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 Resurge
Schedule of Events:
7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 AM: Opening Remarks Moanad Aker, President PCS/Moderator; Hanin Al-Sheikh, Vice President, PCS
8:15 – 8:30 AM: Wa’el Halaby, DMD: “The Value of Volunteering: A PCS Member’s Experience in War-torn Libya”
8:30 – 8:45 AM: Rushdi Amr, DMD: “Building Partnership with Operation Smile”
8:45 – 9:00 AM: Hanin Al-Sheikh, SLP: “Building Community with other Volunteer and Charitable Organizations”
9:00 – 9:15 AM: Moanad Aker, DDS: “Partnerships with Palestinian Institutions”
9:15 – 9:30 AM: Reham Zetawi, BA: “Partnering with Families of Children with Clefts”
9:30 – 9:45 AM: Operation Smile Basic Life Support Course Leaders: “Partnering Through Training Health Care Practitioners in Palestinian Hospitals”
9:45 – 10:00 AM: Libby Wilson, MD: “Pitfalls to Partnerships on Cleft Teams”
10:00 – 10:15 AM: Hashem Shahine, PhD: “Partnerships in Genetics Research: Helping Families Understand the Causes of Clefting”
10:15 – 10:30 AM: Emad Abdel Khalek Hussein, DDS: “Clinical Cleft Research: A Key to Partnerships?”
10:30 – 11:00 AM: Break
10:45 – 11:00 AM: Sayf Saed, MD: “Pierre Robin Sequence: A Case Report”
11:00 – 11:15 AM: Khalil Albaba, MD: “The Role of ENT in Patients with Clefts”
11:15 – 11:30 AM: Alison Dybdal, SLP: “Speech Assessment After Palate Repair”
11:30 – 11:45 AM: Cindy van Aalst, RN: “The Importance of Nursing in Cleft Care”
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Emad Abdel Khaled Hussein, DDS: “Clefting Rates in Palestine: The Makassad Experience”
12:15 – 12:30 PM: John van Aalst, MD: “Complications after Cleft Surgery”
12:30 – 12:45 PM: Hala Borno, BS: “Development of a Registry to Follow Congenital Anomalies in Palestine”
12:45 – 1:00 PM: Hashem Sahine, PhD: “Syndromic Cleft Palate in a Consanguineous Palestinian Family”
1:00 – 1:30 PM: Family Cases: Experience of Families with Children who have Clefts: “Finding Cleft Care in Palestine”
2:00 – 3:00 PM: Lunch
4 PM: Adjourn for Fundraising Event
6 – 9 PM: Red Crescent Society, Al Bireh, Palestine
Dinner: Traditional Palestinian Dancing/Singing
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, 4th year Medical Student, UNC; Wa’el Halaby, OMFS, Ramallah, Palestine (Secretary, PCS); Emad Abdel Khalek, DDS (Chair of Research Committee, PCS); Nasr Jafr, MD: ENT, Jenin Government Hospital, Jenin, Palestine, Operation Smile Basic Life Support Course Leaders; Sayf Saed MD: Plastic Surgeon, Beit Sahour, Palestine (Treasurer, PCS); Alison Dybdal, SLP: Los Angeles, CA, USA; Cindy van Aalst, RN: Chapel Hill, NC, USA; John van Aalst, MD: Plastic Surgeon, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Libby Wilson, MD: Plastic Surgeon, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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the conference was & is till now excellent, i received calls from some of my friends & students that found this conference educational in a friendly environment. I too had a great time.
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