UPMC Center for Sleep Medicine
Program Description
The goal of the UPMC Center for Sleep Medicine is to provide comprehensive management of sleep disorders.
The 3 parts of our comprehensive sleep medicine program are:
- Clinical care
- Training in sleep disorders for pulmonary fellows and advanced sleep medicine fellows
- Research
Our outpatient clinic is part of the Comprehensive Lung Center and is located on the 4th floor of the Falk Clinic on the UPMC campus in the Oakland section of the City of Pittsburgh. Our main sleep laboratory is based in the UPMC Montefiore facility. Our satellite laboratories are at UPMC Southside and the UPMC outpatient facility in Monroeville (a suburb of Pittsburgh). We are a truly interdisciplinary program with significant contributions from psychiatry, neurology, and pediatrics. In addition to usual sleep medicine patients, we specialize in the evaluation and management of patients with neuromuscular respiratory conditions.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Sleep Medicine fellowship program is based in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. Pulmonary fellows spend a minimum of 6 months in sleep medicine clinic. The emphasis in this experience is diagnosis and management of the different types of sleep disordered breathing. Fellows also gain experience in evaluating non-pulmonary sleep disorders and basics of sleep study interpretation.
Our accredited sleep medicine fellowship program also trains 2 fellows per year in sleep disorders medicine. Trainees with backgrounds in any of the fellowship disciplines that can sit for the board examination in sleep medicine are eligible to apply. Completion of this fellowship program confers sleep medicine board eligibility. www.absm.org
Dr. Charles Atwood is the director of the sleep medicine fellowship program.
Our group has a dynamic research program in clinical, basic and translation science in the broad area of sleep medicine.
In addition to our own work, we collaborate closely with colleagues in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, public health, ENT, pediatrics and other clinical divisions on projects of mutual interest.
Program Faculty
Dr. Charles Atwood is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Sleep Disorders fellowship program at the University of Pittsburgh, and director of the Sleep Disorders Program at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System. His research interests are in the area of sleep apnea detection using novel technologies, home oxygen therapy, and the coordination of respiratory control and swallowing function. His work is supported by VA, NIH and industry funds.
Dr. Rachel Givelber's research focuses on the relation of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) to other medical outcomes. She is an investigator with the Sleep Heart Health Study and is the associate program director for the pulmonary and critical care fellowship.
Dr. Patrick Strollo is the Medical Director of the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center. His research interests include outcomes of sleep apnea therapy and sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease. He is part of the leadership of the University of Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. His work is funded by NIH, tobacco settlement funds, and industry.
Christopher O’Donnell, PhD: Dr. O’Donnell studies effects of sleep disordered breathing on cardiovascular and endocrine physiology in mice. He is an internationally recognized authority in this area and his funded by NIH for this work.
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