![A mother feeding her underweight baby with a cleft in Tanzania](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-10/ihme-cleft-malnutrition-study-smile-train-nutrition-support-50.jpg?itok=oDoQqvUm)
Smile Train-Commissioned Study Reveals Deadly Reality of Malnutrition and Clefts
![Smile Train participants take a selfie at the 79th annual ACPA Annual Meeting](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2022-04/acpa-selfie.jpg?itok=6Qgl3kN0)
Renewing Ties, Renewing Purpose: The 79th Annual ACPA Meeting
Smile Train brought 200+ medical partners from 40+ countries to America’s leading cleft conference
![Dr. Neela smiling headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2023-05/Dr-neela-5050.jpg?itok=cGpmxRcI)
Smile Train’s International Scholars
Meet the 2022 Cohort of International Scholars from Smile Train, American Society of Plastic Surgery and The Plastic Surgery Foundation
![Troy Reinhart wears a crown next to a pageant winner at Smile Train's old offices](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-10/troy-reinhart-miss-new-jersey-50.jpg?itok=UXl-u1My)
Troy Reinhart: 20 Years of Smiles
![Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, an anesthesiologist, is committed to surgical patient safety.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-06/igaga-anesthesiologist-patient-safety-web.png?itok=5gmQsgTW)
The Fight to Provide Safe Surgery
Inside and outside the operating room, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient.
Bringing Smiles to the Amazon with Yaçuri
![Smile Train patient Gianna after cleft lip and palate surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-03/covid-gianna-after-cleft-lip-palate-surgery.jpg?itok=UTeAm63j)
How Smile Train Kept Making Smiles Through COVID-19
While other cleft organizations’ operations were indefinitely suspended or severely cut back, Smile Train was able to keep moving.
![Dr. Luis Cuadros with a cleft lip and palate patient and his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation.](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-02/cuadros-new-mexico-navajo-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-surgeries-with-patients_0.jpg?itok=h_bvdazb)
"It Is Possible": Celebrating Dr. Luis Cuadros
Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.
![Celeste in Smile Train scrubs](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-02/nurse-celeste-in-scubs.jpg?itok=mrJTGdMl)
A Nurse's Commitment
Nurse Celeste always tried to avoid working with the babies with clefts in her neonatal ward because she felt unable to meet their needs. Then her son was born with a cleft.
![A mother with her child after her cleft lip and palate surgery](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-03/model-of-empowerment-mother-with-child-with-a-cleft-lip-cleft-palate.jpg?itok=6f2lXZDh)
A Model of Empowerment
It's past time to rethink the mission model of cleft care.
![Gracee in mask and scrubs](/sites/default/files/styles/1_column_470_x_305/public/2021-02/gracee-smile-train-nurse.jpg?itok=u241PvBh)