Prof Srinivas Gosla Reddy is a craniofacial surgeon who specializes in treating patients born with or suffering from any form of facial defect. He received his master’s in dental surgery (MDS) in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery from Mangalore University in Karnataka, India, in 1996. Since 1997, he has been treating children with cleft and craniofacial defects in Hyderabad, India, where he later established the GSR Institute of Craniofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery, a 50-bed stand-alone state-of-the-art craniofacial centre. Recognizing the unmet needs of these children, he went on to further train in medicine and surgery at Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences in Andhra Pradesh, India. He also obtained a PhD from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Prof Reddy has trained extensively in various craniofacial centres in Europe, such as University Hospital Zürich, Poole Hospital in the UK, AV Sint Jan Hospital in Bruges, Belgium, and the university hospitals of Muenster, Leipzig and Halle in Germany. He is also a well-known teacher in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery and is a professor attached to the Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences. For his distinguished work in the field of craniofacial surgery, he was awarded honorary fellowships in dental surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and London. His research focuses on cleft and craniofacial anomalies, and he is particularly interested in methods such as the morphofunctional repair of cleft lip and palate.