Children's Hospital, New Orleans - Cleft Lip and Palete/Craniofacial

Cleft Lip and Palate/Craniofacial

Appointments:	(504) 896-9857 (504) 895-7200
Office Hours:	8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

Craniofacial/Reconstructive Surgery:

Michael Moses, MD, Director

Hugo St. Hilaire, MD,DDS

Neurosurgery:

Lori McBide, MD

Otolaryngology:

Evelyn Kluka, MD

Lawrence Simon, MD

Michael Hagmann, MD

Genetics:

Yves Lacassie, MD

Michael Marble, MD

Regina Zambrano, MD

Oral Surgery:

Demarcus Smith, IV, DDS

Michael Ferguson, DDS, MD

Pediatric Dentistry:

Stephen Holmes, DDS

Claudia Cavallino, DDS

Orthodontics:

William Ledoux, DDS

Mark Coreil, DDS

Nurse Coordinator:

Mary Ellen Alexander, RN, MN

Speech Pathology:

Patrice Haywood, M.Ed., CCC-SLP

Audiology:

Amanda Giles, MCD, CCC-A

Social Services:

Roxanne Stegall, GSW, LMSW

The Cleft Lip and Palate/Craniofacial Team provides diagnosis and treatment for practitioners in the specialties of Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics, Plastic Surgery, Genetics, Audiology, Speech Pathology, Neurosurgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Nursing and Social Services. The specially trained staff is experienced in the complexities of the care for infants, children and adolescents with cleft lip and craniofacial anomalies. This team approach ensures that all of the health care providers work together to implement a single, coordinated treatment plan for each child. The plan is shared with the family, the child�s pediatrician and all other pertinent providers.
Management expertise includes, but is not limited to:

Cleft lip Cleft palate
Craniofacial anomalies
Craniosynostosis (fused skull, abnormal head shape, abnormal skull sutures)
Hypernasality
Velopharyngeal insufficiency
Velocardiofacial syndrome(also called VCF)
DiGeorge syndrome
22q deletion
Treacher-Collins
Crouzon
Apert syndrome
Saethre-Chotzen
Hemifacial Microsomia
FAV spectrum
Microtia
Malocclusion
Micrognathia
Pierre-Robin
Stickler's syndrome
Van der Woude syndrome
Plagiocephaly

The Cleft Lip and Palate/Craniofacial Clinic is located in the Ambulatory Care Center at Children's Hospital.

For additional information, visit http://www.neworleanscleftteam.org/.

Michael H. Moses, MD
Director, Cleft Lip and Palate/Craniofacial Team, Children�s Hospital

Professional School:
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Specialty Training:
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Special Interests:
Cleft lip and palate and craniofacial surgery

In Area Since: 1985
In Practice Since: 1985