Prof. Yair Sharav is a professor of Oral Medicine. He presently is the Director of the Hebrew University Center for Research on Pain and head of the orofacial pain clinic. Prof. Yair Sharav graduated from The Hebrew University (DMD) and the University of Illinois, Chicago (MS). Former chairman of the Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Radiology. He served as a Past Dean of Dental Faculty in Jerusalem and was a visiting scientist at the NIH and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. Prof. Yair Sharav is responsible for establishing the Orofacial Pain Clinic at Hadassah Medical Center in 1974—the first of its kind in Israel—and directing it as well as the Center for Pain Research at The Hebrew University for over 25 years. Prof. Yair Sharav's work has contributed widely to the knowledge and understanding of the diagnosis, treatment, and mechanisms of orofacial pain.