Associate Professor Alf Nastri graduated first in dentistry and then in medicine from the University of Melbourne, before completing 4 years of specialty OMFS training in Melbourne. Mr Nastri completed additional fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University (Boston, USA) and in Southampton UK in the subspecialty areas of craniofacial surgery, corrective jaw surgery and skull base surgery.

He has been in private specialist practice in Melbourne since 1999 and is Director of OMF Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has recently been appointed as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

Special interests include corrective jaw surgery and implantology, maxillofacial trauma and the management of maxillofacial tumours. His contributions include ADA Victorian Council member, FRACDS(OMS) Examination Co-ordinator, Examiner for Final OMS Fellowship, AOCMF trauma International Faculty member and Australian representative on AOCMF trauma Asia Pacific Board. He is also currently deputy chair of the examinations committee as one of the Members of the Board of Studies of the College. He has a significant committment to teaching despite a heavy surgical workload.