Speakers Index

Dr Dirk Bister
Dr Urs Brodbeck
Colin Cook
Tony Hoskinson
Iain Hutchison
Dr Nick Jepson
Prof Asbjörn Jokstad
Prof Niklaus P. Lang
Kevin Lewis
Alan M. Meltzer
Ian G. Needleman
Dr Timo Närhi
Prof Tim Newton
Dr Brendon Scott
Prof Mark Thomason
Prof Richard Palmer
Dr. Terrell F. Pannkuk
Dr Marga Ree
Dr Derrick Setchell
Prof Damien Walmsley
Jan Wennström

Iain Hutchison

Iain HutchisonIain Hutchison is an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at Bart’s and The Royal London Hospitals specialising in Head & Neck Cancer and Reconstruction. He chose this career after seeing the dramatic impact of even simple and straightforward treatment such as suturing when young people sustained facial injuries.

He has led public information projects designed to prevent facial disease and injury. He has organised several national schools information campaigns on the association of binge drinking with facial injury and smoking with mouth cancer. He founded and now runs (pro bono) the Facial Surgery Research Foundation – Saving Faces which leads national multicentre collaborative clinical trials to improve the evidence base for oral and facial surgery practice. He is conducting psychological research to improve treatment outcomes for patients and research with the Cyscope to improve the surveillance of oral premalignancy.

He founded and funded the Saving Faces Art Project in which an artist captured the physical and emotional journey of patients undergoing facial surgery for deformity, cancer and injury. This has toured the UK, Europe and the USA. This was designed to educate the public about what is and is not possible about modern facial surgery and was also aimed at showing the public that people with facial disfigurement could be powerful and lead normal, fulfilled lives.

In his spare time he has written 38 papers, 7 chapters and delivered 60 invited lectures in addition to 65 conference presentations. He lives with his wife and 3 children.