Meet Dr. Kademani

Dr. Deepak Kademani

DMD, MD, FACS

New Book Edited By Dr. Kademani

Biography

Dr. Kademani’s dental, medical degrees and surgical residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery education was at the University of Pennsylvania.  This was followed by a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery.   He was subsequently board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery. In 2004 he was the recipient of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Faculty Education Development Award.
After the completion of his surgical training, Dr. Kademani moved to Minnesota to join the Department of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester where he was an Assistant Professor. In 2008, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has served numerous roles including Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Fellowship Director for the Oral/Head and Neck Surgery Program, Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and Chief of Staff at North Memorial Medical Center.
In 2020, Dr. Kademani received the Committee Person of the Year Award for his participation on AAOMS committees.
Dr. Kademani is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College of Surgeons and the American Head and Neck Society. In addition to authoring or co-authoring over one hundred books, abstracts, chapters, monographs, and publications, he has authored two textbook’s ‘Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery’ and ‘Improving Outcomes in Oral Cancer’.  He has delivered over 300 invited lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of topics, predominantly in head and neck pathology, oral cancer and reconstructive head and neck surgery. He has served as President of the Minnesota Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He has served as on the Examination Committee for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and was recently elected as Director. He has a number of roles associated with the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, including being appointed as Chair of Committee of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Research Committee and the Committee on Oral/Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery. With the American Dental Association Dr. Kademani, serves on the Clinical and Scientific Affairs Committee.  His practice is dedicated to the care of head and neck cancer, oral cancer, salivary gland tumors, thyroid, skull base surgery and reconstructive head and neck surgery, orthognathic, TMJ, sleep apnea and dentoalveolar surgery.  He prides himself on delivering the highest quality and compassionate surgical care to his patients.
In his free time, he enjoys golfing, traveling, and spending time with his family. He also has a soft spot for cars.

Practice Areas

Research Interests

Awards

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Mehra, P., Powers, D. B., Kademani, D., & Tiwana, P. S. (2025). Perspective on trends in oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training and recent match results. Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology, S2212-4403(25)01215-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oooo.2025.09.015 

Lee, K. C., Neal, T. W., Peacock, Z., Cuddy, K., Kademani, D., Melville, J. C., & Markiewicz, M. R. (2024). Common local and regional flaps for the maxillary and Midface. Atlas of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cxom.2024.01.001  

Carlson, E. R., Kademani, D., Ward, B. B., & Oreadi, D. (2023). American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon’s Position Paper on Oral Mucosal Dysplasia. Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery: official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 81(8), 1042–1054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2023.04.017 

Birkeland, A. C., Kademani, D., Moore, M. G., & Blair, E. A. (2023). Practice patterns for initial management of oral leukoplakia amongst otolaryngologists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons. Oral oncology, 139, 106341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2023.106341 

Carlson, E.R., Kademani, D., Ward, B., & Oreadi, D. (2023). American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon’s Position Paper on Oral Mucosal Dysplasia R2. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2023.04.017 

Ruggerio, S, Dodson, TB, Agaloo, T, Carlson, ER, Ward, B, Kademani, D American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons’ Position Paper on Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw-2022 Update (in press) available online February 21, 2022 

Olivia Urquhart, MPH; Hillary R. DeLong, JD; Kathleen M. Ziegler, PharmD (corresponding author); Lauren Pilcher, MSPH; Sarah Pahlke, MS; Malavika P. Tampi, MPH; Kelly K. O’Brien, MLIS; Lauren L. Patton, DDS; Nishant Agrawal, MD, FACS; Theresa M. Hofstede, BSc, DDS, FACP; Deepak Kademani, DMD, MD, FACS; Mark W. Lingen, DDS, PhD, FRCPath; Nathaniel S. Treister, DMD, DMSc; C. Jillian Tsai, MD. PhD; Alonso Carrasco-Labra, DDS, MSc, PhD; Ruth D. Lipman, PhD Effect of Pre-radiation Dental Intervention on Incidence of Osteoradionecrosis in Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (in press JADA) 

Johnson, A, Baeten, J, Patel, K, Killian, M,  Sunny, S,  Suresh, A,  Uma, K, Birur, P, Kuriakose, M, Kademani, D Evaluation of a Lectin-Based Imaging System for the Chairside Detection of Oral Dysplasia and Malignancy 

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (2019) April 

Cillo Jr. JE, Aghaloo T, Basi D, Bouloux GF, Campbell JA, Chou J, Dodson T, Edwards SP, Kademani D, Peacock Z, Proceedings of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon’s 2017 Clinical and Scientific Innovations in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (CSIOMS)., Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2017.10.018. 

Baeten J, Johnson A, Sunny S. Suresh A, Birur P, Uma K, Kademani D. “Chairside Molecular Imagining of Aberrant Glycosylation in Subjects with Suspicious Oral Lesions Using Fluorescently Labeled Wheat Germ Agglutinin.” Wiley Head and Neck July 2017 

Kademani D, Woo B, Ward B, Fernandes Rui, Carlson E, Helman J, Ghali G.E., Lambert P. Oral/Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship Training Programs: Transformation of the Specialty from 2005-2015, Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2016.07.022. 

Baeten, MSc, Suresh, PhD, Kuriakose, Flynn, and Kademani D. Molecular Imaging of Oral Premalignant and Malignant Lesions Using Fluorescently Labeled Lectins. 

Translational Oncology (2014) 7 213-220 

Peacock Z, Le A, Lee J, Hale R, Cunningham L, Kademani D. Proceedings from the 2013 American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Research Summit, J Oral & Maxillofac Surg. (Accepted J Oral & Maxillofac Surg 09/13).  

Patel, K, French, C., Khariwala, Samir S., Rohrer, M., Kademani, D. Intraosseous Leiomyosarcoma of the Mandible: A Case Report. J Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. June 2013   

Argyris, P., Kademani, D., Pambuccian, S., Nguyen, R., Tosios, K., Koutlas, I.  Correlation between p16 INK4A Immunohistochemistry and Human Papillomavirus Chain Reaction Assay in Oral Papillary Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OPSCCa) J Oral & Maxillofac Surg 10/13) 

Sink J, Hamlar D, Weimer K, Kademani D, Khariwala S. Computer-Aided Stereolithography for Pre-Surgical Planning in Fibula Free Tissue Reconstruction of the Mandible. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. June 2012. (Epub ahead of print). 

Peacock Z, Kademani D, Le A, Lee J, Hale R, Cunningham L. Proceedings from the 2011 American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Research Summit, J Oral & Maxillofac Surg. June 2012.  

Sink J, Kademani D.   Maxillofacial Oncology at the University of Minnesota: Treating the Epidemic of Oral Cancer.  NW Journal of Dentistry, Volume 90, page 13. 2011.

Le AD, Lee JS, Dodson TB, Kademani D, Feinberg SE, Shetty V, Wohlford ME, Zuniga JR, Cunningham LL. The Proceedings of the AAOMS 2009 Research Summit. Journal of Oral and Maxillofac Surg 1711-1722, 2010.  

Kademani D., Lewis J., Lamb D. Rallis D. Harrington J. Angiogenesis and CD34 Expression as a Predictor of Recurrence in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. J of Oral and Maxillofac Surg 38 (8): 1800-1805, Aug 2009.  

Kademani D, Moran S. Medial Femoral Periosteal Free Flap. a New Method of Maxillary Reconstruction. J of Oral and Maxillofac Surg 67 (1): 661-665, Feb 2009.

Book Chapters

Sharma, K, Kademani, D “Facial Translocation Approach” In Kademani, D, Tiwana, P. Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2nd Edition. Elseiver 2022 
Role: Significant/Patients (submitted) 

Sharma, K Kademani, D. “Neck Dissection” In Kademani, D, Tiwana, P. Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 1st Edition. Elsevier 2022 
Role: Significant/Patients (submitted) 

Sharma, K Kademani, D. “Pectoralis Major Flap” In Kademani, D, Tiwana, P. Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 1st Edition. Elsevier 2022 
Role: Significant/Patients (submitted) 

Yeoh, M Kademani, D. “Orbital Resection” In Kademani, D, Tiwana, P. Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 1st Edition. Elsevier 2022 
Role: Significant/Patients (submitted) 

Kademani, D, Awadallah, M, Patel, K, “Factors Affecting Response and Survival in Radiotherapy,” “Predictions of Outcomes in Oral Cancer” Springer, 2019 

Books Edited

Kademani D (OMS section editor) Lockhart, P (Ed) 7th Edition “Oral medicine and medically complex patients” 2023 (in press) 

Kademani D, Tiwana, P 2nd Edition “Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery” Elsevier 2022 (in press) 

Kademani, D. “Improving Outcomes in Oral Cancer” Springer, 2019 

Kademani, D, Tiwana, G.P.  “Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery” Elsevier 2015, 2022 

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