AAOP Podcast # 13 with Dr. Marcela Romero Reyes:
New Approaches in Headache Medicine

Learning objectives:

  1. Understand the role of orofacial pain practitioners in the management of headaches.
  2. Review the red flags or warning signs in the evaluation of headaches complaints.
  3. Describe the new therapeutic approaches in headache medicine.

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Marcela Romero Reyes DDS, PhD

Dr. Marcela Romero Reyes is an associate clinical professor and Director of the Brotman Facial Pain Clinic at the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences at the University of Maryland, School of Dentistry. She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the fields of orofacial pain and headache disorders. Dr. Romero is the former Director of the NYU Orofacial and Head Pain clinic and the Director of the Advanced Program for International Dentists in Oral Medicine & Orofacial Pain at the New York University College of Dentistry in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Radiology and Medicine.

Dr. Romero graduated in 1999 from the School of Dentistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2006, she obtained her PhD in Oral biology and Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction certificate at UCLA, School of Dentistry. After this, she pursued postdoctoral training in neuroscience with a focus in primary headaches at the UCLA Headache Research and Treatment Program now known as the Goldberg Migraine Program in the department of Neurology, David Geffen, School of Medicine. Dr. Romero is an NIDCR and DoD funded researcher. Her research involves the study of neuro-immune and nitroxidative mechanisms in orofacial pain as well as the discovery of new targets for the management of trigeminal neuropathic pains and headache in addition to non-pharmacological approaches. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, Fellow of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and fellow of the American Headache Society. She currently serves as the chair of the special section of TMD, Cervical Spine and Orofacial Pain of the American Headache Society and the AAOP Liaison to the AHS.