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Oral Health in Comprehensive Cleft Care: Oral Health Professionals

What's in this course?

Learn about the importance of oral health and take an active role in preventing oral diseases in children or facial clefts.

Oral Health

Dentistry, Oral health, Oral disease prevention

Target Audience

Designed for oral health professionals and other appropriate healthcare providers

Varied activities

Didactic lectures, quizzes

Level

Basic

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Dr. Peter Mossey

Clinical Orthodontic Consultant

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Dr. Madaswamy S. Muthu

Paediatric Dentist

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Dr. Marina Campodonico

Paediatric Dentist

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Dr. Omola Orenuga

Paediatric Dentist Consultant

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Smile Train

Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, with a sustainable and local model of supporting surgery and other forms of essential care. Over the last 20+ years, we have supported safe and quality cleft care for 1.5+ million children and will continue to do so until every child in need with a cleft has access to the care they deserve.

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FDI

FDI represents more than one million dentists worldwide across 133 countries. FDI´s vision is to lead the world to optimal oral health, and lead global advocacy efforts to increase oral health literacy using meaningful imagery, simple language, and equitable access across all populations with inclusion of those that are most difficult to reach. FDI can also encourage political commitment by using persuasive arguments surrounding prevention, such as cost-effectiveness, as well as better health outcomes. FDI works with members to raise global awareness about the importance of good oral health, and where it fits in securing a positive overall health and well-being outcome.

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Professor Makasa is an Adjunct Professor of Global Surgery and the Founding Director of the Southern Africa Development Community’s University of Witwatersrand Regional Collaboration Centre for Surgical Healthcare Improvement (WitSSurg). He chairs the regional SADC Technical Experts Working Group on Surgical Healthcare. Prof. Makasa is a strong advocate for strengthened health systems for surgical healthcare improvement, he has mobilised and coordinated multiple stakeholders in the clinical care, public health and the development ecosystems. He has presented on and published about safe, equitable and affordable universal access to emergency care, critical care and operative care services in Surgery, Obstetrics and Anaesthesia healthcare under the ubrella of Universal Health Coverage, Emergency Preparedness and Response and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Professor Makasa is a consultant and global health deplomat on global, regional and national surgical health policy, programs and service delivery supporting the sixteen SADC Member States, the World Health Organisation (WHO), including the European Investment Bank (EIB). He previouly served as the Republic of Zambia’s Global Health Diplomat at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna (2012-2017) during which time he chaired and led negotiations resulting in resolution WHA67.15, WHA68.15 and Decision WHA70(22). He was technical coordinator of the “African Health Experts” - Health Attachés from the African Union’s Permanent Missions at the UN in Geneva for the year 2014.

Prof. Emmanuel Malabo Makasa has senior health systems management experience, having served as Director (H) in the Office of the President (PSMD) of the Republic of Zambia; as Deputy Director responsible for Emergency Health Services and as Assistant Registrar Licensure of the Health Professionals Council of Zambia. He is a practicing consultant Orthopaedics & Trauma surgeon for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Zambia, based at the University Teaching Hospitals, with interests in musculoskeletal health for children and adolescents.

Professionally, he serves as Honorary Lecturer in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery for the University of Zambia, School of Medicine. He is a honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East Central & Southern Africa (COSECSA). He also currently serves as a member of the World Health Organisations Expert Advisory Panel on Surgical Care and Anaesthesia (2019-2022); as a member of the Advisory Board of the Pan African Association of Surgeons (PAAS), a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lusaka Orthopaedics Research & Education Trust (LORET) and the Executive Board of Africa Directions (AD) - a community based Lusaka NGO. Prof. Makasa is a member of the Leadership Team of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) that is currently hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR and served as a member of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS). He previously served as the Secretary General of the Zambia Medical Association (2007-2008) and as Secretary General of the Surgical Society of Zambia (2006-2007). He was a Visiting Scholar (2018) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the Hugh Greenwood Speaker (2017) at the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) and the A J Orenstein Lecturer (2017) at the University of Witwatersrand.

A Fulbright Scholar in Public Health Epidemiology (2007-2009) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) under the Department of State of the United States of America, Prof E M Makasa is also the COSECSA Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellow for the year 2020/21.

Dr. Lubna Samad is a paediatric surgeon based in Karachi, Pakistan, committed to improving patient outcomes with a specific focus on LMICs.

As a Director at IRD Global and Chairperson Board of Directors IRD Pakistan, she has contributed to developing innovative strategies to overcome health delivery challenges in the Global South. Her experience in public sector hospitals in Pakistan has informed her understanding of the many individual, social and institutional barriers that result in poor access to, and provision of, quality surgical care. Her work spans research, implementation, and policy level initiatives in the global surgery space.

She led the development of Pakistan’s national surgical plan - “National Vision for Surgical Care 2020-25” – in collaboration with Pakistan’s Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, aimed at incorporating surgical care delivery within the country’s health plan. She conducted the country’s first national surgical indicators survey and is actively involved in conceptualizing and modeling the surgical component of Pakistan’s Universal Health Coverage Benefits Packages.

Dr. Samad is Chair of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Clinical Care, a board member of the Global Initiative on Children’s Surgery and a member of MSF’s Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) Selection Committee.

Professor Makasa is a consultant and global health deplomat on global, regional and national surgical health policy, programs and service delivery supporting the sixteen SADC Member States, the World Health Organisation (WHO), including the European Investment Bank (EIB). He previouly served as the Republic of Zambia’s Global Health Diplomat at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna (2012-2017) during which time he chaired and led negotiations resulting in resolution WHA67.15, WHA68.15 and Decision WHA70(22). He was technical coordinator of the “African Health Experts” - Health Attachés from the African Union’s Permanent Missions at the UN in Geneva for the year 2014.

Prof. Emmanuel Malabo Makasa has senior health systems management experience, having served as Director (H) in the Office of the President (PSMD) of the Republic of Zambia; as Deputy Director responsible for Emergency Health Services and as Assistant Registrar Licensure of the Health Professionals Council of Zambia. He is a practicing consultant Orthopaedics & Trauma surgeon for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Zambia, based at the University Teaching Hospitals, with interests in musculoskeletal health for children and adolescents.

Professionally, he serves as Honorary Lecturer in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery for the University of Zambia, School of Medicine. He is a honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East Central & Southern Africa (COSECSA). He also currently serves as a member of the World Health Organisations Expert Advisory Panel on Surgical Care and Anaesthesia (2019-2022); as a member of the Advisory Board of the Pan African Association of Surgeons (PAAS), a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lusaka Orthopaedics Research & Education Trust (LORET) and the Executive Board of Africa Directions (AD) - a community based Lusaka NGO. Prof. Makasa is a member of the Leadership Team of the Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) that is currently hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR and served as a member of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS). He previously served as the Secretary General of the Zambia Medical Association (2007-2008) and as Secretary General of the Surgical Society of Zambia (2006-2007). He was a Visiting Scholar (2018) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the Hugh Greenwood Speaker (2017) at the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) and the A J Orenstein Lecturer (2017) at the University of Witwatersrand.

A Fulbright Scholar in Public Health Epidemiology (2007-2009) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) under the Department of State of the United States of America, Prof E M Makasa is also the COSECSA Rahima Dawood Travelling Fellow for the year 2020/21.

Oral Health in Comprehensive Cleft Care: Oral Health Professionals

What's in this course?

Oral Health

Target Audience

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Level

Course Authors

Dr. Peter Mossey

Dr. Madaswamy S. Muthu

Dr. Marina Campodonico

Dr. Omola Orenuga

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Oral Health in Comprehensive Cleft Care: Oral Health Professionals

What's in this course?

Oral Health

Target Audience

Varied activities

Level

Course Authors

Dr. Peter Mossey

Dr. Madaswamy S. Muthu

Dr. Marina Campodonico

Dr. Omola Orenuga

This course is provided by

Smile Train

FDI

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Peter Mossey

Clinical Orthodontic Consultant

Madaswamy S. Muthu

Paediatric Dentist

Marina Campodonico Frisch

Paediatric Dentist

Omolola O Orenuga (Lola)

Professor & Consultant Paediatric Dentist

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Dhananjaya Sharma

Committee MemberGeneral Surgeon

Jean O'Sullivan

Committee ChairEmergency Medicine Physician

Emilie Joos

Committee MemberTrauma Surgeon

Pauline Wake

Committee MemberAnaesthesiologist

Ainhoa Costas

Committee MemberGeneral Surgeon

Sherry Wren

Committee MemberGeneral Surgeon

Lilian Mwape

Committee MemberNurse

Sara Mohan

Committee MemberGynaecologist

Jackie Rowles

Committee Vice ChairNurse Anaesthetist

Rahel Nardos

Committee MemberGynaecologist

Claude Martin Jr.

Committee MemberOrthopaedic Surgeon

Adolfo Leyva-Alvizo

Committee MemberGeneral Surgeon

Andrea Parker

Committee Chair General Surgeon

Lubna Kahn

Committee MemberGeneral Surgeon

Musliu Adetola Tolani

Committee MemberUrologic Surgeon

Sabina Siddiqui

Committee MemberPaediatric Surgeon

Rick Gardner

Committee MemberOrthopaedic Surgeon

Luiz Fernando dos Reis Falcão

Committee MemberAnaesthesiologist

Rebecca Silvers

Technical AdvisorPediatric Neurosurgery & Critical Care Nurse Practictioner

Andrew Katz

Committee MemberIntellectual Property Lawyer

Somprakas Basu

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Emilio Velis

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