Mehmet Manisali studied dentistry at Bristol University and medicine at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School (Imperial College London). He is a maxillofacial surgery consultant at St. Georges Hospital NHS Foundation Trust specialising in facial deformity. He is also an honorary consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital regularly carrying out joint clinics and operating with his ophthalmology colleagues. His main areas of interest are: facial aesthetic surgery, orthognathic surgery, orbital surgery, skin cancer and facial trauma. He is a member of the skin cancer multidisciplinary team at Croydon University Hospital. As a dedicated teacher he regularly runs courses in various aspects of facialsurgery; including rhinoplasty, other facial aesthetic procedures and trauma. He has a busy International lecturing schedule and visits his native country Turkey regularly, carrying out outpatient clinics and operating sessions. Since 2017 he is also involved in the Facing the World Charity, collaborating with surgeons in Vietnam. He is President Elect of the Maxillofacial Surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He also takes an active role in the European Academy of FacialPlastic Surgery as a member of the reconstruction and trauma sub-group.