Sleep Research

Our Sleep Medicine Research Program, directed by David Rapoport, MD, is home to a team of internationally renowned, NIH-funded investigators whose work spans the breadth of modern sleep science. Fellows have numerous opportunities to collaborate on ongoing projects, and an optional second year of research training is available through our Multidisciplinary NIH T32 Sleep Research Training Grant.

Our Research Faculty

Indu Ayappa, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Sleep Disordered Breathing World Trade Center Cohort

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Vaishnavi Kundel, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Sleep Duration, Sleep Apnea, and Cardiometabolic Disease

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Korey Kam, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Computational Methods to Measure Sleep

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Ankit Parekh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sleep and Circadian Analysis (SCAN) Group

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Neomi Shah, MD, MPH, MS

Professor of Medicine

Sleep Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Leveraging Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging

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Andrew Varga, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Sleep Disordered Breathing and Neurocognition

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Thomas Tolbert, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Sleep and Circadian Analysis (SCAN) Group

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David Rapoport, MD

Professor of Medicine

Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation Sleep Disordered Breathing

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Oren Cohen, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Investigating Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease using Machine Learning

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Sleep Publications

A sampling of publications from our sleep faculty.

Vaishnavi Kundel, Oren Cohen, Neomi Shah et. al, Advanced Proteomics and Cluster Analysis for Identifying Novel Obstructive Sleep Apnea Subtypes before and after Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Jul 20

Oren Cohen, Neomi A Shah, Cameron S McAlpine, Sleep calibrates atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2022 Dec 7

Ankit Parekh, Thomas Tolbert, Indu Ayappa, David Rapoport et. al., Endotyping Sleep Apnea One Breath at a Time: An Automated Approach for Separating Obstructive from Central Sleep-disordered Breathing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Dec 15

Neomi A. Shah, Vaishnavi Kundel, et al., Sleep-disordered breathing and left ventricular scar on cardiac magnetic resonance: results of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis J. Clin Sleep Medicine. 2020 Jun 15.

Indu Ayappa, Andrew Varga, et al., Obstructive sleep apnea, cognition and Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review integrating three decades of multidisciplinary research Sleep Medicine Reviews 2020 April.

Robert Hiensch, David Rapoport, et. al, Sleep Studies Interpretation and Application Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2020 Jun 01.

Korey Kam, Yasmin Eren, Ward Pettibone, Annie Ly, Rebecca Chen, Natasha Berryman, Andrew Varga, et al., Interactions between sleep disruption, motor learning, and p70 S6 kinase 1 signaling Sleep, Volume 43, Issue 3, March 2020

David Rapoport, et al., Tailored Approach to Sleep Health Education (TASHE): a randomized controlled trial of a web-based application J Clin Sleep Med. 2020 Apr 24, online

Vaishnavi Kundel, Neomi Shah, et al., Assessment of atherosclerotic plaque activity in patients with sleep apnea using hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI): a feasibility study , Sleep and Breathing. Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2018

Contact Us

Emmanuel Davydov

Program Manager Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Emmanuel.davydov@mssm.edu

1 Gustave L. Levy Place Box 1232 New York, NY 10019 (212) 241-7389

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