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Monday 11th – Friday 15th July 2022
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland UK

Cleft 2022 will be hybrid! (in person and virtual)

We are looking forward to welcoming all of you to Edinburgh… but we also want to make sure we include anyone who may not be able to travel. So, we are very pleased to announce that Cleft 2022 will be a hybrid event.

Virtual attendees will:

– Access all talks, panels and presentations
– Have access to our online networking hub
– Gain CME points for attending the congress

We hope to see you in person (or virtually) at Edinburgh Cleft 2022!

Dear Friends,

On behalf of my colleagues in Edinburgh and the CFSGBI, I warmly invite you to join us in July 2022, for the 14th International Cleft Congress.
Our custom built conference venue, the EICC, is surrounded by a range of hotels, and cafes, in the very heart of Edinburgh – a short walk from many famous tourist sites, such as Edinburgh Castle and the Queen’s Palace at Holyrood. Our long summer days leave plenty of time to explore, with 17 hours of daylight.
We have much to learn from each other by sharing clinical experience, audit and research and building on and developing new collaborations. As we say in Scotland – Ceud mìlle fàilte (A Hundred Thousand Welcomes)!

Dr Felicity Vidya Mehendale
President International Confederation of Cleft Lip & Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies

Dr Felicity Mehendale

Chair of Cleft 2021
President of International Confederation of Cleft Lip & Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (ICCPCA)

Órla Duncan

Vice-Chair of Cleft 2021
Psychosocial Nurse Practitioner at Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh, UK

Vicky Beale

Treasurer of Cleft 2021

David Orr

Scientific Sub-Committee Co-Chair

Debbie Sell

Scientific Sub-Committee Co-Chair

Peter Mossey

Scientific Sub-Committee Co-Chair

David Sainsbury

Social Media and Delegate Engagement Sub-Committee Chair

Imogen Underwood

Prizes, Awards and Bursaries Sub-Committee Chair

Gillian Cairns

Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist

Margaret Davie

DipDH (Edin), DipOT (RCSEd), MClinEd (Edin), FHEA

Kate Le Marechal

Member of the Organising Committee

Professor Liz Grant MA, PhD, FRSE, FRCPE, MFPH

Keynote Speaker Liz Grant is an Assistant Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and a Professor of Global Health and Development. She is Director of the University’s Global Health Academy, responsible for developing and supporting global health partnerships and advocacy, and for translating global health research into action. Liz is a Co-Director of the Global […]

Nobhojit Roy PhD, MPH

Keynote Speaker Nobhojit Roy trained as a General and Trauma surgeon in Mumbai, India and the U.K. He also holds an MPH from John Hopkins University and a PhD from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. His research interests are surgical outcomes and health systems delivering surgical healthcare in resource-poor settings. In his clinical career, Roy served […]

Professor Nichola Rumsey OBE, PhD

Keynote Speaker Nichola is Emeritus Professor of Appearance Psychology at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She founded the Centre for Appearance Research at UWE in 1992 and was its Co-Director until 2018. Nichola has an international reputation for her research into the psychology of visible difference (disfigurement) and has published widely […]

Associate Professor Yvonne Wren MEd, PhD, CertMRCSLT

Keynote Speaker Yvonne Wren is Associate Professor of Speech and Communication at the University of Bristol and Director of Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit in the UK. She is also Chief Investigator of the Cleft Collective Cohort Studies. This large national database containing genotype, phenotype, environmental, clinical, parent report and outcome data from […]

Dr Justin Collins MBChB, MD, FRCS

Justin is a consultant robotic surgeon at UCLH and associate medical director at Cambridge Medical Robotics. 2014-2019 he worked as a Urologist and research coordinator at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden and in the last year of this he was also the medical director at ORSI academy. The largest robotic training centre in Europe. […]

Dr. Maria Asuncion Silvestre

Dr Maria Asuncion Silvestre completed advanced studies in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University. Upon return, she joined the University of the Philippines College of Medicine Faculty and the Philippine General Hospital. She committed herself to pushing breastfeeding into the core of pediatric education and authored a chapter on […]

Professor Milliard Derbew

Professor Miliard Derbew, MD, FRCS, FCS-ECSA, FACS is a passionate medical educator, surgeon, and global health leader, dedicated to improving the capacity of medical and academic systems. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the health and education systems, having served as a medical doctor, hospital administrator and clinic owner, professor, dean, university vice […]

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Dr Felicity Mehendale

Órla Duncan

Vicky Beale

David Orr

Debbie Sell

Peter Mossey

David Sainsbury

Imogen Underwood

Gillian Cairns

Margaret Davie

Kate Le Marechal

Professor Liz Grant MA, PhD, FRSE, FRCPE, MFPH

Nobhojit Roy PhD, MPH

Professor Nichola Rumsey OBE, PhD

Associate Professor Yvonne Wren MEd, PhD, CertMRCSLT

Dr Justin Collins MBChB, MD, FRCS

Dr. Maria Asuncion Silvestre

Professor Milliard Derbew