Annual Business Meeting

Year Location Primary Topics Attachments
2015 Boston, Massachusetts
  • Executive committee reports
  • Committee reports: translations, examiner training and reliability, nomination, communication
  • Current business: group name, headache criteria recommendations, merger by AUTOPP
  • By-laws revision
  • New committees: governance, taxonomy
  • Financial issues
  • Planning for IADR/Seoul, 2016
Minutes
2014 Cape Town, South Africa
  • Welcome by new President
  • Committee Reports: translations, examiner training and reliability, nomination, website
  • Diagnostic software for TMD
  • Potential merger of AUTOPP with Consortium
  • Headache attributed to TMD diagnosis and ICHD-3
  • Bylaws revision
  • Planning for IADR/Boston 2015
Minutes
2013 Seattle, Washington
  • Update on membership
  • Committee Reports: translations; examiner training and reliability; nominations
  • DC/TMD publication update
  • Reports from Iguacu Falls workshops: Expanded TMD taxonomy; Axis II instrument review
  • Biomarker project
  • Consortium vision for the future
  • Attendees: 42 members and 8 non-members
Minutes
2012 Iguacu Falls, Brazil
  • Update from San Diego 2011 workshop
  • DC/TMD publication
  • Committee Reports: translations, examiner training, nominations
Minutes
2011 San Diego, California
  • Update on progress with the DC/TMD protocol
  • Report from San Diego workshop (just completed) regarding RDC/TMDv2
  • Open discussion session for strategic planning
  • Committee Reports: translations, examiner training, nominations
Minutes
2010 Barcelona, Spain
  • Update from Miami workshop, “Convergence on an Orofacial Pain Taxonomy”
  • Publication process for the DC/TMD
  • Committee Reports: translations, examiner training and reliability, Website
Minutes
2009 Miami, Florida
  • Review of workshop “Convergence on an Orofacial Pain Taxonomy”
  • Committee Reports: translations, examiner training and reliability
Minutes
2008 Toronto, Canada
  • Consortium contributions to the Cochrane Collaboration
  • Review of workshop, “Validation Studies of the RDC/TMD”
  • Planning for consensus workshop regarding further development of the RDC/TMD
  • Committee Reports: website developments, translation protocols, examiner training
Minutes
2007 New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Announcement of Consortium as a Network within IADR
  • Bill Maixner (US): Genetics of orofacial pain – promising topic for international collaborative studies?
  • Marylee van der Meulen (the Netherlands) and Richard Ohrbach (US): Assessment of oral parafunctions – a possible construct for expansion of the RDC/TMD protocol
  • Yoly Gonzalez (US): Reliability of self-report instruments
  • Don Nixdorf (US): Dental practice-based research networks and feasibility of orofacial research
  • Eric Schiffman (US): Revising the RDC/TMD – the need for discussion
  • Committee Reports: translations, data collection, communications, research
Minutes
2006 Brisbane, Australia
  • Frank Lobbezoo (The Netherlands): Multi-centre study on TMD classification
  • Iven Klineberg (Australia): Ethnicity in TMD
  • International Audit: Anne McMillan (Hong Kong), Sandro Palla (Switzerland), Mark Drangsholt for the Danish group, Chris Peck (Australia)
  • Committee Reports: translations, research, data collection and management
Minutes
2005 Baltimore, Maryland
  • Proposal for Consortium to become a Network
  • Eric Schiffman (US): RDC/TMD Validation Study
  • Octavia Plesh (US): Multi-site US study of pain in ethnic groups
  • Marc Schmitter (Germany): Heidelberg validation study: The random forest method
  • Mike John (Germany): Consortium recommendations for outcomes measures
  • Mark Drangsholt (US): Orofacial neuropathic pain taxonomy
  • Ambra Michelotti (Italy): Consortium research goals
  • Octavia Plesh (US): Cultural adaptation of the RDC/TMD for Black Americans
  • New committee developed: Examiner Training and Reliability
  • Committee Reports: website, translations
Minutes
2004 Honolulu, Hawaii
  • John Look (US): RDC/TMD – Reliablity and Validity study
  • Mark Drangsholt (US): Pain in Adolescents: Biologic/psychosocial risk factors study
  • Frank Lobbezoo (The Netherlands): Pilot validation project of the RDC/TMD
  • Richard Ohrbach (US): Cultural equivalency of instruments
  • Mike John (Germany): Consortium recommendations for outcomes measures
  • Sam Dworkin (US): Funding possibilties for the Consortium
  • Sandy Myers (US): Data registry and methodology for the TMJ Implant Registry
  • Discussion regarding citations to the RDC/TMD protocol
  • Committee Reports: website, translations
Minutes
2003 Goteborg, Sweden
  • Kimberly Huggins (US) & Mike John (Germany): Training, calibration, and reliability of protocol-based examiners
  • Richard Ohrbach (US): Translations of the RDC/TMD
  • Adrian Yap (Singapore): Electronic data collection
  • Thomas List (Sweden): Research planning
Minutes
2002 San Diego, California
  • Sam Dworkin (US): Planning grant objectives
  • Adrian Yap (Singapore): Data management
  • Thomas List (Sweden): Research planning
Minutes
2001 Chiba, Japan
  • Organizational meeting