Clinical Professor
Rutgers
Hackensack, New Jersey
Shahid R. Aziz, DMD, M.D., FACS, FRCSEd recently joined Hackensack University Medical Center and JFK University Medical Center as Division Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He will offer patients Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. Dr. Aziz’s clinical areas of expertise include facial trauma and reconstruction as well as orthognathic surgery; he does practice full scope oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Dr. Aziz currently serves as President of the New Jersey Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and Chairman of the Section of Dentistry and Oral Health of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is also the co-founder and President of the NJ based non-profit Smile Bangladesh which provides free surgery to children and adults with cleft lip and palate deformities in Bangladesh. Since starting Smile Bangladesh more than 16 years ago, Dr. Aziz has led a small team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses on 24 surgical missions and has treated more than 1,600 patients. Dr Aziz is the 2017 recipient of AAOMS Humanitarian Award for his charitable work in Bangladesh and in global surgery. He has also authored or co-authored over 50 peer reviewed journal articles and 22 book chapters. He is also only one of 6 American trained maxillofacial surgeons to be awarded a Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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