Prof. Dr. Julio Acero is the Head of the Department of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Ramon y Cajal and the Puerta de Hierro
University Hospitals in Madrid, Spain, and Full Professor of Surgery at the Alcala
University of Madrid. He studied Medicine and Dentistry and obtained his PhD at
the University of Madrid. He was a Fellow of the European Board of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery and Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England as well as Fellow and Examiner of the International Board for the
Certification of Specialists in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (IBCSOMS). He is
a Member of the Spanish National Academy of Dental Sciences and a Foreign
Member of the National Academy of Dentistry of Argentina. His special fields of
interest are oncologic and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck and
salivary gland pathology, as well as bone regeneration. He was awarded the
IAOMS Outstanding Committee Member Award presented at ICOMS, Shanghai, 2009, and the
Humanitarian Award of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons,
presented in Puerto Rico in 2016. He was the Education and Training Officer of
the European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS). He was the
past Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Association of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery and former President of the Spanish Society of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery.
