Mr Sommerlad is a consultant plastic surgeon at Great Ormond Street hospital in London. He is the past president of BAPRAS and the craniofacial society of Great Britain and Ireland.

He has visited countries where cleft lip and palate services are less well-developed. He works regularly with cleft teams in Bangladesh, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Iran, the Kurdish region of Iraq, and Uganda.

He was co-founder and now Chairman of CLEFT, a charity established in 2007 to fund the research activities of the Great Ormond Street / St Andrew’s cleft lip and palate team and also to support the activities of teams in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Egypt and the Kurdish Region of Iraq. CLEFT aims to bridge the gap in enabling surgical repair, funding research and increasing care available to children born with clefts in poorer countries.

Learning objectives:

1. The diagnosis, classification, and management of congenital craniofacial anomalies
2. The child’s hand, vascular disorders, and tumours
3. The management of hypospadias
4. Understanding basic principles of surgical management of paediatric surgery