Brian Sommerlad Home   DVD Training    Contact Me    Brian Sommerlad is a consultant plastic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, and at the St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford. He was the first Clinical Director of the North Thames Cleft Lip and Palate Service (GOStA). Although involved in many aspects of plastic surgery, his main activity now is centred around surgery for children and adults with cleft of lip and palate and associated conditions. He has been particularly involved in the development of the operating microscope for cleft palate repair and in refining surgery for repair of the muscles in cleft palate, and in re-repairing the cleft palate as an alternative to pharyngoplasty in some patients. Details of publications on these and other subjects can be found in the online CV. He regularly visits countries where cleft lip and palate services are less well-developed, to work with local surgeons and to assist in their development of multi-disciplinary teams. He is a Trustee of Interface Uganda, and Overseas Adviser to the Cleft and Social Aid Foundation in Bangladesh and also works with cleft teams in Sri Lanka. He is an honorary member of the Indian Society of Cleft Lip, Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies and regularly attends meetings in India. He is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Smile Train, a US based charity dedicated to empowering and supporting local surgeons and teams to carry out cleft lip and palate surgery. He is a past president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and is now Chairman of the Overseas Service and Training Sub-committee of the re-named British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). He is involved as a trustee in helping to set up a new charity to fund the research activities of the Great Ormond Street/St Andrew’s cleft lip and palate team and also to support the overseas activities of the team in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ghana and other countries. The charity is called “CLEFT” and the website address will be www.cleft.org.uk brian@sommerlad.co.uk Great Ormond Steet Hospital The joint website of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) and UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH) Interface Uganda A charity working within Uganda to provide essential plastic and reconstructive surgery to Uganda and the region of east Africa British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons The professional representative body for plastic and reconstructive surgeons in the United Kingdom A set of 3 DVDs is available on request and free to surgeons. For more information and to order click here.