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BRIAN CLIVE SOMMERLAD
FRCSEng, FRCSEd(Hon), DSc(Med)UCL(Hon),
FRCPCH, FRCSLT(Hon),
CURRICULUM VITAE
25 Doughty Mews,
London,
WC1N 2PF
Tel: 01245 422477
Fax: 01245 421901
Email: [email protected]
Website www.sommerlad.co.uk
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Brian Clive Sommerlad
Qualifications : M.B., B.S., Sydney (January 1966)
FRCS Eng (November 1970)
FRCPCH
FRCSLT (Hon) (1998)
FRCS Ed (Hon) (2000)
FCS Sri Lanka (Hon) (2016)
DSc (Med Sc) (Hon) (2017)
Honours: Vietnam Logistic & Support Medal
Australian Active Service Medal 1945-1975
PRESENT APPOINTMENTS:
Honorary Consultant Plastic Surgeon:
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street,
London WC1 1PN
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust,
Broomfield Hospital,
Court Road,
Chelmsford,
Essex CM1 7ET
Honorary Senior Lecturer: Institute of Child Health - University College, London (ICH-UCL)
Adjunct Faculty Member: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 1st May 2016 – 1
st May 2020
Visiting Plastic Surgeon: Ospedale Santo Bono, Napoli, Italy.
Co-director: CLEFT/Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery - Comprehensive Cleft and
Craniofacial Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
Junior Resident Medical Officer, January 1966 - January 1967
Sydney Hospital
Senior Resident Medical Officer, January 1967 - January 1968
Sydney Hospital
Resident Medical Officer, January 1967 - January 1968
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney
Senior House Officer (Plastic & Orthopaedic), March 1969 - September 1969
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London
Previous appointments (ctd )
Surgical Registrar, October 1969 - January 1973
University College Hospital, London
(including periods of six months each at Brompton
Hospital and Barnet General Hospital)
Surgeon, April 1971 - August 1971
Australian Surgical Team, Bien Hoa Hospital, South Vietnam
Registrar in Plastic Surgery, January 1973 - January 1974
The London Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children,
and The German Hospital,
moving to St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay
Research Fellow in Plastic Surgery, January 1974 - October 1974
The London Hospital and St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay
Senior Registrar in Plastic Surgery, November 1974 - February 1978
St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay, The London Hospital,
St Bartholomew's Hospital & Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children
Locum Senior Registrar in Plastic Surgery, August 1976 - November 1977
Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow (on leave from substantive post)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, February 1978 - July 2011
St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay
(moved to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, 1998)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, February 1978 - April 1989
The London Hospital (becoming The Royal London Hospital)
Honorary Consultant Plastic Surgeon April 1989 - July 2010
The Royal London Hospital
Consultant Plastic Surgeon October 1980 - December 1994
Essex County Hospital, Colchester
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, January 1995 - July 2011
Gt Ormond St Hospital for Children
Consultant Plastic Surgeon: April 2013 - December 2016
Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Rome
Honorary Consultant Plastic Surgeon July 2011 to present
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
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MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES:
Honorary Member British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons
British Orthodontic Society
Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Belgian Society for Ear, Nose, Throat, Head & Neck Surgery
Thai Cleft Lip-Craniofacial Association
Full Member American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
Association Francophone des Fentes Faciales
British Medical Association
European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS)
South African Association of Plastic Surgeons
Academy of Experts
Hunterian Society
Fellow The Royal Society of Medicine
Honorary Fellow The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
OFFICES HELD:
Department of Health: Clinical Standards Advisory Group:
Cleft Lip and Palate Committee 1995 - 1997
Cleft Lip and Palate Research Group 1995 - 1997
Cleft Lip and Palate Implementation Group 1998 - 2002
Cleft Lip and Palate Monitoring Group 2002 - 2004
Adviser to the UK Advisory Panel on Healthcare Workers
infected with Blood-Borne Viruses (UKAP) 2000 - 2001
American Association of Plastic Surgeons Member, Craniofacial Sub-Committee of the PSEN Editorial Committee
British Plastic Surgery Senior Registrars Committee & Travelling Club Secretary 1975 - 1977
British Association of Plastic Surgeons (now British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic
Surgeons): Member, Research Committee 1981 - 1982
Member, Education & Research Sub-Committee 1982 - 1987
Chairman, Education & Research Sub-Committee 1985 - 1987
Member, Council 1983 - 1986
Chairman, Working Party on Training 1984 - 1986
Chairman, Career Structure Sub-Committee 1986 - 1989
Ex-Officio member, Council 1987
Member, Editorial Sub-Committee 1982 - 1985
Honorary Secretary 1990 - 1992
Ex-Officio member:
Education & Research Sub-Committee 1990 - 1992
Career Structure Sub-Committee 1990 - 1992
Editorial Sub-Committee 1990 - 1992
Ethical & Constitutional Sub-Committee 1990 - 1992
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Growth & Development Sub-Committee 1990 - 1992
Vice-President 1997
President 1998
Past-President 1999
Chairman, Overseas Service & Development Committee 2006 - 2009
Awarded honorary membership 2011
BAPS Cleft Group
Inaugurator & Organiser 1st Meeting, 1993
Secretary 1993 - 1996
Craniofacial Society of Great Britain Vice-President 1995
President 1996
Councillor 1997-99
Instigator and organiser of the first visit of the Craniofacial
Society Surgical Special Interest Group to Nantes and Milan October 2004.
Invited keynote speaker - Annual conference - Dublin April 2007
Awarded honorary membership April 2011
Invited keynote speaker Annual conference - Nottingham April 2016
European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) Member of the Selection Committee for the Young Plastic Surgeons Scholarship
European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (ESPRAS) Member, Executive Committee of the Humanitarian Aid
Resource Europe (S.H.A.R.E.) October 2008 - present
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons William Manchester Lecturer May 2007
Invited speaker May 2018
Royal Society of Medicine - Plastic Surgery Section
Library Representative 1979 - 1982
Secretary 1980 - 1981
Editorial Representative 1980 - 1984
Vice-President 1984 - 1985
President 1985 - 1986
Vice-President 1986 - 1987
British Postgraduate Medical Federation
Course Tutor & 1st Chairman of Organising Committee
(Advanced Courses in Plastic Surgery) 1978 - 1985
Member, Organising Committee 1985 - 1995
(Course subsequently taken over by BAPS in 1989)
Royal College of Surgeons of England Surgical Tutor 1983 - 1986
Member, Overseas Doctors Training Committee 1987 - 1989
Member, Working Party on Craniofacial Surgery 1987
Presidential Board of Surgical Specialties 1992
Member, Cleft Palate Steering Group 1994 - 1996
Member, Working Party on Cleft Palate Booklet 1995
for Parents
N Thames (East) Regional Advisor in Plastic Surgery 1996 - 1998
Member, Paediatric Forum 1996 - 1998
Hunterian Professor 1999
Member of the Working Party on Reconstructive Surgery 2000 -2001
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Course Convenor, Cleft Lip & Palate Symposium Nov. 2002
” ” ” ” ” Dec. 2003
” ” ” ” Nov. 2004
Clement Price Thomas Award 2007
McIndoe Lecturer November 2016
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Member of Specialist Advisory Board in Plastic Surgery 1996-1998
Honorary Fellow 2000
Joint Intercollegiate Board in Plastic Surgery Examiner in FRCS (Plast) 1994 - 1999
Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (nominated by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges) Member, Speech & Language Therapists Board 2000 - 2002
Member, Investigation Committee (S& L T Board) 2000 – 2002
Member, Education Committee (S&L T Board) 2000 – 2002
British Society for Surgery of the Hand Member, Education & Research Sub-Committee 1988 - 1990
Member, Standing Liaison Committee in Hand Surgery 1990 - 1991
Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training
Member, SAC in Plastic Surgery 1989 - 1992
University of London Clinical Teacher from 1981
Institute of Child Health Honorary Senior Lecturer, Surgery Unit,
Division of Clinical Sciences 1995 - present
Instigator and organiser of the first Great Ormond St/
St Andrew’s Cleft Palate Workshop 21st & 22
nd October 2004
Attended by 120 cleft specialists (about 70 from overseas)
Organiser of the second Great Ormond Street/St Andrew’s
Cleft Workshop 2006
Hospital College for Speech Sciences } Lecturer to 1979 - 1990
Central School for Speech and Drama} Speech Therapy
City University } Courses
University of Essex }
Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education Member, Higher Training Committee – North Thames 1994 - 1997
Chairman, Specialty Training C'ttee in Plastic Surgery 1994 - 1996
Chairman, Pan-Thames Specialty Training 1996 - 1997
Committee in Plastic Surgery
Member, Pan-Thames Specialty Training 1999 - 2000
Committee in Plastic Surgery
CLEFT LIP AND PALATE CHARITIES:
The Smile Train - Member, Medical Advisory Board 2003 - 2012
Cleft & Social Aide Foundation (Bangladesh) International Advisor 2004 - 2008
Interface Uganda - Trustee 2003 - 2013
CLEFT - Trustee 2007 - present
CLEFT - Chairman 2010 - Present
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REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS: Annals of Royal College of Surgeons of England
British Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
Indian Journal of Cleft Lip and Palate
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
Journal of Chinese Clinical Medicine
The Lancet
RESEARCH AWARDS:
Action Research - August 1998: An award for an investigation of the effects of presurgical orthodontics
(baby plates) on feeding and speech outcomes in children with cleft lip and/or palate
(with Miss A Maserei, Dr D Sell, Dr S Reilly, Dr M Mars, Mr D Di Biase & Mrs K Harland)
Total award: £94,380
The Royal College of Surgeons of England: An award for a study of the effect of intraoral scarring on velar
function in cleft palates.(with Mr L Kangesu and Miss F V Mehendale)
Total award: £52,651.75
CLEFT: An award for a study of the anatomy and function of the muscles of the soft palate
(with Dr Leila Rees)
Total award: £160,000
CLEFT: Use of the TBX22
null mouse model to investigate submucous cleft palate development and therapy
(with Dr Rimante Seselgyte) Total award: £135,000
REVIEWER FOR RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATIONS: Wellcome Trust
Action Research
Royal College of Surgeons
PhDs
Supervisor (with Professor Agostino Pierro) for Miss F V Mehendale, for a PhD on “Velopharyngeal
Function in the Cleft Palate Patient – how can it be made more normal?”
Close collaborator over many years with Dr Malcolm John Birch,, Consultant Physicist at The Royal London
Hospital, whose PhD thesis was entitled “New Measurement Techniques for the Assessment of
Velopharyngeal Function in Cleft Palate Patients”
Proposer of a project on the effects of presurgical orthodontics which resulted in a PhD for Dr.A. Maserai
Supervisor (with Prof Philip Stanier and Dr Erwin Pauws) for Dr. Leila Rees for a PhD on “A Study of the
Muscles of the Soft Palate”
Supervisor (with Prof Philip Stanier and Dr Erwin Pauws) for Dr Rimante Seselgyte for a PhD on “Use of
the TBX22null
mouse model to investigate submucous cleft palate development and therapy”
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS:
Cleft Lip and Palate and Velopharyngeal Function (Published and In Press):
1975 "A simplified method of recording in nasal pharyngoscopy" (with M E J Hackett and
J Watson) 1975 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 28, 34-36
1978 "Cleft lip & palate management" British Journal of Hospital Medicine January 1978
1981 "Nasendoscopy" 1981 In "Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery 2" Ed: I T Jackson; Churchill
Livingstone, Edinburgh
1985 "Levator palati and palatal dimples - their anatomy, relationship and clinical significance"
(with J G Boorman) 1985 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 38, 326-332 (Abstracted
in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 1987; 79, 155)
"Musculus uvulae and levator palati: their anatomical and functional relationship in
velopharyngeal closure" (with J G Boorman) 1985 British Journal of Plastic Surgery;
38, 333-338 (Abstracted in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 1987; 79, 155)
1989 "Surgical management of cleft palate - a review" 1989 Journal of Royal Society of Medicine;
82, 677-678
“Muscle reconstruction in cleft and submucous cleft palate” 1989 British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 42, 360
1990 "Heterotopic brain presenting as a cystic mass of the palate" (with A Al-Nafussi, K Hancock
& P J Carder) 1990 Histopathology; 17, 81-84
1993 "Do babies require arm splints after cleft palate repair?" (with L Kangesu & V Jigjinni) 1993
British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 46, 681-685
1994 "Neonatal cleft lip repair" 1994 Journal of Royal Society of Medicine; 85, 368
"Lateral videofluoroscopy - a modification to aid in velopharyngeal assessment and
measurement" (with N Rowland & K Harland) 1994 Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal; 31, 134-135
"Cleft palate re-repair - a clinical and radiographic study of 32 consecutive cases" 1994 (with
M Henley, M Birch, J Boorman & K Harland) British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 47, 406-410
"Image analysis of lateral velopharyngeal closure in cleft palate patients and normal palates"
(with M Birch & A Bhatt) 1994 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 47, 400-405
"The management of cleft lip and palate" 1994 Current Paediatrics; 4, 189-195
"A computer game to help in nasendoscopy" 1994 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 47, 512
“The development of a questionnaire to address patient satisfaction with services from the
cleft team" (with A C Williams E T Bradbury & W C Shaw) Submitted to "Social Science in
Medicine"
1995 “Managing cleft lip and palate. An invitation for Markus to present his results” Sell D A, Sommerlad BC,
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Christie F B, Ferguson MJ, Fastassen L, Russell VJ, Milling MA, Moos KF, Moss JP, Fenton O 1995
BMJ 311: 1432-3
"Transverse maxillary arch changes with the use of preoperative orthopaedics in unilateral cleft
palate patients" (with J V Ball & D Di Biase) 1995 Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal; 32, 483-488
1996 "Comment on 'Cleft lip and palate surgery; the need for individual and family counselling
(Editorial)" 1996 In: British Journal of Hospital Medicine
1997 "A team visit to Russia" (with D Sell, M Mars, C Godber, G Davies & J Braithwaite) 1997
Human Communication, Feb/Mar, 8
“A comparison of the dental occlusions from a United Kingdom sample of complete unilateral
cleft lip and palate patients, with those from the Eurocleft Study” (with R Chate, D Di Biase,
J Ball & M Mars 1997 Transactions of The 8th International Congress on Cleft Palate and
Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“The use of optical surface scanning to analyse facial morphological change in a group of patients
with complete unilateral bony clefts during facial expression” (with N J Hay, J P Moss) 1997
Transactions of The 8th International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies
(Singapore)
“A study of the measurement errors associated with the analysis of velopharyngeal movements
assessed from videofluoroscopic investigations” (with M J Birch, R Slator & C Fenn) 1997
Transactions of The 8th International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies
(Singapore)
“Velar function following secondary palate repair by intravelar veloplasty versus Furlow” (with
J Boorman, M Birch, C Fenn & A Pandya) 1997 Transactions of The 8th International Congress
on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Maxillary changes with the use of presurgical orthopaedics in unilateral cleft infants” (with
D Di Biase & J Ball) 1997 Transactions of The 8th International Congress on Cleft Palate and
Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Speech outcomes in consecutive series of patients with complete bony cleft of lip and palate aged
5 to 6 years and 8 to 11 years” (with K Harland) 1997 Transactions of The 8th International
Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Surface laser scanning and cephalometric assessment of a consecutive series of patients with
complete bony unilateral clefts”” (with J Moss, N Hay & C Hepworth) 1997 Transactions of the
8th International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Velar function and speech in a consecutive series of 42 patients with clefts of the palate” (with
R Slator, M Birch & K Harland) 1997 Transactions of The 8th International Congress on Cleft
Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“A technique of palate repair: Intravelar veloplasty” 1997 Transactions of the 8th International
Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Submucous cleft palate – a review of a consecutive series of 40 patients” (with K Harland, D
Sell, M Birch and C Fenn) 1997 Transactions of the 8th International Congress on Cleft Palate
and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Singapore)
“Cleft lip and palate surgery: family counselling” 1997 British Journal of Hospital Medicine ;
57.8, 411 (Correspondence)
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1998 “Neonatal cleft lip repair” (with M Ansermino) 1998 Paediatric Anaesthesia; 8, 94-95
(Correspondence)
“La véloplastie intra-vélaire” 1998 In the Proceedings of Les Journées de Saint Vincent de Paul,
November 1998
1999 “Management of children with cleft lip and palate – the inter-disciplinary approach - ‘Surgery’”
Abstracts of the 17th Congress of the IAPD 1999 International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry;
(Supp.1); 9; 71
"A study of the measurement errors associated with the analysis of velar movements assessed
from lateral videofluoroscopic investigations" (with M J Birch, C Fenn and M Butterworth)
1999 The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal; 36, 499-507
2000 “Double tongue, intraoral anomalies, and cleft palate – case reports and a discussion of development
pathology” (with J A Britto and R Ragoowansi) 2000 The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 37,
410-415
“A modified gag for cleft palate repair” (with F Mehendale) 2000 British Journal of Plastic
Surgery; 53, 63-64
2001 “Airway Obstruction Due to a Rudimentary Premaxilla in Holoprosencephaly" (with F
Mehendale) 2001 The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 38,271-282
“The use of conchal cartilage grafts in the closure of recurrent palatal fistulae" (with P-N
Mohanna and Loshan Kangesu) 2001, Br J Plast Surg 54: 274 (Correspondence)
“Three-Dimensional Soft Tissue Shape Analysis in People with Repaired Complete Unilateral
Cleft Lip & Palate” (with N Hay, P Goodwin, J Moss & R Hennessey) 2001 Transactions of the
9th International Congress on Cleft Palate & Related Craniofacial Anomalies
2002 “Delay in detection of cleft palate – an audit of newborn clinical examination” (with A Habel and
N Elhadi) 2002 Archives of diseases in childhood 86 Suppl 1 (G177)
“Gross unilateral deformity of the velum and pharynx” (with F Mehendale) The Cleft
Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2002; 39: 461-468
“Palate Re-repair Revisited” (with F Mehendale, M J Birch, D Sell, C Hattee, K Harland) 2002
The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2002; 39 (3): 295-307
“Relationship between arch dimensions in a 5-year index of the primary dentition of complete UCLP
patients” (with A T DiBiase, D DiBiase and N J Hay) Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2002: 39 (6):
635- 640
“Arch dimensions in unilateral cleft lip and palate patients and early indicators of the outcome of
primary surgery” (with A DiBiase) The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal In Press
“Submucous Cleft Palates Presenting with a Perforation” (with F Mehendale) The Cleft Palate-
Craniofacial Journal 2002; 40:203-206
2003 “Unilateral Moore pharyngoplasty in the treatment of asymmetric velopharyngeal incompetence” (with
F Mehendale) The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2003; 40: 263-268
“Arm restraint in children with cleft lip/palate” Letter – 2003 Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; 112: 331
“A technique for palate repair" Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 2003; 112: 1542-1548 Abstracted in Year
Book of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery 2005 (Elsevier)
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“The use of the operating microscope in cleft palate repair and pharyngoplasty" Plastic & Reconstructive
Surgery 2003; 112:1540-1541
Contact a Family Directory - Entry on cleft lip and palate - 2003 www.cafamily.org.uk
2004 “Velopharyngeal insufficiency following adenoidectomy” (with N C Saunders, B E J Hartley and D Sell)
Clinic. Otolaryngol. 2004; 29: 1-3
“Submucous cleft palate – a system of grading and a review of a consecutive series of 40 submucous cleft
palate repairs” (with C Fenn, K Harland, D Sell, M Birch, R Dave, M Lees and A Barnett) The Cleft Palate-
Craniofacial Journal 2004; 41: 114-123
“Surgical management of velopharyngeal incompetence in Velocardiofacial Syndrome” (with
F Mehendale, M Birch, L Birkett and D Sell) The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2004; 41: 124-135
“Surgical significance of abnormal internal carotid arteries in velocardiofacial syndrome in 43 consecutive
Hynes pharyngoplasties” (with F Mehendale) The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2004; 41: 368-374
“Primary and secondary treatment of cleft palate” Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery 2004; 2,
Supp. 1, p 4
“Evaluation of hearing thresholds in 3-month-old children with cleft palate: the basis for a selective policy for
ventilation tube insertion at time of palate repair” (with Andrews PJ, Chorbachi R, Sirimanna T,
Hartley BE) Clinic Otolaryngol.2004; 29(1): 10-7
2005 Correspondence with ALH Moss re “Submucous cleft palate: a grading system and review of 40 consecutive
submucous cleft palate repairs” (Sommerlad et al 2004) Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2005; 42,
107-108
Commentary – “Evaluation of VPI assessment with videofluoroscopy and nasoendoscopy” (Havstam et al
2005) Br J Plast Surg 2005;58,932-933
2006 “Delayed detection of cleft palate: an audit of newborn examination” (with A Habel, N Elhadi, and J
Powell Archives of Disease in Childhood 2006; 91: 238-240
“Surgery of the cleft lip and nose - the GOStA approach” 2006 B-ENT 2 Suppl. 4, 29-31
“Surgery of the cleft palate: repair using the operating microscope with radical muscle retropositioning - the
GOStA approach” 2006 B-ENT 2 Suppl. 4, 29-31
2007 “A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of presurgical orthopedics on feeding in infants with
cleft lip and/or palate” (A G Maserei, A Wade, M Mars, B C Sommerlad, D Sell) 2007 Cleft Palate-
Craniofac J; 44, 182-193
“The Nature of feeding in infants with unrepaired cleft lip and/or palate compared with healthy noncleft
infants” (A G Maserei, D Sell, A Habel, M Mars, B C Sommerlad et al) 2007 Cleft Palate-Craniofac J; 44:
321-328
2008 “Increasing accuracy of antenatal ultrasound diagnosis of cleft lip in cases referred to the North Thames
London Region” (M Demircioglu, L Kangesu, A Ismail, E Lake, J Hughes, S Wright, B C Sommerlad)
Ultasound Obstet Gynecol 2008; 31
2011 “Cleft lip, cleft palate and velopharyngeal insufficiency” (Fisher DM, Sommerlad BC) 2011 Plastic &
Reconstructive Surgery 128(4) 342e-360e
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2012 “Twisted loop mattress suture” (Rees LS, Sommerlad B) Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England 2012 94 (4):274
Nasendoscopy: An analysis of measurement uncertainties” Gilleard, O, Sommerlad, BC, Sell,D, Birch,M
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2012: 50(3)
“Presurgical orthopaedics has no effect on archform in unilateral cleft lip and palate” (Adali N, Mars M,
Petrie A, Noar J, Sommerlad B) 2012 Cleft Palate Craniofac J 49(1) 5-13
2013 “Nasendoscopy: An Analysis of Measurement Uncertainties” (Gilleard O, Sommerlad B, Sell D, Ghanem A,
Birch M Cleft Palate-Craniofac J 2013 50(3): 351-357
“Does nasogastric feeding reduce distress after cleft palate repair in infants?” (Hughes J, Lindup M, Wright S,
Naik M, Dehsi R, Howard R, Sommerlad B, Kangesu L, Sury M) Nurs Child Young People 2013 25 (9) 26-
30
“Effect of palate re-repairs and Hynes pharyngoplasties on paediatric airways. An analysis of pre and
postoperative cardiorespiratory sleep studies” (F Mehendale, B Sommerlad; A Laverty, R Dinwiddie, R
Lane, Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J 2013 50 (3):257-267
“Palate lengthening by buccinator myomucosal flaps for velopharyngeal insufficiency” (Hens G, Sell D,
Pinkstone M, Birch M JH, Hay N, Sommerlad BC, Kangesu L) Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2013 (5 (5): 84-91
“Early effect of vomerine flap closure of the hard palate at the time of lip repair on the alveolar gap and other
maxillary dimensions” (Maggiulli F, Hay N, Mars M, Worrell E, Green J, Sommerlad BC) Cleft Palate
Craniofac J 2013 May 7 (Epub ahead of print)
“Submucous cleft palate: A systematic review of surgical management based on perceptual and instrumental
analysis” (Gilleard O, Sell D, Ghanem A, Tavsanoglu Y, Birch M, Sommerlad B) Cleft Palate Craniofac J
2013 Nov 15 (Epub ahead of print)
2014 “Intraoperative High-Dose Epinephrine Infiltration in Cleft Palate Repair” Swan MC, Thorburn G,
Sommerlad BC, Sury MRJ, Morris P, Kangesu L, Van Eeden S Correspondence: Journal of Craniofacial
Surgery; 2014, 25.5
“A case-control study of maternal periconceptual and pregnancy recreational drug use and fetal malformation
using hair analysis” (David, Anna et al)
PLOS ONE available online: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111038
“International confederation for cleft lip and palate and related craniofacial anomalies task force report:
Palatoplasty in the speaking individual with unrepaired cleft palate” Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2014 e122
“Submucous cleft palate: A systematic review of surgical management based on perceptual and instrumental
analysis” (Gilleard O, Sell D, Ghanem A, Tavsanoglu Y, Birch M, Sommerlad B) Cleft Palate Craniofac J
2014 51 (6) 686-695
2018 “Advances in cleft care in the last 40 years”. Invited editorial. Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2018
Vol 1 47-48
Letter to Editor: Response to: Time course of improvement after re-repair procedure for VPI management.
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 2018
“Maxillary growth in cleft lip and palate patients, with and without vomerine flap closure of the hard palate at
the time of lip repair: A retrospective analysis of prospectively collected nonrandomised data, with 10-year
cephalometric outcomes” Hay N, Patel B, Haria P, Sommerlad B. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2018 55
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2019 “Disruption of FOXF2 as a likely cause of absent uvula in an Egyptian family," accepted for publication in
the Journal of Dental Research March 2019 Seselgyte, R, Stanier, P Pauws. E, Sommerlad, BC
Hand Surgery "Perichondrial grafting in rheumatoid metacarpophalangeal joints" (with L Sully & I T
Jackson) 1980 The Hand; 12, 1337-149
"An innervated flap, incorporating supraclavicular nerves for reconstruction of major hand
hand injuries" (with J G Boorman) 1981 The Hand; 13, 5-11
"Salvage replantation: Free composite transfer from a non-replantable arm" (with A A Quaba)
1987 British Journal of Plastic surgery; 40, 310-312
"Functional deficit following loss of continuity of the long finger extensors: A method of
assessment" (with A A Quaba) 1988 Journal of Hand Surgery; 13(3), 282-283
“Long term hand function without long finger extensors: a clinical study” (with A A Quaba and D Elliot)
1988 Journal of Hand Surgery; 13(1): 66-71
"Epithelioid sarcoma masquerading as Dupuytren's disease" (with M W H Erdmann & A A
Quaba) 1995 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 48, 39-42
“The open finger technique for the release of syndactyly” (with S J Withey, T Kangesu & N Carver)
2001 Journal of Hand Surgery; 26B: 1 :4-7
Response to Editorial on “The open finger technique for the release of syndactyly” 2001 Journal of
Hand Surgery; 26B: 5: 499
Response to letter on “The open finger technique for the release of syndactyly” 2001 Journal of
Hand Surgery; 26B: 5: 501
Peripheral Nerve Surgery: "Experimental observations on the behaviour of nerve grafts in sheaths formed around silicone
rods" (with R B Berry & others) 1980 British Journal of Plastic surgery; 33, 324-329
Wound Healing: "A technique for preparing human dermal and scar specimens for scanning electron microscopy"
(with J M Creasey) 1975 Journal of Microscopy; 103, 369-376
"The stretched scar: A clinical and histological study" (with J M Creasey) 1978 British
Journal of Plastic Surgery; 31, 34-45
"Loop mattress suture" (with D T Gault, A Brain & D J P Ferguson) 1987 British Journal of
Surgery; 74, 820-821
"Suturing skin under tension" (with D Gault) 1989 Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery: 83, 391
“Space obliterating skin suture” correspondence (with D Gault) 1998 Plastic & Reconstructive
Surgery: 102, 2277-2278
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“Necrotizing ulceration after breast reduction” (with M Berry & A Tavakkolizadeh) 2003 Journal of
The Royal Society of Medicine: 96, 186-187
“Twisted loop mattress suture” (with Leila Rees) 2012 Ann R Coll Surg Engl 94: 272-282
Head and Neck Surgery:
"Reconstruction of the zygoma, tempero-mandibular joint and mandible using a compound
pectoralis major osteomuscular flap" (with N J Jones) 1983 British Journal of Plastic Surgery;
38, 43-45
"Reconstruction following ablation for head and neck cancer" 1985 Surgery; 1, 490-494
“Tumour spread in a delto-pectoral pedicle flap used in reconstruction of the lower jaw: case report. (with
P J Mahaffey) 1985 Br J Plast Surg. 38(1) 43-45
Other: "A long term follow-up of hypospadias patients" 1975 British Journal of Plastic Surgery;
28, 324-440
(This study also summarised in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 68, 402
(1975) and the Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery, Paris 1975, and abstracted in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
"A new surgical marking pen" 1975 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 28, 139-140
"Physiological activity in mediastinal teratomata" (with W P Cleland and Nen K Young) 1975
Thorax; 30, 510-515
"Resurfacing of the sole of the foot" (with D A McGrouther) 1978 British Journal of Plastic Surgery;
31, 107-116
"Epithelioid sarcoma - A case report" (with T Phillips, D Pollock and H Baker) 1986 Clinical
and Experimental Dermatology 11; 169-172
"'A square peg into a round hole': a modified rhomboid flap and its clinical application" (with
A A Quaba) 1987 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 40, 163-170
"Facial and hand injuries and burns" In "Accident Prevention - A Social Responsibility"
Proceedings and Recommendations from a seminar held on 1st February 1989. (Published by
The Royal College of Surgeons of England)
"Case report - squamous cell carcinoma arising in a congenital naevus" (with J W de Waal)
British Journal of Plastic Surgery 1994 47; 138
"The use of the modified rhomboid flap for reconstruction after melanoma excision" 1995
Melanoma Research; 5, 19
“Duplication of the urethral meatus: case report of distal hypospadias and glandular urethra.
(with V Lees) 1996 British Journal of Plastic Surgery; 49, 488-490
“Metastatic malignant melanoma of unknown primary site: a case of a possible primary declaring
18 months after the secondaries” 1998, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 51, 258-259
“Cavi-Care dressing for hypospadias repair” 1999, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 52, No. 4 324-
325
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“Paraffinoma – a complication of Jelonet packs following rhinoplasty” 2001, British Journal of Plastic
Surgery, 54, 179-184
“Contact dermatitis complicating pinnaplasty”(with G Singh-Ranger and J A Britto 2001, British
Journal of Plastic Surgery, 54, 243-245
“Atypical congenital dermoids of the face: A 25-year experience” (Sreetharan V, Kangesu L. Sommerlad
B.C.) Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery 2007
“Midline cleft lip and nasal dermoids over five generations: a distinct entity or autosomal dominant Pai
syndrome?” (with M Lees, F Connelly, L Kangesu and A Barnicoat) Clin Dysmorphol 2006; 15 (3), 155-
159
General
“Plastic surgery in the UK and the USA – comparisons and contrasts: some thoughts for the future in
the UK” British Journal of Plastic Surgery 1999, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 52, No. 7 583 - 585
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
"Nasendoscopy" 1981 In "Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery 2" pages 11-27 (Ed: I T Jackson)
Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh
"Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery 3" Editor (with I T Jackson) 1985 Churchill Livingstone,
Edinburgh
"Tumours and tumour-like conditions of the foot" (with P A Revell) In "The Foot - Disorders
and Management" Eds: Helal & Wilson 1988 Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh
"Plastic Surgery" (with J Bevan and C C Walker) In "Surgery for Anaesthetists" Ed: Zorab
1988 Blackwell
"Supraclavicular innervated flap to the finger" (with J G Boorman) 1990 In Grabb's
Encyclopaedia of Flaps; Eds: Strauch, Vasconez & Hall Findlay; Ch 226, 977-980 1990 (1st edition)
Little Brown
"Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery 4" Editor (with I T Jackson) 1992 Churchill Livingstone,
Edinburgh
"Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery 5" Editor (with I T Jackson) 1996 Churchill
Livingstone, Edinburgh
"Tumours and tumourlike conditions of the foot" In "The Foot & Ankle" (2nd Edition)
Eds: Helal et al 1996 Martin Dunitz
"Supraclavicular innervated flap to the finger" (with J G Boorman) In Grabb's
Encyclopaedia of Flaps; Eds: Strauch, Vasconez & Hall Findlay; 1998 (2nd edition) Ch 228, p 940
Little Brown
“Anatomy & Function” In “Management of Cleft Lip and Palate” Eds: Watson, Sell & Grunwell.
2001 Whurr Publishers
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“Anatomia e função” En “Tratamento de Fissura Labial y Fenda Palatina” Eds: Watson, Sell & Grunwell.
2005 Santos Editora
“The Great Ormond Street Colour Handbook of Paediatrics and Child Health” Eds: Strobel et al 2007
Manson
“Challenges for cleft care in the developing and the developed world” In: “Management of Cleft Lip and
Palate in the Developing World” Eds: D Mars M, Habel A, Sell D, 2008 John Wiley & Sons
“Cleft palate repair” In “Comprehensive Cleft Care” 1st Edition Eds: J Losee & R Kirschner 2008
McGraw-Hill
“Cleft Palate” In “Plastic Surgery” Eds: Guruyon B Eriksson E, Persing J, Chung K, Disa J, Gosain A,
Rubin P, Kinney B 2008 Elsevier
“Cleft palate closure: the timing and options for surgical repair” (With S van Eeden and L Kangesu) In: The
Evidence for Plastic Surgery Ed: Christopher Stone 2008 Gutenberg Press
“Cleft palate Repair with Minimal Hard Palate Dissection and Radical Muscle Reconstruction” In
“Comprehensive Cleft Care” 2nd Edition Eds: J Losee & R Kirschner 2015 McGraw-Hill
“Cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction” Cugno S, Sommerlad BC In “Plastic & Reconstructive
Surgery” Eds: Bulstrode N & Cugno S 2015 Wiley Blackwell
VIDEOS
Contributor to the Smile Train Virtual Surgery Cleft Surgery CD Rom
DVD set of 7 operative demonstrations:
Unilateral cleft lip and anterior palate
Cleft palate repair (in the same patient)
Palate re-repair
Bilateral cleft lip and anterior palate
Repair of Submucous Cleft Palate
Modified Hynes Pharyngoplasty
Buccinator flap lengthening of the palate
OVERSEAS VISITS AND MEETINGS
Dutch Association of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons (November 1994) (invited guest speaker)
Association of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa (August 1995) (invited guest speaker)
National Update on Craniofacial Clefts, Bombay, India (March 1998) (invited guest speaker)
American Cleft Lip & Palate Association, Baltimore, USA (April 1998) (invited guest speaker)
Les Journées de Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris (November 1998) (invited guest speaker)
Plastic Surgery Registrars Training Programme, Sydney, Australia (April 1999) (invited guest speaker)
Australasian Cleft Lip & Palate Association (April 1999) (invited guest speaker)
Indian Association of Plastic Surgeons, Goa (September 1999) (invited guest speaker)
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International Association of Phonosurgeons Annual Meeting – Venice (October 2000) (invited guest speaker)
Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland – Faculty of Dentistry – Dublin (November 2000) (invited guest speaker)
The 9th International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (Guest Chairman and Speaker) Gothenburg, Sweden (June, 2000)
The Indian Society for Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies - International Update on Craniofacial Clefts
and 1st National Meeting, (Invited Speaker, Member of Faculty and Guest Operator at Operative Demonstration) Mumbai, India (9
th and 10
th March 2002)
American Cleft Palate Association – Post Conference Symposium, May 4-5 2002, Seattle (Invited faculty member)
Nordic Society of Plastic Surgeons – June 13-15 2002, Helsinki. (Invited keynote speaker)
XIII Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 10-15 August
2003, Sydney, Australia (Invited speaker)
38th Annual Conference of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (APSICON) 8-13 September 2003
5th Asian Pacific Cleft Lip and Palate Conference, 29
th September – 1
st October 2003, Seoul (Invited speaker)
7th European Craniofacial Congress, 20-22 November 2003, Bologna (Invited speaker)
Indian Society of Cleft Lip, Palate & Craniofacial Anomalies, Chandigarh, India, February 2004 (Invited to give
“D Ralph Millard Visiting Professor Lecture”)
Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland, April 2004 (Invited speaker)
3
rd Smile Train Partners’ Conference, 23
rd-25
th June 2004, Xian, China (Guest speaker)
CLAPA International Meeting, 14th September 2004, London. (Invited speaker)
17th European Congress for Cranio-Maxillo-facial Surgery, September 2004, Tours, France (Keynote lecture on
“Primary and secondary treatment of cleft palate”)
10th International Congress on Cleft Palate & Related Craniofacial Anomalies, 25-29 September 2005, Durban ,
South Africa (Panel of Experts)
Joint conference of the Pakistan Association of Plastic Surgeons and the Pakistan Society for Surgery of the Hand, 3-
5 February 2005 (Invited speaker)
Craniofacial Conference 2006, Lucknow, India, March 2006 (Invited speaker and guest operator)
Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate, Guwahati, India, March 2006 (Invited speaker)
International Cleft Lip & Palate Foundation Conference (IPCF), Eastbourne UK, June 2006
Royal Belgian Society for Ear, Nose, Throat, Head and Neck Surgery – November 2006 - Invited speaker
Dutch Association of Plastic Surgeons - November 2006 - Invited speaker
Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, April 2007 – Invited keynote speaker
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, May 2007 New Zealand - Invited keynote speaker
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Royal College of Surgeons of England, Joint meeting with The China Medical Society, Beijing, May 2007 -
Clement Price Thomas Lecture
International Society of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons, June 2007 Invited keynote speaker
Smile Train Partners Conference, Mumbai, September 2007 – Invited speaker
Asian Pacific Cleft Congress, Goa, September 2007 - Invited speaker
Turkish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons, International Congress, October 2007 – Invited
keynote speaker
Belgian Society for Plastic Surgery, Annual meeting, Leuven, November 2007 Invited speaker
Societa Italiana per lo Studio e la Cura delle Labio-Palato-Schisi, Milan, November 2007 - Invited speaker and
surgical demonstrator
National Conference of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Muscat, Oman, February 2008 - Invited speaker
XIX Congress EACMFS. Bologna September 2008 - Invited speaker
World Craniofacial Congress on Clefts, Dallas, September 2008 - Invited keynote speaker
Smile Train Partners Meeting, Tianjin,China, October 2008 - Invited speaker
1st International Cleft Congress, Isfahan, Iran, October 2008 - Invited speaker and surgical demonstrator
Cleft Meeting, Accra, Ghana, October 2008 - Invited speaker and surgical demonstrator
RCCF2009 - Cleft Lip and Palate Meeting, Khon Kaen, Thailand, February 2009
Indocleftcon 2009, Pondicherry, India, February 2009 - Invited speaker
Pan African Cleft Lip & Palate Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 2009 - Invited speaker and surgical
demonstrator
Cleft Lip and Palate Meeting, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2009 - Invited speaker
11th International Congress of Cleft Lip, Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, 9-13 September 2009, Fortaleza,
Brazil (Invited speaker)
European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (ESPRAS) Rhodes 20-24 September 2009
- Invited speaker
IPRAS 2009, New Delhi, India, November 2009 –Invited speaker
Cleft Lip and Palate Conference and Workshop, Accra, Ghana, March 2010 – Invited speaker
Cleft Lip and Palate Workshop by North Thames Cleft Team, Caracas, Venezuela, April 2010 – Organiser and
invited speaker
Cleft Workshop, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, May 2010 – Organiser and invited speaker
International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation Conference - ICPF 2010, Seoul, Korea, June 2010 – Invited speaker
Cleft Lip and Palate Congress and Workshop – Esfahan, Iran September 2010 – Invited speaker
2nd
Cleft Lip and Palate Workshop, Esfahan, Iran – October 2010 – Invited speaker
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Thompson/Lindsay Guest Lecturer – Toronto Sick Kids Hospital, Canada, November 2010 – Invited guest
St. Andrew’s Clinics – Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsord, UK,26-27 November 2010 – Invited speaker
Congreso Internacional Manejo Interdisciplinario Fisura Labio Palatina, Lima, Peru, March 2011 – Invited speaker
3rd International Cleft Lip and Palate Workshop, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2011 – Invited speaker
STARS (3rd
Smile Train Partners Conference), Hyderabad, India, April 2011 – Invited speaker
Cleft and Craniofacial Workshop, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh, May 2011 – Co-organiser and
invited speaker
The 16th World Congress of the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery,
Vancouver, May 2011 – Invited speaker
Craniofacial Congress, Salzburg 14th-17
th September 2011 Invited speaker
Italian Cleft Lip and Palate Meeting (SILPS), Rome 23rd
-24th September 2011 Invited speaker
3rd
Cleft Lip and Palate Workshop, Esfahan, Iran 11th-25
th October 2011 Invited speaker and
operator
Cleft lip and palate workshop and dissection course, 4th-5
th November 2011 Invited speaker
Utrecht
Cleft lip and palate conference, Bogota, Columbia 11th-12
th November 2011 Invited speaker
Sohag, Upper Egypt 21st-24th November 2011 Invited speaker and
operator
Centrinho, Bauru, Brazil 8th-15th December 2011 Invited speaker and
operator
Bauru and Gramado, Brazil 8-15th April 2012 Invited speaker
International 22q11 Conference, Orlando, Florida 6
th-9
th July 2012 Invited speaker
21st Congress of the European Association for Cranio-
Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Dubrovnik 11th-15th September 2012 Invited speaker
Cleft Convention, Reccife, Brazil 1st – 4
th October 2012 Invited speaker
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, New Orleans 25th Oct – 1
st Nov 2012 Invited speaker
Cleft meetings in Sohag and Ismailia, Egypt 16th – 25
th Nov 2012 Invited speaker
Indocleft meeting, Lucknow, India 14th-16
th February 2013 Invited speaker
Cleft workshop, Uppsala, Sweden 22nd-24th April 2013 Invited speaker
International congress on cleft lip & palate, 5th-10th May 2013 Task Force Chair
Orlando, USA
EuroCleftNet conference, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 25th-27th September 2013 Invited speaker
American Cleft Palate Association meeting, 22nd
-29th March 2014 Presenter
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Indianapolis, US
14th Indocleft Meeting,Goa, India 30
th April-4
th May 2015 Invited speaker
10th European Craniofacial Congress, Gothenberg, 23
rd-27
th June 2015 Keynote speaker
Sweden
German Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association 3rd October 2015 Invited speaker
Dallas Childrens 27th-29th October 2015 Hamon Visiting Professor
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Schisis en Craniofaciale Afwijkingen
(Dutch Cleft and Craniofacial Society) 19th-21st November 2015 Invited speaker
Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland 20th-22
nd April 2016 Keynote speaker
Association of Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial 13th-14
th August 2016 Inaugural oration
Anomalies of Sri Lanka
Royal Medical Society, Jordan 13th-17th November 2016 Invited speaker
Cleft 2017 - International Cleft Congress, India 8th-11th February 2017 Invited speaker and task
force member
Plasticon – Meeting of SPSB, Dhaka, Bangladesh 28th February 2017 Invited speaker
Cirurgia de Palato da Teoria A Pratica, Sao Paulo, Brazil 17th March 2017 Invited speaker
10th Anniversary Conference of Qorito, Lima, Peru 21
st March 2017 Invited speaker
Operation Smile Multi-disciplinary Cleft Conference, Manila 13th-15
th July 2017 Invited speaker
X1 Congreso Nacional de Fissurados Faciales, Espana 17th-18th November 2017 Invited speaker
2° Corso Sulle Labiopalatoschisi, OPBG, Rome 28th November-1st December 2017 Invited speaker
Australasian Cleft Lip and Palate Association Meeting, Sydney 4th-5
th May 2018 Keynote speaker
Cadaver workshop, Sydney 6th May 2018 Invited demonstrator
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons – Craniofacial section 8th May 2018 Invited speaker
TEACHING/OPERATING
Indian Society for Cleft Lip, Palate &Craniofacial Anomalies – 1st National Meeting
Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai 8th March 2002
Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Specialist workshop/Cleft symposium 4th-5
th August 2003
APSICON 2003 Pre-Conference Workshop, Coimbatore, India 8-9th September 2003
Nizam Institute, Hyderabad, India. (as D. Ralph Millard Visiting Professor) 24th-25
th February 2004
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Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
(as D. Ralph Millard Visiting Professor) 27th February 2004
Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh - 13th-15thFebruary 2005
Lucknow, India March 2006
Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka February 2007
Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka February 2008
Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka January/February 2009
Dhaka, Bangladesh February 2009
King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March/April 2009
Uganda May 2009
Bauru, Brazil (Demonstrating and calibrating for
international trial on the timing of cleft palate repair) July 2009
Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Peredinya, Kandy, January/February 2010
Dhaka, Bangladesh February 2010
Korle Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana March 2010
Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda May 2010
Bern, Switzerland June 2010
Cox’s Bazaar and Dhaka, Bangladesh July 2010
Bauru, Brazil (Demonstrating and calibrating for
international trial on the timing of cleft palate repair) August 2010
Isfahan, Iran September 2010
Sohag, Upper Egypt October 2010
Maracay, Venezuela December 2010
King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 2011
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh May 2011
Maracaibo, Venezuela 1st-12
th August 2011
Bern, Switzerland 18th August 2011
King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 2012
Cleft workshop & meeting of The Society of Plastic Surgeons of Bangladesh 22nd
May-1st June 2013
Cleft workshops in Shiraz & Emam Hossein Hospital, Isfahan, Iran 10th-18
th June 2013
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Mulago Hospital, Uganda 19th-26th July 2013
Cleft workshops Isfahan and Shiraz, Iran 7th-17th October 2013 Teaching/operating
Cleft Workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh 17th-27
th February 2014 Teaching/operating
Iran 5th-15th May 2014 Teaching/operating
Peru 23rd May-1st June 2014 Teaching/operating
Argentina 2nd
-11th June 2014 Teaching/operating
Kandy and Colombo, Sri Lanka 16th-28th June 2014 Teaching/operating
Bern 13th-14th August 2014 Teaching/operating
King Faisal Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 14th-18
th September 2014 Teaching/operating
Mexico 7th-11th October 2014 Teaching/operating
Iran 14th-25th October 2014 Teaching/operating
Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan, Iraq 15th -23
rd November 2014 Teaching/operating
Cleft workshop, Sohag, Egypt 28th November-6
th December 2014 Teaching/operating
Cairo, Egypt 6th -9
th December 2014 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 16th-28
th February 2015 Teaching/operating
Bern 16th-17th March 2015 Teaching/operating
Iran 20th-30th April 2015 Teaching/operating
Bolivia 5th-15
th June 2015 Teaching/operating
Sri Lanka 10th-17
th July 2015 Teaching/operating
Bern, Switzerland 4th-6th August 2015 Teaching/operating
Iran 12th-24
th October 2015 Teaching/operating
Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan, Iraq 8th-18
th November 2015 Teaching/operating
Cleft workshop, Sohag, Egypt 5th-9
th December 2015 Teaching/operating
Cairo, Egypt 9th-12
th December 2015 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 1st-14th February 2016 Teaching/operating
Bern, Switzerland 1st March 2016 Teaching/operating
Bern, Switzerland 2nd-4th May 2016 Teaching/operating
Iran 14th-21
st May 2016 Teaching/operating
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Bolivia 11th-19th June 2016 Teaching/operating
Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda 9th-15th July 2016 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 5th-12
th August 2016 Teaching/operating
Teaching Hospital, Jaffna, Sri Lanka 14th-17th August 2016 Teaching/operating
Iran 2nd-15th October 2016 Teaching/operating
Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan, Iraq 5th-12th November 2016 Teaching/operating
Cleft workshop, Sohag, Egypt 10th-14th December 2016 Teaching/operating
Cairo, Egypt 15th December 2016 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 12th-28th February 2017 Teaching/operating
Kiruddu Hospital, Kampala, Uganda 19th-28th April 2017 Teaching/operating
Iran 3rd-10th May 2017 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 5th-12
th August 2017 Teaching/operating
Teaching Hospital Jaffna and Dental Institute, Kandy, 12th-18
th August 2017 Teaching/operating
Sri Lanka
Iran 9
th-20
th October 2017
Sohag and Cairo, Egypt 9th-16th December 2017
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 25th January-10th February 2018 Teaching/operating
King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh 10th-16
th March 2018 Teaching/operating
Iran 21st-29
th May 2018 Teaching/operating
Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh 26th July-3rd August 2018 Teaching/operating
Lady Ridgway Hospital, Colombo,Teaching Hospital Jaffna
and Dental Institute, Kandy, Sri Lanka 12th-18th August 2018 Teaching/operating
2nd
VPD Conference, Columbus, Ohio 14th-15
th September 2018 Keynote speaker
Iran 15th-27th October 2018 Teaching/operating
Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan, Iraq 2nd-9th November 2018 Teaching/operating
Sohag and Cairo, Egypt 30th November-7
th December 2018 Teaching/operating
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OVERSEAS CLEFT TEACHING PROGRAMMES
Indonesia (1981)
India (1985)
India (March 1998)
Sri Lanka (June 1999)
Sri Lanka (July 2000)
Uganda (June 2001)
Sri Lanka (March 2002)
Uganda (July/August 2002)
Bangladesh (June 2003)
India (September 2003)
Uganda (November 2003)
Sri Lanka (February 2004)
India (February 2004)
Bangladesh (March 2004)
China (June 2004)
Sri Lanka (December 2004)
Uganda (April/May 2005)
Sri Lanka (December 2005)
India (March 2006)
Bangladesh (March 2006)
Sri Lanka (February 2007)
India (February 2007)
Bangladesh (February 2007)
Uganda (October 2007)
Bangladesh (February 2008)
Sri Lanka (February 2008)
Uganda (May 2008)
Ghana (September 2008)
Sri Lanka (Jan/Feb 2009)
Bangladesh (Feb 2009)
India (Feb 2009)
Venezuela (April 2009)
Uganda (May 2009)
Bauru, Brazil (July 2009)
Venezuela (September 2009)
Sri Lanka (January/February 2010)
Bangladesh (February 2010)
Uganda (May 2010)
Bangladesh (July 2010)
Egypt (October 2010)
Maracay, Venezuela (December 2010)
Sri Lanka (January 2011)
Bangladesh (May 2011)
Venezuela (August 2011)
Iran (October 2012)
Egypt (November 2012)
Kurdistan (December 2012)
Sri Lanka (February 2013)
Myanmar, Burma (March 2013)
Bangladesh (May 2013)
Iran (June 2013)
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Uganda (July 2013)
Iran (October 2013)
Kurdistan (December 2013)
Bangladesh (February 2014)
Iran (May 2014)
Peru (May/June 2014
Argentina (June 2014)
Sri Lanka (June 2014)
Iran (October 2014)
Iraq – Kurdistan (November 2014)
Egypt (Nov/Dec 2014)
Bangladesh (February 2015)
Iran (April 2015)
Bolivia (June 2015)
Sri Lanka(July 2015)
Iran (October 2015)
Iraq – Kurdistan (November 2015)
Egypt (December 2015)
Bangladesh (February 2016)
Iran (May 2016)
Bolivia (June 2016)
Uganda (July 2016)
Bangladesh (August 2016)
Sri Lanka (August 2016)
Iran (October 2016)
Iraq – Kurdistan (November 2016)
Egypt (December 2016)
Bangladesh (February 2017)
Sri Lanka (February 2017)
Brazil (March 2017)
Peru (March 2017)
Uganda (April 2017)
Iran (May 2017)
Bangladesh (August 2017)
Sri Lanka (August 2017)
Iran (October 2017)
Egypt (December 2017)
Bangladesh (February 2018)
Iran (May 2018)
Bangladesh (July/August 2018)
Sri Lanka (August 2018)
Iran (October 2018)
Iraq – Kurdistan (November 2018)
Egypt (December 2018)
EPONYMOUS LECTURES
Hunterian Professorship - Royal College of Surgeons of England 1999
Millard Oration - Indian Society for Cleft Lip, Palate and Related anomalies 2007
William Manchester Lecture – Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 2007
Comment [BS1]:
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Clement Price Thomas Lecture - Royal College of Surgeons of England 2007
Thompson/Lindsay Lecturer – Toronto Sick Kids Hospital 2014
Inaugural Oration – Association of Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies
Sri Lanka August 2016
McIndoe Lecturer – Royal College of Surgeons/BAPRAS November 2016