Dr. Simone Dundas Byles is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the University Hospital of the West Indies and an Associate Lecturer in Surgery at the University of the West Indies. She is a Fellow of the Caribbean College of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons, as well as an active member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA). She treats children with surgical conditions, by appointment, at the Ruthven Medical Centre in Kingston and at the Villa Medical Centre in Mandeville. Children, from the newly born to age 18 years, and their families, are welcome.