C-03: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Implementing BBTi for Sleep Medicine

Course Chair: Ian Boggero

Sleep is increasingly being recognized as a significant contributor to how pain is processed, experienced, and expressed, and approximately 50% of patients with chronic orofacial pain also report disrupted sleep. Behavioral interventions for primary insomnia, including cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and brief behavioral therapy for insomnia, are safe and effective interventions for improving sleep. Yet, there is a lack of trained providers and, as such, these interventions are often underutilized in clinical practice. In this pre-conference course, attendees will learn about how to start using brief behavioral therapy for insomnia in clinical dental settings. Specific content will cover screening strategies, intervention techniques, and indications and contraindications for safe clinical use of brief behavioral therapy for insomnia among patients with chronic orofacial pain.

Learning Objectives:

Describe common screening tools for insomnia.
Outline the indications and contraindications for behavioral sleep treatments in an orofacial pain setting.
Apply introductory behavioral sleep medicine strategies when working with patients with chronic orofacial pain.

Ian Boggero, PhD

Dr. Boggero is the Director of Psychological Services and Director of Research at the University of Kentucky Orofacial Pain Clinic. He completed his undergraduate education at UCLA and obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kentucky, with a graduate certificate in biostatistics. He did a clinical internship at the Lexington VA and after his Ph.D. he completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he worked with children and families with chronic pain. A practicing clinical psychologist, Dr. Boggero’s research interests are in developing brief psychological interventions for improving pain, sleep, and fatigue in patients with chronic pain. He has over 100 combined publications/presentations and over 2,000 citations, and has been invited to give talks across the country and the world on psychological management of chronic orofacial pain. Currently, he is conducting an NIH-funded randomized clinical trial to test brief psychological interventions for chronic masticatory muscle pain. He is also the chair of the Research Committee of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and a board member of the Kentucky Psychological Association. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family, playing soccer, hiking, cooking, reading, and playing chess online.