Aditi Desai

Aditi Desai is current President of British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine (BSDSM) and British Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (BADSM.). She is immediate Past President of Odontology Section of Royal Society of Medicine and serves on the Council of Sleep Section at Royal Society of Medicine. She serves on the Executive Board of the British Sleep Society and Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP).  Aditi has been recently appointed to serve on the first Scientific and Education Committee of the World Dentofacial Sleep Society. She is a member of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.

Aditi was awarded Fellowship of the College of General Dentistry by virtue of her distinguished service to dentistry.

A restorative dentist over 48 years and by virtue of her passion for sleep medicine, Aditi now limits her practice to the management of patients with sleep disorders that includes Sleep Apnoea, Snoring, Sleep Bruxism and TMD that require dental intervention. She works closely with a team of sleep specialists as part of a multidisciplinary team from HCA Outpatients at Shard and Specialist Care at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital in Wimpole Street, London. She travels widely, nationally and internationally, lecturing on all aspects of Dental Sleep Medicine. Aditi is Faculty in the UWE PGCert program in Sleep Medicine and MSc Program in Sleep Medicine of Oxford University.

She has recently successfully seen the merger between the BSDSM and British Sleep Society Aditi has been involved in the implementation of the pathway to see the provision of Oral Appliance Therapy by trained dentists in the National Health Service.

Aditi is a keen cook and loves to travel.  She takes every opportunity to increase awareness of the pivotal role of the dental profession in management of sleep and breathing disorders.  Her true passion spreads to spending as much time as possible with her family, her two daughters, son in law and two grandsons.