Nasser Nadjmi, MD, DDS, PhD, FEBOMFS, is Professor and Coordinating Program Director for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the Team for Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies at the University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium. He is the chairman of the department of Cranio-Maxillofacial surgery at the Univ. Hosp., Antwerp, Belgium and works at the private practice 'Craniofacial Association Antwerp' at the Gen. Hosp. Monica and Gen. Hosp. KLINA, Antwerp, Belgium. Dr. Nadjmi gained his DDS and MD at The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He finished his basic training in maxillofacial surgery in Belgium and subsequently completed fellowships in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Houston, Texas, and in Cosmetic Surgery in Miami, Florida, USA. He became a Fellow of the European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeons (European board-certified maxillofacial surgeon) in 2002.

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