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Post date: September 06, 2014

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Only the Brave

As I sat there in the Cebu, Philippines, pre-operative clinic I almost had to look away from the horribly deformed teenage girl sitting in front of me.

Post date: April 28, 2014

Title: Encyclopedia Britannica Taps Dr. Williams to Write Cleft Palate Section

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Encyclopedia Britannica contacted Dr. Geoff Williams in December 2013 to request that he rewrite the online encyclopedia’s cleft lip and palate section.

Post date: March 11, 2014

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Fernanda

You are a young mother living in the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. Your country is the poorest in South America. You have a new baby—your first, but all is not well. Although you, your young husband, and your mother and father had, with great joy, anticipated the birth of your first child, your hopes were dashed when your daughter was born with a number of birth defects.

Post date: February 13, 2014

Title: Rosemarie Becomes ‘Mystery Girl’

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None of the kids in Sandangan, Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines, knew who the mysterious new girl was. She had suddenly appeared as though she belonged there.

Post date: January 09, 2014

Title: ICSF Serves in All Four Hemispheres—Again

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Since its first full year of operation in 2006, ICSF has performed free surgeries and taught local health professionals in all four hemispheres of the world, every year, up to the present.

Post date: December 25, 2013

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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Pinky

The mountainous Philippine countryside flew by as I sat on the back of the motorcycle taxi. As I looked to my right side I got a fleeting glimpse of a child by the side of a small house. Although the scene rapidly fled my view, the image of the child’s face caught in my mind. There was something troubling about the image—and then I realized that the child had a severe facial deformity.

Post date: August 13, 2013

Title: ICSF Rounds out 2013 with Missions to Peru, Bolivia, and the Philippines

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2013 saw ICSF add yet another service to its regimen of treatments for children born with clefts in the developing world, with the implementation during ICSF’s October mission to Pucallpa, Peru of dental appliance services for cleft patients, to aid in speech and eating.

Post date: May 27, 2013

Title: Physician joins ICSF Board

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Dr. Joyce Carnes, a Bend, Oregon, physician, has joined the ICSF Board of Directors. At ICSF’s annual Board of Directors meeting in Medford, Oregon, on July 2, Dr. Carnes was unanimously voted in as a member of the board.

Post date: April 30, 2013

Title: January-March, ICSF’s Busiest Quarter to Date

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One-hundred-five surgeries in four missions (three missions to the Philippines alone) were performed in the first three months of 2013 by the ICSF surgical team.

Post date: April 01, 2013

Title: Father of Dr. Williams’ Former Patient Produces Video for ICSF

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By Eric Wall, Houston, Texas

View the video It's Their Time

Our son, David, constantly drooled. Because of his cleft palate, his bibs would get soaked. He would spit up volumes and required constant clean-up. It was a hard time for us, his family.