Creating opportunities worldwide for children to be their BEST.
AAPMD’s Endeavour Pediatric Section members are multidisciplinary healthcare professionals working together to ensure little people — 71 months and under — with airway issues do not grow into big people with airway issues.
Who We Are
Endeavour is a global group of like-minded professionals focused on everything related to Airway in the pediatric health community.
What We Do
We address the root causes of preventable illnesses, especially as it relates to nasal breathing, restful sleep, nutrition, and inflammation.
How We Do It
We help develop screening tools, educate practitioners with monthly webinars, and emphasize and coordinate multidisciplinary treatment.
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Our Inception
Endeavour formed during the covid19 pandemic amidst the lockdown across the United States in 2019. Incredibly, several pediatric members simultaneously reached out to one another to seize on the opportunity to come together. Understanding that treating children requires collaborative care, and that the majority of children are seen by general practitioners, Endeavor formed this international and diverse group of leaders in the field. Endeavor has been meeting weekly since its inception.
Members Include:
General Dentists, Pediatric Dentists, Orthodontists, Speech Pathologists, Registered Dental Hygienists, Research and PhD Sleep Specialists.
Meet Our Doctors
Steve Carstensen DDS
Fellow, Academy of General Dentistry
Fellow, American College of Dentistry
Fellow, International College of Dentistry
Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
Fellow, American College of Dentistry
Fellow, International College of Dentistry
Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
Steve Carstensen DDS has treated sleep apnea and snoring in Bellevue, WA since 1998. He’s the Consultant to the ADA for sleep related breathing disorders, has trained at UCLA’s Mini-Residency in Sleep and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. He lectures internationally, directs sleep education at Airway Technologies and the Pankey Institute and is a guest lecturer at Spear Education and Louisiana State Dental School, in addition to advising several other sleep-related manufacturers. In 2014 he helped found Dental Sleep Practice Magazine and currently serves as Chief Dental Editor. In 2019, Quintessence published A Clinician’s Handbook for Dental Sleep Medicine, written with a co-author.
Sharon Moore, CPSP, OMT
Sharon Moore is a Speech Pathologist with 4 decades of clinical experience across a wide range of disorders of function in the upper airway. She has worked in clinical settings in Australia and London. Currently, she runs a Private Practice in Canberra, managing medical and dental specialist referrals for patients of all ages and is a member of the Transdisciplinary team for the Canberra Sleep Clinic. Orofacial Myofunctional principles are fully integrated into diagnosis, assessment and treatment for: breathing, swallowing, chewing, phonation, speech & breathing during sleep.
Sharon has a special interest in early identification of craniofacial growth anomalies in non-syndromic children, airway obstruction in sleep disorders. Recently, acknowledgement of the role of myofunctional therapy in management of sleep disorders, hails a new era of relevance for work in the upper airway, and affirmation of her chosen clinical direction. She believes there has never been a more important time for medical and dental colleagues to work as a team with significant health morbidities of sleep disorders in all ages now widely known. She is author of the book ‘Sleep Wrecked Kids: Raising happy healthy children one sleep at a time’.
Kevin Boyd, MS, DDS
Dr. Kevin Boyd is a board certified Pediatric Dentist in Chicago who holds an M.Sc. degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. He teaches in the
Pediatric Dentistry residency training program at Lurie Children’s Hospital and also serves as a dental consultant to the Lurie Sleep Medicine service. Dr. Boyd is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas mentoring PhD research, and also serves as a Visiting Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology where he is collaboratively exploring a hypothetical relationship between changed dietary practices since the Industrial Revolution and diminished human dentofacial development. He lectures worldwide on the topics of Early Childhood Malocclusion (under age 72 months), pediatric sleep-breathing hygiene and Evolutionary Oral Medicine/Darwinian Dentistry.
Mary H. Osborne
Mary Osborne has worked in dentistry for over fifty years as a clinical hygienist, patient facilitator, and consultant. She brings to her work enthusiasm, intelligence, humor, and a deep belief in the potential for significant growth through authentic communication.
Mary is known internationally as a consultant, writer, and producer of Leadership Guides and audio/video programs for Mary H. Osborne, Resources in Seattle, Washington. She has served as a member of the Visiting Faculty at the Pankey Institute and her writing has been published in national magazines. Mary has presented programs on Patient Care and Communication both in person and virtually at major meetings and in small group settings across the United States and Canada. She is a leader in dentistry and helps others learn the true meaning of leadership in a changing world.
Shereen Lim
Dr Shereen Lim is a Perth based dentist with a post graduate diploma in dental sleep medicine from the University of Western Australia.
She has been involved in the team management of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea for over a decade.
She has been involved in the team management of snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea for over a decade.
Dr Lim is dedicated to promoting airway health from infancy as an alternative approach to minimize the development and burden of these problems throughout the lifespan. She is author of the book “Breathe, Sleep, Thrive: Discover How Airway Health Can Unlock Your Child’s Greater Health, Learning and Potential.”
Her work in private practice is restricted to tongue tie management from infancy to adulthood, early interceptive orthodontics and myofunctional therapy.
Dorothy Nelson DDS
Dr. Dorothy Nelson is a board certified pediatric dentist and practices in the greater Seattle area. Her practice philosophy includes early growth guidance, screening and co-management of airway centered diseases. Other areas of interests include breastfeeding support, tethered tissue management and highly integrative collaborative care in the medical and dental field. By implementing an oral wellness approach, she believes pediatric dentists have an incredible opportunity and honor to provide much more support to a family beyond the management of cavities.
Pat McBride, PhD, CCSH
Pat has spent 41 years as a full-time clinician and educator in the fields of dentistry, respiratory
medicine and sleep medicine. Her extensive experience in clinical, laboratory, research and
educational arenas has led to the development of interdisciplinary care model delivery systems
used by physicians and dentists around the globe.
Pat’s publications span both medical and psychosocial spectrums. She has a unique ability to
intervene in the interstices of global systems, developing protocols which can be translated
across demographics and cultures into improved clinical outcomes. She sits on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Physiological Medicine and
Dentistry in New York, and AAPMD’s Endeavour Pediatric Community.
She continues to work hands on in a clinical setting and as the Executive Director for The
Foundation for Airway Health while lecturing internationally on subjects relating to breathing and
sleep medicine, dentistry and precision medicine systems to best benefit all patient populations.
Serving the underserved and marginalized patient remains a passion and priority for her. Pat has one grown daughter who shares her passion and commitment to social justice andeducation, serving as a bilingual sixth grader teacher in the inner city Oakland, CA.
Meggie Graham, DDS
Inspired to follow in her father’s footsteps as a dentist, Dr. Graham wanted to impact people’s lives in the same manner. After graduating from Arizona State University with her Bachelor of Science degree in Spanish and a minor in premed sciences, she went on to complete her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at Marquette University School of Dentistry.
Motivated by changing lives through functional dentistry, Dr. Graham is passionate about helping her patients feel better, look better, and be better. She also loves to get to know those she serves, “I learn something from each patient I treat; different life perspectives help me grow, not only as a dentist but as a person as well.”
Dr. Graham loves growing, learning, and engaging in continuing education whenever and wherever possible. She believes her patients deserve the most modern and effective treatments and technologies available. To ensure she’s on the leading edge, she’s dedicated to Spear and Kois Advanced Learning Centers, the Milwaukee Study Club, the American Association for Cosmetic Dentistry, and she serves as an affiliate faculty member at the Breathe Institute. Dr. Graham also enjoys providing free dental services to the underserved both locally and overseas.
Beyond the office, yoga, hiking, moss (seriously odd obsession), reading, exploring the various culinary delights of the city, attending summer festivals, and cheering on the Brewers, Packers, and Badgers. She’s happily married to a “big-bearded man who makes her laugh every day” and loves being “mama to Penelope (6), Ada (4), Vera (almost 1), and to the diaper dogs, Steve and Laura.” Absolutely immersed in mamahood and dentistry, she welcomes the beautiful and chaotic blend that makes her life an unforgettable journey.
Carla Damon, DDS
Dr. Carla Damon attended The University of Texas at Houston Dental School and pursed her Pediatric Dental residency at Baylor College of Dentistry. As a board-certified pediatric dentist, Dr. Carla Damon along with her co-founder, Dr. Loria Nahatis operate Beyond Pediatric Dentistry, a private practice in Dallas, TX. Their practice is limited to pediatric patients, with special emphasis on airway screening and treatment, performing infant frenectomies, and providing a more wellness-based approach to dental care.
Dr. Damon has done extensive training and studying to understand oral dysfunctions, restrictions in the mouth that lead to feeding/speech difficulty, and malocclusions associated with sleep disordered breathing. Dr. Damon is co-founder of the DFW Airway Collaborative in Dallas. This group serves as a multidisciplinary group that serves to bring together providers that recognize the need for a team approach to Sleep Disordered breathing and airway issues amongst children and adults. Dr. Damon has a passion for whole body health and wellness which starts with good oral health. She wants to teach children to take responsibility for their own health decisions to set them up for a lifetime of good decisions. Her mission is to help every child breathe, sleep and thrive!
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Authors of Endeavour
The Clinician’s Handbook for Dental Sleep Medicine
Steve Carstensen
Brave Parent
Susan Maples
Sleep Wrecked Kids
Sharon Moore
Breathe, Sleep, Thrive
Shereen Lim
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