Annual Conference 2010 - Cleft and Beyond
Speaker Profiles
Linda S. Franck, PhD, RN, RGN, RSCN, FRCPCH, FAAN
Linda Franck is professor and chair of children’s nursing research at the Institute of Child Health, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. She is co-director of the WellChild Pain Research Centre and leads the Patient Care Research & Innovation Centre. Professor Franck’s research is focussed on the measurement and treatment of pain and distress in acutely and chronically ill infants and children. Her most recent findings highlight the information needs of parents of ill children and suggest innovative strategies for enhancing the partnership between parents and professionals to ensure children receive optimal hospital care and pain treatment.
Dr Gillian Harris, Phd, MSc, CPsychol.
Dr Gillian Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Developmental Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham and Consultant Paediatric Clinical Psychologist, The Children`s Hospital, Birmingham. She has carried out research into infant and child feeding behaviour and appetite regulation at the University of Birmingham, School of Psychology for the past 27 years.
Gill is primarily interested in the development of taste preference in infancy, and the subsequent development of food acceptance and rejection in early childhood. She heads a research team at the University of Birmingham, investigating topics such as sensitive periods for weaning onto solid foods, and the stages of rejection of food, which occur from the age of one to five years. She also works on abnormal feeding patterns in children, which may be caused by, or linked to, medical problems or developmental delay and runs a feeding clinic at The Children’s Hospital, Birmingham.
Professor Peter Mossey
To follow.
Dr Russell Perkins MBBS, DA, FRCA.
Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
I was educated on Merseyside but moved to London for undergraduate training at St George’s Hospital Medical School. I trained in Anaesthesia in Leicester and Manchester and completed my training in Paediatric Anaesthesia at The Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. I have been a consultant for thirteen years regularly anaesthetising at least one list of children having cleft palate surgery per week. I have been instrumental in developing protocols for the management of post operative pain and airway management in newborn Pierre-Robin Sequence children. In addition to an interest in anaesthesia for children with cleft lip and palate I am actively involved in resuscitation training, medical simulation and medical education. I am an examiner for the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Mr. Martin Snead MA, MD, FRCS, DO, FRCOphth
Martin Snead graduated from London University in 1984 and trained in ophthalmic surgery in London, Nottingham, Cambridge and New York before being appointed as Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to Addenbrookes Hospital in 1996. He has a special interest in all aspects of retinal and vitreous surgery, especially surgery for the repair of retinal detachment, diabetic and macular disorders. He leads a Vitreoretinal Research Group at Cambridge University investigating the molecular pathology of retinal detachment, familial retinal detachment and the Stickler syndromes.
Professor Tara L. Whitehill, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHA
Tara Whitehill is a Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong. She is Director of the Motor Speech Research Laboratory and the specialist speech-language pathologist of the Cleft Lip and Palate Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
Her research focuses on the perceptual and instrumental evaluation of speech disorders in individuals with cleft palate, dysarthria, and other physiologically-based disorders. Her recent research has focused on improving the validity and reliability of measures of disordered speech, and determining contributions to reduced speech intelligibility.
She is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Society for Speech, Language and Hearing, and a founding member of the Motor Speech Disorders Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. In addition, she is a member of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (regional representative), and the Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (former Chairperson).
