Vinay Kumar

Vinay V Kumar is a clinician, researcher, and educator in the field of implantology, oral and maxillofacial surgery. He completed dentistry from Bangalore (1998- 2003) and did masters in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, India (2008). He was an ITI Scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (2010) and completed his Dr. med dent. from (2013) and went on to MD & PhD in Molecular Mechanisms of Regenerative Processes at the Department of Immunology, Medical University of Rostock, Germany (2019).

He received his Dr. rerum humanarum with magna-cum-laude in 2019. He is the recipient of the Andre Schroeder Clinical Research Prize in 2017, for the research on implant rehabilitation post maxillofacial reconstruction. He is the recipient of over 6 competitive scholarships, 8 peer reviewed research grants, lectured internationally, has over 50 PubMed indexed journal publications, and can speak seven languages.

He has practicing licenses in India and Germany and is currently he is the Director of Oral Rehabilitation Center, Bangalore, also Head of Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Vydehi Superspeciality Hospital, Bangalore, Professor at Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, India and an adjunct specialist faculty at Division of Odontology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Uppsala University, Sweden.