Rocking out for our Wonderkids
You may be wondering, what is a Wonderkid? It’s simple. Wonderkids are the pediatric patients of the Texas Cleft-Craniofacial team at UT Physicians. Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month is observed each July. These children are treated to an event in…
Angeliz’s Story
Facial Reanimation
Reyli’s Story
Camden’s Story
From operating room to center stage
New to the UT Physicians team, Phuong Nguyen, MD, director of craniofacial surgery and assistant professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, is no stranger to the spotlight. During the day he’s meeting with patients and in surgery; at night…
A family’s story of cleft care from infancy to childhood
Flash back to 2013. Jennifer Harvey felt prepared for her second trimester appointment to review her routine blood work. She had been through this before with her two older children. Unfortunately, that appointment was much more of a whirlwind than…
Wonderful day for our Wonderkids
Kids arrived one-by-one, ready for a fun-filled day at the Wonderkids Workshop on Wednesday, July 10, to celebrate Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month. “This is the second annual Wonderkids Workshop that I have organized in honor of Cleft-Craniofacial Awareness Month…
Open to being different: Part 2
When we left Forrest five months ago, he was days away from his first surgery to repair his cleft lip. His parents, Erin and Kyle Tweed, had been prepping him for this day since before he was born. After learning…