Pat McBride, PhD, CCSH, OMSA has spent 46 years as a full-time clinician, educator, and author in the fields of dentistry, respiratory, sleep medicine, and dental sleep medicine. Her extensive knowledge and experience in clinical, laboratory, research, and educational arenas has led to the development of collaborative interdisciplinary care model delivery systems used across the globe. Her passion lies in educating Physicians and Dentists to approach every patient with the knowledge that multiple diagnoses are likely to be found in the sleep and disordered breathing population of patients. Using a comprehensive collaborative approach to evaluate individual patients as they present from all demographics regardless of ability to pay, Pat has navigated thousands of patients successfully towards improved clinical outcomes while at the same time empowering patients to work in tandem with their care providers by providing an atmosphere of congeniality, trust, and respect.
In addition to her clinical work, Pat has been appointed to the NIH Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board (SDRAB), is the Executive Director for the Foundation for Airway Health (FAH), sits on the Executive Board for the American Academy of Physiological Medicine and Dentistry, and continues to work in the craniofacial corrective surgery arena with Movahed, OMS in St. Louis, MO and Walnut Creek, California.
