Integrating oral health into the cleft care continuum

Prof. Peter Mossey, is the Associate Dean for Internationalization at University of Dundee Dental School, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Craniofacial Anomalies. He is the Leader for the Craniofacial Anomalies theme in the WHO Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Birth Defects Initiative. He was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Craniofacial Anomalies Group of the IADR Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network (GOHIRN) initiative in August 2012. He is also an expert on Smile Train – FDI World Dental Federation project which aims to create oral health and dental care guidelines and training programs for community dentists, cleft teams and families affected by cleft worldwide.

MDS in Pediatric Dentistry, coordinator for dental specialities in Pre surgical Orthopedics in the Cleft lip and Palate program of APROQUEN. Postgraduate in University teaching, senior professor of the pediatric dentistry course at UAM and UNICA University, Managua. Member of the Pediatric Dentistry Association of Nicaragua. Member of Pediatric Dentistry Association of Latin America. Smile Train Partner.

• MDS (Orthodontics), PhD, M.Phil, Fellow in Cleft Orthodontics
• Co-Covenor Women Forum, Institutional Co-ordinator IQAC.
• Editor in Chief, JODRDMIMS

Elizabeth Shick, DDS, MPH, is a board-certified pediatric dentist and public health professional with extensive experience spanning clinical care, academia, and global oral health leadership. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Dr. Shick is an active FDI contributor and currently serves on the FDI-World Dental Federation’s Public Health Committee and the Whole Body Health Task Team. She is actively involved in international initiatives focused on One Health and environmental sustainability, cleft care, and global oral health education. In 2026, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for Teaching and Research at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.