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.