AAPMD FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE WEBINAR – Myofunctional treatments, Airway and Eating – What are we missing?
Pejman Katiraei, DO

Metabolic errors can significantly impact myofunctional and airway problems.

Learning objectives:

1)    Understand how metabolic errors can impact muscles of mastication and myofunctional disorders.

2)    Understand how to identify the subtle signs indicative of these metabolic errors.

3)    Understand simple ways to treat said metabolic errors.

Dr. Pejman Katiraei is a board-certified pediatrician who is also boarded and fellowship-trained in integrative medicine. He completed his undergraduate at UCLA and then obtained his osteopathic medical degree at the Western University of Health Sciences. He then went on to complete a pediatric residency at Loma Linda University, where he stayed on as teaching faculty for over 4 years. Dr. Katiraei has also completed two fellowships in integrative medicine, one with the University of Arizona and another under Dr. Kamyar Hedayat in a French model of integrative medicine called Endobiogeny. Dr. Katiraei is now in private practice in Santa Monica, where he focuses on helping children with severe behavioral challenges. He is also working with an amazing team to build Wholistic Minds, an online portal that helps parents understand the root cause of their child’s behavioral issues and what steps they can take to help resolve it. 

1 CE credit available to AAPMD members