Gillian McCarthy

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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.

Fiona Gilchrist

Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
Stephanie van Eeden

Stephanie van Eeden, Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service and NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellow (2018-2023)
Joanna Shearer

I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from University College London in 2002. I have an MSc in Mental Health Studies and have completed post doctoral training in CBT and more recently in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy.
Yvonne Wren

I am Associate Professor of Speech and Communication at the University of Bristol and also Chief Investigator of the Cleft Collective, a national cohort study which is investigating the causes, treatments and outcomes for people born with cleft lip and/or palate.
Helen Robson

Clinical Nurse Specialist
Sophie Butterworth, Junior Cleft Fellow

I qualified as a doctor in 2007 and have been working part-time with the cleft lip and palate team in Newcastle since 2009, with a few breaks for my three children.
Ambika Chadha
Martyn Cobourne, Academic Head of Orthodontics

Martyn Cobourne is Professor of Orthodontics at King’s College London and Hon Consultant in Orthodontics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Rona Slator, Chair of the Research Steering Committee

Retired, and living in the North Yorkshire countryside. Former Consultant Plastic and Cleft Surgeon at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the West Midlands Cleft Lip and Palate Centre.
Malcolm Birch, Medical Physicist

I first became involved with cleft patients here at The London Hospital, as it was then, back in the 90’s.