Mr Aakshay Gulati

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust
Member of the West Kent Head & Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Team

Mr Gulati is appointed as Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the renowned Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead with a specialist interest in head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction. He is a core member of the West Kent Head & Neck multidisciplinary team. He is also an Executive Officer of European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery (EACMFS).

He has a keen interest in promoting higher education, and regularly lectures nationally and internationally and holds workshops in the fields of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) and implantology. Mr Gulati is the Training Programme Director of OMFS that covers Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Mr Gulati undertook his advanced dental implant training in South Africa, USA and the United Kingdom. He undertakes complex implant cases using the renowned Straumann & Bicon implant systems and for patients suffering bone loss where bone grafts and sinus lifts are possible to allow for implant placement.

He has contributed to a number of publications, ranging from Head & Neck Cancer Research to Litigation in NHS Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and is also the section editor for the Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery.

In his spare time, Mr Gulati enjoys photography and scuba diving in various parts of the world. His other hobbies include golf, running, cycling and watching his children play sport. Having lived next door to the Wimbledon lawn tennis club, his keen interest in tennis is understandable although he says he is far from centre court material!

Awards:

• BAOMS Travel Grant (Fellowship) 2012
• EACMFS Leibinger Prize 2012
• 1st prize BAOMS poster presentation (Clinical Category) 2009
• MBBS Distinction in special studies King’s College London 2006
• BAOMS Student Bursary Prize 2005
• King’s College London Elective Bursary award 2004