Member Spotlight Winter 2023 Dr. Ghabi Kaspo Dr. Ghabi Kaspo has been practicing dentistry, primarily in the field of Orofacial Pain Management and TMJ Disorders for the past twenty years. His scholastic achievements include: a D.D.S. and a D. Orth. from Damascus university; a D.D.S. from University of [...]
Member Spotlight Fall 2022 Isabel Moreno Hay, DDS, PhD Dr. Moreno Hay works in Lexington, KY and specializes in General Dentistry 1) How did you get interested in the field of Orofacial Pain? I was first introduced to the field of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) by my mentors [...]
2022 Fellows Dr. Ranjivendra Nath Completed Residency program at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California in 2018. Dr. Eric Grin Completed Residency program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2021. Dr. Seema Kuruph Completed Residency program at SUNY, University at Buffalo in 2017. [...]
Member Spotlight - Dr. Maureen E. Lang Dr. Lang attended dental school at Creighton University in Omaha, NE and completed a 2-year master's degree orofacial pain program at the University of Minnesota. She was in the US Air Force for nearly 28 years and is currently in private [...]
Mentorship Program Update The Mentorship Program has continued and is off to another great year for the 2021-2022 cycle. Applications were accepted in the spring of 2021 from American Academy of Orofacial Pain members interested in becoming mentees and/or mentors. This year we are happy to [...]
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH, MBA, FDS RCS (Edin), Dr. Pinto has 22 years of experience in the management of oral and maxillofacial disorders, including orofacial pain. He is the Founding Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Case [...]
Join Us! 2021 AAOP VIRTUAL Sleep Conference Updates in management of Sleep Breathing Disorders (SBD) Saturday, November 6, 2021 Course Description: The basis of this conference is to review the current status of Sleep Medicine disorders with an emphasis on the role of the dentist in the [...]
Member Spotlight Dr. Robert Merill Dr. Merrill completed a Fellowship in Pain Management in the UCLA Pain Management Center in 1990 and was appointed a clinic director of the Orofacial Pain Clinic in 1991. He started private practice in Orofacial Pain in 1990 and began to develop [...]
AAOP President’s message Spring is here; the COVID 19 winter is behind us! A majority of us are vaccinated, and our practices are or can start running full tilt again. Hope leading to great expectations is in the air! For the AAOP, recent developments that have or are occurring [...]
2019-20 Class Fellows of the Academy Jonathan Michael Adams, DDS, BSc Abdulazziz Alrefai, BDS Chye Kiat Chionh, BDS, MSc Basilios Costaras, DDS Shuchi Dhadwal, DMD, BDS Preston Duffin, DDS, MS Akanksha Gupta, BDS, MS Mary Charles Haigler, DMD, MS Amy Hartsfield, DMD Kevin Huff, [...]