MOEBIUS SYNDROME IN THE NEWS
Dr. Ronald Zuker, a man very close to the Moebius Syndrome Foundation and probably best known to some of you as the guy who does the "smile surgery", is doing some terrific work on the international stage these days--check it out:
"Renowned international Plastic Surgeon Dr. Ronald Zuker from from Toronto, Canada is visiting the Operation Smile Comprehensive Cleft Care Center in Guwahati as part of an international educational exchange program. Between May 2 to 11, 2012 a multispecialty international team of experts led by Dr. Zuker from the Hospital of Sick Kids, Toronto will be working along with their local counterparts at the Operation Smile Center while exchanging valuable knowledge about various aspects of surgical treatment of cleft deformities.
The Operation Smile Comprehensive Cleft Care Center situated in Mahendra Mohan Choudhury Hospital in Panbazar, Guwahati is as an outcome of the unique Public Private Partnership between Operation Smile and the Government of Assam and supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust & Allied Trusts. It is the most sophisticated, comprehensive cleft care facility in South East Asia.

Along with providing world class treatment and care to the people of Assam, one of the of the key focus areas of Operation Smile is to build and develop local capacity with the objective of ensuring long term sustainability. Dr. Ronald Zuker, who is internationally known for his specialization in facial animation, will provide the local medical team a great opportunity to work with him hands on and gain significant knowledge and skills enhancement through live demonstrations and case studies. Also part of the visiting team are Dr. Greg Borschel, Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Susan Organek, Speech Therapist and Ms. Gail Zuker, Occupational Therapist.

As part of the on-going educational exchange program in collaboration with the Hospital of Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada several medical staff members of the Operation Smile Center in Guwahati have already attended residential training and exposure programs in Canada. Through this program Operation Smile has been able to create opportunities of educational exchange that are considered invaluable and rare even in the biggest of hospitals in metro cities.

"Our current educational efforts are in keeping with the vision of developing our Guwahati Center into an international knowledge center for cleft care. The achievements of this center is already being talked about internationally and we have been receiving expressions of interest from various international experts and institutions to engage with us in knowledge exchange programs. We are delighted to have Dr. Zuker here", says Mr. Mahesh Deori, Director, Operation Smile Comprehensive Cleft Care Center, Guwahati."

Keep up the good work, Dr. Zuker--we're proud of you.


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