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Dr Jonathan A. Parker is the founder of Innovative Sleep Products. He is a partner in the Twin Cities TMJ and Facial Pain Clinic and has been evaluating and treating patients with TMJ symptoms, head, neck and facial pain since 1983. In 1991, Dr Parker opened a second practice, the Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center to treat patients with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. During the past eight years, he has created and developed two different oral appliances (PM Positioner™ and Adjustable PM Positioner™) to help people who suffer from both sleep disorders.
Through his work, Dr. Parker identified the need for an effective, low cost treatment for positional snoring and sleep apnea. In 1997, Dr. Parker founded Innovative Sleep Products to develop a solution to this problem. Dr. Parker's Snore Relief Cushion™ is the first product developed by Innovative Sleep Products. This product treats positional snoring with a cushion that prevents snorers from sleeping on their back. Other products to help educate people and provide them with solutions to their snoring problems are currently in development.
EDUCATION
Dr. Parker received his dental degree from the University of Minnesota in 1983. He completed a general practice residency at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry Hospital Dental Clinic in 1984. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, and is credentialed by the Certification Board of the Sleep Disorders Dental Society. He was elected to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society in 1997.
FACULTY POSITIONS
Dr. Parker has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dentistry at the University of Minnesota since 1983. He is currently working in the Department of TMJ and Craniofacial Pain at the Univeristy of Minnesota on a part time basis.
HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL AFFILIATIONS
Dr. Parker is on both the dental staff and the staff of the sleep disorders centers at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN, and Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. He also maintains a consulting staff affiliation with the Minnesota Sleep Institute in Golden Valley, MN, Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN, and St. Joseph's Hospital in St Paul, MN. Dr. Parker works closely with the sleep disorders physicians to provide treatment for patients with snoring and sleep apnea problems.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Parker has presented seven research abstracts over the past 12 years at regional and national dental and medical meetings. Four of these presentations were related to snoring and obstructive sleep apnea treatment and three were related to management of temporomandibular disorders. He has published articles in regional dental journals regarding the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and treatment for temporomandibular disorders. He is currently in the process of completing three research studies regarding treatment outcomes and side effects of treatment for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Parker has had the opportunity to collaborate with numerous dentists and physicians across the country about the effects of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea and the available treatment options. He has given numerous half-day and full-day seminars regarding diagnosis and treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea to dental and medical groups throughout the United States. Within the past year he has lectured to dentists at three major dental meetings, including the American Dental Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the Chicago Mid-Winter Dental Meeting, and the Southwest Dental Conference in Dallas.
