Nazan Adali is a Consultant in Surgical Orthodontics with extensive experience in combined orthognathic surgery, jaw growth management, adult obstructive sleep apnoea and cleft lip and palate treatment. She serves as a Consultant Orthodontist at the Maxillofacial Centre at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, has had a past honorary position at Cleft.Net.East cleft hub and has had a private practice in London since 2007.
Since 2011, she holds a visiting postgraduate lecturer role at King’s College London (KCL) for the Master’s programmes in Orthodontics, Maxillofacial Prosthodontics and Craniofacial Technology and more recently Professor of Practice at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, New Delhi, India. She serves on the Specialty Editorial Review Board of the Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal for both the Orthodontic and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery sections.
Dr Adali graduated in dentistry from GKT Dental Institute, KCL, with an intercalated bachelors degree in Immunology from UMDS. She worked in oral maxillofacial surgery at UCLH and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, where she subsequently trained in orthodontics and cleft care, receiving the Arnold Huddard Research Medal from the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
As a Fellow and Assessor for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and a graduate of INSEAD Business School executive education in Impact Entrepreneurship, she has an interest in innovation in surgical planning, MedTech and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
