MEET THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Noor Al Saadi

Is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who graduated from Oman medical speciality board (OMSB). She cleared her fellowship exams from the Royal college of Surgeons in Ireland. She is currently working at the plastic surgery department - craniofacial surgery unit in Muscat, Sultante of Oman. She is involved in the management of cleft lip and palate, craniofacial trauma, craniosynostosis and other craniofacial anomalies. She is also an exam-item writer and a member of the exam committee of the oral and maxillofacial surgery program at the OMSB.

Her involvement in the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS) was in 2017 when she attended the NextGen meeting at the 23rd International Conference of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS) 2017 in Hong Kong where she was chosen as the NextGen representative of Asia by Dr Gabriele Millesi, she also won the best “Future Maxillofacial Instrument Design Competition” at the same conference. Since then she was involved in different NextGen activities including online exams and face to face magazine, where she has authored multiple articles that were published in the previous issues.

Deepak Krishnan

Teaches and practices as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. He served as the chair of NextGen council of the IAOMS from 2013 to 2017 and has been the co-editor of the Face to Face since 2017. Deepak prides in having trained in several countries, including India, Kenya, USA and Canada under some stalwarts of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Deepak now leads one of the oldest OMS training centers in the US. Mentorship has been the keystone of his career and he is now at a crossroad of transitioning from a mentee to a mentor. His professional interests have been in pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery, surgery for dentofacial deformities, surgery of the TMJ and benign pathology. He has published a number of research articles and constantly engages in the clinical research. He currently serves as the chair of the Committee on Anesthesia (CAN) of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), one of the Committee of Education and Training (CET) of the AAOMS, as well as the secretary and treasurer of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ACOMS). He is a past-president of the Ohio State Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the current president of the Ohio Dental Society of Anesthesiology. He is also a senior examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American college of Surgeons (ACS). Deepak has no clue what to do outside of work, is a socially withdrawn inept, an introvert who struggles with the concept of work-life balance. His wife Preethi acts like a single parent who raises their teenage daughters and deals with their drama singlehandedly while Deepak submitted another paper to some “esteemed journal” this past weekend!

Lilis Iskandar

Is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences – Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences – King’s College London. Her research focuses on bone tissue engineering for oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) and her current study is fully sponsored by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education. She is a dentist graduated from Universitas Indonesia. She co-founded and currently lead Nusantara Innovation Forum, a collaborative global forum for researchers, professionals, students, and entrepreneurs aspiring to promote Indonesian development through research and innovation. Upon finishing her PhD, her plan is to continue her clinical training in OMS.

Her involvement in the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS) started when she attended and presented her research at the 24th International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS) 2019 in Rio de Janeiro where she met Dr Gabriele Millesi and Dr Alfred Lau who invited her to join the IAOMS NextGen Council. Together with other representatives from the Europe region, she presented a summary about OMS in the United Kingdom and its training pathway. She also proposed the IAOMS video competition idea aiming to build awareness and understanding of OMS as a specialty.