Pain Conditions of the Head and Face

Anat Galor is a staff physician at the Miami VAMC and a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami. Dr. Galor received an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and a medical doctorate degree at Washington University School of Medicine in 2002. She pursued residency training in ophthalmology at the Cleveland Cole Eye Institute (2006) followed by fellowship training in uveitis at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2007) and fellowship training in cornea, external disease, and refractive surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (2008).Dr. Galor is the author of numerous publications that focus on dry eye, ocular surface tumors, and cornea. Dr. Galor's research has focused on understanding mechanisms of pain in dry eye, with an emphasis on studying new diagnostic and treatment modalities. Dr. Konstantinos Sarantopoulos, currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is a clinician-scientist. He has an MD and a PhD degree from the University in Athens, Greece, as well as an MS degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has completed residencies in Anesthesiology in Athens, Greece, and also at the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as a combined clinical and research fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr Sarantopoulos is an interventional pain medicine specialist, with clinical interests in ocular and facial pain, as well as a neuroscientist with basic research interests in electrophysiological properties and signaling of neuronal ion channels in neuropathic pain. He has presented several national and international lectures. His research work has been supported by several grants, including from NIH, and has resulted in numerous publications in peer reviewed journals, abstracts, book chapters and national and international awards. Dr Sarantopoulos usually attends and participates meetings of the following societies: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), American Society of Regional Anesthesia/Pain (ASRA), American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Headache Update Meetings (by DHC Research and Educational Foundation)

• 1. Overview of neuroanatomy and physiology2. Primary headache disorders3. Secondary headache disorders4. Neuropathic ocular pain5. Trigeminal neuralgia6. Herpetic neuralgia7. Temporomandibular disorders8. Burning mouth disorder and other intraoral pain disorders9. Neuropathic ear pain10. Myofascial disorders11. Post traumatic pain (not including TBI)12. Pain and psychological health