Advisory
Board
Elizabeth
Dakin
Pam
Davison, PhD
David Dingman, MD,
FACS
Charlotte A. Ducote,
PhD, CCC-SLP
Suzanne Falces,
MEd
Leonard Furlow, MD,
FACS
Haskell Gruber, DDS
David P. Kuehn, PhD
Ann W. Kummer, PhD
Maria Lundberg,
Speech and Language Pathologist
Patricia Pattison,
RN, MSN
Stephen Schendel,
MD, DDS
Nick Sieveking,
PhD
Hale Tolleth, MD
Judith Trost-Cardamone,
PhD, CCC-SLP
Lance Tsugawa, Speech
and Language Pathologist
Lars Vistnes, MD,
FACS
David Werner, Director
of Healthwrights
F. Eugene Yates, MD
Elizabeth Dakin
Liz Dakin
has been a member and officer of the
Reconstructive Surgery Foundation Board
and the EARTHSPEAK governing board for
a number of years. She has also been
ex officio president of the California
Historical Society, and trustee of the
Sunnyhills Junior Auxiliary, the Branson
School in Ross, California, and a day
care center in Stuttgart, Germany. Dakin
has also been the Head of the Amigos
de las Americas program in Marin County
(California), and a member of Nueva
Progresso in Guatemala. She has also
worked with Interplast and Care Medico
on surgical missions.
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Pam Davison,
Ph.D.
Dr. Pam
Davison was born and raised in England,
where she earned an undergraduate degree
in physiology and biochemistry from
the University of London. She received
her PhD from Stanford University where
she also worked as a research associate
for a number of years. She is helping
EARTHSPEAK in research design and also
publications and presentations.
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David Dingman,
MD, FACS
It was
while being a member of the 1963 American
Mt. Everest expedition that Dr. David
Dingman developed what has become a
lifelong interest in the plight of deformed
children in the developing world. For
his heroic rescue of four stranded climbers
on the 1963 expedition, Dr. Dingman
received the Hubbard medal from President
John F. Kennedy. Dr. Dingman conducted
a successful practice in Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery in Salt Lake
City and rose to the rank of Professor
at the University of Utah Department
of Surgery. He was also named Teacher
of the Year at that institution. Dr.
Dingman is a member of the medical Advisory
Board of Smile Train, a New York-based
foundation specializing in providing
cleft surgery to poor children in developing
countries.
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Charlotte
A. Ducote, PhD, CCC-SLP
Charlotte
A. Ducote earned her master's degree
in speech and hearing sciences from
Vanderbilt University, and her bachelor's
and PhD degrees from Louisiana State
University. She has worked in both clinical
and academic settings. Dr. Ducote has
been with the Ochsner Clinic Foundation
as Director of the Division of Communicative
Disorders since 1994. She provides services
to pediatric and adult patients with
a wide range of communication and oral-pharyngeal
swallowing disorders. Her professional
memberships include the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Louisiana Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, and American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial
Association. She received awards of
clinical achievement from state and
national organizations in 2001 and 2002.
On a volunteer basis, she coordinates
speech pathology for Operation Smile's
international missions.
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Suzanne Falces,
MEd
Suzanne
Falces spent many years teaching in
the public schools of Massachusetts
and California. She has served as the
vice president and project director
of the Reconstructive Surgery Foundation.
Falces has also served as president
of the board of directors of the Reconstructive
Surgeons' volunteer program in Chicago,
Illinois, and has been on the board
of Friends of Reconstructive Surgery
Research and Medical Aid for Afghan
Children.
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Leonard Furlow,
MD, FACS
Dr. Leonard
Furlow served on the faculty of the
University of Florida after finishing
his plastic surgery residency. He then
spent the next 17 years in private practice
in Gainesville, Florida. His primary
clinical interests have been hand surgery
and cleft lip and palate surgery. His
interest in palate surgery and the associated
speech problems led him to develop the
double opposing z-plasty palate repair.
His first article on z-plasty received
the James Barrett Brown award. Dr. Furlow
has done surgical work on 43 volunteer
overseas surgery trips with various
organizations.
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Haskell Gruber,
DDS
Dr. Haskell
Gruber is a clinical professor in the
Department of Orthodontics at the University
of Texas Health Science Center at the
San Antonio Dental School. He has enjoyed
a long and productive career both in
training others and in volunteer work
for cleft palate populations overseas.
Dr. Gruber is a member of the American
Dental Association, American Association
of Orthodontists, American Cleft Palate
Association, International Association
for Dental Research, Foundation for
Orthodontic Research, Craniofacial Biology
Group, American Association of Dental
Schools, Society of Craniofacial Genetics,
and the Southwestern Society of Orthodontists.
Dr. Gruber has lectured extensively
throughout Europe, the Americas, and
Asia. The major focus of his lectures
and research is cleft lip and palate
and craniofacial anomalies. He has traveled
extensively with Interplast and been
a team member in Chile and Vietnam.
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David
P. Kuehn, PhD
Professor
Kuehn has worked with individuals born
with cleft lip and palate for over 30
years. He received his PhD degree from
the University of Iowa, after which
he remained at Iowa for several years
working on a cleft palate research grant.
He has been active in the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, for which he was the first
coordinator of Special Interest Division
5, Speech Science and Orofacial Disorders,
and is a past Vice President for Research
and Technology. Dr. Kuehn has also been
active in the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial
Association, having served as Historian,
Vice President, and President. He is
currently Professor in the Department
of Speech and Hearing Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is a member of the Cleft Lip and
Palate Team at Carle Clinic in Urbana,
Illinois, and has participated in many
educational and surgical missions in
developing countries. Professor Kuehn
has published over 90 articles and has
presented over 140 papers at scholarly
meetings.
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Ann
W. Kummer, PhD
Ann W.
Kummer, PhD, is senior director of the
Speech Pathology department at Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The department is one of the largest
and most respected pediatric speech
pathology programs in the country. With
over 90 on staff, the department provides
inpatient, outpatient and home-based
services at the main location, and outpatient
services at eight satellite locations.
Dr. Kummer specializes in cleft palate
and craniofacial anomalies. She lectures
extensively on this topic, has many
publications, and is author of a book
titled Cleft Palate and Craniofacial
Anomalies: The Effects on Speech and
Resonance, Delmar-Thomson Learning,
2001. She is an ASHA fellow.
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Maria Lundberg,
Speech and Language Pathologist
Maria
Lundberg is a speech and language pathologist
and member of the cleft palate team
at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm,
Sweden. Her primary responsibilities
include meeting with parents of newborn
children with clefts, and doing evaluations
and therapy for patients with cleft
palate speech. Lundberg was the first
speech therapist to travel with EARTHSPEAK.
She was a founding member of the pilot
project done in Honduras, and she has
also worked in Ecuador and India.
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Patricia
Pattison, RN, MSN
Patti
Pattison is the director of the Education
and Program Development for Alta Bates
Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, California.
She has 10 years of experience as a
university faculty member. For over
20 years Pattison has participated in
annual trips to provide medical education
to the people of Micronesia through
the Reconstructive Surgery Foundation.
In
1998 she received the Rotary International
Distinguished Service Award.
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Stephen A.
Schendel, MD, DDS
Stephen
Schendel attended St. Olaf College,
University of Minnesota, and obtained
his Diploma Assistant Etranger from
the Faculty of Medicine, University
of Nantes (France). He did postgraduate
training in dentistry at Parkland Memorial
Hospital, Dallas, and also studied at
Baylor and Stanford universities. Dr.
Schendel is currently active in the
department and is director of the Craniofacial
Anomalies Center at Lucille Packard
Children's Hospital at Stanford. His
focus during his entire career has been
in the field of craniofacial surgery.
Recently he has been involved in computerized
virtual surgery in a joint project with
NASA. He is developing an electronic
sensor to measure and demonstrate nasal
escape in cleft palate speech. Much
of his work has been done internationally.
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Nick Sieveking,
PhD
Dr. Nick
Sieveking has worked for 35 years as
a practicing clinical and consulting
psychologist and in university settings.
He has served as a management and human
resource consultant in multiple industries,
primarily health care and civil forensic
psychology. Dr. Sieveking has worked
extensively on programs related to selecting,
preparing, orienting, and monitoring
individuals working in cultures other
than their own. Dr. Sieveking is director
of the Psychological and Counseling
Center for students, faculty and staff
and clinical associate professor of
psychiatry and psychology at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN.
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Hale Tolleth,
MD
Dr. Hale
Tolleth's primary emphasis of practice
has been cleft lip and palate. He received
his medical degree from the University
of Southern California and completed
his plastic surgery training at Saint
Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.
He served a fellowship in plastic surgery
with the African Medical and Research
Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Tolleth's
academic activities include serving
as a Clinical Assistant Professor of
surgery at Stanford University School
of Medicine and Clinical Instructor
in Plastic Surgery, University of California,
Davis. He has been on the board of directors
of Interplast, the American Society
of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons,
PLASTIKOS, the California Society of
Plastic Surgeons, the American Society
for Aesthetic Plastic surgery, and the
California Cleft and Craniofacial Coalition.
Dr. Tolleth's overseas work includes
the countries of Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya,
Western Samoa, Fiji, Solomon Islands,
Indonesia, the Phillipines, Mexico,
Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and
the Republic of Palau.
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Judith
Trost-Cardamone, PhD, CCC-SLP
Judith
Trost-Cardamone is Professor of Communications
Disorders and Sciences at California
State University, Northridge (CSUN)
and speech pathology consultant for
the Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC)
cleft palate team. She received her
BS, MA, and PhD degrees from Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. Post-degree
positions at Northwestern included team
coordinator, speech pathologist and
clinical supervisor at the Cleft Lip
and Palate Institute, and tenured Associate
Professor with joint appointments in
the Communication Sciences and Disorders
department and the medical school. Also
in the Chicago area, Dr. Trost-Cardamone
was Director of Communicative Disorders
at the Neurological Institute and speech-language
consultant at Christ Hospital in Oak
Lawn, Illinois. Dr. Trost-Cardamone
brings 30 years of clinical practice
experience to the assessment and treatment
of congenital and acquired organic speech
resonance, voice, articulation and language
disorders in children and adults. She
has given over 100 courses and workshops
on these topics and is nationally and
internationally recognized for her clinical
expertise and educational contributions.
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Lance Tsugawa,
Speech and Language Pathologist
Lance
Tsugawa earned degrees in business from
the University of Oregon, international
business from the Netherlands Institute
for International Affairs, and in speech
and language pathology from Portland
State University. He has worked as a
clinician in public schools, Home Health
Rehabilitation Center, and in acute
care in Kaiser hospitals. He currently
works as a consultant in early intervention
to Migrant Head Start and Head Start.
Because of the large number of Spanish-speaking
children in those systems, this connection
has allowed him to pursue his interest
in the speech and language disorders
of Spanish-speaking children. He has
a special interest in cleft palate and
associated speech disorders. Tsugawa
has made several trips to Latin America
with Rotoplast to offer speech service
to cleft palate children there.
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Lars Vistnes,
MD, FACS
During
Dr. Lars Vistnes' tenure at Stanford
he held the positions of Chairman, Department
of Functional Restoration; Acting Chairman,
Department of Surgery; Chief and Program
Director, Plastic Surgery; Chief of
the Medical Center, and Chief of Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery of the Veterans
Administration Medical Center. He is
a member of the Plastic Surgery Educational
Foundation, the American Association
of Plastic Surgeons, and President of
the California Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Dr. Vistnes has also been the Editor-in-Chief
and Editor-Emeritus of the Annuals of
Plastic Surgery, and consulting editor
of the journal, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Vistnes is board certified by the
Royal College of Surgeons, Canada, and
the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
He has worked with Interplast, the San
Francisco Free Clinic, and the Glaucoma
Research Foundation.
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David Werner,
Director of Healthwrights
David
Werner is co-founder and director of
HealthWrights (a work group for people's
health and rights) and a visiting professor
at Boston University International School
of Public Health.. A biologist and educator
by training, he has worked for the past
35 years in village health care, community-based
rehabilitation, and child-to-child health
initiatives in developing countries,
mainly Mexico. Werner, who has a physical
disability himself, is very active in
this program, as well as in a sister
program that designs and constructs
personalized children's wheelchairs
at low cost. Werner has authored and
illustrated the handbooks titled "Where
There Is No Doctor" (now in 87 languages),
"Helping Health Workers Learn," "Disabled
Village Children," and "Nothing About
Us Without Us: Developing Innovative
Technologies For, By and With Disabled
Persons."
Werner has worked in more than 50 countries
around the world.
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F.
Eugene Yates, MD
Dr. F.
Eugene Yates is Professor of Medicine
(Emeritus) at UCLA, Ralph and Marjorie
Krump Professor of Medical Engineering
(Emeritus), and a scientific advisor
at the John Douglas French Alzheimer's
Foundation. Dr. Yates is helping EARTHSPEAK
find partner scientific organizations
to further the study of the neurobiological
basis for CORRECTIVE BABBLING. With
Dr. Yates's help, results from the many
EARTHSPEAK endeavors around the world
provide data and research opportunities
for PhD candidates working in various
areas of cleft palate speech.
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