• Jerald H. Simmons, M.D. (Feb. 19 & 20)
    Dr. Simmons is the Founder and Director of The Sleep Education Consortium, Director of the Sadler Clinic Sleep Disorders Center in The Woodlands, Texas, and Medical Director of REST Technologies Inc. and Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates, Inc. He trained in Sleep Medicine at Stanford University, co-directed the UCLA Sleep disorders Centers for six years and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He has conducted many research studies relating to sleep disorders and developed methods to enhance the assessment and treatment of patients with sleep disturbances. Currently, he is researching the relationship between Clenching and Bruxism at night, with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, as well as the relationship between ADHD and disturbances of sleep.
  • Robert W. Veis, D.D.S. (Feb. 19 only)
    Dr. Vies is the President and CEO of the Appliance Therapy Group. He served as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Southern California for more than a decade,lectures internationally on topics ranging from the application of appliance therapy dental techniques to dental economics and practice building. Dr. Veis is coauthor of the Manual of Appliance Therapy for Adults and Children, author of The Practice Building Bulletin and coauthor of the Treatment of Snoring and Sleep Apnea for the General Dentist. Dr. Veis is a member of the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, the American Academy of Gnathologic Orthodontics, and Academy of Sports Dentistry. He currently maintains a private practice in Los Angeles.
  • Ronald S. Prehn. D.D.S. (Feb. 19 & 20)
    Dr. Prehn focuses his practice on the cusp between medicine and dentistry, providing care for patients with sleep related breathing disturbances as well as headaches and TMJ. He is a board certified Diplomate of both the American Board of Orofacial Pain and the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. He earned his DDS at the Marquette School of Dentistry in 1981. His postgraduate work was accomplished at the Parker Mahan Facial Pain Center at the University of Florida in 1993. His limited practice, Center for Facial Pain and Dental Sleep Medicine, is in The Woodlands, Texas. He teaches at the University of Texas, Dental branch in Houston, as well as giving many seminars and conferences to other Dentists, Physicians and health care professionals around the state and nation.
  • Rosalia C. Burke, M.D. (Feb. 19 & 20)
    Dr. Burke is an Otolaryngologist with the Sadler Clinic in The Woodlands, TX. She graduated from Washington University School of Medicine and trained in Otolaryngology at the University of Washington. She has had formal training and has implemented in her practice the latest techniques for the surgical management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. These include base of tongue suspension, radiofrequency tongue reduction and hyoid suspension.
  • Michael S. Simmons D.D.S. (Feb. 19 only)
    Dr. Simmons has formalized post doctoral medical and dental school training in Orofacial pain and dysfunction conditions. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain and a Fellow in the American Academy of Orofacial Pain amongst many other awards and professional positions. Dr. Simmons has taught at UCLA’s medical school, pain management center and continues to teach every year at UCLA’s dental school since 1987. In 2008 Dr. Simmons also started teaching dentists at USC dental school. Dr. Simmons is on several committees such as the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and is Director of the Pre Doctoral program in Dental Sleep Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Simmons has published original research, book chapters and is a frequent expert speaker in Dental and Orofacial maladies including TMJ, Orofacial Pain, Snoring and Sleep Apnea.
  • Todd J. Swick M.D. (Feb. 20 only)
    Dr. Swick is the Medical Director of The Houston Sleep Center. Dr. Swick has been involved in the field of sleep and wake disorders for more than 25 years. He is board certified in both Neurology and Sleep Medicine and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at University of Texas School of Medicine, Houston and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. In addition to clinical practice he is principal investigator on numerous FDA approved clinical drug trials including sleep related pain syndromes. He is on the international advisory board of a major pharmaceutical company investigating the relationship between sleep and fibromyalgia.
  • Robert W. Fayle, M.D. (Feb. 20 only)
    Dr. Fayle is a Baytown, Texas native and has been a practicing neurologist in the Houston area for more than 25 years. He earned an M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1976 and completed a neurology residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1980. In addition he is board certified in sleep medicine and serves as the Medical Director of the Sleep Center at Park Plaza Hospital. He has published a number of studies relating to sleep and recently edited the Neurologic Clinics volume entitled "Sleep Disorders."
  • Max Hirshkowitz, PhD, DABSM (Feb. 20 only)
    Dr. Hirshkowitz ia an internationally recognized sleep expert with 34 years experience in sleep research and sleep disorders. A graduate of Stuyvesant HS, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (BS), and Tufts University (MS and PhD), he is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine with appointments in the Department of Medicine and Menninger Department of Psychiatry. He directs the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center where he has trained many physicians specializing in sleep medicine. Currently he holds positions on the Board of Directors at the National Sleep Foundation, Chairman for the VA Field Advisory Group for Sleep, Governing Council of the World Association for Sleep Medicine and a Board Member of the journal Sleep and journal Sleep Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, with several hundred research publications and several text books on sleep.
  • William George Ondo, MD (Feb. 20 only)
    Dr. Ondo is a Professor of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as an associate at the Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic in Houston, Texas. He obtained his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia, and did his Neurology residency at Duke University. In 1995, Dr. Ondo undertook a Movement Disorders fellowship in the Department of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine and then joined the, where he has practiced since. Dr. Ondo maintains membership in multiple professional associations and research groups, which include the American Neurological Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and numerous study groups. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. As Dr. Ondo has over 200 published papers and book chapters, and has edited two books. His current research interests include restless legs syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, tremor, and the use of botulinum toxins.