Since the 1950s, the Cleft-Craniofacial Center at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has been providing innovative and individualized care for children with malformations of the face and skull. Our Center is one of the oldest and largest in the U.S. At any time, we have over 5,000 patients in our care.
We provide coordinated, family-oriented treatment for kids of all ages from the time of diagnosis through adulthood. Our goal is to ensure each child — and their families — gets the best care to meet their medical, developmental, and emotional needs.
A team of skilled specialists from a variety of disciplines work in harmony to identify a child’s needs and provide the appropriate treatment. Team members strive to achieve optimal appearance, speech, hearing and psychosocial development at the earliest possible age.
The Cleft-Craniofacial team cares for children with a wide range of craniofacial conditions, including:
We're a regional center of excellence for education and research related to clefts and craniofacial anomalies and an American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA) Approved Team. This means our program meets the ACPA’s standards of excellence determined by an outside party of experts for craniofacial patient care.
Our Multidisciplinary Care Team
We take a comprehensive, team approach to evaluating and treating patients with a wide variety of congenital or acquired craniofacial conditions. A team of skilled specialists from a variety of disciplines work in harmony to identify a child’s needs and provide the appropriate treatment.
Our multidisciplinary team comprises specialists in the following fields:
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