How can cleft teams best help parents and patients affected by cleft get ready for their first and subsequent surgeries? Senem Zeytinoğlu Saydam (Ph.D.)'s clinical practice and research interests have led her to keen insights into parents' experiences on a psychological level. From prenatal or postnatal initial diagnosis, through NAM treatment, please join the discussion of step-by-step approaches to counselling families facing an upcoming cleft surgery.
Senem Zeytinoğlu-Saydam is an assistant professor of psychology at Özyeğin University in İstanbul, Turkey. She completed her Ph.D. at Drexel University’s couple and family therapy program where her doctoral dissertation was a phenomenological study of couples raising a child with cleft lip and/or palate. She was involved in CA16234's “European Cleft and Craniofacial Initiative for Equality in Care” and recently presented several papers at the Cleft 2022 conference.
