Mary Breen, MS, RN is the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Coordinator for the Dell Children’s Craniofacial and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Center. Included in her responsibilities are prenatal counseling, newborn hospital visits, feeding assessments, pre-operative preparation and coordination of the multi-disciplinary craniofacial and cleft lip/palate teams. She previously worked for 15 years as the coordinator for the Craniofacial Team at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and 2 years as the coordinator of the cleft team at UTMB Child Health Center in Galveston. She received her BA in History from the University of TX, her BS in Nursing from the University of TX Medical Branch, and her MS in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society and the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association where she was a member of the Executive Council in 1999-2000. She has been a contributor to nursing and medical textbooks and lectured to various audiences on the care of children with craniofacial conditions.
Ashley Bush, MS, CCC-SLP is the speech-language pathologist for the Craniofacial/ Cleft Lip and Palate Program at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Ms. Bush received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Central Texas at Texas State University. She completed her Clinical Fellowship Year at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2001, where she received extensive training in evaluation and treatment of craniofacial and cleft lip/palate related speech disorders. She came to Dell Children’s Medical Center in April, 2007 with specialized training in craniofacial/cleft palate speech disorders, feeding, swallowing, tracheotomy and developmental/acquired neurogenic disorders.
Nick Conde-Dudding is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who obtained his Master’s in social work from the Boston University School of Social Work in 1997. Previous to entering into medical social work in 1999 when moving to Austin with his wife, Mr. Conde-Dudding worked in the field of adult mental health and addictions for a local non-profit agency in Worcester, Massachusetts. While at that agency he ran an independent living program for adults with both a substance abuse addiction and a major mental illness and then became director of six residential homes for the same population. Since moving to Austin he has been a medical case manager for special needs children, a psychotherapist for adolescents and adults in the City of Austin Community Health Centers as well as Lifeworks. He began working at the Specialty Care Center in Children’s Hospital of Austin in 2002 and was fortunate enough to transition to the new Dell Children’s Medical Center in 2007 where he has been working in the Craniofacial and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Center. Mr. Conde-Dudding is also bilingual in Spanish.