Author
Usama Hamdan, MD, FICS
Dr. Usama Hamdan is an Otolaryngologist/Facial Plastic Surgeon and has university appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. He is Founder and President of Global Smile Foundation, a Boston-based non-profit foundation that provides comprehensive and multi-disciplinary care to underserved patients born with cleft deformities throughout the world and has been involved with outreach programs for the last 26 years. For his philanthropic service to the people of Ecuador, he was awarded the Knighthood, Al Merito Atahualpa En El Grado De Caballero, by the President of Ecuador in March 2005, as well as various other national and international fellowships and awards from El Salvador, Governor of Guayas, Ecuador, City of Trujillo, Peru, City of Boston and Rotary International.