Education for Professionals
Palestinian Cleft Society at ACPA
Dr. Leonard Furlow and Dr. Emad Hussein at the ACPA meeting
April 2011 – Chair of Research Committee, Emad Hussein, Presented at the ACPA Meeting Dr. Emad Abdel Khaled Hussein, DDS presented a paper on “Birthing and Building Nascent Craniofacial Teams in Developing Countries.”
April 2010 – Vice-President, Hanin Al-Sheikh, Presented at the ACPA Meeting
Upcoming Conferences
Palestinian Cleft Society 5th Annual Conference
December 2, 2011 Partnerships: Patients, Families and Cleft Practitioners – Red Crescent Society Building, Al Bireh, Palestine 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Sponsored by the Palestinian Cleft Society; Funded by SmileTrain; In Partnership with Operation Smile and ResurgeSchedule of Events:
7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 AM: Opening Remarks Moanad Aker, DDS, President PCS/Moderator
Session Moderator: Hanin Al Sheikh, SLP
8:10 – 8:25 AM: Wa’el Halaby, OMFS: “Partnering with the Palestinian Ministry of Health”
8:25 – 8:40 AM: Rushdi Amr, DMD: “Building Partnership with Operation Smile”
8:40 – 8:55 AM: Hala Nahhal, RN: “Community Work with Cleft Patients”
8:55 – 9:10 AM: Moanad Aker, DDS: “Partnerships with Palestinian Institutions”
9:10 – 9:25 AM: Libby Wilson, MD: “Pitfalls to Partnerships on Cleft Teams”
9:25 – 9:45 AM: Isra Hamdan, Physiotherapist: “Fieldwork with Cleft Patients”
9:45 – 10:00 AM: Short Break
Session Moderator: Sayf Saed, MD
10:00 – 10:20 AM: Khalil Albaba, MD: “The Role of ENT in Patients with Clefts”
10:20 – 10:40 AM: Alison Dybdal, SLP: “Speech Assessment after Palate Repair”
10:40 – 11:00 AM: John van Aalst, MD: “Complications after Cleft Surgery”
11:00 – 11:15 AM: Emad Abdel Khaled Hussein, DDS: “Clefting Rates in Palestine: The Makassad Experience”
11:15 – 12:30 PM: Long Break
Session Moderator: Moanad Aker, DDS
12:30 – 12:50 PM: Hala Borno, BS: “Development of a Registry to Follow Congenital Anomalies in Palestine”
12:50 – 13:10 PM: Hashem Shahin, PhD: “Syndromic Cleft Palate in Consanguineous Palestinian Family”
13:10 – 13:30 PM: Jaffar Ayesh, OMFS: “The Prevalence of Oral Candidal Colonization among Surgically Treated Cleft Patients Compared with Health Controls”
13:30 – 14:00 PM: Family Cases: Experiences of Families with Children who have Clefts: “Finding Cleft Care in Palestine
14:00 – 15:00 PM: Lunch
16:00 – 18:00 PM: Adjourn
Faculty: Moanad Aker, DDS: Jerusalem, Palestine (President, PCS); Khalil Al Baba, MD: ENT Department, Hebron Government Hospital; Hanin Al-Sheikh, SLP: Ramallah, Palestine (Vice President, PCS); Rushdi Amr, DDS: Hebron, Palestine; Jafar Ayesh, OMFS: Hebron, Palestine; Hala Borno, BS: UNC, Medical Center, USA; Wa’el Halaby, OMFS: Ramallah, Palestine (Secretary, PCS); Isra Hamdan, Psyiotherapist: Al-Quds University, Palestine; Emad Abdel Khalek, DDS: Ramallah (Chair of Research Committee, PCS); Nasr Jafr, MD: ENT, Jenin Government Hospital, Jenin, Palestine; Hala Nahhal, RN: Al-Quds University, Palestine; Sayf Saed MD: Plastic Surgeon, Bethlehem, Palestine (Treasurer, PCS); Alison Dybdal, SLP: Los Angeles, CA, USA; John van Aalst, MD: Plastic Surgeon, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Libby Wilson, MD: Plastic Surgeon, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Hashem Shahin, PHD: Hereditary Research Laboratory, University of Bethlehem, Palestine; Isra Hamdan, Psyiotherapist: Al-Quds University, Palestine
