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Professor Jag Dhanda is an Oral and Maxillofacial/Head and Neck Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in head and neck oncology and a Professor of Surgery and Extended Reality in Medicine and Surgery. His NHS practice is limited to free tissue transfer for complex head and neck reconstruction. He has been the successful recipient of three Royal College of Surgeons of England research fellowships (college, board and specialty) and a CRUK fellowship. Professor Dhanda is the founder and clinical lead for Virtual Reality in Medicine and Surgery (VRiMS.net), a free for trainee resource using live streaming and restreaming of cadaveric surgical techniques in virtual reality. He is conducting studies to scientifically evaluate and validate extended reality in medical education with his research group recently hosting a metaverse event for HEE. VRiMS has released a VR app for basic life support and fire safety training for mandatory training and is the largest XR in medicine and surgery research group in the UK. His research group is also developing a skin cancer augmented reality app to guide surgeons in diagnosis and surgical techniques for managing facial skin cancer. Professor Dhanda regular travels to low to middle income countries to develop teaching resources using extended reality. His group raises funds to develop innovations for global surgery and donate surgical instruments to rural surgeons as well as providing training for all of the surgical specialties using extended reality.