Professor Jag Dhanda

Consultant Maxillofacial Head Neck Surgeon, Professor of Extended Reality in Medicine and Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Jag Dhanda is an Oral and Maxillofacial/Head and Neck Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in reconstruction and head and neck oncology. He is also a Professor of Surgery and Extended Reality in Medicine and Surgery.

He is a successful recipient of three Royal College of Surgeons of England research fellowships (College, Board, and Specialty).

Professor Dhanda is the Founder and Clinical Lead for Virtual Reality in Medicine and Surgery (VRiMS.net). VRiMS is a training resource for surgeons and healthcare professionals using extended reality, and has one of the largest footprints in extended reality worldwide. His work has delivered hundreds of virtual reality workshops to thousands of medical students.

His non-profit work extends to training the workforce in low-resource settings in five African countries, donating devices and content.