About Us

Our vision since 1987 has been to use Let's Face It to educate the world to value the person behind every face and to bring resources to all who are dealing with and caring for people with facial difference.

Betsy Wilson

Betsy Wilson, Director of Let's Face It, is an early childhood educator with a Masters Degree in The Child In the Health Care Setting. she has been a Child Life Specialist in hospitals in Rhode Island, Maine, Florida, and Missouri. She is the parent of an adult born with craniosinistosis. Betsy lost part of her face and jaw to cancer in 1972. She brought the Let's Face It support network to the United States from England in 1987.

Dr. John Constable

Let's Face It USA Board of Directors member, Dr. John Constable is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon working at the Mass General Hospital, The Shriners Burns Institute in boston and Harvard Medical School. Throughout his professional career, and especially in his work with burn survivors, he has worked to reconcile the disfigured to the society in which they live. Dr. Constables' insights and hosting of our first very elegant luncheon meeting in 1986, make him a treasured founding father and board member.

Evelyn Hausslein

Let's Face USA It Board of Directors member, Evelyn Hausslein is an Early Childhood Educator who has worked with children and families in hospitals, schools and advocacy organizations. She taught at Wheelock College in the fields of Special Education and Child Life. She was the Dean of the Wheelock Graduate School. She recently worked at The Federation for Children With Special Needs in Boston teaching parents of children with disabilities to become active advocates in national and local policy and planning.

Evelyn is the parent of an adult with special needs who was educated in the public school system and is now working and living in the community. Evelyn's depth of knowledge of health care systems and and their impact on children, professionals and parents has kept Let's Face It focused and always looking to our future. She has hosted all of our Board of Directors meetings of the past 8 years. Her leadership from our first meeting to the present has helped to make us an efficient, productive and creative Board of Directors.

Rob Roy McGregor, DPM

Let's Face It USA Board of Directors member Rob Roy McGregor, DPM, practiced clinical and academic podiatric medicine for 50 years. During that time he was heavily involved in rehabilitation therapy. He is the grandson of the late Dr. Edgar James Helms, founder of Goodwill Industries. During his youth and early adult years, Dr. McGregor focused on persons who had multiple disabilities. He was an Associate in Orthopedics and Rehabilitative Medicine at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. For several years he was a regular contributor on the TV show Evening Magazine where he taught EEVeTeC, "The McGregor Solution for the Management of The Pains of Fitness." Because of the depth of his insights and his continued creative contributions to the work of Let's Face It, he is a treasured founding father and board member.

Dr. Norman Paul

Dr. Norman Paul calls himself a "recovering psychiatrist." He has been affiliated with Boston University, Harvard Medical School, and for over 30 years, with Tufts University. His judicious use of video and audio taping with clients and their families is a powerful form of interpersonal education. Through the homework of seeing and hearing themselves and loved ones on audio and video tape, his clients and their families for the fist time are able to experience the reality of self.

Dr. Paul says, "The way human beings are anatomically constructed allows them to believe that being an expert about others brings growth in relationships. This fallacious point of view is a major contribution to stalled lives. Dr. Paul says, "The principal goal of my approach is to enable each client to become an expert about the self."

His sense of "personal recovery" is related to his belief that the language of the mental health profession is unwittingly used to stigmatize human beings in ways that do a disservice to all involved in the "therapy." The use of video playback dramatically alerts clients to ineffective patterns of behavior. Self-observation and understanding of the self are the tools for change.

Dr. Paul and his late wife, Betty Byfield Paul, were founding Let's Face It board members. For our first years they hosted all Board of Directors meetings and their creative problem solving has led Let's Face It through it's many challenges.