Collaborating to improve patient care.

We are an interdisciplinary group of healthcare providers dedicated to quality care using an airway focused approach. As a health collective, we are continually learning, educating the community, and providing a network for collaboration.

Providing you with a space to learn and collaborate.

Our study club members have the opportunity to join quarterly meetings where we focus on expanding our knowledge on a wide variety of airway related topics and collaborate with like-minded providers from the Tucson area.

 

Convenient Zoom meetings

We understand busy schedules! We meet on Zoom so you can join us from your office or the comfort of home.

We also host members-only networking events in person, join the TAP study club to be invited!

Upcoming TAP Schedule:

  • February 25th, 2026 @ 6 PM

    Dr. Alpa Merchant & Cara Cooper RDH

    “Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTs) - Impact on TMD and SRBD Treatment Outcomes”

  • April 11th, 2026 @ 2-4 PM

    In-person meet & greet at a local park

  • June 24th, 2026 @ 6 PM

    Dr. Michael Wasson

    “Maxillomandibular Advancement with Widening (MMAw)”

  • September 30th, 2026 @ 6 PM

    Zoom round table - Members will present case studies to the study club.

Join the TAP study club to be invited!

  • Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.

    —Wayne Dyer

  • For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on Earth.

    ~ Sanskrit proverb

Meet your TAP Leaders

  • Dr. Alpa Merchant DDS, FICCMO, DABDSM, DASBA

  • Cara Cooper RDH, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist

Learn more

  • Our hope in establishing a study club with providers in airway, breathing and sleep is to create a multidisciplinary approach to care where we can learn from one another, share our findings and work together to educate our community and especially those patients who struggle to breathe, sleep and thrive.

    ~ Angela Wolfman DDS

  • We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

    ~ Bill Richardson

  • Sometimes looking at a situation through a different lens can lead to solutions to problems that may not be fully remedied with conventional techniques. By collaborating our skills, we can help many patients achieve greater levels of success.

    ~ Kevin Fay DPT

Join the TAP Study Club today!

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