Team Index

The People Behind Smile Train

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Priscilla Ma

Executive Director

Born and educated in Canada, Priscilla spent more than 10 years as a marketing professional in global advertising agencies including Ogilvy, McCann Erickson and Saatchi & Saatchi. During that time, she handled international accounts such as General Motors, Motorola, and Nestlé.


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Robert Toth

Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining Smile Train as Chief Operating Officer, Robert Toth spent nearly 20 years at Computer Associates in senior management positions in operations, business development, and general management in the United States and internationally. While at Computer Associates, Bob was responsible for developing and implementing sales programs that generated revenues with a market value in excess of US$1 billion.


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Brian Dearth

Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Smile Train, Brian brings over twenty years of experience in direct-to-consumer marketing, marketing intelligence platforms, and business development. Prior to joining Smile Train, Brian was a Partner in New Madison Ave, a digital media agency, where he was responsible for developing marketing, public relations outreach, business relationships, and customer acquisition strategies for clients. Prior to joining New Madison, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Management for Scholastic, Inc., the leader in children’s media and book publishing.


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Satish Kalra

Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Regional Programs

Prior to being promoted by the Board of Directors as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Regional Programs, Satish spent the last 11 years as Smile Train’s Regional Director for South Asia. Under his leadership, Smile Train’s programs grew to more than 160 partner hospitals in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, performing over 300,000 free cleft reconstructive surgeries on children in South Asia who would otherwise never have been able to afford them.


Jill Woodcome

Senior Vice President of Programs

Knowing how difficult life can be for a child born with a cleft, Jill has been instrumental in supporting Smile Train’s overseas efforts, serving as the primary liaison for the nine regional managers and their teams. Under her leadership, the Program Team is responsible for the oversight of approximately $50 million in annual grant awards globally, partnering with close to 1,000 in hospitals across more than 70 countries.


Dr. Shell Xue

Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Regional Programs

On September 1, 2006, Dr. Shell Xue joined Smile Train as Chief Project Officer for China. She has used her coaching, resources development, and leadership skills to grow Smile Train’s partner hospitals from 143 to 397 in China. Smile Train’s cleft repair surgeries in China now average 30,000 children annually, 120 per working day, and a total of over 220,000 free cleft lip and or palate reconstructive surgeries have been provided in China over the past 11 years.


The Board of Directors

Mark Edward Atkinson, Creative Director, Otto Studios
Robert T. Bell, Executive Director, Charles B. Wang Foundation
Arthur J. McCarthy, Chief Financial Officer, Neulion
Brian F. Mullaney, Co-Founder, Smile Train
Donald B. Murphy, Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company
Roy E. Reichbach, General Counsel, Neulion
Susannah Schaefer, , New York Islanders
Robert K. Smits, Counsel, Salans
Charles B. Wang, Co-Founder & Chairman,


The Medical Advisory Board: Commitment To Patient Safety

The World's Most Respected Cleft Medical Professionals. The Smile Train Medical Advisory Board is comprised of the best and the brightest cleft experts in the world, from maxillofacial surgeons to anesthesiologists to speech pathologists. Led by world-renowned cleft surgeon, Dr. Ian T. Jackson, M.D. Program Director, Department of Medical Education, Providence Hospital, this board sets the standards for safety and quality for every Smile Train partner and program.

Ian Jackson, MD, DSc(Hon)FRCS, FACS, FRACS(Hon)
Director
Institute for Craniofacial and Reconstructive Surgery
Providence Hospital

Dr. H.S. Adenwalla, MS
Head of the Department of Charles Pinto Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate
Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute

Philip Kuo-Ting Chen, M.D.
Director, Craniofacial Center
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Court B. Cutting, M.D. (Chairman Emeritus)
Professor of Surgery
NYU Langone Medical Center

Linda L. D’Antonio, Ph.D.
Speech Language Pathologist
Communication Partners

David L. Dingman, M.D.
Former Medical Program Director, Interplast, Inc.
Prof. Plastic Surgery (Emeritus), U. of Utah.

Alvaro Figueroa, DDS, MS
Co-Director
Rush Craniofacial Center
Rush University Medical Center

Larry Hollier, Jr., MD, FACS
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital

Eric Hubli, MD, FACS, FAAP, FICS
Medical Director of Craniofacial and Cleft Services
Cook Children's Medical Center

Ethylin Wang Jabs, MD
Vice Chairman
Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences
Mount Sinai Medical Center

E. Heidi Jerome, M.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Department of Anesthesia
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Jan Lilja, M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D.
Department of Plastic Surgery
Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Joseph McCarthy, MD (Chairman Emeritus)
Director
NYU Institute of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

M. Samuel Noordhoff, MD, FACS
Supt. Emeritus & Chief of Plastic Surgery
Noordhoff Craniofacial Foundation

Judy T. O’Young, M.D.
Staff Anesthesiologist, The Permanente Medical Group
Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco

Brian Sommerlad, MB, BS, FRCSEng, FRCSEd(Hon), FRCPCH, FRCSLT(Hon)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

S. Anthony Wolfe, M.D.
Chief of Plastic Surgery
Miami Children's Hospital


Smile Train Staff

Janet Blackwood, Program Manager
Stephen Buron, Staff Accountant
Kimberly Cannaliato, Marketing Manager
Gilbert K. Domfeh, Vice President, Finance
Meg Hall, Development Manager, UK
Katie Jones, Program Assistant
Anna Lawrence, Receptionist
Shari Mason, Direct Marketing Manager
Carlos Melendez, Staff Accountant
Buckley Milburn, Development Associate
Duncan Quirk, Donor Relations Associate
Troy Reinhart, Database Manager
Zachary Shuster, Program Assistant
Justin Twardy, Office Manager
Greg Van Ullen, Online Marketing Manager
Amber Webb, Program Associate
Mackinnon Webster, Vice President, Programs
Adina Wexelberg-Clouser, Donor Relations Associate
Pamela Wren, Vice President, Programs
Sima Zakharova, Accountant


China Program

Elvis Chen, Project Manager
Robert He, Project Manager
Monica Meng, Office Manager
Vivian Ju, Office Secretary


Africa Program

Dr. Githinji Gitahi, Regional Director, Africa
Nkeiruka Obi , Program Manager, West Africa
Jane Ngige, Administrative Assistant


Indonesia Program

Simon Lumban Tobing, Country Manager, Indonesia
Ricky Frans Leonard, Program Manager, Indonesia
Bernard Pasaribu, Program Manager, Indonesia
Deasy Lasarati, Administrative Assistant


South Asia Program

Mamtaa Carrol, Program Manager, India
Dr. Moses Christian, Program Manager, India
Dr. Mahbubul Hannan, Program Manager, Bangladesh
Renu Mehta, Program Manager, India
Dr. Ashish Sabhararwal, Program Manager, India


Other Regions

Dzung T. Nguyen, Country Manager, Vietnam
Dr. Konstantin Effimov, Country Manager, Russia & CIS
Kimmy Coseteng-Flaviano, Country Coordinator, Philippines
Som Chunharas, Volunteer Consultant, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia & Myanmar