Dr. Nathaniel F. Watson

USA

Neurology and Sleep Medicine

@SleepDocWatson

Dr. Watson is Professor of Neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Director of the Harborview Sleep Clinic, and Co-director of the UW Medicine Sleep Center. He is a Past-President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is board certified in both neurology and sleep medicine. He is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of SleepScore Labs.

Dr. Watson is an active sleep clinician and researcher with a total of 110 publications, 10 book chapters, and a book on clinical sleep medicine. He has used twin research and genetic epidemiology methodologies to assess heritability and gene/environment interactions of phenotypes including: sleep duration, sleepiness, insomnia, circadian type, neighborhood deprivation, obesity, and depression. He has used co-twin research methodologies to assess mitochondrial DNA copy number variation and the transcriptome in sleep duration discordant monozygotic twins. He has developed guidelines regarding optimal sleep duration in adults and the treatment of central nervous system hypersomnias and researched the relationship between sleep duration/disorders and cancer. He is a co-inventor of patented technology behind the SleepScore app and an active researcher using consumer sleep technologies and artificial intelligence to address population sleep problems.

Dr. Watson is a passionate sleep advocate and active in sleep public relations having given hundreds of talks and media interviews, both nationally and internationally, on sleep related topics throughout his career.

Dr. Watson received a chemistry degree from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he also received his Medical Doctorate. He competed his medical internship, neurology residency, and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Washington. He also holds a Master’s degree in genetic epidemiology from the University of Washington.

Dr. Leonardo Serra

Chile

Neurologist

Specialist on Sleep Medicine

Sleep training at Università di Bologna

Associate Professor at Medicine Faculty in Universidad del Desarrollo-Clinica Alemana.

Former Director of Chilean Sleep Medicine Society (SOCHIMES)

Member of American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and World Sleep Society.

Head of Sleep Disorders Center of Clinica Alemana de Santiago, Chile

Dr. Dania Tamimi

USA

Dr. Dania Tamimi graduated with a dental degree from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She trained at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and earned a doctorate of medical science (DMSc) and certificate of fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology in 2005. She is board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ABOMR).

She is a reviewer and an Editorial Board member for Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Oral Radiology (OOOO), as well as a reviewer for DMFR, Oral Radiology, Head and Neck, Angle Orthodontist and AJO-DO. She is the lead author on two textbooks: “Specialty Imaging: Dental Implants” and “Specialty Imaging: Temporomandibular Joint” and a co-lead author on “Diagnostic Imaging, Oral and Maxillofacial”. She lectures nationally and internationally.

She currently runs her oral and maxillofacial radiology private practice in Orlando, Florida.

Prof. José Luis Carrillo Alduenda

Mexico

MD, Specialist in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, PhD in Sleep Medicine.

ACTUAL POSITION

• Physician , Sleep Medicine Unit, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico
• Member of the Research Committee, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico

PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETIES AND BOARDS

• Active member of the Mexican Society of Pulmonology and Thorax Surgery
• President of the National Council of Pulmonology Mexico
• Former president of the Mexican Academy of Sleep Medicine
• Director of the Department of Sleep Medicine of the Latin American Thorax Association
• Member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Professor of Pulmonology: Panamerican University Mexico (2010-)
• Adjunct Professor in Sleep Medicine: National Autonomous University of Mexico (2018-2019).
• Adjunct Professor Pulmonology: National Autonomous University of Mexico (2019-).

EDITORIAL COMMITTEES

• Neumología y Cirugía de Tórax (2014-)
• Gaceta Médica de México (2016-)
• Sleep and Breathing (2018-)

LINES OF INVESTIGATION:

• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Treatment with positive pressure devices
• Obesity hypoventilation syndrome

Dr. Umakanth Katwa

USA

Dr. Umakanth Katwa is a pediatric pulmonologist and pediatric sleep specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston. He has academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. He did his medical school in India and then completed his pediatrics residency at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He also did both his Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine fellowship training at the Harvard University in Boston, USA.

He is currently the Director of sleep laboratory at the Children’s Hospital Boston and co-directs the multidisciplinary sleep surgery clinics. He also is a course co-director for pediatric sleep medicine at Harvard University and course co-director for Pediatric Dental Sleep Medicine mini-residency at Tufts University Dental School. He extensively works with dentists and orthodontist along with pediatric sleep surgeons for integration of comprehensive treatment strategies in management of OSA in children. His research interests include infant sleep apnea, phenotyping sleep apnea in children, precision diagnostic approach including airway imaging and DISE in evaluation of pediatric sleep apnea, technology integration in evaluation of sleep, and sleep telemedicine. He lectures widely across the world and has extensively published in several peer reviewed national and international journals.

Dr. Eric Thuler

Brazil

• Eric Thuler is physician with ENT residency at the University of São Paulo.
• He did his fellowship in sleep surgery and transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in Italy with Prof Claudio Vicini, later been certified to perform TORS at the University of Pennsylvania (Upenn).
• One of the pioneers in the use of drug induced sleep endoscopy in Brazil, also performed the first TORS procedure for OSA and implanted the first UAS device for OSA treatment in the country.
• His PhD thesis was studying the correlation between facial development and UA collapse during drug induced sleep endoscopy (DISE).
• Currently is as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (Upenn), studying the characterization of airway dynamics in OSA patients to improve patient selection for PAP alternative treatments.

Dr. Gabriel Cruz Zorrilla

Mexico

MD, Specialist in Otolaryngology and PhD in Sleep Medicine.

ENT residency at the National Insttitute of Rehabilitation, México. Internship at the ENT service of Clinica Universidad de Navarra, at Pamplona, Spain. Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Sleep Medicine Unit of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases at México City. Currently working at a private clinic in Saltillo, Mexico.

Vice president of the Mexican Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Affiliated to the Mexican Society of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, Mexican Federation of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Founding member of the Ibero American Sleep Surgery Society.

Areas of interest
Telemedicine applications for obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis and treament. Patient phenotyping and CPAP optimization strategies. Soft tissue surgery for OSA.

Dr. Stanley Yung-Chuan Liu

USA

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery and by Courtesy, of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Director, Sleep Surgery Fellowship
Stanford University School of Medicine

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Dr. Julio Cifuentes

Chile

• Graduated from the Universidad de Chile .
• Head of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgey Department.Clinica Alemana.Santiago Chile
• President of the Chilean Society of Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgeons. Time Periods : 2004 to 2006-2010 to 2012
• Full Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo – Clínica Alemana, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Santiago, Chile
• OMFS of the Sleep Center.Clinica Alemana.Santiago.Chile
• Practice limited to Orthognatic Surgery and Sleep Medicine.
• Member of the:
• International Association of Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgeons (IAOMS)
• American Association of Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgeons (AAOMS)
• Latin-American Association of Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgeons (ALACIBU)
• World Association of Sleep Medicine.
• Chilean Association of OMFS.
• Chilean Association of Sleep Medicine
• Spanish Association of OMFS.
• President of the South American Arnett Forum.
• Fellowships :
• Parkland Memorial Hospital. Department of OMFS.Southwester Medical School. Texas University.Dallas.USA. 1990.
• Department of OMFS.Loma Linda University. USA.
• Jackson Memorial Hospital. Department of OMFS. Miami University.U.S.A 1995.
• Department of OMFS, Munster University.Germany.1999.
• Center of Dentofacial Deformities. Dr.W. Arnett, Santa Barbara.California.USA.2000
• Department of OMFS. Stanford University.USA.2001.
• Mayo Clinic.Department of OMFS.Rochester.USA.2014.

Dr. Albano R. Flores

Mexico

Dr Albano Flores is a Maxillofacial surgeon with 45 years of experience, he is the founder and director of the Albano Flores Maxillofacial Center. In 1972 he obtained his graduate degree as a Dental Surgeon at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), where he served as the president of the student association. In 1976 he completed his academic training in the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Juárez Hospital in Mexico City. Later he participated in a fellowship at the University of Texas; Dallas., having the honor of having great mentors like Drs Robert V, Walker., William H, Bell., Bruce Epker, Larry Woldford and Douglas Sinn. Among his classmates were Jeffrey Moses, César Guerrero, Miles Poor and other great companions. Preceptorate with Dr. César Guerrero and Simonas Grybauskas. He is a collaborating professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Orthodontics and Prosthodontics. International consultant of the Spanish Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. National and International speaker for more than 40 years.

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Dr. Audrey Jung-Sun Yoon

USA

Orthodontist
Pediatric Dentist
Diplomat, American Board of Orthodontics
Diplomat, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine

Dr. Yoon completed her orthodontic and pediatric dentistry residencies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the nation’s pre-eminent program of its type. She also earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Science degree, completing extensive research in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) at UCLA. Upon completion of her dual specialty degrees, Dr. Yoon was invited to join UCLA’s School of Dentistry as a Clinical Faculty. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of Stanford Sleep Medicine Center at Stanford University, an honorary assistant professor of Orthodontics at the University of Hong Kong, an adjunct assistant professor in Orthodontics at University of Pacific and a clinical associate faculty at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. She is also a co-director of Pediatric Dental Sleep Mini-residency program at Tufts University.

Using state-of-the-art technology, Dr. Yoon is committed to achieving clinical excellence and ideal case results. She is an Invisalign VIP: Platinum provider, which is only bestowed to the top 1% of Invisalign doctors. Dr. Yoon’s field of expertise includes the effective utilization of orthodontic Temporary Anchorage Device (TAD) to minimize surgery and maximize esthetic successful outcomes.

Dr. Yoon is a collaborative team member at Stanford Medical Center in the sleep apnea research. She has developed pioneering Distraction Osteogenesis Maxillary Expansion (DOME) technique for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and has co-authored chapters in several leading ENT textbooks. She is one of leading orthodontists to perform the ‘Surgery-first approach’ for orthognathic surgeries and has developed its application for maxillo mandibular advancement (MMA) surgery for OSA. She is also an expert in customized sleep oral appliances and early interceptive orthodontics in children for craniofacial growth modification.

As a proud mother and loving wife, Dr. Yoon is a firm believer in strong family core values. She carries this philosophy into her practice, giving her patients the care and attention they deserve just like a part of her family.

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Dr. Leopoldo P. Correa

USA

Associate Professor and Division Director, Craniofacial Pain Center, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. He is committed to supporting academic learning as well as clinical practice and has worked as a faculty member at Tufts Craniofacial Pain Center, for 20 years. Dr. Correa incorporated the teaching of Dental Sleep medicine into the pre and postgraduate programs at Tufts, and developed multiple continuing education courses including the Temporomandibular Disorders Mini-residency, Dental Sleep Medicine Mini- residency, Dental Sleep Medicine Comprehensive Introduction, and Pediatric Dental Sleep Medicine Mini-residency. He is an active member of professional associations such as ADEA, ADA, AADSM, AASM, and WSS. Dr. Correa is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM), Fellow of the International College of Dentists (ICD), and visiting professor in different dental schools. He has been invited to present at institutions across multiple continents, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.