Marie Pinkstone, Speech and Language Therapist

My background is Lead Speech and Language Therapist for the North Thames Cleft Service based at St Andrews Hospital in Chelmsford and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. I have worked in the service following its establishment in 2002 and have been working in the field of cleft lip and palate since 1997.

My clinical speciality as enabled me to support CLEFT projects in Uganda, Ghana and in Bangladesh. Through working in new and challenging environments I have seen first hand the positive impact that Cleft brings to the patient journey with every penny raised influencing patient care and research.

My focus is to improve all patient experience and clinical outcomes.. a focus that is shared with my fellow board members.

Latest

Formal Dinner

CLEFT is organising a Formal Dinner at the Civil Service Club in the heart of London for friends & supporters of the charity.
Ed's GNR Fundraiser

Running the GNR in support of the Research Fund
Euan's Great North Run Fundraiser

I am raising money for CLEFT to support important research projects to help understand the causes of clefts and to develop better ways to treat them.
Karen Mallett Half Marathon fundraiser

My name is Karen Mallett, I am a visually impaired runner. The reason I have chosen to raise funds for this wonderful charity is, when I was in primary school there was a child who was born with a cleft lip and palate, 40 years have passed, but I still remember that child and the struggles he experienced.

Liz Grant
Paul Whittaker

I began working with CLEFT as a filmmaker and photographer in 2016, initially to highlight the progress of the multi-disciplinary cleft centre CLEFT has helped create in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Chris Hill
Mahen Bulumulla
Kate Le Marechal

Dr Kate le Maréchal is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has worked as the Clinical Psychology Lead within the Evelina London Cleft Service since 2009.
David Orr, Consultant Plastic Surgeon

David Orr has been a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Our Lady's Children's Hospital and St James's Hospital, Dublin since 1998.
Triona Sweeney

Dr Triona Sweeney (BA, MSc, PhD) is a Cleft Specialist Speech & Language Therapist. She is a Founder and co-Director with Dr Debbie Sell of Speech at Home, an online therapy resource centre which aims to empower parents of children with cleft palate to deliver speech therapy at home under the supervision of a speech and language therapist.
Neil Brierley

I am currently working as a national TIG fellow in Cleft Lip and Palate surgery in the Northern and Yorkshire Cleft Lip & Palate service. I live in Leeds with my son.
Khurram Khan, Consultant Cleft Lip & Palate and Plastic Surgeon

Hello! I am a Consultant Cleft Lip & Palate and Plastic Surgeon working at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Jonathan Syme-Grant