Meet your instructors

Barry Glassman DMD maintained a private practice in Allentown, PA, which was limited to chronic pain management, head and facial pain, temporomandibular joint dysfunction and dental sleep medicine.    

He is a Diplomate of the Board of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain, a Fellow of the International College of Craniomandibular Orthopedics and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management. 

He is a member of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and the American Headache Society. 

He continues to teach and lecture and is actively involved improving the patterns of practice in chronic pain and sleep disorders, working diligently to improve coordinated multidiscipline efforts in both these arenas. 

He is the former Director of Education for the International Academy of Sleep and has been an invited lecturer for the Tufts University Dental School Craniofacial Pain Program.  He has authored over twenty papers.  His most recent papers include his work on the sphenopalatine injection for migraine that was published in HEADACHE, and a review of the association of TMD and Occlusion that was co-authored with Dr. Don Malizia and Dr. Daniele Manfredini.  

Dr. Scrivani was formerly the Chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pain, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Program Director for the Orofacial Pain Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He was a Research Associate and Clinical Consultant in the Pain and Analgesia Imaging and Neuroscience Program, Center for Pain and the Brain, Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Scrivani was formerly Professor, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Craniofacial Pain Center, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.  He also served as the Program Director for the Orofacial Pain Program, Craniofacial Pain Center, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.

He was also Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Pain Research, Education and Policy Program, Tufts University School of Medicine.  

Don Malizia, DDS, limits his practice to orofacial pain and sleep-disturbed breathing at the Allentown Pain and Sleep Center inWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Among his recent publications, coauthored with Dr. Glassman, are “The Effect of Regional Anesthetic Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block on Self-Reported Pain in Patients With Status Migrainosus” in Headache and “The Curious History of Occlusion in Dentistry” in Dentaltown.

Dr. Mier graduated from the University of Detroit School of Dentistry in 1984. He then completed a one-year General Practice Residency at Rhode Island Hospital and then entered private practice.

He was in solo practice focusing on comprehensive general and reconstructive dentistry until 2011. Beginning in 2006 he began to focus on orofacial pain and dental sleep medicine by completing a mini-residency at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, followed by completing a Masters degree at Tufts.

He began on the faculty of the Craniofacial Pain Department in 2011 and was appointed Director of Advanced Education in Orofacial Pain in 2013 until January 2015. This involved full-time direct patient care while instructing postgraduate residents. He then migrated to private practice in Milwaukee, WI in a large group practice limited to orofacial pain/TMD/dental sleep medicine.

His final years of clinical practice were completed in Scottsdale, AZ at the Head Pain Institute until 2021 focusing again on strictly orofacial pain and dental sleep medicine. His interests are in teaching neuropathic pain, pharmacotherapeutics, TMD, and dental sleep medicine. He is the president-elect of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain.

Daniele Manfredini received his DDS from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1999, a MSc in Occlusion and Craniomandibular Disorders in 2001 from the same University, a PhD in Dentistry from the ACTA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2011, and a Post-Graduation Specialty in Orthodontics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, in 2017. He achieved the Diplomate Status from the American Academy of Orofacial Pain in 2021.

He was a clinical fellow at the Section of Prosthetic Dentistry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pisa, Italy until 2005. From 2006 to 2016, Daniele Manfredini has been Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry and coordinator of the research projects at the TMD Clinic, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Padova, Italy.

Since 2017, Daniele Manfredini has held teachings in Oral Physiology and in Clinical Gnathology at the School of Dentistry, University of Siena, Italy.

On January 2017, the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) appointed him as a Full Professor at the age of 41.

Daniele Manfredini authored more than 220 papers in the field of bruxism and temporomandibular disorders in journals indexed in the Medline database (Scopus H-index=46). He also edited, among the others, the book “Current concepts on temporomandibular disorders” (Quintessence Publishing, 2010), including contributions from 45 world-renowned experts, and co-authored several textbooks on the same topics.

Based on publication ratings, in November 2013, the US agency Expertscape has been ranking Daniele Manfredini as world #1 expert in the field of temporomandibular joint disorders, and, in November 2018, also as #1 in the field of bruxism. From then on, Daniele Manfredini has always been classified within the top three experts in both conditions. Since 2018, Daniele Manfredini is Member and Coordinator of the Bruxism Consensus Panel within the International Association for Dental Research, which works on the updated definition and classification strategies for bruxism.

Dan Levendowski, President and Co-Founder of Advanced Brain Monitoring has over 30 years of experience developing and commercializing new technologies and managing clinical research. He has been issued 24 patents for technologies which include novel sleep biomarker for prodromal risk of neurodegenerative disorders or delirium. He served as principal investigator for over $8 million in grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health, with $1.15 mm dedicated to the investigation of methods which improve oral appliance therapy outcomes. The American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine as recognized his research with one clinical excellence and four clinical research awards.

Dr. Sadigh holds a Diplomate status in Franklian Psychology, which was awarded to him by the International Viktor Frankl Institute. He is a Fellow of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the Society for Existential Analysis, and the American Psychosomatic Society.

Currently, Dr. Sadigh is teaching courses in Theories of Personality, Systems of Psychotherapy, Health Psychology, Mind-Body Medicine, Stress & Disease, The Psychology of Anxiety, Existential Psychology, and History and Systems of Psychology.

Dr. Sadigh's interests lie in clinical, biological, health, and existential psychology. His publications include work on sleep disorders, personality disorders, applied psychophysiology, stress and disease, the psychological treatment of pain, post traumatic stress disorder, and an existential approach to the treatment of psychosomatic disorders.

He is the author of three books, which includes Autogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain published by Haworth Medical Press. He is also a published poet and an accomplished composer. In addition to his publications, he frequently lectures at state and national conferences.

Dr. Kevin Mueller currently practices full time in Arizona. He is the Director the the TMJ and Sleep Therapy Centre of Phoenix West and of Arizona Smile Designers. He is a graduate of Trinity Univeristy and of the Southern Illinois Univeristy School of Dental Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine, the American Board of Cranio-Dental Sleep Medicine, and a fellow of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain. He is an active board member of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain and the current Program Chairman.

Dr. Viviano obtained his credentials from the University of Toronto in 1983. His clinic is limited to managing sleep-disordered breathing and bruxism. He is a Credentialed Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and has lectured internationally, conducted original research, and authored original articles on the management of sleep-disordered breathing. His clinic was the first Canadian facility accredited by the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and he is Clinical Director of the Sleep Disorders Dentistry Research and Learning Centre.

Dr. Viviano also hosts the SleepDisordersDentistry LinkedIn Discussion Group, conducts dental sleep medicine CE programs for various levels of experience, including a 4-day mini residency & administers an online learning platform which includes the zSleepClub online mentorship.