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Martin Elliott is professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London and Co-Medical Director at The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOS) where he has worked since 1984. He established and leads the National Service for Severe Tracheal Disease in Children at GOS. He developed modified ultrafiltration, helped establish paediatric heart and lung transplantation at GOS, he was appointed Medical Director of GOS in 2010.  Actively interested in teamwork in healthcare, he has been engaged in the redesign of specialist services in the UK, Austria, Australia and the USA, and has become fascinated by how hospital care might need to be delivered in the coming years.  He has over 270 peer reviewed publications to his name, has delivered >350 invited lectures, and he operates and teaches throughout the world. Co-Medical Director at The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOS) where he has worked since 1984. He established and leads the National Service for Severe Tracheal Disease in Children at GOS. He developed modified ultrafiltration, helped establish paediatric heart and lung transplantation at GOS, started the European Congenital Heart Defects Database for outcomes analysis and leads the chest wall reconstruction team at GOS. The Tracheal Service at GOS is the largest in Europe, and the Team has pioneered a number of innovative techniques, including slide tracheoplasty, tracheal homograft patch transplantation, the development of absorbable stents and, most recently, the world’s first stem cell supported tracheal transplantation in a child. Previously Chairman of the Cardiorespiratory Divis

Mr Peter Clarke 

Peter Clarke is a consultant head and neck surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital. His surgical specialism is in head and neck and skull base surgery and his research interest is in surgical voice restoration (SVR) and dysphagia after laryngectomy. He has set up a weekly, all day multidisciplinary head and neck clinic and a tertiary referral problem solving SVR clinic. He also has a large tertiary referral skull base practice. Recent patients have been referred from Newcastle, Plymouth, Norwich, Bristol as well as much of the South East. He has lectured widely on SVR, neck anatomy, neck dissection and skull base surgery and teach regularly on DLO/DOHNS, MRCS and SVR courses.

Peter is an elected member of the ENT UK Head and Neck group, a council member of ENT UK and the Laryngology Secxtion of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of BAHNO,the European Laryngological Society, European Group for Laryngectomy Research (EGFL), European Skull Base Society and am regional advisor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
He has written or contributed to eight book chapters and over 50 peer reviewed papers and regularly gives invited lectures at teaching courses and National and International meetings.
He was included in The Times’ “100 Best Surgeons” and Tatler’s 100 Best Doctors!

Miss Victoria Beale

Miss Victoria Beale trained at Newcastle University qualifying initially in Dentistry in 1993 and intent on a career in facial and maxillofacial surgery went on to qualify in Medicine with a Distinction in 1999. Early surgical training was in the North East of England with a subsequent move to the West of Scotland to join their highly regarded Maxillofacial Higher Surgical Training Program.
Miss Victoria Beale was awarded a prestigious National Cleft Interface Fellowship in 2006 gaining extensive experience in the management of patients with cleft lip and palate and related conditions based in specialist cleft centres in Leeds, Newcastle and at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
After a year as a consultant in cleft and maxillofacial surgery at Salisbury District Hospital she moved to join the cleft lip and palate and maxillofacial surgery units in Manchester and has been based at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and the Manchester Royal Infirmary since 2010.