Dr. Amanda Jo Okundaye
Dr. Okundaye was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. After high school she attended Florida State University (FSU) with an academic scholarship. At FSU she majored in anthropology and pre-dentistry. After college Dr. Okundaye decided to seek training in dentistry.
Amanda graduated from Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry; Nashville, TN. After obtaining her dental degree (D.D.S. - Doctor of Dental Surgery) she attended an Advanced Education in General Dentistry program with the Lutheran Medical Center; Tucson, AZ. There she greatly enjoyed practicing dentistry with the implementation of conscious sedation. Amanda was then accepted to a Hospital Dentistry program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During her one year Hospital Dentistry residency she became even more interested in anesthesia and medicine.
Dr. Okundaye was then accepted to a two year Dental Anesthesiology program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed her residency.
Dr. Okundaye joined the faculty at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006 as a clinical faculty member in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dental Anesthesiology.
She is a member of numerous local and national professional organizations including the American Dental Society of Dental Anesthesiology, American Dental Association, American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists and the Christian Medical and Dental Association.
Dr. Brian Chanpong
Brian Chanpong, DDS MSc (Dental Anesthesia) completed his undergraduate dental degree at the University of Southern California and a three year hospital based residency in anesthesia at the University of Toronto. He is a diplomate of both the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology and is a certified specialist in dental anesthesia (Ontario). At the Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, he is the course director for local anesthesia and minimal sedation. As a member of the accreditation committee at the College of Dental Surgeons of BC, he is on the inspection team that accredits general anesthesia facilities for dentistry. Dr. Chanpong maintains an out-patient anesthesia clinic that provides general anesthesia and sedation services for dentists in Vancouver, BC.
Dr. Douglas W. Anderson Endodontist/Dental Anesthesiologist
Dr. Anderson was graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 1972 having spent 5 years as a undergraduate trying to get his fourth major in college, but missed it by a one term. He successfully completed three majors however in Biology, Natural Science, and History. After dental school in 1976 at the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Dentistry he enrolled at Portland State University as an undergraduate seeking another degree in English with the proviso he could step into the graduate English Masters Program the next year, while practicing general dentistry.
In 1977 a program at Oregon Health Sciences University and the Department of Anesthesiology in the School of Medicine was subsequently offered. The program is no longer in existence. After completing his tenure at OHSU, Dr. Anderson stayed on to join the department as an adjunct instructor part time while practicing general dentistry. He also completed a residency in Endodontics from 1983 to 1985, thereafter practicing both private practice endodontics and medical anesthesia at OHSU. In 1996 he retired from his endodontic practice and was appointed to the Anesthesia faculty full time until his retirement from academic life in 2007 as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology.
He has written chapters on Oral Facial Pain and the AIDS Patient, Dental Pain and the 5 Minute Consult (A book for emergency medicine physicians), part of a chapter on Legal Problems and Anesthesia covering Dental Problems and General Anesthesia, lectured on many aspects of dentistry, pharmacology, anesthetics both local and general, facial pain, neurophysiology of pain, wilderness dental problems, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. He was one of three authors rewriting the ADSA Enteral Sedation Exam, and the sole author rewriting the Parenteral Sedation Exam for the ADSA as well. He has also been a guest lecturer for dental residents on monitoring of anesthesia. Over the years he has taught medical students and oral surgery residents who complete their rotations through anesthesiology, the rudiments of operating room anesthesia practice and techniques of anesthesia.
Dr. Anderson is a fellow of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology , a Diplomat of the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology, International Association for the Study of Pain, and the American Headache Society.
He has been a member of Medical Teams International, Medical Mission Ecuador, and Capitol City Medical Teams as an anesthetist and dental anesthesiologist for plastic surgery groups, pediatric orthopedic surgeons, and gynecology surgeons on medical missions to Peru and Ecuador since 2007 to the present.
Dr Anderson currently practices endodontics and dental anesthesia. He retired from doing medical anesthesia in 2007 after a 30 year faculty association with the School of Medicine, OHSU Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine.
His private life is consumed with his wife Pam and their two children who are currently medical anesthesiology residents in training. He plays a classic guitar made by Woodly White, a former apprentice under Jeffry Elliot, is an avid skier, golfer, and writes.