Dr. Suzie Bergman is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pacific Northwest University School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Bergman is a Fellow of the TMJ Foundation, a global consortium and online fellowship program for oral and maxillofacial surgeons, where she serves as Selection Chair, Advisor and Honorary Program Faculty. She is also a visiting scholar at Oregon Health Science University in the Department of Neurosurgery, where she is a co-investigator in research surrounding the differential diagnosis of Trigeminal Neuralgia and Temporomandibular Disorders (TMDs). She has 30 years’ of experience spanning clinical care, post-doctoral education, consulting, research, and advocacy for patients suffering from TMDs and chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs). Dr. Bergman is a member of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain (AAOP), the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) and UCSF’s Pain and Addiction Research Center (PARC). She is a tenured instructor for McGann Postgraduate School of Dentistry, where she developed a TMD curriculum entitled “Twenty-First Century TMD Protocols.” She has lectured for numerous medical and dental schools domestically and internationally. Her current consulting focus is on medical, dental, and behavioral health integration. She received her DDS degree from West Virginia University and holds certificates from the University of Kentucky and the University of Michigan’s Orofacial Pain Shadowing Programs.
