About this event

  • Date and time Mon 22 Sep 2025 from 8:30am to 5:20pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Join us for our Maxillofacial Surgery, Ballistic Injuries & Forensics Meets Law event!

This event explores the challenges of managing maxillofacial war and ballistic injuries, from emergency care and surgical reconstruction to long-term rehabilitation. Through a multidisciplinary lens, we’ll examine the intersection of surgery, law, and the arts in restoring facial aesthetics and function after severe trauma.

Highlights & Speakers

  • Professor David Nott OBE OStJ FRCS
    Internationally renowned war surgeon, sharing real-life cases and lessons from conflict zones.
  • Stephen Vullo KC
    Leading UK criminal barrister, who has represented some of the most high-profile defendants to have come before the courts in the last decade will share with us some of his experiences and cases that we can all learn from.
  • Professor Nadey S. Hakim FRCS FRCSI FACS FASMBS
    Professor of transplant surgery at Imperial College London and general surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic London, he is also a writer, musician, and sculptor. He is known for kidney and pancreas transplantations and was part of the surgical team that performed the world's first hand transplantation in 1998 and the double arm transplantation in 2000. 
  • Dr Abdulhakim Zaggut
    CEO, Hakim Hospital, with extensive experience in craniofacial trauma and building services for war injuries.

Who Should Attend?

Maxillofacial, aesthetic, and plastic surgeons; lawyers; trauma and emergency clinicians; advanced nursing practitioners; and anyone interested in the clinical and legal aspects of facial trauma.

Why Attend?

  • Learn from leading experts with real-world experience
  • Gain practical insights into surgical, forensic, and legal challenges
  • Network with professionals across surgery, law, and trauma care

Join us for a day of expert presentations and cross-disciplinary discussion at the cutting edge of surgery, law, and facial reconstruction.

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Tickets

Early Bird pricing available until 11 August 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£77.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£141.00 £84.00 £84.00 £44.00

Agenda

View the programme 22 September 2025

Registration, tea and coffee

Welcome and Introduction

Mr Ashraf Messiha, Section President in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, St George’s Hospital, University of London

Complex facial trauma in disaster war zones. What I have seen, done and learnt!

Professor David Malcolm Nott OBE, Professor of Practice (Surgery), Imperial College, Consultant Surgeon, St Mary’s Hospital, University of London

Forensic maxillofacial surgery meets law

Mr Stephen Vullo, King’s Counsel, Founder & Counsel, Mayfair, London 

Tea and coffee break

Devastating craniofacial, head & neck ballistic trauma. How I did it from scratch!

Dr Abdulhakim Zaggut, Senior Lecturer and Chief Executive Officer, Craniofacial Hakim Hospital, Libya 

The surgeon’s gaze is one that sees more than just skin. Sculpting the face

Professor Nadey Hakim, Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic London

Lunch

Poster viewing and sponsor exhibition

Panel discussion

Moderator: Mr Ashraf Messiha 

Oral presentation

4 x 15 min - Maxillofacial presentation relating to Ballistic Injuries

Oral presentation

4 x 15 min - Maxillofacial Presentation relating to Medicolegal Implications

Tea and coffee break

RSM prize awards
  • Best Poster  
  • Best Presentation on Maxillofacial Ballistic Injuries  
  • Best Presentation in Maxillofacial Surgery Medico-Legal Implications
Close of meeting

Council dinner

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Sunday 21 September 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time. 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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