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Mr James Allison
James Allison is Chief Technical Officer of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team. Shortly after graduating from the University of Cambridge in 1991, he started his career in motorsport at Benetton. He achieved Championship success at the team in 1994 and 1995 and was made Head of Aerodynamics in 1997.
He left to join Ferrari in 1999 as Trackside Aerodynamicist, playing an important role in the Maranello-based squad’s run of six consecutive Constructors’ titles between 1999 and 2004. He switched to Renault for 2005, joining as Deputy Technical Director, adding two more titles to his tally before taking on the role of Technical Director from 2009 onwards. In 2013, he made the move back to Ferrari as Technical Director.
James joined Mercedes ahead of the 2017 F1 season as Technical Director and has played a crucial part in taking the team to five Constructors’ Championships and four Drivers’ titles.
Mid-way through 2021, James began a newly created role as Chief Technical Officer. With the CTO role, James has stepped back from day-to-day management of the F1 technical operations, turning his energy and attention to helping the team meet the strategic challenges of the sport’s new era, while continuing to work closely with the technical leadership at Brackley and Brixworth to ensure the team always has the right capability to meet its needs.
Mr James Allison
UK
Dr. Eric Arnaud M.D
Eric Arnaud, 60 years old, has completed a full training in Plastic Surgery, after being board-certified in General Surgery. He worked in the Plastic Surgery Unit of Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris, with Jean-Marie Servant, in the capacity of “Chef de Clinique” until 1998.
He developed a major interest in Craniofacial Surgery, for which he has trained with both Daniel Marchac and Dominique Renier in Paris. He has also trained in 1993 with Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio in Mexico, and Ken Salyer in Dallas. He joined the craniofacial team in Paris in 1999.
He has been the co-director of the craniofacial Unit in Hopital Necker Enfants Malades in Paris since 2008.
Eric Arnaud is the author or co-author of more than 200 national, international publications, book chapters, and editor of three books on Plastic Surgery specifically, the techniques of Plastic Surgery related to Distraction Osteogenesis after the international Distraction meetings in Paris, in 2001, 2003, 2006. He has presented more than 200 communications at various international meetings, half of them being invited lectures.
Dr. Arnaud is a member of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (ISCFS) since 1999, of the Brazilian Society of Craniofacial Surgery, the Argentinian society of Plastic Surgery, the European Association of plastic Surgeons (EURAPS). He served as secretary of the European Society of craniofacial surgery (ESCFS) and served as president (2011-2013). Meanwhile he served as secretary of ISCFS (2007-2015) and more recently he was ISCFS president (2017-2019) and organized the XVIIIth International congress in Paris in September 2019.
Eric Arnaud’expertise deals with the complex management of faciocraniosynostotic conditions. The cohort of craniosynostotic patients followed in the craniofacial Unit in Necker since 1976 deals with more than 5500 patients.
Dr Eric Arnaud
France
Scott P. Bartlett, M.D
Scott P. Bartlett, M.D.,is well known for his work in facialplasticsurgery in children and adults, treating them for both reconstructive and cosmetic concerns. In his reconstructive work, Dr. Bartlett treats patients with facial trauma, facial palsy, congenital abnormalities and defects of the face following skin cancer surgery. In the area of cosmetic surgery, he has special interestsin the face and neck, concentrating on nasal, eyelid and facial rejuvenation procedures. In additionto surgical treatments, Dr. Bartlett uses injectables and fillers, laser resurfacing, and state-of-the art implant materials. By combining his expertise in infant and adult reconstruction with aesthetic procedures, he is able to marry form and function in restoration.
Dr. Bartlett is a member of the Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, a team of specialists dedicated to improving ways of treating appearance related problems.He is also the holder of the Peter Randall Endowed Chair in Pediatric Plastic Surgery and of the Friends of Brian Endowed Chair in Pediatric & Reconstructive Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His research is directed to learning the effects of aging on the structure of the face and refining methods of facial reconstruction. His other research interests include growth and development of the face and implant materials. He is widely published in specialty journals and books.
Dr. Bartlett lectures worldwide and is a member of prestigious plastic surgery societies such as the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the International Society of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, of which he is a former President. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is the Section Editor in Pediatric / Craniofacial for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the most widely read journal in the specialty. Each year he travels to Poland in a volunteer capacity where he performs surgery and trainsPolish physicians in methods of facial reconstruction for children and adults.
Dr. Bartlett is the Mary Downs Endowed Chair in Craniofacial Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is a Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. He completed his pre-medical studies at Weber State College in Utah and his medical studies at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He interned and did his surgical and plastic surgery residencies at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At Harvard University, he was a research fellow in surgical immunology and later a craniomaxillofacial and pediatric fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is board certified in Plastic Surgery.
Dr Scott P. Bartlett
USA
Dr Federico Di Rocco
Director of the French National Referral Center for Craniosynostosis of Lyon. Full professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Lyon, France. Chairman of the Pediatric Neurosurgical Department at the Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant of Lyon, France. Secretary of the European Society for Craniofacial Surgery (ESCFS). Chairman of the Education Committee of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) and past chairman of the ISPN Education Committee. Treasurer of the Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française.
Dr. Di Rocco’s main fields of interest are craniosynostosis, congenital CNS malformations, antenatal treatment of spinal dysraphisms, hydrocephalus, cranio-cervical junction anomalies, cerebral and spinal tumors, and traumas.
He is author of more than 200 articles published in peer reviewed international journals and chapters in neurosurgical textbooks.
Dr Federico Di Rocco
France
Prof. David Dunaway
David Dunaway currently leads a craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital London. His principle clinical role is in the management of craniosynostosis with a particular interest in craniofacial distraction. He has been involved in the separation of four sets of craniopagus twins.
He is Professor of Craniofacial surgery in the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health at University College London. His research interests are centred around geometric morphometric analysis, machine learning in craniofacial diagnosis and surgical planning and patient specific distraction devices.
In 2016, David was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to facial surgery.
Throughout his career, David has been actively involved in working and teaching in Africa. He is a Trustee of Facing Africa, a British charity treating children from developing world countries with Craniofacial Deformity.
Prof David Dunaway
UK
Dr. Richard Hopper
Dr. Richard Hopper is the Marlys C. Larson Endowed Professor in Paediatric Craniofacial Surgery at the University of Washington. He is Chief of the Division of Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Surgical Director of the Craniofacial Center. His clinical practice focuses on the surgical treatment of craniosynostosis, cleft lip and palate, rare and severe birth deformities of the bones and soft tissues of the face, with a sub-focus on subcranial distraction procedures for complex upper airway obstruction. His research interests include image based outcome studies for craniosynostosis and complex craniofacial procedures as well as device design for cleft and craniofacial care. Dr. Hopper is the current President of the ISCFS and past President of ASCFS. He serves on the SmileTrain Global Medical Advisory Board and is co-sponsor of the Partners in African Cleft Team Training program that has worked with African cleft teams in Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Dr. Richard Hopper
USA
Mr. Shailendra Magdum
Shailendra Magdum is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, fully qualified Neurosurgeon from India (MCh) and UK and licensed to practise Neurosurgery by the GMC.
Mr. Magdum is currently employed as a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. His practice is predominantly paediatric neurosurgery and craniofacial neurosurgery. Mr. Magdum has particular expertise in craniosynostosis/craniofacial/Chiari malformations surgery and midline paediatric tumours. His expertise is based on his clinical practise, serving in Africa for the last 5 years doing complex encephalocele repairs.
Mr. Magdum has written numerous case reports on unique presentations and complications along with a review article in BMJ on Chiari 1 malformations.
Mr. Shailendra Magdum
UK
Prof. Irene Mathijssen
General information
Irene Margreet Jacqueline Mathijssen
The Netherlands
Eendrachtsweg 57B
3012 LE Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
i.mathijssen@erasmusmc.nl
December 2018 Full professor
December 2016 Head of the dept. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Erasmus MC
June 2014-2016 MBA-health, ECZ
December 2011 Extraordinary professor in craniofacial malformations
March 2005 Plastic surgeon, Erasmus MC
January 2005–April 2005 Craniofacial Fellowship Hopital Necker, Paris
October 2000 Doctorate “Craniosynostosis Clinical and fundamental aspects”
Research
Research focuses on congenital craniofacial anomalies, specifically craniosynostosis, rare facial clefts, craniofacial microsomia and facial dysostosis
Promotor of 12 completed PhDs, co-promotor of 2 PhDs
Research group of 11 PhD students
Reviewer of:
– Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
– Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery
– Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
Management
Coordinator of European Reference Network on Rare Craniofacial Anomalies (2016-
present)
Past-chair of the 24 coordinators of the European Reference Network (2019-2021)
Secretary-Treasurer International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (2013-present)
Chair of the committee for development of national guideline on craniosynostosis (2010 and revision in 2019)
Member committee for development of ERN guideline on craniofacial microsomia (2019)
Member committee for development of ERN guideline on Robin sequence (2021)
Member of Talent- and Innovation Council Erasmus MC
President of Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery (2006 – 2012)
Member of the guideline committee of the Society for Medical Specialists, 2013-2015
Member of the Taskforce of the Society for Medical Specialists, focusing on quality management in health care, 2012-2014
Publications & presentations
180 international peer-reviewed articles
4 book chapters on craniofacial anomalies
H-index 28
www.ern-cranio.eu
Societal impact
Establishing centralization of care in the Netherlands for patients with craniosynostosis in 2 expert centers
In praise of medicine lecture, De Doelen Rotterdam, October 7th 2016 http://player.companywebcast.com/erasmusmc/20161007_1/nl/player
University of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. January 5th 2016. Five lectures online at www.universiteitvannederland.nl
TEDX, Amsterdam. November 30th 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4uA9mRWafc
Scholarships and prizes
The Skoog visiting professor 2019, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Co-promoter of the year 2008, Promerus
Best clinical paper Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – ASMS 2016
Best presentation NVPC spring meeting 2013
Best paper Journal Craniofacial Surgery of 2010
Best presentation 2nd annual meeting of the European Conference of Scientists and Plastic
Surgeons, October 9th and 10th 1998, London. Awarded by the European Association of
Plastic Surgeons, Madrid, May 1999
Travel grant:
European Association of Plastic Surgeons young plastic surgeon scholarship 2005
Kortjakje Zilverbeurs 2005
Prof. Irene Mathijssen
Netherlands
Dr. Pravin K. Patel
Dr. Pravin K. Patel is the Professor and Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Director of the Craniofacial Center and Heads the Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Service. He took a circuitous route to becoming a surgeon. He started his career as an electrical engineer in quantum electrodynamics, worked in industry in laser optics, followed by graduate studies in physics and mathematics. With his background in electrical engineering and computer science, he directs a University of Illinois Research Start-up, ImmersiveTouch, Inc., which focuses on developing virtual reality platform that optimizes digital imaging and surgical planning.
Dr. Pravin K. Patel
USA
Sir Andrew Pollard
Sir Andrew Pollard is Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford and an honorary consultant paediatrician at Oxford Children’s Hospital and Fellow of St Cross College. He received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021 for services to Public Health, especially in the pandemic.
His research includes the design, development and clinical evaluation of vaccines in UK, Asia, Africa and Latin America, including those for COVID-19, typhoid, meningococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, pneumococcus, plague, pertussis, influenza, rabies, coronavirus and Ebola, and leads studies using a human challenge model of paratyphoid and typhoid. He was the chief investigator for the clinical trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in 2020, which led to authorisation of the vaccine for use in more than 175 countries with over 2 billion doses distributed by the end of 2021. He has supervised 37 PhD students and his publications includes over 500 manuscripts and books on various topics in paediatrics and infectious diseases. He chairs the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and was a member of WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts 2016-2021. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Group on Vaccines at the European Medicines Agency from 2012-2020. He was Vice-Master of St Cross College, Oxford, 2017-2021. He received the Bill Marshall Award of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID) in 2013, the ESPID Distinguished Award for Education and Communication in 2015 and the Rosén von Rosenstein medal in 2019 awarded by the Swedish Paediatric Society and the Swedish Society of Medicine. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2016 and was awarded honorary membership of the British Society for Immunology in 2021. He previously chaired the scientific panel of the Spencer Dayman Meningitis Laboratories Charitable Trust (2002-2006) and was a member of the scientific committee of the Meningitis Research Foundation (2009-2014) and is currently chair of trustees of the Knoop Trust, and a trustee of the Jenner Vaccine Foundation and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sir Andrew Pollard
UK
Dr. Mamoon Rashid
Dr. Mamoon Rashid is Professor of Plastic Surgery and Programme Director at Shifa Hospital in Islamabad. His main interest is complex Head and Neck reconstruction for cancer, after trauma and for congenital problems.
He is a past President of the Pakistan Association of Plastic Surgeons and Pakistan Society for Surgery of the Hand.
He has delivered more than 200 talks at National and International meetings including the McIndoe lecture at the 2021 BAPRAS meeting. He has published 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and written chapters in three books.
He is a recipient of the BJPS Prize, the Norman Rowe Foundation award, the Sitara e Eisaar (The star award for sacrifice) for his work during the Kashmir Earthquake in 2005.
Dr. Mamoon Rashid
Pakistan
Dr Fintan Sheerin
Dr Fintan Sheerin MA, MB, Bchir, MRCP FRCR, is a scholar of St Catharine’s College in Cambridge University where he qualified in 1999. He subsequently trained in General Medicine in Oxford, Neurology at Queens Square and then in Clinical Radiology in Oxford. In 2008 Dr Sheerin undertook the Fellowship in Neuroradiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, with sub speciality focus on craniofacial, skull base and head and neck imaging. In 2010 he was appointed as a Consultant Neuroradiologist in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has been the Clinical Lead for Neuroradiology since 2018.
Dr Sheerin’s research interests focus on the translation of advances in neuroimaging to clinical applications relevant to the imaging of stroke, neuroinflammatory and craniofacial disorders. He is the principle investigator of an ongoing retrospective Oxford trial correlating quantitative imaging parameters with clinical phenotypes and outcomes in patients with craniosynostosis. Dr Sheerin was awarded the 2013 Burrows Prize by the British Society of Neuroradiologists.
Dr Fintan Sheerin
UK
Dr Gianpiero Tamburrini
Gianpiero Tamburrini has been a permanent Associate Professor in Pediatric Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurosurgery at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome since 2017. National qualified, Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the same university and is Chair of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit at the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS.
Dr. Tamburrini is President elect of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2018-2020). He is on the Advisor Membership Committee of the ISPN, associate editor and main editor for the journal entitled Child’s Nervous System in the section of, “Controversy in Pediatric Neurosurgery” whilst being author/coauthor to 191 peer reviewed impacted international papers and of 30 chapters of scientific books. He has participated as Faculty to more than 50 International Pediatric Neurosurgery Courses (ESPN, ISPN, WFNS, IFNE) giving 140 lectures.
Dr Gianpiero Tamburrini
Italy
Dr. Jesse Taylor
Dr. Taylor is the Peter Randall Endowed Chair and Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents with congenital and acquired differences of the face and skull. He currently acts as Co-Director of CHOP’s Cleft and Craniofacial programs, and Director of the University of Pennsylvania/CHOP Craniofacial Fellowship Program. Dr. Taylor focuses his practice on enhancing the appearance and functionality of the face and skull in children and adults. He specializes in craniosynostosis surgery, jaw surgery, surgery for facial asymmetries, cranial reconstruction, cranio-maxillo-facial distraction osteogenesis, and complex facial reconstruction.
Dr. Jesse Taylor
USA
Prof. Andrew Wilkie
Prof. Andrew Wilkie has been an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust since 1993 and Nuffield Professor of Pathology at the University of Oxford since 2003. In collaboration with the team at the Oxford Craniofacial Unit, his clinical research aims to identify the molecular genetic basis of craniofacial malformations, particularly craniosynostosis. Work on Apert syndrome has led to fundamental discoveries concerning the mechanisms of mutation associated with paternal age effects. In recognition of these discoveries Andrew has been elected FMedSci, FRS and to membership of EMBO.
Prof. Andrew Wilkie
UK
Professor Caroline Wilkinson
Caroline Wilkinson became the Institutional Lead for Forensic Research Strategy in 2022, after almost 8 years as Director of Liverpool School of Art & Design. Caroline is a chartered forensic anthropologist Level I (craniofacial specialism) by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and is an experienced forensic practitioner.
Caroline is Director of Face Lab, a LJMU research group that carries out forensic/archaeological research and consultancy work including craniofacial analysis, facial depiction and forensic art. Craniofacial analysis involves the depiction and identification of unknown bodies for forensic investigation or historical figures for archaeological interpretation. Face Lab research relates to facial identification, craniofacial reconstruction, preserved bodies and facial animation.
Prof. Caroline Wilkinson
UK
Dr. Eppo Wolvius
Eppo Wolvius is currently chair of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Special Dental Care and Orthodontics of the Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a team-member of the Dutch Craniofacial Centre Rotterdam. He holds a position as chair of the AOCMF Research & Development Commission, based Dubendorf/Davos, Switzerland. He is Chair of the Dutch ITI Section. For the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, he is Section Editor for the Trauma Section. He regularly (daily/weekly) reviews manuscripts for various Journals.