Conference Agenda

2024 Joint Meeting of the Cleft Palate Interactive Conference and
International Symposium on VPD

Friday, November 1, 2024

8:00am Registration and Breakfast

9:00am Opening Remarks: Dr. Richard Kirschner and Dr. Krishna Patel

9:15am Keynote Speaker: We Are All in This Together, Dr. Ron Strauss

10:00am Team Approaches to VPD Management and Outcome Assessment
Dr. Catherine deBlacam, Amelia Drake and Adriane Baylis

10:45am Coffee Break/Exhibitors

11:00am Breakout Session 1:
- Cleft Lip Repair: Dr. Richard Kirschner, Dr. Phayvanh Pecha,
Dr. Adam Johnson
- Overcoming Stigma in Patients with Cleft Palate and VPD: Dr. Ron Strauss &
Dr. Peter Durquette
- The Perceptual Speech Evaluation: Dr. Kelly Cordero & Adriane Baylis

12:00pm Luncheon

1:00pm Breakout Session 2:
- Cleft Palate Repair: Dr. Richard Kirschner, Dr. Ryan Belcher, Dr. Brianne Roby 
- VP Imaging: Nasopharyngoscopy and Speech Videofluoroscopy Workshop:
Dr. Caitlin Cummings & Dr. Jamie Perry
- Alveolar Bone Grafting: Dr. Mark Miller, Dr. John Caccamese & Shelly Abramowicz

1:45pm Coffee Break and Exhibitors

2:00pm Breakout Session 3:
- Cleft Lip Revision and Rhinoplasty: Dr. Larry Hartzell & Dr. Laura Hetzler
& Dr. Carolyn Rogers
- Cleft Feeding 101: Melissa Montiel, MA and Heather McGhee, MA
- Management of VPD in Patients with Maxillary Hypoplasia:
Dr. Mark Miller & Dr. Sara Kinter

2:45pm Coffee Break/Exhibitors

3:00pm Oral Platform Papers (Three 7-minute Presentations)
- Tim Bressman
- TBD
- TBD

3:20pm Submucous Cleft Palate Repair Panel
Dr. Arun Gosain, Dr. Jim Phillips, Dr. Greg Pearson and Dr. Sara Kinter

4:10pm Management of VPD in 22q11.2DS
Dr. Richard Kirschner, Dr. Jill Arganbright and Adriane Baylis

5:00pm Wine and Cheese Reception, Exhibitors, Poster Presentations

5:45pm Optional Simulation Workshops
- Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis: Dr. Siva Chinnadurai
and Dr. William Carrol
- Nasopharyngoscopic Evaluation of VPD: Dr. Shane Zim,
Dr. Zarah Taufique and Dr. Caitlin Cummings

Saturday, November 2, 2024

8:00am Breakfast

8:25am Welcome Remarks: Adriane Baylis & Dr. Steve Goudy

8:30am Keynote Speaker: The State of the Art in Surgical Management of VPD
and Outcomes Assessment, Dr. Catherine deBlacam

9:15am Panel: Buccal Myomucosal Flap in Secondary Surgery: Dr. Deb Kacmarynzski,
Dr. Alexander Marston, Oksana Jackson & Dr. Carolyn Rogers

10:15am Coffee Break/Exhibitors

10:30am Airway, Feeding and Cleft Management of Infants with Robin Sequence
Dr. Heather McGhee, Dr. Greg Pearson, Dr. Andrew Scott and Dr. Lauren Leeper

11:15am VP MRI, Dr. Jamie Perry

11:45am Luncheon

1:00pm Breakout Session 4:
- VP Surgery Techniques (PPF, Sphincter and Conversion Flow)
Dr. Richard Kirschner, Dr. Lisa Morris, & Dr. Arun Gosain
- Identifying Compensatory Misarticulations and How They Impact VPD Mgmt
Dr. Kelly Cordero & Caitlin Cummings
-Fistula Repair: Dr. Greg Pearson, Gregory Allen and Dr. Scott Tatum

2:00pm Breakout Session 5:
- VP MRI Workshop, Dr. Jamie Perry
- Speech Therapy for Compensatory Misarticulations: Melissa Montiel, MA
Stephanie Schank, & Catherine Crowley
- VPD Revision Surgery: Dr. Noel Jabbor, Dr. Robert Tibesar, & Patrick Munson

2:45pm Coffee Break/Exhibitors

3:00pm Diagnosis and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients Before/After
VPD Surgery: Chris Discolo, Dr. Dominic Gault, Dr. Heather Koehn, & David Zopf

4:00pm Oral Platform Papers (Three 7-minute papers)
-TBD
- Dr. Alexander Marston
-TBD

4:30pm VPD Management Around the World: Dr. Catherine Crowley & Dr. Joseph Lopez

5:00pm Closing Remarks: Dr. Phayvanh Pecha and Dr. Travis Tollefson