CLEFT2025

International Advisory Committee
in progress

Co-Chair of CLEFT2025
Felicity Vidya Mehendale
-Cleft and Plastic Surgeon, Global Cleft Research Programme, University of Edinburgh, UK
-Immediate Past President International Confederation of Cleft Lip and Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies and Chair Edinburgh Cleft 2022
Felicity Vidya Mehendale
Martin Persson
Professor of Health Science Faculty of Health Sciences, Kristianstad University
Martin Persson
Advisory Committee
Adriane L. Baylis
-Associate Professor – Clinical, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
-Director, Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Program, and Co-Director, 22q Center, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Adriane L. Baylis
Ashim Garg
-Cleft Warrior (Cleft Lip & Palate)
-Co-Founder & Director - Sirat Cleft Foundation
Ashim Garg
Canice E. Crerand
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Principal Investigator, Center for Biobehavioral Health, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Psychologist, Section of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Canice E. Crerand
Christopher Discolo
Co-Director, Cleft Lip & Palate Team
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Children's Hospital Colorado
Christopher Discolo
David Chong
Associate professor, Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Childrens Hospital Melbourne, Australia
David Chong
David Gillett
David Gillett
Karen Christine
Goldschmied Aljaro
- Speech and Language Therapist, Hospital Dr. Luis Calvo Mackenna, Chile
- Speech and Language Therapist, SmileTrain Latin America
Karen Christine Goldschmied Aljaro
Kristina Klintö
-Associate Professor and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Division of Logopedics, Phoniatrics, and Audiology, Department of Clinical Sciences in Lund, Lund University, Sweden
-Specialist Speech Language Pathologist, Malmö Cleft Lip and Palate Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
-Project manager for the Swedish Cleft lip and Palate Registry
Kristina Klintö
Lawal-Aiyedun Olubunmi,
-Paediatric Nurse
-Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Working Group, Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma, and Anaesthesia Care (G4 Alliance).
Lawal-Aiyedun Olubunmi
Luca Autelitano
Clinical Director, Cleft Lip and Palate Regional Center, Operation Smile Care Center, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo Milano
Adjunct Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies University of Milan
Luca Autelitano
Lun-Jou Lo
Professor, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Lun-Jou Lo
Maria Costanza Meazzini
-Scientific Director, Cleft Lip and Palate Regional Center, Operation Smile, S.Paolo Hospital, Milano
-Consultant for Craniofacial Anomalies, Dep.of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, S.Gerardo Hospital, Monza
-Adjunct Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies, University of Milano
-President, European Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies
Maria Costanza Meazzini
Matthew Hotton
Consultant Clinical Psychologis: The Spires Cleft Centre - Oxford, UK and the University of Oxford, UK
Matthew Hotton
Mekonen Eshete Abebe
Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences,
School of Medicine, Surgical Department
Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College
Mekonen Eshete Abebe
Nivaldo Alonso
-Professor Associado de Cirurgia Plástica da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
-Livre Docente da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
-Coordenador de Cirurgia Craniofacial HRAC-USP Bauru
Nivaldo Alonso
Oksana Jackson, MD
Professor, Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Oral Surgery,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Oksana Jackson, MD
Peter Donkor
Professor/Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GHANA.
Peter Donkor
Peter Mossey
Professor of Craniofacial Development,
Associate Dean for Internationalisation Dundee University Dental School
ProPeter Mossey
Ronald P. Strauss
-Dr. Claude A. Adams Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-Director and Chief Global Officer for ASOD-Global; Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, UNC Adams School of Dentistry
Ronald P. Strauss
Stuart Bade
-President, Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association
-Chief of Surgery, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Stuart Bade
Valerie J Pereira
Deputy Chief of Division (Speech Therapy)
Clinical Director (MSc SLP Program)
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Valerie J Pereira
Zainal A Ahmad
Chairman, Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Malaysia
Zainal A Ahmad
Zipporah Njeri Gathuya HSC
Public Health Specialist / Consultant Pediatric Anesthesiologist
- The Nairobi Hospital Kenya
- Smile Train Inc
Zipporah Njeri Gathuya HSC
Zuraini Ghazali
Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Malaysia (CLAPAM)
Zuraini Ghazali