Trauma Plenary: What Kept Me Awake at Night and How I Finally Slept: Complications in Maxillofacial Trauma

Jasjit (Jas) Kaur Dillon is Professor and Program Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and the Chief of OMS at Harborview Medical Center where she has a busy oncology, trauma and reconstructive practice. Her clinical training has been garnered from 5 countries – the UK, South Africa, Hong Kong, Vancouver BC and San Francisco. She obtained her dental degrees from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (BDS), the University of California San Francisco (DDS) and her medical degree from St Bartholomew’s School of Medicine, University of London (MBBS). She is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDSRCS), the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a past examiner for the American Board of OMS and immediate past section editor for pathology for the Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

She has numerous peer reviewed scientific publications, book chapters and lectures nationally, internationally and is the recipient of two major grants studying medication related osteonecrosis of the jaws – one of which she received the Stephan Milam award for the highest scoring grant in 2016.

Dr. Melissa Amundson received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (’99) followed by her BDS and DDS from the University of Illinois-Chicago (’07). She started her career in OMFS with an internship at the University of Pennsylvania followed by her residency at The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital (’12). In 2015, she returned to an academic setting and completed her fellowship in Advanced Craniomaxillofacial Surgery and Trauma in Portland, Oregon at the Head and Neck Institute/Legacy Emanuel Hospital followed by her Master’s in Public Health at the University of Florida in 2020.
Her professional interests include maxillofacial trauma and secondary reconstruction along with humanitarian surgery. She is currently a full time hospital based maxillofacial trauma surgeon at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital-Florida State University College of Medicine. Her extensive international experience has includes long-term projects in Honduras, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. She is currently a consultant surgeon for Medicines Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders and Mercy Ships along with American College of Surgery Committee Appointments for Health Outreach Program for Equity on Global Surgery (H.O.P.E) and International Relations.
Dr. Amundson is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vice President of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. She is the recipient of the Rising Star Award ’22 (University of Illinois), ICARE Award ’22 (Tallahassee), and the Luminary Award ’25 (University of Wisconsin).

James is originally from Prince Edward Island. He complete his undergraduate BSc at Acadia University in Nova Scotia after which he made his way to Halifax where he completed his DDS at Dalhousie University finishing in 2007. He then completed the GPR program at the University of Western Ontario prior to his return to Halifax to complete the 6 year MD MSc in OMFS at Dalhousie University in 2014. He then traveled to Glasgow Scotland with his wife and 3 children to complete advanced training in trauma, and cleft lip and plate surgery.

James then returned home to Dalhousie and has been fully engaged in a wide scope of practice including Dentoalveolar, Trauma, Orthognathic, Pathology, and TMJ surgery. James if a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentist, he is a member of the Canadian Dental Association, the Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Halifax County Dental Society, and is registered with the General Medial Council in the UK. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dalhousie OMFS department.

Dr. Hans Brockhoff II is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon with fellowship training in head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstruction. He holds a dental degree from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas and his fellowship at the University of Michigan.

His clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of head and neck cancers including oral cavity, oropharynx, salivary gland, thyroid, and skull base. Additionally, he performs complex facial reconstruction using free tissue transfers and microneural surgery. He has extensive experience in correction of defects of the facial structures, maxillofacial trauma, and oral reconstruction.

Dr. Brockhoff is the founding and current program director of the El Paso Head & Neck and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship. This fellowship is one of approximately 14 in the United States for oral & maxillofacial surgery in the area of oncologic surgery. It is a two-year training program that offers advanced surgical training in head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstruction.

Currently, Dr. Brockhoff is the Chief of the Division of Head & Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at El Paso Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Texas. He has an additional appointment as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, Texas. His areas of research are primarily in head and neck oncology as well as trauma, and reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Brockhoff has lectured both nationally and internationally and has published numerous manuscripts in the area of head and neck cancer and reconstructive surgery. He is a current reviewer for the Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery as well as a board examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Dr. Dina Amin is an Associate Professor and the Residency Program Director in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY. She specializes in oral, head, and neck oncology and microvascular reconstructive surgery. She graduated from King
Abdulaziz University, the only internationally accredited dental school by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA). She completed a
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency in Saudi Arabia, followed by fellowships in craniofacial surgery, head and neck oncology, and
microvascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, Alabama, US. Dr. Amin joined the Emory
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) in 2016 as the director of the OMS Ambulatory Clinic. In 2021, she was appointed the associate
chief of OMS service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Amin is accredited with introducing head and neck oncology and microvascular
reconstruction, utilizing computer-assisted surgery and computer-assisted navigation to complex craniomaxillofacial trauma and advanced head and
neck reconstruction to the clinical services of Emory OMS. Dr. Amin worked briefly at Texas A&M University and Baylor Medical Center before
joining the University of Rochester. Her primary research evolved from her interests in craniomaxillofacial trauma and head and neck reconstruction, as she is the PI of an orbital trauma clinical trial. Dr. Amin has received intramural and international grants. She is the author of more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters. She also edited one book entitled" Pitfalls and Pearls in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery."