Publications in Text Books:

• ‘ Secondary Skeletal Deformities associated with Cleft Lip and Palate’ – Syed  Altaf Hussain, Nalabothu Prasad, Siva Subramanian. ‘Textbook of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery,’– Agarwal ISBN: 978-93-88257- 15-2. eISBN: 978-93-88257-16-9 Vol. III Chapter 8, 2019 Page 169-88. 

• ‘Preventing relapse following Distraction Osteogenesis for the cleft mid-face in adults’ NK K Prasad, Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy. Text book Chapter:  Cleft Lip and palate – Diagnosis and Management, Third edition 2013, Editor: Samuel Berkowitz, Publisher: Springer ISBN: 978-3-642-30769-0. Pages 693-704. 

• ‘Microvascular Free tissue Transfer in trauma reconstruction’ (G.Balakrishnan, Syed Altaf Hussain )  Chapter in the ‘Compendium on Trauma’ published by the Indian Army in August 2000.  

Publications in Scientific Journals:

• Hollow Prosthetic Vaginal Dilator–A Novel Technique: Kasim Mohamed, Preetha Krishnamurthy, K. Yogitha and Syed Altaf Hussain – Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, vol. 10, no. 11, 2021, p. 841- 43.

• Association of other congenital anomalies in children with cleft lip and palate: a prospective hospital based observational study – Padmasani Venkat Ramanan, Rajesh Balan, Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain; – Int J Contemp Pediatr. 2019 May;6(3):1059-1062.  http://www.ijpediatrics.com (pISSN 2349-3283 | eISSN 2349-3291)

• A Technical Innovation in Midface Advancement with the External Frame Distraction Device – Hussain SA, Vijayakumar C. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2019 May;56(5):670-673.  Volume: 56 issue: 5, page(s): 670-673 Article first published online: October 30, 2018; 

(eISSN: 15451569 | ISSN: 10556656 )

• IRF6 rs2235375 single nucleotide polymorphism is associated with isolated non-syndromic cleft palate but not with cleft lip with or without palate in South Indian population – Gurramkonda, Venkatesh Babu; Syed, Altaf Hussain; Murthy, Jyotsna  and  Lakkakula, Bhaskar V.K.SBraz. j. otorhinolaryngol. [online]. 2018, vol.84, n.4, pp.473-477. (ISSN 1808-8694.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjorl.2017.05.011.)

• Association of TFAP2A gene polymorphism with susceptibility to non-syndromic cleft lip with or without palate risk in south Indian population, Venkatesh Babu Gurramkonda, Altaf Hussain Syed, Jyotsna Murthy and Bhaskar V.K.S. Lakkakulaa,c, Meta Gene 2016 Volume 9, September 2016, Pages 181–184

• Pre-surgical nasoalveolar molding in patients with unilateral and bilateral clefts-changing concepts and current approach – Commentary: NK Koteswara Prasad, Althaf Hussain, Journal of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies July-December 2015‏ [pg. 105]

• ‘Clinical profile of a patient with Cleft Lip/Palate with Secondary Skeletal Deformities, Hussain,Syed Altaf MS, FRCS; Nalabothu, Prasad Koteswara MDS, FCFD; Murthy, Jyotsna MS, DNB; Krishnan, Sriram MDS, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery: June 2015 – Volume 26 – Issue 4 – p 1423–1427. 

• Two promoter polymorphisms in TBX22 are associated with NSCLP risk in Indian women. Venkatesh Babu G, Syed Altaf H, Jyotsna M and Bhaskar LVKS. Clinical Dysmorphology 2015 Oct;24(4):140-3.

• ‘Management of post midface distraction occlusal discrepancy using temporary anchorage devices in a cleft patient ‘N. K. Koteswara Prasad, Syed Altaf Hussain, Arun B. Chitharanjan, and Jyotsna Murthy Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery. 2015 Jan-Apr; 48(1): 89–91. 

• ‘SATB2 gene variants in non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in Indian population’ Venkatesh Babu Gurramkonda, Altaf Hussain Syed, Jyotsna Murthy and Bhaskar V.K.S. Lakkakulaa,c,  J Oral Biol Craniofac Res. 2015 Sep-Dec; 5(3): 161–164.

• ‘Polymorphic variants near 1p22 and 20q11.2 loci and the risk of non-syndromic cleft lip and palate in South Indian population’ Venkatesh Babu Gurramkonda , Altaf Hussain Syed , Jyotsna Murthy , Gyaneshwer Chaubey , V.K.S. Bhaskar Lakkakula ,* International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 79 (2015) 2389–2393  

• ‘Evidence of the involvement of the polymorphisms near MSX1 gene in non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate’ Venkatesh Babu Gurramkonda , Altaf Hussain Syed, Jyotsna Murthy, Bhaskar V.K.S. Lakkakula,  International journal of Pediatric Otolaryngeaology, 79 (2015) 1081-84.

• ‘Lack of association between IRF6 Polymorphisms and nonsyndromic oral clefts in South Indian population’ Venkatesh Babu Gurramkonda, Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain, Bhaskar VKS Lakkakula, August 2013 – Journal: Dentistry 3000, 1: a001 doi:10.5195/d3000.2013.9

• ‘External frame distraction of the mid-face in the cleft patient’ Syed Altaf Hussain – Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery-2009; vol.42 (supplement) 168 -73.

• ‘Speech outcome following late primary palate repair’. Jyotsna Murthy, MS., MCh., DNB, AFSA, Sunitha Sendhilnathan MA SLP, MA Psy, , Syed Altaf Hussain, MS FRCS, DNB.- Cleft Palate – Cranio-facial Journal, March 2010, Vol 47(2), p156-61  

• ‘Robert SC syndrome -A Rare Syndrome and cleft palate repair’-A Case Report Jyotsna Murthy, MS., MCh., DNB, AFSA, Syed Altaf Hussain, MS FRCS, DNB, , Madhu Diwan, MDS,  Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2008, vol.41( 2) p222-225.

• ‘A comparison of bilateral infraorbital nerve block with intravenous fentanyl for analgesia following cleft lip repair in children’ Arvind Rajamani, Vijaylakshmi Kamat, Vardaraja Ponnambalam Rajavel, Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain  Pediatric Anesthesia 03/2007; 17(2):133-9.
  
• ‘A Case of Cleft lip and Palate associated with Seckel Syndrome, Murthy J, Seshadri KG, Ramanan PV, Rajamani A, Hussain A.– Cleft Palate and Cranio-facial Journal-2004 Mar; 41(2) 202-5.

• ‘Synchronous palatal closure and premaxillary setback in older children with bilateral complete cleft of lip and palate’ Narayanan R K, Hussain S A, Murukesan S, Murthy J, Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006 Feb;117(2):527-3.

• ‘Anesthesia for cleft lip surgery in a child with Seckel Syndrome’ Arvind Rajamani. Vijayalakshmi Kamath, Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain, Pediatric Anesthesia 2005, 15 338-341)

• ‘Reverse Flow Posterior Interosseous artery flap- Revisited’ G.Balakrishnan, B.Sampathkumar, Syed Altaf Hussain – Ideas and Innovations – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery- 2003 June Vol. III (7) 2364-69.

Scientific paper presentations at National and International Meets

• ‘Malek’s pharyngoplasty revisited’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Suraj Subramanian, Jeba Renita, Charanya Vijayakumar, National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, New Delhi 2020. 

• ‘A graded approach to cleft VPI’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Suraj Subramanian, Jeba Renita, 9^th Asia Pacific Cleft & Craniofacial Congress, Khon kaen, Thailand, 11-12^th November, 2019.
• ‘ The Cleft Midface’ – Syed Altaf Hussain,  TANPAPS Conference 2019, Chennai, January 2019 

• ‘Role of Anterior Maxillary Distraction in the Cleft Midface ’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Suraj Subramanian, Jeba Renita Annual congress of Association of Plastic Surgeons of India. Varanasi 2018

• ‘Management of Cleft VPI’ – Syed Altaf Hussain, Dubai Otology 2018 – United Arab Emeritus,  November 2018.

• ‘Diagnosis and Management of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency’ Syed Altaf Hussain –  Presented at the Pre conference CME  and  ‘A graded approach to Cleft VPI’   Syed Altaf Hussain,  Suraj Subramanian,  Jeba Renita Savita , Charanya Vijayakumar, Jyotsna Murthy presented at the National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, Kolkota 2018. 

• ‘A Technical Innovation in Midface Advancement Using External Frame Distraction’ Charanya Vijayakumar MDS, Syed Altaf Hussain MS FRCS DNB presented at the National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, Kolkota 2018. 

• ‘Philtral Columns in Indian children: A normative study of the morphology and analysis’ Deyonna Deepthi Fernandes MS; Dr. Syed Altaf Hussain MS, FRCS, DNB; Jyotsna Murthy MS MCh DNB PhD’ presented at the National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, Kolkota 2018.

• ‘Speech changes in cleft lip and palate patients following AMD’ Souparna Manjunath MS, Jeba Renita MASLP, Suraj Subramanian MASLAP, Sivasubramaniam MDS, Syed Altaf Hussain MS FRCS DNB presented at the National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, Kolkota 2018.

• ‘Role of anterior maxillary segmental distraction in adolescents with cleft midface hypoplasia’ Deyonna Deepthi Fernandes M.S; Siva Subramanian MDS, Charanya Vijaykumar  MDS,  Syed Altaf Hussain M.S, F.R.C.S, D.N.B presented at the National congress of Indian Society for Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalie, Kolkota 2018.

• ‘A graded approach to Cleft VPI’   Syed Altaf Hussain,  Suraj Subramanian,  Jeba Renita Savita , Charanya Vijayakumar, Jyotsna Murthy presented at the The National Conference of Plastic Surgeons of India, Cochin, November 2017

• A graded approach to Cleft VPI   Syed Altaf Hussain,  Suraj Subramanian,  Jeba Renita Savita , Charanya Vijayakumar MDS,  Jyotsna Murthy  Cleft 2017 – 13th International Congress of Cleft Lip and Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies  Chennai. 2017

• ‘Distraction Osteogenesis of the Cleft Midface’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad NKK -Symposium on Disraction Osteogenesis National Conference of the Indian society for Cleft lip and palate &Cranio-facial anomalies Chandigarh 2016.

• ‘The Cleft Midface Paradigm’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad NKK Presented at the Annual Conference of the Tamil nadu Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Society, CMC, Vellore 2016. 

• ‘Alveolar Bone grafting’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad NKK, Jyotsna Murthy, ‘Cleft Velo-pharyngeal Incompetence’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Suraj Subramanian, Jeba Renita, ‘The cleft Midface’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad NKK –  Symposium and Update on Cleft, SRU 2016.

• ‘Anatomy of the muscles of Facial Expression ‘Syed Altaf Hussain’ presented at the Aesthetics Conference, Chennai, August 2015

• ‘Malek’s Pharyngoplasty revisited- A review of 100 consecutive patients’ Syed Altaf Hussain, Suraj Subramanian, Jeba Renita, Jyotsna murthy. June 2015. Presented at the 11^th European Cleft and Craniofacial Congress, Gothenberg, Sweden, June 2015

• ‘Case report on salvage surgery for the severely damaged cleft’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna  murthy ) Meet the expert session, INDOCLEFTCON 2015,National congress of ISCLP & CA, Goa, May 2015. 

• ‘Distraction Osteogenesis of the Mid-face’ (Syed Altaf Hussain ) Invited lecture at the ‘Facecon 2015, New Delhi Organized by the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (Delhi Chapter), and Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India (Delhi NCR state chapter )- India Habitat Centre,  New Delhi, 14th to 15th March 2015.

• ‘Basic Principles of Distraction Osteogenesis’ (Syed Altaf Hussain ) AO- CMF course, Chennai March 2015. 

• ‘Secondary Cleft Surgery: The Midface paradigm‘ (Syed Altaf Hussain), Invited Lecture at the Journal club / Chennai Plastic Surgeons meet convened by Prof. R Venkataswamy, March 2014 and Guest Lecture at the Inter-collegiate Postgraduate seminar at Kilpauk Medical college Hospital September 2014  

• ‘Management of the Cleft Midface’ Invited lecture at APSICON 2014.  Pre conference workshop of the 49th Annual Conference of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, Chandigarh15^th -19th October, 2014.

• ‘Fractures of the Mandible’ (Syed Altaf Hussain), Faculty Lecture AOCMF/ORP course Chennai March 2014

• ‘Three Dimensional Distraction for the Hypoplastic Maxilla in Cleft patients’ (Prasad Koti, Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) 71^st Annual Conference of American Cleft Plate and Cranio-Facial association , Indianapolis, Unites States, May 2014

• ‘A comprehensive view of the cleft mid-face paradigm in the less affluent world’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad Koti) Paper presented at the 12th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA May 2013.

• ‘Effect of mid-face advancement on velo-pharyngeal function in patients with cleft lip and palate’ world’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Navitha U, Suraj Subramnain, Savita VH ) Poster (research submission) presented at the 12th International Congress on Cleft Lip/Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA May 2013.

• ‘An overview of Managing the Cleft Mid-face’ (Syed Altaf Hussain
  Prasad Koti,) & Distraction osteogenesis as a salvage tool in cleft mid-face deficiency, (Syed Altaf Hussain), Invited Lectures, Orthognathic Live Surgical workshop, North Zone Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, Amritsar. March 2013. 

• ‘Rehabilitaion of the Cleft cripple – Salvage Surgery for the Severely Damaged Cleft’ (Anil Sunkara, Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy). Presented at the APSICON 2013, Mumbai.

• ‘The cleft midface paradigm in the less affluent World’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Prasad Koti, jyotsna Murthy) Key Note address, APSICON, Lucknow 2012.

• ‘The cleft midface paradigm in the less affluent World’ (CME on primary and secondary Management of cleft lip and palate, Bergen, Norway 2012.

• ‘Surgical Mission-The Myanmar Experience’ presented at the international conference of smile train sugeons, Nairobi, Kenya, July 2012.

• ‘Effect of midface advancement on velo-pharyngeal function’, (Syed Altaf Hussain, Savitha VH, Subramanian, Navitha, Jyotsna Murthy)  INDOCLEFTCON, Bangalore 2012

• ‘Distraction osteogenesis for the midface’ (Syed Altaf Hussain) Invited lecture and live surgical demonstration at the ‘International update on Cranio-facial surgery, King George Medical College, Lucknow, 2010.

• ‘Salvaging the severely damaged cleft’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Venkatesh R, Jyotsna Murthy) presented at the International Congress on Cleft Lip, Palte & Associated Craniofacial Anomalies, Fortaleza, Brazil Sep 2009.

• ‘Orthognathic surgery for the mid-face in the cleft patient’(Syed Altaf Hussain,  Prasad Koti, Jyotsna Murthy) presented at the International Congress on Cleft Lip, Palte & Associated Craniofacial Anomalies, Fortaleza, Brazil Sep 2009.                                       

• Cleft Orthognathic Surgery and Distraction osteogenesis – Guest lecture at the postgraduate CME on Orthognatic surgey and distraction osteogenesis at The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan, April 2009.

• Orthognathic Surgery for Midface Deformities in Cleft patients –A Review of 25 Consecutive cases – (Syed Altaf Hussain, K Prasad, Jyotsna Murthy) Invited Guest Lecture Annual National Conference of the Indian Society for Cleft and Cranio-Facial surgery, Pondicherry February 2009.
  
  
• Long Term Follow-up of Midface Distraction in Cleft Patients ( Prasad Koti, Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain) Poster Presentation Cleft 2008, International Cleft Palate Foundation, Dallas, USA, September 2008
  
  
• Decision Making in VPI Surgery (Syed Altaf Hussain, Subramanian, Jyotsna Murthy) National CME (Association of Plastic Surgones of India) APSI-Ethicon accredited Course on “Management of Cleft Lip and Palate” 14-15^th June, 2008 And National Seminar on Cleft Lip and Palate a Multi-Dimensional View, CLAP2009, Bangalore, 6^th and 7^th March 2009

• Cranio-facial Surgery Update -Invited Lecture at the National Craniofacial surgery at the Ramachandra Oral and Maxillofacial Education (ROME 2008) symposium 

• Le-Fort-I Distraction Osteogenesis in Cleft Patients- A Review (Syed Altaf Hussain, Vinay Kumar Reddy, Jyotsna Murthy) presented at the National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) Chandigarh. Dec 2007. 

• ‘Tackling Palatal Fistulae’ ( –(Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Paper presented at the IPRAS –Asia Pacific meeting –Mumbai. March2005.

• ‘Tongue Flap for Palatal Fistula Closure-Our experience’–(Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Master Lecture delivered at the fourth National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) Hyderabad. Jan 2005. 

• ‘Radical muscle Dissection in Cleft palate Repair with analysis of speech out come in older children’-(Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Invited paper presented at the fourth National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) Chandigarh. Dec 2003. 

• ‘Chain and Hook Retractor’ -(Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Paper on Original design presented at The second National conference and International update of the 

Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) March 2003.

• ‘Clinical Profile of a cleft patient’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Paper presented at National Conference of Association of Plastic Surgeons of India Ahmedabad– September 2001

• ‘Premaxillary setback in older children with protruding premaxillae’ (Jyotsna Murthy, Kartik Narayanan, Syed Altaf Hussain) presented at the fourth National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) Hyderabad. Jan 2005. (adjudged the best paper of the meet)

• ‘Speech Outcome in Late Cleft Plate Repair- a retrospective analysis’ (Aparna. A, Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy) Presented at The second National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) March 2003, titled 

• ‘Speech Outcome after VPI Correction in Older Individuals’ ( Jyotsna Murthy, Syed Altaf Hussain) Presented at The second National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) March 2003, 

• ‘Social and psychosocial profile of families with Cleft Lip and Palate’ Priyadarshini, Syed Altaf Hussain, Jyotsna Murthy Presented at the second National conference and International update of the Indian society of Cleft Lip and Palate and Cranio-facial Anomalies (ISCLP & CA) March 2003, 

• ‘Long term changes in the hand following vascular Injuries at the wrist’. (Syed Altaf Hussain, G. Balakrishnan Presented at the Annual National conference of Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand.Goa –1998 (Adjudged the best original paper of the meet.)

• ‘Thumb-web burst injuries’ (Syed Altaf Hussain, G. Balakrisnan) Presented at the Annual National conference of Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand.New Delhi – 1999 

• ‘Posterior Interosseous artery flap -revisited’ (A.Hussain, B. Sampath Kumar, G. Balakrisnan) Paper presented at the Combined Congress of Asia Pacific association of Microsurgery and the Indian society of hand surgery at Chennai – 2000 

Outreach Voluntary Service: 

Aimed at providing top quality surgical care to the patients and for training and empowering the indigenous surgical teams. 

Myanmar: ( Supported by Smile train )

• Monyawa General Hospital, Monyawa, Shan state, Myanmar 
• Pinlon Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar
• Outara Thiri Hospital, Naypidaw, Myanmar

Ethiopia:

• Ekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• ALERT Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Azerbaijan:

• American implant Center, Baku

India: 

• Siliguri, West Bengal
• Cooch Behar, West Bengal 
• Kokrajhar, Bodoland Autonomous Region, Assam 
• Nagrota Bagwan, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh