26 Mar, 2026 | Hong Kong
AOMI™ GOING GLOBAL
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:20
Welcome: Why Do We Start AOMI™
Prof. Piet Haers
09:20 – 09:30
Why does Straumann®
Support an Academy for OMF Surgeons?
Straumann Group Welcomes AOMI Going Global
Ms. Petra Rumpf
09:30 – 09:40
Strategic Synergy between ITI, the Straumann Group & AOMI™
Dr. Alexander Ochsner, Mr. Andreas Utz, Prof. Piet Haers
09:40 – 10:00
Round Table Open Discussion: Straumann®, ITI and AOMI™
Ms. Petra Rumpf, Dr. Alexander Ochsner, Mr. Andreas Utz, Prof. James Chow
Moderators: Prof. Piet Haers, Mr. Patrick Loh
10:00 – 10:05
Official Registration of AOMI™, Main Points of the Constitution
Dr. Alfred Lau
10:05 – 10:15
Structure of AOMI™
– Content Sections
– Board of Directors
– Executive Committee
– Council General Assembly
– Regional & National Leadership Structure
Prof. Piet Haers
10:15 – 10:25
Current Challenges for OMS in Implant Surgery in ANZ
Dr. Richard Wood
10:25 – 10:55
Your Needs and Ideas for Educational & Consensus Support
– China
– India
– Japan
– SEA
– Europe
– North America
– Oceania
Prof. Xi Jiang, Dr. Udatta Kher, Prof. Tetsu Takahashi, Dr. Winston Tan, Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas, Prof. Robert Sader, Prof. Waldemar Polido, Prof. Edmond Bedrossian, Dr. Paul Sambrook
Moderators: Prof. James Chow, Ms. Vida Lau
10:55 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 11:20
Questionnaire on Support and Educational Needs
Ms. Vida Lau
11:20 – 11:35
Launch of AOMI™ Website
Proposals for Educational Modules
Prof. Diana Feng Wang
11:35 – 11:45
Validation of Courses and Certification
Prof. James Chow
11:45 – 12:00
The Importance of Clinical Guidelines and Consensus Documents in the Care of the Complex Patient
Prof. Peter Moy
12:00 – 12:10
Education and Training in Digital Workflows, Navigation and Robotics
Prof. James Chow
12:10 – 12:30
Prosthodontic Collaboration with OMF Surgeons in Complex Cases
Prof. Alvin Wee, Prof. Lawrence E. Brecht
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 13:50
Introduction to Consensus and Clinical Guideline Groups, History of IAOFR
Prof. Peter Moy
Presentation of Consensus Activities & Methodologies
13:50 – 14:00
IAOFR
Prof. Hendrik Terheyden
14:00 – 14:10
ITI
Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas
14:10 – 14:20
Zygoma
Prof. Waldemar Polido
Methodology Modalities for Consensus
14:20 – 14:40
Round Table Discussion
Prof. Lawrence E. Brecht, Prof. Alvin Wee, Prof. Srinivasa R. Chandra
Moderator: Prof. Piet Haers
14:40 – 14:50
Structure of Consensus Groups & Preferred Methodologies
Prof. Peter Moy
14:50 – 15:20
Coffee break
Consensus & Educational Topics Legend: Chair, Secretary
Moderators: Prof. Piet Haers, Prof. Peter Moy, Prof. Hendrik Terheyden, Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas, Prof. Waldemar Polido
*Disclaimer: Each group can have more participants; modification can be proposed on the day.
15:20 – 15:30
Severe Resorption:
Augmentative VS. Non-Augmentative, Distal Anchorage, Full Arch
Prof. Hendrik Terheyden, Prof. Lawrence Brecht
Prof. James Chow, Prof. Gunaseelan Rajan, Dr. Frank Schwarz, Prof. Edmond Bedrossian, Dr. Sepehr Zarrine, Dr. Richard Wood, Prof. Zhou Miao
15:30 – 15:40
Oral Rehabilitation Considerations in Resection and Reconstruction in Head and Neck Oncology Patients
Prof. Srinivasa R. Chandra, Prof. Alvin Wee
Dr. Vinay Kumar
15:40 – 15:50
Implant Supported Rehabilitation in Head & Neck Oncology
Prof. Christian Mertens, Prof. Teresa Tian Zhou
Prof. Alvin Wee
15:50 – 16:00
Oligodontia, Cleft and Craniofacial Syndromes
Prof. Yiqun Wu, Prof. Diana Feng Wang
Prof. Piet Haers
16:00 – 16:10
Prosthodontics
Prof. Lawrence E. Brecht, Prof. Alvin Wee
16:10 – 16:20
Hard and Soft Tissue Grafting, Biomaterials, and Tissue Enhancement
Prof. Zeynep Burcin Gönen
Prof. Hendrik Terheyden, Prof. Yu Zhang, Prof. Robert Sader, Dr. Frank Schwarz
16:20 – 16:30
Digital Workflow
Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas, Prof. Waldemar Polido
Dr. Richard Wood
16:30 – 16:40
Open Navigation, Robotics and AI
Prof. James Chow, Prof. Jay Neugarten
Prof. Yiqun Wu
16:40 – 16:50
Compromising Medical Conditions & Medications
Dr. Supritha Nilam, Prof. Gunaseelan Rajan, Prof. Yue He
16:50 – 17:00
Launch of AOMI™ Journal
Prof. Gunaseelan Rajan
17:00 – 17:10
Closing
Prof. Piet Haers, Prof. Peter Moy
Prof. Srinivasa R. Chandra
Dr.Srini R. Chandra, an American and an International Board Certified OMF Surgeon, Section Head of Oral Surgery. Formerly the Program Director at OHSU, Portland, Oregon, as an Associate Professor, is a surgical specialist with fellowship training in all aspects of head and neck surgery, including Head and Neck cancer, Craniofacial trauma, vascular tumors and lesions, airway reconstruction, Oral rehabilitation, and skull base reconstructive surgery. He is proficient in a full spectrum of harvest and microvascular reconstruction as well as Dentofacial Implant Surgery. His research and clinical investigations include patient relation outcomes in rehabilitations and reconstructions.
Prof. Piet Haers
Founding Member & Board of Director – President, AOMI
MD(B), Lic. Dent (B), Dr. med (CH), Dr. med. Dent. (CH), PhD, FEBOMS, FDSRCS ad eundem, FGDPRCS ad eundem, FICD, FIBCSOMS hon.
Prof. Dr. Piet Haers is a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with nearly twenty years of experience at the specialist level, providing advanced surgical referral services for dental colleagues. His practice is focused on orthognathic surgery for complex skeletal discrepancies (Class II/III), sophisticated dental implantology including bone augmentation, and advanced dentoalveolar surgery. He is a trusted partner for the management of impacted teeth, pre-prosthetic surgery, and the surgical components of interdisciplinary treatment plans.
He operates across several leading private hospitals in London and Surrey, including The Portland Hospital, London Bridge Diagnostic & Treatment Centre, and the Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital. Colleagues can refer with confidence, assured of a collaborative approach, clear communication on treatment pathways, and a commitment to achieving functionally sound and aesthetically refined surgical outcomes for shared patients.
Prof. Hendrik Terheyden
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hendrik Terheyden is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon and chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Helios Hospital, Kassel, Germany. He holds a professorship at Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel. After his dental and medical education at the University of Kiel, he specialised in oral and maxillofacial surgery and plastic operations at the University Hospital of Kiel, where he worked as vice director until 2007. His clinical and scientific focuses are preprosthetic bone regeneration and reconstructive surgery in oncology. He published international textbooks on bone augmentation surgery and >100 international scientific papers. Prof. Terheyden is past president of the German Association of Dental Implantology (DGI). He currently serves as president of the International Academy of Facial and Oral Rehabilitation (IAOFR) and as treasurer of the German Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (DGMKG). He was a founding editor of the International Journal of Implant Dentistry (IJID) until 2022 and is section editor of the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (IJOMS).
Prof. Bilal Al-Nawas
Ph.D.
Bilal Al-Nawas is qualified in medicine and dentistry (universities Frankfurt and Saarbrücken, Germany). Since 2017 Bilal Al-Nawas is Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center of the J. Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Since September 2009 Adjunctive Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University School of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea Graduated in Dentistry and Medicine and affiliated to the University of Mainz for more than 15 years. His clinical activity covers the full spectrum of oral and maxillofacial surgery and is dedicated to rehabilitation of compromised patients including clef lip an palate, oncology, bone diseases and other general medical aspects. His departments cover the full digital workflow from image acquisition (CBCT, IOS) to planning and 3D printed models and guides as well as intraoperative dynamic navigation in Oncology, Orthognatic surgery and Implantology. Focus: Compromised patients, Bone Grafting, Reconstructive Surgery, Digital planning. He published over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Fellow of the ITI Section Germany, Education Delegate, member of the Research Committee and since 2018 Member of the ITI Board of Directors. He serves as an editorial board member for Medical Journals such as International Journal of Implant Dentistry, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Clinical Oral Implants Research.
