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Oxford Team Profiles: Surgeons

Children born with a cleft lip and / or palate may face multiple health problems. Experience has shown that these problems are best supported by a team of specialists from many disciplines who work together with the family to provide for the social, emotional, psychological and educational needs of the child.

This means that, when you visit us, you may find yourself in a room with lots of clinicians – this is quite normal and nothing to worry about. If you feel uncomfortable with so many people in the room, please don’t be afraid to request that only key members of the team remain.

Marc Swan

I was appointed as Clinical Director for the Spires Cleft Centre for both Oxford and Salisbury in January 2022. Twenty years earlier I was a Senior House Officer with the cleft team at the Radcliffe Infirmary before commencing my doctorate at the Nuffield Department of Surgery in 2003. On completing my higher surgical training within […]

Roles / Teams: Surgeons
Marc Swan

Guy Thorburn

I am a consultant plastic surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. From 2010 to 2017 I was a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and at the St Andrew’s Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery in Essex. My special interests include cleft lip and palate, 22q11 deletion syndrome, hypospadias, vascular anomalies and spina […]

Roles / Teams: Surgeons
Guy Thorburn

Juergen Schlabe

I was appointed as a consultant in cleft and oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) at the Spires Cleft Centre in January 2023. Throughout my career, I have been passionate about improving the treatment and operative results of children with clefts. I trained as a primary and secondary cleft surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for […]

Roles / Teams: Surgeons

Matt Fell

I am the nationally appointed Cleft Lip and Palate Training Interface Group (TIG) Fellow for 2023/2024. I am excited and honoured to base my fellowship at the Spires Cleft Centre and be a part of this team. I qualified from Manchester University Medical School in 2011 and completed my Plastic Surgery training in Exeter and […]

Roles / Teams: Surgeons