Usama Hamdan MD, FICS
Board President
Co-Founder & President, Global Smile Foundation
Krishna Patel MD, PhD
Board Secretary
- Associate Professor, Director of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, MUSC Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
- Co-Director of MUSC Craniofacial Anomalies Cleft Lip and Palate Team
Raymond Ciccolo
- President, Village Automotive Group
- Founder & President, Ciccolo Family Foundation
Jay Schnitzer MD, PhD
- Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Mitre Corporation
- Former Director Defense Sciences Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Former Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President, Boston Scientific Corporation
Navil Sethna MD, FAAP
- Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
- Clinical Director, Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center, Department of Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital
Talal Ali Ahmad
Board Treasurer, Director of Information Technology, Global Smile Foundation
- Former President, Entrada Communications
Serena Kassam DMD
Presurgical & Dental Director, Global Smile Foundation
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, New York University College of Dentistry
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia
- Clinical Attending, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, BC Children’s Hospital
Advisory Board
Alan Silverstein
- Managing Member, New You, LLC
Rebecca Binder
- Executive Director, Benco Family Foundation
Joe Daher
- President, Kai Capital Management
Kristine Marcy
- Member, Board of Directors, National Academy of Public Administration
- Former Associate Director, United States Marshals Service
- Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
Babak Azizzadeh MD, FACS
- Chairman & Director of the CENTER for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery
- Co-Director, Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship Program, Keck School of Medicine
- Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, UCLA
Maryann Boyle Murray MBA, MPH
- Principle, MBM Development Communications
Stephen Maturo MD, LT Colonel, USAF, MC, FS
- Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Maine Medical Center
- Associate Professor, Uniformed Services University
- Former Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Former Director of Residency, Department of Otolaryngology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Christopher Hughes DMD, PhD
- Former Chair, Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Tripp Amdur
- Group President of Medline Industries
- Medline Director in Europe, Asia, and Australia
RG Conlee
- President and CEO, Tylark Corporation
- Former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox Services
Stephen Harris MD, FACS
- Harris Plastic Surgery
- Chief of Plastic Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital
- Staff Surgeon, former Chief of Plastic Surgery, NSLIJ – Southside Hospital
George Blaser
- President, Coast to Coast Medical
Paul Cody
- Corporate Operations Specialist, Prospect Airport Service
Kenneth Pellegrino CEBT
- Manager, Clinical Engineering
- Chairman, Laser Committee, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Robert Karch MD, MPH, FAAP
- Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Univ. of Central Florida College of Medicine
- Deputy Secretary for Children’s Medical Services, Florida Department of Health
Eric R. Kaufman AB, LL.B
- Partner, Kaufman & Kaufman, Attorneys
Laura Hetzler MD, FACS
- Program Director & Associate Professor, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Director, Our Lady of the Lake (OLOL) Children’s Hospital Cleft Team & Facial Nerve Disorders Clinic
Denise Carolina Franco Mera Esq, MBA
- President, Fundacion Global Smile-Ecuador
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James Liau MD, FACS
- Associate Professor Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
- Section Chief Craniofacial and Pediatric, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
- UK Chandler Hospital Senior Inpatient Medical Director, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Raj Vyas, MD
GSF Director of Research
- Professor and Vice-Chairman, UC Irvine Department of Plastic Surgery
- Chief of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, CHOC Children’s Hospital
- Co-Chair, CCCW Curriculum Committee 2023, 2022
Junior Board
The GSF Junior Board brings together student leaders from across the U.S. to raise awareness about GSF’s humanitarian outreach cleft programs worldwide and to help with fundraising campaigns that support interdisciplinary care for so many underserved patients born with clefts. Junior Board members work within their school and social networks to hold educational events and fundraisers as well as volunteer at GSF events.
Follow the GSF Junior Board on Instagram at @gsfjuniorboard!
- Kylie Azizzadeh, Duke University
- Logan Azizzadeh, Harvard-Westlake School
- Tiffany Berookhim, Palisades School
- Thea Daher, London
- Brett Damavandi, Milken School
- Saba Daneshmand, Brentwood School
- Selma Nuwara, Cold Spring Harbor High School
- Vanessa Kahwaji, Little Flower Academy
- Lina Joy, University of Florida
- Mila Haffar, Hewitt School
- Michael Nessralla, Northeastern University
- Alison Swierczynski, Northeastern University
- Nicole Nessralla, Boston University
- Serena Serhan, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- Jade Stanford, Harvard-Westlake School
- Serina Tan, George Washington High School