoperative navigation using non-invasive registration for reconstructive surgery. He was given several grants, mainly by the German National Research Foundation, for research in these fields. His work was already rewarded with several awards, for example the Hans-Pichler-Award of the Austrian Association for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2000, the German Skull Base Society Poster Award in 2003 and the award of the DÖSAK (German-Austrian-Swiss Working Group of Head and Neck Tumors) in 2004.

Prof. Gellrich is an experienced lecturer and teacher. Apart from giving lectures for dental and medical students, he is a skilled instructor in oral and maxillofacial surgery, first at Bochum and Freiburg, now at Hannover Medical School, Germany. He has been invited speaker at numerous scientific meetings and conferences and faculty member and chairman at multiple national and international workshops and courses, especially on osteosynthesis, reconstructive craniofacial surgery, microvascular reconstruction and dental implantology.

Professor Robert Andrew Ord, DDS, MD, FDS, RCPS, FRCS, FACS, MS.

Professor Robert Andrew Ord, DDS, MD, FDS, RCPS, FRCS, FACS, MS. qualified in Dentistry at the University of London in 1970 and in Medicine (with honours) at University Hospital of Wales in 1977.  He completed his surgical training in the United Kingdom (Eastman, Canniesbum, East Grinstead, Kings) in 1985 and was appointed a Consultant to the Northern Regional Health Authority in 1985.  In 1989 he was appointed to the Faculty of the University of Maryland, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  He is currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University of Maryland Medical Systems, Chief of the Maxillofacial Oncology Division University of Maryland, Chief of Head and Neck Surgery (Dept. Otolaryngology) at Maryland General Hospital and Professor of the Oncology team at the Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore.  He gained his M.S. in Oral Pathology at the University of Maryland 1995.  Professor Ord is currently president of the Maryland Society of OMS, and an examiner for the American Board of OMS.

Professor Ord’s interests in oral cancer are in the fields of clinical surgery, teaching and research.  The Maxillofacial Oncology service at the University of Maryland currently sees 200 new cases a year of which approximately 110 are new oral cancers.  This volume of patients is treated within a multi-disciplinary team, allowing the establishment of new protocols and clinical trials to explore revolutionary, therapeutic modalities, in combination with basic molecular biologic research.  Professor Ord’s research interests have therefore been mainly in the fields of clinical trials and translational research.  In the last 5 years results of clinical trials on chemoprevention (with Altransretonoic acide, and Fenretinide), gene therapy (p53 adenovirus) and multi-modality (chemo/radiation) protocols have been published by our head and neck team.  Our current interest in translation research lies in the field of molecular targeting and radiation sensitization.  Professor Ord is Director of the Maxillofacial Oncology Fellowship:  a two year training position for young surgeons, which is one of only three accredited Maxillofacial Oncology Fellowships in the U.S.A.

Professor Ord is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pan-American Journal of Trauma.  He has published approximately 100 scholarly works, including co-editing a book on Oral Cancer, 20 book chapters and 60 scientific papers in the field on oncology.

Professor Johan P Reyneke

Johan Reyneke qualified as a Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeon at the University of Pretoria in 1979 and has since been in private practise in Johannesburg.  He never broke his link with the academics and has been an active part time member of the Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at the University of Witwatersrand where he received a honorary Professorship in 1990.  He has since been appointed Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Oklahoma, U.S.A. and he is Director of the Centre for Orthognathic Surgery at Sunninghill Hospital, Sunninghill.  Johan obtained his PhD at the University of Tampere, Finland in March 2006.  He is a member of the Craniofacial Unit at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand.

Johan has a passion for Orthognathic and Reconstructive facial surgery and has presented numerous courses and papers and published extensively locally as well as internationally.  He has published several books on orthognathic surgery and the most recent book “Essentials of Orthognathic Surgery” was published in March 2003.  A series of International courses, “Orthognathic Surgery – occlusion and beyond” is being presented by him at the moment in countries such as Italy, Spain, Brazil, Korea, Denmark, Israel and U.S.A.  He was invited to be the keynote speaker on Orthognathic Surgery at the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Bangalore, India in 2007.

He has a busy private practice and has performed more than 7000 orthognathic surgical procedures over the last 28 years.

He served as President of the South African Society of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeons from 1994 to 1998 and is a member of the executive council of the College of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeons of South Africa.   He spends his leisure time on art, golf and tennis.

invited international speakers

We are pleased to have the following invited international speakers also involved with the Conference:

Kenji W. Higuchi, D.D.S., M.S.

Sponsored by Nobel Biocare

Dr. Kenji W. Higuchi is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the private practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery of Drs. Higuchi and Skinner PS emphasizing reconstructive oral and maxillofacial surgery and serves as a Director of The Spokane Center for Tissue Integrated Reconstruction.  He has held past full-time and adjunct academic appointments at the University of Iowa, University Hospitals and has been a visiting professor at eight American and 14 international university centers.  Since 1982, he has continuously collaborated with Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark in research, clinical studies, advanced surgical courses and reconstructive bone graft surgery for defect anatomy in multiple institutions in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.  Over the past 20 years, Dr. Higuchi has participated in nine separate multi-center clinical studies investigating osseointegrated implant rehabilitation involving partial edentulism, single tooth replacement, guided tissue regeneration, orthodontic anchorage, wide diameter implant study, craniofacial prosthesis reconstruction, zygoma fixture, BMP-2 sinus floor augmentation, and the Brånemark Novum treatment of the edentulous mandible. He has authored or co-authored 39 publications and chapters in nine textbooks and has recently edited two text books in 1999 and 2000.  Dr. Higuchi has been a keynote speaker at over 130 national and international conferences in 29 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America and is a consultant for the Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research and The International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial  Implants.  He is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and International College of Dentists. 

Lee R. Walker MD, DDS

Sponsored by BIOMET 3i

Dr. Walker received his dental degree from the University of the Pacific, San Francisco, his medical degree and oral and maxillofacial surgery certificate from The University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center.  Dr. Walker has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally on dental implants.  He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and member of the Academy of Osseointegration.  He has a private practice in Los Gatos California.

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