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 Samuel
F. Dworkin, DDS, PhD, is a dentist and clinical psychologist,
who maintained a general dental practice in NYC for 16 years.
He became a full-time dental teacher/researcher after completing
his PhD in Clinical Psychology under an NIH Special Fellowship
in 1969. He served on the faculty of the Schools of Dentistry
of New York University and Columbia University from 1974-2001.
Dr. Dworkin held joint appointments as Professor in the Schools
of Dentistry and Medicine, University of Washington and has served
as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Dentistry. Dr.
Dworkin was honored as Washington State Dental Service Foundation
Distinguished Professor in 1999 and is currently Professor Emeritus
in the Departments of Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry and Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine at the University
of Washington. He also serves as Attending Clinical Psychologist,
Adult Psychiatry Center, University Hospital, where he has had
responsibilities for delivering psychotherapy services and for
supervision of clinical psychology and psychiatric residents-in-training.
He has had a distinguished
career as a dental educator and clinical researcher, and for more
than twenty five years has been active as a clinical psychologist
and clinical psychiatric training supervisor. Dr. Dworkin has
directed a large and continuously funded NIH funded program of
research in acute and chronic dental and orofacial pain for almost
three decades. He is a recipient of both the AADR and the IADR
Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Awards and has
twice served as President, Behavioral Sciences and Health Services
Research Group of IADR. He was recently additionally honored with
an appointment to the National Advisory Dental Research Council
of NIH.
Dr. Dworkin's clinical
and research interests focus on the relationship between physical
disease and emotional disturbance; specifically, how clinical
signs of disease are related to the emotional and behavioral manifestations
of illness, especially in patients with chronic orofacial pain.
He led the development of Research Diagnostic Criteria for TMD,
which uses a dual-axis approach to diagnose and classify physical
findings, psychological status, and psychosocial functioning and
which has been translated and incorporated into international
pain research. Dr. Dworkin has received support from NIDCR to
plan and implement an international consortium of RDC/TMD-based
research, using native language versions of the RDC/TMD and standardized
and reliable clinical examiners and examination protocols. Currently
17 foreign language translations of the RDC/TMD have been implemented
and a cadre of examiners calibrated to standardized RDC/TMD examination
specifications has been created in 8 countries around the world.
His most recent research demonstrated the feasibility of tailoring
biobehaviorally-based treatments based on RDC/TMD Axis II criteria
for level of psychosocial adaptation. Dr. Dworkin has produced
more than 130 scientific publications, two textbooks, and made
numerous chapter contributions to major texts in pain, behavioral
medicine, and dentistry as well as serving on editorial boards
of peer-reviewed journals in dentistry and dental education, pain,
and behavioral medicine.
 Dr.
Drangsholt is an oral medicine specialist and epidemiologist at
the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. During dental
school, he completed a summer elective at the NIH in the Neurobiology
and Pain Mechanisms Section, National Institute of Dental Research.
After graduating with honors from the University of Washington
School of Dentistry in 1984, he completed a residency at Michael
Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, IL, and began a
private dental practice in Kent, Washington, which he maintained
for 10 years. In 1989, he received a Dentist-Scientist Award from
the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. In
1992, he earned a master of public health in epidemiology from
the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine, and completed a residency in Oral Medicine from the
University of Washington in 1995. He currently is lecturer, full-time,
in the Departments of Oral Medicine and Dental Public Health Sciences,
School of Dentistry, University of Washington, and a doctoral
candidate, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
and Community Medicine, University of Washington.
While caring for patients
with orofacial pain and other disorders of the orofacial region,
Dr. Drangsholt has been a co-investigator on several TMD clinical
trials at the University of Washington. He is the lead author
of "Temporomandibular Disorders," published in the book,
Epidemiology of Pain, IASP press, and is a section editor of the
Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice. His current
research projects are focused on investigating the etiologic factors
for several conditions, from chronic pain in adolescents to benign
brain tumors in adults. He has received several honors and awards
for his research, including the Warren G. Magnuson Scholars Award
at the University of Washington for the graduate student with
outstanding potential in 1995, and outstanding poster presentation,
Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2002, and is the author of
over 30 scientific publications.
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