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Credentials - Migraine Headache Treatment Doctor
Dr. Ira M. Klemons, has earned two doctorates. He holds the first Ph.D. in the United States specifically related to the diagnosis and treatment of headaches and facial pain and TM Joint dysfunctions and has over three decades' experience in this field.
He is President of the American Board of Craniofacial Pain and holds honors in several related fields.
Education:
- New York University College of Dentistry D.D.S. 1972
- Pennsylvania State University Graduate School Ph.D. 1981
- Ph.D. Dissertation – Chronic Head and Facial Pain
and Dysfunction: Their Interrelationships, Diagnosis
and Treatment by Mandibular Orthopedic Repositioning
Publications, Teaching, Clinical Experience and Recognitions:
- Visting Professor, TM Joint Disorders-Graduate
Specialty Program, Catholic University, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
- Numerous lectures and publications internationally
on diagnosis, treatment and surgery for head and
facial pain
- Over Three Decades' Experience Treating Headaches, Facial
Pain and TM Joint Disorders
- Experience with approximately 20,000 patients
and approximately 5,500 hours of post-graduate education
Honors:
- American Board of Radiofrequency Surgery
- American Board of Pain Management Specialties
- American Academy of Pain Management
Fellowships: (Past and Present)
- American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic
Surgeons
- American Academy of Craniofacial Pain (Founding
Member)
- Academy of Medicine of NJ (The education arm of
the American Medical Association [AMA] in NJ)
- International College of Craniomandibular Orthopedics
- Royal College of Surgeons (UK)
Memberships:(Past & Present)
- American Academy of Neurology
- North American Cervicogenic Headache Society
- American & NJ Societies of Interventional
Pain Physicians
International, National, and State Appointments and Honors:
- Commended by Resolution of the Senate of New
Jersey stating that Dr. Klemons is "honored and
saluted for his exemplary devotion and extraordinary
service to others ... and for his medical knowledge
and proper care for the Third World Nations ...
where most of the natives had never before ever
seen a doctor ... Dr. Klemons traveled between villages
by foot to treat men, women, and children ... He
has provided a model of compassion and selfless
service toward which others might strive ... This
House honors Dr. Ira Klemons, commends his outstanding
record of professional excellence and praiseworthy
service to others."
- Appointed Impartial Medical Expert in Head and
Facial Pain and TM Joint Disorders for the New Jersey
Courts by the Medical Society of New Jersey.
- Expert in Head and Facial Pain and TM Joint Disorders
to the Board of Referees and Consultees, India Journal
of Dental Research.
- Approved by the U.S. government to provide advanced
training to physicians in head and facial pain.
- Appointed representative of the American Academy
of Pain Management representing 6,000 physicians
and dentists to the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Conference on Temporomandibular Disorders.
- Prior member of the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Craniomandibular Practice, (a peer-reviewed journal
devoted to head and facial pain and TM Joint disorders)
and Medical Editor of the N.J. Trial Lawyer.
- Co-author of a textbook (used internationally),
writing on surgery for chronic pain.
- Elected to Membership in The International Higher
Education Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
- Consultant to the medical division of the U.S.
Olympic Committee (1984).
- Appointed Police Surgeon and Lifetime Member
of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers PBA.
- Invited lecturer to the NJ Medical School, Department
of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, and the
Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
- Invited lecturer to the Institute for Continuing
Legal Education (ICLE).
- As a Member of the National TMJ Impairment Rating
Board, Co-authored Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent
Impairment of the Temporomandibular Joint (Published
January, 1989).
Offices Held:
- President, American Board of Craniofacial Pain
- Past Chairman, American Board of Radiofrequency
Surgery
Current Hospital Affiliations: (Past and Present)
- Meadowlands Hospital, Secaucus, NJ
- Raritan Bay Medical Center
- St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York (a teaching hospital of New York Medical College)
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