Mort Rosenberg graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and then completed an anesthesia residency program at Tufts-England Medical Center where he was named Chief Resident. He immediately joined the full time anesthesia faculty and soon became Director of Anesthesia Clinical Services and Medical Director of Operating Rooms. A nationally recognized leader in dental sedation and anesthesia, Dr. Rosenberg has published extensively in the medical and dental literature. He has been on the Faculty of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine since 1975 and is currently Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Head Division of Anesthesia and Pain Control and Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Tufts University School of Medicine and Senior Anesthetist at Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospitals. He has been very active in the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) for nearly 30 years and is currently treasurer. In 2006, he was awarded the Heidbrink Award from the ADSA and delivered the Joseph Osterloh Lecture as well as receiving the Provost's Award at Tufts University for Teaching and Service.
Doctor Malamed was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, graduating from the New York University College of Dentistry in 1969. He then completed a dental internship and residency in anesthesiology at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx, New York before serving for 2 years in the U.S. Army Dental Corps at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. In 1973, Doctor Malamed joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, in Los Angeles, where today he is Professor of Anesthesia & Medicine. Dr. Malamed is a Diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology, as well as a recipient of the Heidebrink Award [1996] from the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the Horace Wells Award from the International Federation of Dental Anesthesia Societies, 1997 (IFDAS).
Doctor Malamed has authored more than 135 scientific papers and 17 chapters in various medical and dental journals and textbooks in the areas of physical evaluation, emergency medicine, local anesthesia, sedation and general anesthesia. In addition, Dr. Malamed is the author of three widely used textbooks, published by CV Mosby: Handbook of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (6th edition 2006); Handbook of Local Anesthesia (5th edition 2004); and Sedation - a guide to patient management (4th edition 2003) and two interactive DVD’s: Emergency Medicine (2004) and Malamed’s Local Anesthetic Technique DVD (2004) In his spare time, Doctor Malamed is an avid runner, exercise enthusiast, and admits an addiction to the New York Times crossword puzzle, which he has done daily since his freshman year in dental school.
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After completing college at the University of Arizona, Dr. Reed attended dental school at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) School of Dentistry in Portland, Oregon, earning the DMD degree. As a fourth year dental student, he began working toward a Master’s Degree in Pharmacology. After completing dental school, Dr. Reed remained at OHSU where he continued to work toward the Master’s Degree, received advanced training in anesthesia and also completed a residency in periodontology.
Dr. Reed then returned to Tucson, Arizona to practice periodontics and did so until he retired from that area of dentistry in 2001. In 1998 Dr. Reed began to provide anesthesia services to other dentists in the state of Arizona and continues to do so on a pert time basis today.
Academic appointments include both the University of Southern California (Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgical, Therapeutic & Bioengineering Sciences, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) and Oregon Health & Sciences University (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Periodontology) Dental Schools.
Since 2000, most of Dr. Reed’s time has been spent teaching at the Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) program in Arizona, sponsored by Lutheran Medical Center Arizona. There he is the Assistant Director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry, Arizona Region.
Dr. Reed is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) and holds Fellowships in both the ADSA and Academy of General Dentistry (AGD). Dr. Reed is a Diplomate of the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. His involvement in the ADSA continues as the Assistant Editor of Anesthesia Progress as well as serving on the Editorial Review Board of that journal. Dr. Reed is a journal reviewer for General Dentistry, the journal of the AGD and Special Care in Dentistry, the journal of the Special Care Dentistry Association. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Journal of Endodontics.
Dr. Reed is Chair of the Committee on Membership and Component Development and the Committee on Examinations of the ADSA as well as co-chair the Continuing Education Committee. He also chairs the American Dental Association’s Standards Committee Working Group 4.32 on Syringes, Cartridges and Needles.
As an author, Dr. Reed has written five textbook chapters, all in Sedation: A Guide to Patient Management. Two chapters were in the 4th ed. The first was entitled “The Physically Compromised Patient” and the second, “Neurologic Illnesses and Other Conditions.” Three chapters were in the 5th edition of the same text, “The Physically Compromised Patient,” “Neurologic Illnesses and Other Conditions” and “The Geriatric Patient.” He has further contributed to the professional literature by publishing numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.
In what little free time he has, Dr. Reed enjoys being a flight instructor holding Advanced Ground Instructor, Instrument Flight Instructor and Multi-Engine Flight Instructor Certificates issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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.
Brian Chanpong, DDS MSc (Dental Anesthesia) completed his undergraduate dental degree at the University of Southern California and a three year 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. At UBC, he is a clinical assistant professor teaching dental students local anesthesia and nitrous oxide and oxygen. As a member of the accreditation committee at the College of Dental Surgeons of BC, he inspects general anesthesia facilities for dentistry. Dr. Chanpong maintains an out-patient anesthesia clinic that provides general anesthesia and sedation services for dentists.
Dr. Caputo has a private practice limited to anesthesia for dentistry providing office-based care for pediatric, special needs and adult patients in Tucson, AZ. He is a Diplomat of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. He holds a consulting staff position as two area hospitals and serves as an Assistant Program Director in Arizona for Lutheran Medical Center's Advanced Education in General Dentistry Residency. Additionally, he has teaching positions at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Dentistry and the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. He has served for ten years on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists and is currently the Immediate Past President.
