Programme

• The Tübingen Philosophy for the Management of Robin Sequence Christian Poets and the Tübingen Team

• MRI for VPI: Implementing and Interpreting Velopharyngeal MRI Thomas Sitzman, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, USA

• Bilateral alveolar cleft grafting from simple to complex: A Focus on Technical Strategies Michael Lypka, Children’s Mercy Hospital, USA

• Management of Very Large Palatal Fistulae Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz, Pakistan

• Communication Impact: risk reduction in cleft care through multidisciplinary teamwork Kitty Jenkin, Lifebox, UK

09:30 – 10:30

• Task Force Holistic Outcomes

• Task Force Global

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• LMIC Theme

• SPEECH

• Craniofacial

• ENT/airway

• Dental

• SPEECH

• ROBIN SEQUENCE

• ORTHODONTIC

• FEEDING

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• CLEFT SERVICES/COVID

• PSYCHOLOGY

• CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL

Leveraging Technology to Advance Training: Honoring Our Founder, Charles B. Wang

Court Cutting, Roberto Flores, & Aaron Oliker

When the Going Gets Tough: How can cleft professionals contribute to positive psychological outcomes in patients and their families?

Nicky Rumsey, University of the West of England, UK

• Holistic management of 22q11 deletion syndrome: a parent/patient driven comprehensive service
  Co-Chair: Dr Alex Habel

• Controversy and Consensus in the Management of Robin Sequence
  Co-Chairs: Catherine De Blacam and Marie Wright

• Support Groups
  Co-Chairs: Gareth Davies and Claire Cuniffe

• Team VPI Assessment – Who. How and Why?
  Co-Chairs: Brian Sommerlad and Savitha Hanrihan

• Cleft Collective Cohort Studies

• Velopharyngeal Dysfunction: Detailed assessment and predictor of outcomes with secondary Furlow’s palatoplasty
  Krishnamurty Bonanathaya, Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon & Project Director, Smiletrain Cleft Leadership Centre, Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, India

• CLELAND Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback for Treating Cleft Speech Characteristics
  Joanne Cleland, UK

• Capacity-building global initiatives for craniofacial and comprehensive cleft care: An interactive discussion-based workshop identifying challenges and solutions for those engaged in speech therapy and VPD surgery worldwide
  Chelsea Sommer, Florida International University, USA

• The Impact of Virtual Reality (VR) on Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery: The Future is Here
  Pravin K. Patel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

• Art as a Bridge to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  Isabelle Wachsmuth, Smile Train, USA

• Alternative Approaches for Presurgical Infant Orthopedics
  Daniela Tanikawa, Hospital Menino Jesus. Partner Sirio Libanes Association, Brazil

• The power of partnership

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SDGs and compassion in improving global cleft care

Liz Grant, University of Edinburgh, UK

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• Junior Investigator,Arnold Huddart/Owen Cole

• PSIO/NAM

• PATIENT ENGAGEMENT

• SPEECH

• ORAL HEALTH/ORTHODONTICS

• COMPREHENSIVE CARE

• PSYCHOLOGY

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• Scandcleft: Longterm Results and Lessons Learned

• SPEECH

• ALVEOLAR BONE GRAFT

• GENETICS

• LMICs/Covid

15:15 to 16:45

• PSIO/NAM
  Co-Chairs: Puneet Batra and Anne Marie Kuijpers Jagtman

• HOW BEST TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE INTER-DISCIPLINARY AND COMPREHENSIVE CLEFT CARE IN LOW-RESOURCE COUNTRIES
  Co-Chairs: Hugh Brewster and Liz Grant

• Congenital Anomaly Registries

• Early parental psychology adjustment and support needs
  Co-Chairs: Kate Le Marechal and Matthew Hotton

• Management of palatal fistula
  Co-Chairs: Bruce Richards and Kezia Echlin

16:00 – 17:00

• DEVEX

The First Embrace: getting it right at brith for the Mother Newborn Dyad

Maria Asuncion Silvestre

• Uses of the Buccal Flap in Cleft Surgery
  Robert Mann and Per Hall

• 6 Questions to Kickstart your Comprehensive Cleft Care (CCC) Strategy in LMIC contexts
  Hugh Brewster, Transforming Faces,Canada

• A protocol for the surgical management of VPD based primarily on lateral videofluoroscopy and secondary palatal surgery
  Brian Sommerlad,CLEFT, UK

• The Multidisciplinary Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Jaw Deformities, Dental Problems and Craniofacial Conditions
  Zarmina Ehsan, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, USA

• Standardising outcomes in cleft lip and palate research; development and implementation of core outcome sets
  Catherine de Blacam, Childrens Health Ireland At Crumlin, Ireland

• Achieving consensus on a universal cleft classification system after birth
  Corstian Brugem

Current and future needs of surgical training

Justin Collins

• SECONDARY SURGERY

• Junior Investigator,Arnold Huddart/Owen Cole

• REGISTRIES

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• ORTHODONTICS

• CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL

• LMIC Theme

• FEEDING

• Task Force SPEECH

• Task Force NEONATAL

• GROWTH OUTCOMES

• ANAESTHESIA

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• Laterality of Orofacial Clefts

• CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL

• GENETICS

• Where are we on the journey towards excellence in perceptual cleft speech assessment?
  Co-Chairs – Valerie Pereira and Kristina Klinto

• Rhinoplasty at the time of lip repair. Who nose?
  Co-Chairs: David Chong and Per Hall

• PROMs in CL/P – From idea to implementation
  Co-Chairs: Karen Wong and Mia Stiernman

• Objective measurement of technical competence in surgery
  Co-Chairs: Justin Collins and Tom Sitzman (tbc)

• Peer Support and Burnout
  Co-Chair: Ulf Theilen

Building safe capacity in global surgery

Prof Miliard Derbew, King Faisal Hospital Kigali, Rwanda

• The Furlow Z-Palatoplasty: Optimizing Surgical Technique and Clinical Outcomes
  Oksana Jackson, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

• Anterior Maxillary Distraction Osteogenesis (AMD) for Cleft Midface Hypoplasia – Orthodontic and Surgical Considerations
  Syed Altaf Hussain, SRMC, India

• Family-Centered Cleft Palate Speech Therapy: A Model for Improved Speech Outcomes
  Eileen Marrinan, University Of Rochester, USA

• Adult Cleft Care: An interactive workshop for MDT clinicians on how to consider psychological factors when assessing and planning ongoing adult cleft care
  Rebecca Crawford, NHS Scotland, UK

• Learn the Full Digital Workflow: From Intraoral Scan to Point-of-Care 3D Design and Printing of Presurgical Orthopaedic Plates
  Benito K. Benitez, University Of Basel, Switzerland

• The Cleft Collective resource; applying for data

The Jyotsna Murthy Memorial Oration
Global Surgery

Nobhojit Roy 

• SPEECH SURGERY

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• GROWTH OUTCOMES

• SPEECH

• CRANIOMAXILLOFACIAL

• EPIDEMIOLOGY

• SECONDARY SURGERY

• AUDIT PRIZE

• Task Force CLEFT W/O CARIES

• Task Force EPDEMIOLOGY/PREVENTION

• LMIC Theme

• MRI/Speech surgery

• REGISTRIES

• ROBIN SEQUENCE

• TELEHEALTH

• AUDIT PRIZE

• Building Research Capacity in LMICs
  Co-Chairs: Tina – Justina Seyi-Olajide and Nobhojit Roy

• National Outcome Studies and Cleft Registries
  Co-Chairs: Magnus Becker and John Thompson

• Controversies in Speech Therapy Intervention
  Co-Chairs: Triona Sweeney and Linda Vallino

• Cleft without caries
  Co-Chairs: Muthu Murugan and Lola Orenuga

• Experiences of living with a Cleft
  Co-Chairs: Kenny Ardouin and Liliana Arias

Timing of Palatal Surgery (TOPS). Results of an international RCT

Tanya Walsh and Kevin Munro, University of Manchester, UK

• Oral Examination: Normal and Abnormal findings. Improving Diagnosis for Children with Craniofacial Disorders
  J C Shirley, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Paediatric Hospital, USA

• Panel: Orthodontic correction of class III malocclusion
  Co-Chairs: Maria Costanza and OP Kharbanda

• Introductory to Team Cleft
  Thitena Negussie Mammo

• Bilateral Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Surgery Training Using High Fidelity Simulators
  Roberto L. Flores, Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, USA

• Application and manufacturing of Preepiglottic Baton Plate in Patients with Robin Sequence
  Güll Schmidt

• Three-dimensional Planning and Reconstruction of the Mandible in Children with Craniofacial Microsomia Using Costochondral Grafts
  Omri Emodi,  Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

• Prosthetic Management of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction
  Kaylee Paulsgrove, Seattle Children’s Hospital, USA

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

• LMIC Theme

• SURGERY

• COVID issues

• RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY

• SECONDARY SURGERY

• EPIDEMIOLOGY

• PRIMARY SURGERY

• PSYCHOSOCIAL

• LMIC theme

• MAXILLOFACIAL

• ALVEOLAR bone grafting

• PRIMARY SURGERY

Unlimited minutes, unlimited text, unlimited data – the power of cohort studies to answer clinical questions

Yvonne Wren, University of Bristol, UK