Prof. Dr. Dr. Hermann Sailer, M.D., DDS.
Dr.med. h.c. mult., Dr. sc. h.c. mult.
FDSRCS (Engl.), FRCS (Edinb.)
Founding President Cleft Children International (CCI)
Chairman Sailer Clinic, Zürich Switzerland
Professor Dr. Hermann F. Sailer is the founder and chief physician of the clinic bearing his name. He is one of the world’s most experienced experts in the field of maxillofacial surgery, successfully performing thousands of complicated operations in over thirty years at Zurich University Hospital and several Craniofacial Centres across the globe.
Prof. Hermann Sailer founded the Cleft-Children International (CCI) Foundation in 2000. The foundation manages centres where children with Cleft lip & Palate and Congenital Craniofacial Anomalies are operated free of charge. It runs partner cleft-centres in Nepal, India (Mangalore, Chennai, Mumbai & Kerala) and Africa . A school for cleft-children was founded in Hyderabad in the year 2009.
Cleft-Children International (CCI) helps disfigured children escape from a terrible and inhumane situation in life-a disfigurement which may prevent them from breathing, eating and sometimes speaking. So far CCI has been able to perform over 100,000 surgical interventions and train more than 500 doctors and nurses.
The medical treatment of cleft-patients requires continuous follow-up for children until they reach the age of 18, which is funded by (CCI) based on the strict quality criteria of the “Sailer protocol”
Dr. h.c. Erika Sailer
Dr. Erika Sailer is an internationally renowned philanthropist and humani tarian who is the co-founder of CCI. Erika’s impulse to help children has improved the lives of over 1,28,000 cleft babies. She has also founded the cleftschool project to make certain theyoung foster children have a place to stay, get regular meals, a roof over their heads-and get education till adult hood.
