Dr. Michael Mars of the United Kingdom is an orthodontist who had been one of the leading dental specialists in the field of cleft palate and craniofacial disorders who was the Lead Consultant Orthodontist for the Cleft Lip and Palate Centre at The Hospital for Children at Great Ormond Street, London from 1983 to 2013. He was also the Director of Special Surgery at GOSH for Maxillofacial, ENT, and Plastic Surgery. He also held the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Developmental Biology at the Institute of Child Health. He has been and continues as a proligic author of research literature and is the creator of the Goslon Yardstick which is used internationally to assess facial growth outcome in facial growth of children with cleft lip and palate. He has traveled and lectured extensively internationally and is an Honorary Fellow if the Sri Lankan College of Paediatricians. He is also an Honarary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in the United Kingdom. His extensive work in Sri Lanka is well known and he is a Visiting Professor on the Faculty of Medicine at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and also at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is the Founder of the Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project and directed that organization from 1984-2009. He was also a Founder and Chairman of Trustees of CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association) (1979-2005) and Founder and Chairman of Trustees of MAGE (Medical Aid to Galle Sri Lanka) 2004-2011 post tsunami. He is Past President of the Craniofacial Society of UK and Ireland, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has been a Lecturer and course organiser in UK, America, Mexico, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Israel, S Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Brazil and Australia. Besides his many peer-reviewed papers in the medical literature, he was senior co-editor of the textbook, Management of Cleft Lip and Palate in the Developing World.