Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science
Phone: 352-273-5971 Room: 1329 Building, 5th Floor P.O. Box 103628
Dr. F.A. Catalanotto
- Clinical Aspects of taste and smell
- Health services research-access to case issues
- Etiology & prevation of dental caries
Dr. R. Fillingim
- Biological, social, and psychological factors that may influence the experience of pain
- Understanding the reasons for gender differences in pain thresholds
- Effects of pain relieving medications for women and men
Dr. B. Hastie
- Health disparities in pain
- Ethnic and gender differences in experimental and acute post-operative pain
- Genetic and non-genetic factors that influence acute pain and analgesic responses
- Mechanisms contributing to development of chronic pain following surgical intervention
- Cancer pain (before, during and after treatment) and the interaction with psychological health, quality of life, treatment outcome and survival
- Regulatory influences on clinical and prescription practices
Dr. H. Logan
- Impact of stress on the physiological and psychological experience of pain among humans
- Clinical and laboratory models based on neuroendocrine and immune changes during and following painful stimuli
- Intensity of pain and the resulting neuroendocrine and immune biochemical correlates
- Neuroendocrine and immune patters in recovery following painful stimuli in the presence of a stress of relaxed state
Dr. J.L. Riley
- Behavioral factors in orofacial pain
- Specific topics of interest include:
- The interaction between pain, negative mood, cognitive coping strategies, and treatment outcome
- Sex differences in report of clinical and experimental pain
- Treatment compliance
- Health care utilization prediction
Dr. S. Tomar
- Oral epidemiology and disease surveillance
- Dental public health
- Tobacco and oral health, including health effects, intervention, and policy
- Oral cancer epidemiology, prevention, and disparities
- Survey research