Fund raising

Furlow Fund Inaugural Fall Dinner
October 17, 2011 – UNC-Chapel Hill
Please watch this video of a performance by UNC medical students, Maria Thekkekandam and April Edwards, at the dinner.

Upcoming Conferences

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 ResurgeSchedule 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

Upcoming Trips

November 24, 2011 – December 12, 2011
The Palestinian Cleft Society in collaboration with surgeons from the United States will host screening days on 11/26 in Jenin, 12/3 in Ramallah, and 12/4 in Hebron. If you or your child is in need of care for a craniofacial anomaly, please attend a screening.