Usama Hamdan MD, FICS

Board President
President & Co-Founder, Global Smile Foundation
Founder, Comprehensive Cleft Care Workshop

Krishna G. Patel MD, PhD

Board Secretary

  • Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Director of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,
    & Co-Director of MUSC Craniofacial Anomalies Cleft Lip and Palate Team, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

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

Tripp Amdur

  • Group President of Medline Industries
  • Medline Director in Europe, Asia, and Australia

Talal Ali Ahmad

Board Treasurer
Director of Information Technology
(Volunteer)

  • Founder & CEO, Predictive Healthcare
  • Former President, Entrada Communications

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

Serena Kassam DMD

Presurgical & Dental Director (Volunteer)

  • 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

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

George Blaser

  • President, Coast to Coast Medical

Raymond Ciccolo

  • President, Village Automotive Group
  • Founder & President, Ciccolo Family Foundation

Paul Cody

  • Corporate Operations Specialist, Prospect Airport Service

Chuck Cohen

  • Managing Director & Owner of Benco Dental Company
  • Managing Director & Owner of Clarion Financial

RG Conlee

Director of EMR (Volunteer)

  • President and CEO, Tylark Corporation
  • Former Chief Innovation Officer, Xerox Services

Joe Daher

  • President, Kai Capital Management
  • Private Wealth Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Denise Carolina Franco Mera Esq, MBA

  • President, Fundacion Global Smile-Ecuador

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

Eric R. Kaufman AB, LL.B

  • Partner, Kaufman & Kaufman, Attorneys

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

Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna

Executive Vice President for Strategic Advancement (Volunteer)

Kenneth Pellegrino CEBT

  • Manager, Clinical Engineering
  • Chairman, Laser Committee, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
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Raj Vyas, MD

Director of Research (Volunteer)
Director of Fellowship
(Volunteer)

  • 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

Honorary Board

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

Maryann Boyle Murray MBA, MPH

  • Principle, MBM Development Communications

Christopher Hughes DMD, PhD

  • Former Chair, Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center