Agenda

 

Biological Mechanisms Linking Co-morbid Conditions Associated With Temporomandibular Joint and Muscle Disorders

 

Sponsored by the Temporomandibular Joint and Muscle Disease Interagency Working Group

May 5, 2004

1-5 PM

Conference Room 6

Building 31

National Institutes of Health

 

 

Welcome………………………………………………………Dr. Lawrence Tabak

 

Background…………………………………………………...Dr. Norman S. Braveman

 

Perspectives of Patients and Patient Advocates:

 

Awareness, Prevention, and Patient Research Data:  The Role of A TMJ Advocacy Organization

 

Mr. Milton L. Glass and Ms. Renιe Glass

Co-Founders-Presidents, Jaw Joints & Allied

Musculoskeletal Disorders Foundation [JJAMD]

Boston, MA

 

The Real Story: What We Hear From The Patients

      

Ms. Terrie Cowley

President, TMJ Association

Milwaukee, WI

 

Presentations:

 

Co-morbid Conditions in Orofacial Pain Patients: Pathophysiologic Implications

 

Captain Peter Bertrand, DDS

Chair, Orofacial Pain Center
Naval Postgraduate Dental School
National Naval Medical Center

Bethesda, MD

 

Structure and Inflammatory Diseases of the TMJ

 

Stephen B. Milam, DDS, Ph.D.

Professor and Chairman

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

University of Texas Health Sciences Center

San Antonio, TX

Pain and Neuroendocrinology Associated with TMJD

 

Christian S. Stohler, DMD, Dr. Med. Dent.

Dean

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery

University of Maryland Dental School

Baltimore, MD

 

Principles of Scientific Integrative Medicine as Applied to Autonomic Disorders

 

David S. Goldstein, MD, Ph.D.

Chief, Clinical Neurocardiology Section

Clinical Neurosciences Program

NINDS, NIH

Bethesda, MD

 

 

Discussants:

 

Gail K. Adler, MD                                                                    Neuroendocrine mechanisms

Division of Endocrinology, Hypertension

and Diabetes

Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, MA

           

Daniel J. Clauw, MD                    Multi-disciplinary approaches; methodological challenges

Professor of Medicine,

Division of Rheumatology

Director, Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research

University of Michigan Medical School

Ann Arbor, MI

 

Allen W. Cowley, Jr., Ph.D.                       Genomic influences; cardiovascular involvement

Professor and Chairman

Department of Physiology

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

           

Michael Menaker, Ph.D.                                            Biorhythm physiological interactions

Commonwealth Professor of Biology

Department of Biology

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

 

Patients