Dr Lara Van De Lande
Dr.Laravan de Lande, is a Medical Doctor currently doing a PhD at the Craniofacial Unit, UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital and forms a bridge between technology and clinical practice in our team.
Dr Kish Mankad
Dr Kish Mankad is the Clinical Lead for Paediatric Neuroradiology at GOSH. He has a strong determination to improve clinical outcomes for children by ensuring quality and safety through research, innovation and enhanced use of enabling technologies.
Silvia Schievano
Silvia Schievano is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UCL & GOSH. Her main areas of research interest are in-silico and in-vitro patient specific modelling of congenital diseases and device treatments, and the integration of biomedical engineering methods into clinical decision making pathways. These skills were utilized in the planning and execution of the recent set of CPT twins.
Alessandro Borghi
Alessandro Borghi is a Senior Research Associate for the Institute of Child Health, currently working on the project FACEVALUE. He works on numerical modeling of craniofacial surgical procedures and on the design of novel distractors for the treatment of congenital craniofacial abnormalities. He was involved in the innovation pathways of the recent CPT surgery.
Felice D’Arco
Dr Felice D’Arco is a Consultant Paediatric Neuroradiologist at GOSH. His specialisms include: Inner ear malformations, Paediatric head and neck radiology, Paediatric brain tumours and Epilepsy.
Yean Chooi
Yean is a biomedical engineer in the GOSH 3D facility, analysing and combining 3D MRI and CT images to build virtual computer models of patients. Part of this involves 3D printing anatomically accurate models, an example of which were the 3D models used in the planning and separation of the recent set of CPT twins.
Deborah Zeitlin
Deborah is a General Paediatric Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She specialises in the management of children with complex medical issues, stabilising critically unwell children and safeguarding children and young people. She sits on the European Paediatric Advanced Life Support committee that sets and delivers paediatric resuscitation training across the UK.
Kar-binh Ong
Dr Ong has been a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2006 and has a special interest in anaesthesia for craniofacial surgery and the paediatric difficult airway.
Dr Sally Wilmshurst
Dr Wilmshurst has been a consultant in paediatric anaesthesia at Great Ormond Street since 2006 and has a special interest in anaesthesia for craniofacial surgery and Quality Improvement.
Dominic Thompson
Dominic Thompson is a paediatric neurosurgeon in the Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Hon. Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, London. Dominic is an internationally known expert in the treatment of congenital disorders of the paediatric spine, in particular craniocervical junction anomalies and spinal dysraphism.
Laura Sinclair
Laura Sinclair has worked in the operating theatres at Great Ormond Street for 14 years, currently in the role as Matron for theatres, anaesthesia and pain with clinical expertise in craniofacial and plastic surgery. She aims to deliver the highest standard of care to an incredibly complex patient group through excellent and effective teamwork.
Cecelia Carney
Cecelia is a senior perioperative nurse who has worked at GOSH since 1998 and has over 25 years of experience theatres and in paediatric neurosurgery. Cecelia has been part of ground breaking advances in neurosurgery at GOSH and is committed to sharing her vast knowledge with nursing colleagues for the benefit of patients in need of this service.
Greg James
Greg James is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital and a neuroscientist at University College London. His clinical and research interests are primarily craniofacial anomalies and cerebrovascular disease in children.
Dr Jane Herod
Dr Jane Herod FRCA MBBS BSc is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist at a Great Ormond Street Hospital. She was the Anaesthetic lead for the recent set of craniopagus twins.
Occupational and Physiotherapy team
Kate Griffiths, Caroline Kermarrec, Asia Morton and Sophie Truman
The Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists worked jointly with the most recent set of craniopagus twins. The Occupational Therapists pay particular attention to providing assessment and intervention for cognitive skills and fine motor skills for daily life activities. The Physiotherapists pay particular attention to gross motor skills to enable participation in daily activities.
Camila Maglaya-Ocampo
Camila is a senior Anaesthetic Nurse with an interest in conjoined twin separation. She is involved in helping to organise the anaesthetic team which includes logistics, positioning and specialist equipment.
Zubair Tahir
Mr Zubair Tahir is an experienced consultant paediatric neurosurgeon, who is passionate about delivering the highest quality care to all children. He works as a consultant at Great Ormond Street hospital (GOSH) and Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
Dr Bridget Callahan
Dr Bridget Callaghan has been a Consultant General Paediatrician for twelve years and works in the International Division at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Dr Callaghan has been the General Paediatrician for two sets of Craniopagus twins, before and after separation and has considerable expertise in managing their complex physiologies in an holistic way. She also is expert in supporting parents and families and the wider multidisciplinary team through the challenging jouney of separation.
Endrit Pajaziti
Endrit Pajaziti is a first year PhD student at UCL doing research at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science. Before beginning his studies, he was based in GOSH as an assistant researcher on a Virtual Reality (VR) project for the most recent set of CPT twins.
Ellis Clarke
Ellis is the Charity Manager. She is involved with all aspects of the charity including charity development, project management, marketing, fundraising and logistics.
Juling Ong
Juling Ong is a craniofacial and paediatric plastic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. He trained in plastic surgery in London, and went on to undertake a craniofacial and paediatric plastic surgery training fellowship in the United States.
Neil Bulstrode
Neil is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and the Lead Clinician for the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at GOSH and Honorary Associate Professor at GOSH-ICH. He was part of the team which separated the first of the craniopagus twins and also twins joined at the chest abdomen and limbs.