About Us

We have created a podcast and blog series to raise awareness and debate about the face.....all the medicine, science, controversy and politics it represents.

How important is your face to you? Do you even think of your face as an important organ? You think about your heart and how you don’t want to get a heart attack. You think the brain is important and having a stroke would be awful. But what do you think about your face? Do you think of the imperfections as an illness? When you see someone walking down the street with an obvious deformity do you wonder what happened to them. You recognize they are not normal. Are they still beautiful?

So where to start….. every blog has to have a beginning. I guess, the best beginning is to explain who we are.

Soudeh (Founder)

I’m a face doctor. This blog is me sharing my experiences working with patient’s in my field. I grew up in Manchester before studying Medicine at the University of Oxford. I then studied Dentistry at King’s College London. Having both these degrees gives me a better understanding of the whole face including the mouth. I have since been a doctor for over 7 years. I’m currently a trainee Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon based in London UK. Oral and Maxillofacial surgery includes treating patients with head and neck disease from trauma, cancer, congenital deformity, aesthetics and reconstruction.

Eri

Hey I’m Eri, a third year medical student at Imperial College London. I met Soudeh by fortune on one of my hospital rotations with the Maxfax team, heard about her incredible Human Faces project and really wanted to get involved. I like a little graphic design on the side of my degree so I’ll be working on the graphics and printables for now and hopefully helping out with the videos and podcasts once they’re up! 

Christina

I’m Christina and I am a core trainee in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery in London. For most part of my day, I am involved in the care of patients with head and neck cancer, facial deformity and I get to know the little things they like or don’t like about their faces. I find it interesting how imperfections can be perceived completely different by different people. The face is an intriguing and powerful thing. It forms a big part of first impressions, it can show how we feel, where we come from, what we have been through. We are hard wired to judge people when looking at someone’s face and can often make incorrect assumptions. Through this blog I am hoping to explore and raise awareness of all aspects of what the face means to each and everyone of us. 

Grace

I'm Grace, a Content Researcher with a background in technology, learning and the social settings of innovation. Part analyst, part wordsmith, I'll be contributing a range of blog content to Human Faces using qualitative research, data science but most often good old-fashioned, fun ruminations on this multi-component, fascinating project. I'm particularly interested in how the face is conceived socially and the money we do and don't spend on it, its role in identity and expression and faces by design - be those in the arts, how we mould and alter real faces, or even the faces we select for humanoid robots.