Cleft service team

The cleft team is made up of specialist clinicians from different areas who work together to provide care and treatment from before birth right through to adulthood for children with cleft lip or palate problems.

Consultant cleft surgeons

Consultant orthodontists

  • Alex Cash 
  • Sarah Good
  • Golfam Khoshkhounejad
  • Nicola Crawford 

Consultant children's dentists

Restorative dentists

  • Sarra Jawad
  • Satinder Chander

Clinical nurse specialists

  • Emma Glass – Evelina London matron and lead clinical nurse specialist for cleft 
  • Bev Willshire – Central London 07976 292 232
  • Caroline Williams – West (Surrey and Sussex) 07768 474 667
  • Joanna Leigh – East (Kent) 07810 483 923
  • Rebecca Bailey – East (Kent) 07768 474 876
  • Ruth Mirza – West (Surrey and Sussex) 07717 864 003 
  • Isabel Williams – Central (London) 07717 571 931

Speech and language therapists

  • Ali Birch – lead speech and language therapist
  • Hannah Cook – deputy lead speech and language therapist
  • Leda Koutsoulieri – senior speech and language therapist
  • Hannah Richmond – senior speech and language therapist
  • Karen Sheppard – senior speech and language therapist
  • Isabel Booth –  specialist speech and language therapist

Clinical psychologists

  • Kate le Maréchal – consultant lead clinical psychologist 
  • Jen Rundle – clinical psychologist
  • Talika Gamaarachchi-Hutchinson – clinical psychologist
  • Abbie Legg – assistant psychologist

Management

  • Kate le Maréchal – head of service 
  • Nyah-Marie Gould – service manager
  • Leisha Manning – assistant service manager 

Administrative Team

  • Eleri Cochrane – lead medical secretary
  • Sean Wong – audit and information officer
  • Sandra Elliot-Fevrius – outpatient booking officer
  • Jacquelyn Hill – outpatient booking officer
  • Aine McIvor – patient pathway validator
  • Paula Williams – admissions booking officer
  • Josephine Skerritt – outpatient booking officer
  • Ms Atkins – outpatient booking officer