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Jonas Ver Berne (MD, DDS) is a Pathology resident at the General Hospital St.-Jan in Brugge with a special interest in oral & maxillofacial pathology. He obtained his medical degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2020 (magna cum laude) with a thesis in oral pathology under promotorship of prof. dr. Constantinus Politis, prof. dr. Reinhilde Jacobs, and prof. dr. Erich Raubenheimer. In 2023, he obtained his dental degree from that same university (magna cum laude) and completed a three-year internship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospitals of Leuven. Since 2019 he has participated in numerous research projects at the OMFS-IMPATH research group, notably researching the effect of systemic conditions on orthognathic surgery patients. In 2023, he started his PhD project on developing clinical AI models for automated radiological diagnosis of jawbone lesions.