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 Dr.
LeResche received her doctoral degree in comparative behavior
from Johns Hopkins University in 1976 and subsequently completed
a postdoctoral fellowship in mental disorder epidemiology, also
at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Since 1983,
she has been conducting NIH-funded pain research as a faculty
member in the Department of Oral Medicine at the University of
Washington, where she is currently Research Professor. Dr. LeResche's
work has focused on behavioral and epidemiologic aspects of pain,
including pain-related behavior of patients and clinicians, the
epidemiology of temporomandibular disorders (TMD), studies of
the reliability of clinical measures for TMD, and the development
of standardized research diagnostic criteria for TMD.
Her most recent
research involves gender and hormonal issues related to orofacial
pain. Dr. LeResche has been a member of several NIDCR and NIH
panels. She is active in the American Association for Dental Research
and the International Association for the Study of Pain, serving
on several task forces and committees, is on the Editorial Board
of the Clinical Journal of Pain and is an Associate Editor of
Pain and the Journal of Orofacial Pain.
In addition
to her research activities, Dr. LeResche is Director of Undergraduate
and Dental Student Research at the University of Washington School
of Dentistry. She was a Pew Foundation National Leadership Development
Fellow (1991) and was the first recipient of the Mentor of the
Year Award of the Student Research Group, American Association
for Dental Research (1998).
 Dr.
Von Korff received his doctoral degree in health operations research
from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1978.
He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in mental disorder
epidemiology at the same institution.
His research
has focused on the natural history and management of chronic pain
and depression in primary care and how self management training
and support for chronic illness can be improved. He has written
numerous peer reviewed publications on these topics.
He is a fellow
of the Association for Health Services Research and the Society
for Behavioral Medicine and is an Associate Editor for Pain and
Spine.
Dr. Von Korff
is the Associate Director for Research at the Center for Health
Studies in Seattle, Washington.
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