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Bernadette Jaeger

Bernadette Jaeger DDS

Anesthesiology, Dentistry
Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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Dr. Bernadette Jaeger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA School of Medicine, and the Section of Oral Medicine and Orofacial Pain, UCLA School of Dentistry. She is Chair of the Oral Exam Committee of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, having been actively involved in both written and oral examination development since the Board’s inception in 1994. As academic faculty in the Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Jaeger developed and directed both a post-MD/DDS fellowship training program and a patient care program for chronic head and neck pain at the UCLA Pain Management Center. She is currently involved in the development of a new multidisciplinary Comprehensive Pain Center at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Jaeger has made substantive original contributions in the field of pain management, publishing numerous frequently cited, peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters, including the “Overview of the Head and Neck Region” in the second edition of Travell and Simons’ “Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction, The Trigger Point Manual” Vol. 1, and the very popular chapter on Non-odontogenic Toothache and Chronic Head and Neck Pain in Ingle’s gold standard “Endodontics” textbook. Dr. Jaeger has lectured nationally and internationally and is well known for her expertise in myofascial pain.
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