The members of our Advisory Board are prominent private practitioners and academics who provide the editorial team with insight into the latest trends and controversies in sleep medicine. If you’re interested in joining the board, e-mail  editor[at]sleepreviewmag.com.

Amy J. Aronsky, DO, FAASM
UnitedHealthcare
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Aronsky is a board-certified pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine specialist. She is also board certified in behavioral sleep medicine. She has 16 years of clinical experience in sleep medicine and DME. Currently, she serves as senior medical director for UnitedHealthcare. She previously held that position with CareCentrix and also was previously medical director for quality for the state of Pennsylvania and she has worked with CMS to develop alternate payment models. Aronsky continues her long-standing participation in the American Medical Association Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) and Relative Value Scale Update (RUC) committees, where she serves as primary advisor. She previously served as a director for American Academy of Sleep Medicine. She is also pursuing her MBA.

Michael J. Breus, PhD, DABSM
Mindworks Inc
Scottsdale, Arizona

Breus is a clinical psychologist and both a diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He the author of The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan: Lose Weight Through Better Sleep, which discussing the science and relationship between quality sleep and metabolism. His first book, Good Night: The Sleep Doctor’s 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health, an Amazon Top 100 Best Seller, continues to change the lives of readers. It is available in paperback as Beauty Sleep: Look Younger, Lose Weight, and Feel Great Through Better Sleep. For over 14 years, Dr. Breus has served as the Sleep Expert for WebMD.  He writes The Insomnia Blog,  which also posts regularly on WebMD, The Huffington Post, DrOz.com, and Psychology Today, as well as other popular web sites, making it one of the most widely read blogs about sleep and health in the world.

Daniel B. Brown, Esq
Taylor English Duma LLP
Atlanta, Georgia

Daniel B. Brown is an experienced corporate and healthcare lawyer representing a wide range of health industry clients in regulatory, corporate, franchising, and financing matters. He brings an established practice consisting of physician practices, diagnostic centers, durable medical equipment suppliers, dental practices, telemedicine providers, reference laboratories, ambulatory surgical centers, and medical device manufacturers, among others.

Brown regularly assists clients in structuring their transactions and operations compliant with the Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, Civil Monetary Penalties, and other applicable government and third party payor requirements. Brown specializes in sleep medicine and durable medical equipment suppliers, and is a frequent speaker and author in this field. He was formerly the founder and managing shareholder of The Daniel Brown Law Group LLC.

Anthony T. Dioguardi, DMD, DABDSM
Yale New Haven Hospital, Department of Dentistry
Sleep Apnea and Snoring Dental Therapy of CT
New Haven, CT

Tony Dioguardi is a general dentist with extensive training and experience in the management of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliances. He is the section chief-dental sleep medicine of the Yale New Haven Hospital Department of Dentistry, as well as an active participant with Yale University’s Sleep Medicine post-doctorate fellowship program since 2009. He provides clinical and academic instruction in the dental treatment of sleep-disordered breathing. He regularly lectures to sleep physicians, dentists, and allied health professionals on the subject of dental sleep medicine. He has been named one of the top 100 dentists in Connecticut Magazine and was listed in the Top Dentist issue of New Haven Living Magazine. His practice was the first in Connecticut and New York State to receive facility accreditation from the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM). Dioguardi is also a professional guitarist and can be seen regularly performing at venues in the Northeast United States.

Todd M. Eiken, RPSGT
Dymedix Diagnostics Inc
Shoreview, Minnesota

Todd Eiken has over 25 years of experience in the field of sleep disorders medicine and extensive experience in health services administration with an emphasis in multi-disciplinary sleep disorders centers. He has served as director for several accredited full-service sleep centers, program director for national training programs for physicians and technologists, director of durable medical equipment operations specializing in NCPAP therapy, and director of numerous outreach sleep diagnostic programs including in-home portable monitoring. His history of extensive involvement in professional activities includes exam development for the Board of Polysomnography Technologists for over 10 years, as well as education committee chair, director at large and president of the American Association of Sleep Technologists. His current research interests include PSG sensor development and alternative monitoring methods and medical equipment evaluation and validation.

Kathryn Hansen, BS, REEGT, CPC
Kentucky Sleep Society
Lexington, Kentucky

Kathryn is executive director of the Kentucky Sleep Society and the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine. In 2014, she presented in the Sleep Review webcast “Cashing in on Home Sleep Testing.”

Henry L. Johns, BS, RPSGT, CRT, CPFT
VA Eastern Kansas Health System
Topeka, Kansas

Henry L. Johns has over 40 years of clinical experience as a licensed respiratory therapist, pulmonary function technologist, and registered polysomnographic technologist. With over 30 years in sleep medicine, he has worked in clinical and research in the private and public sector, as well as managing sleep laboratories in both private practice and for the U.S. government (with the Department of Veterans Affairs). His commitment to advancing sleep medicine includes being a founding member and first president of Kansas Association of Sleep Professionals, serving on committees for the American Association of Sleep Technologists, serving on the Committee on Accreditation of Polysomnographic Education Programs (CoA PSG), a committee of the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) as a site visitor and director, and advocating and promoting sleep medicine at the Kansas Statehouse.

Barry Krakow, MD
Mercer University School of Medicine
Savannah, Georgia

Barry Krakow, MD, started in sleep research in 1988 and helped pioneer innovative therapies for chronic nightmare patients. Since 1995, he has practiced sleep medicine full-time and opearted Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences, Ltd., a private sleep medical center specializing in the treatment of sleep disorders such as insomnia and sleep apnea in mental health patients. He is also principal investigator of the Sleep & Human Health Institute, a non-profit research center that focuses on the complex interplay between physiological and psychological sleep disorders.  Dr. Krakow’s groundbreaking book, Sound Sleep, Sound Mind (2007) describes in depth the Sleep Dynamic Therapy model of clinical sleep medicine, which aids patients and sleep professionals to recognize the critical value of concurrent assessments and treatments for both the mental and physical components rooted within the vast majority of sleep disorders.  He is now a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at Mercer University School of Medicine and the consulting sleep medicine instructor at the Gateway Behavioral Health psychiatry residency program.

Meir Kryger, MD
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Meir Kryger, MD, is a professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine who has been treating patients with sleep disorders for over 30 years. He is chief editor of the most widely used textbook used in sleep medicine, The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, which is soon to be in its sixth edition. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has written about sleep disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea, in women and was the author of A Woman’s Guide to Sleep Disorders. His latest eBook, The Mystery of Sleep, contains extensive information about sleep problems in women. He has served as president of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Sleep Society and the Mary Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award.

Daniel Lee, MD, FAAN, FAASM
Baptist Health Neurology
Richmond, Kentucky

Daniel Lee, MD, is the medical director of the Sleep Research Center at Baptist Health System in Kentucky. Dr. Lee graduated as the T.J. Wood Achievement Scholar from Berea College with a double major in chemistry and biology. He then graduated with distinction from the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine. Dr. Lee completed his neurology training at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford University, California. He is board certified by the American Academy of Neurology and Psychiatry and the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American Academy of Neurology.

His major research interests are circadian rhythm physiology, genetic engineered dopamine-3 gene knock-out, and pharmacologic therapy of Willis-Ekbom disease. Dr. Lee has published extensively in peer-reviewed medical journals and served on the National Scientific Advisory Board of Willis-Ekbom Disease Research. He has received numerous teaching awards from the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine in North Carolina. Dr. Lee has been featured in M.D. News, Medscape, Reuters Health News, and Focus magazines. He has presented at various national and international conferences including the American Academy of Neurology Conference, International Conference on Translational Medicine Research at Peking Union Medical College and at Tongren Eye Institute in Beijing, China and the 13th International Congress of Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris, France. He is commissioned as Kentucky Colonel by Kentucky Governor for distinguished service and accomplishments, the highest honor awarded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Robert Lindsey, MS, RSPGT
DCH Health System
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Lindsey joined Sleep Review’s editorial advisory board in 2004. He attended the University of Tennessee, where he graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1987. In May 1988, he joined the Human Resources staff of Memorial Hospital (CHI) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After working in HR for 3 years, he changed careers and began a career in sleep medicine in 1991 at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was a night technologist from 1991 to 1998. Since 1998, he has directed and managed large sleep disorders and neurophysiology programs, varying from 14 to 22 beds across distant service areas as well as serving as the program director of the Tennessee Academy for Sleep Medicine (A-STEP accredited) from 2007-2011. He is currently director, sleep medicine and neurophysiology, at DCH Health System, where he manages 20 in-lab beds, as well as diagnostic neurology for the hospital system. His special area of interest is isolated sleep paralysis.  

Edward D. Michaelson, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM
Diplomate in Sleep Medicine (ABIM)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Dr. Michaelson is board certified in pulmonary medicine, internal medicine, and sleep medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and is a member of Sigma Xi. He serves as medical director for sleep testing facilities. He has advised manufacturers on development of sleep testing devices and has developed add-on applications for sleep study interpretation software. He appears regularly as a guest on nationally broadcast XM radio talk shows for the trucking industry. Dr. Michaelson has developed a cost effective total sleep apnea solution, which provides home sleep testing, CPAP, and compliance monitoring to physicians, dentists, insurance companies, municipalities, and the commercial transportation industry on a local or national basis.

Pamela Minkley, RRT, CPFT, RPSGT
Sleep & Alertness Services LLC
Portland, Michigan

Pam has over 35 years’ experience in dentistry, oral surgery, respiratory care and sleep medicine, and technology.  She has served in many capacities with the AAST (APT) including as president and with the BRPT currently as a content expert. Her employment has included management, technical, educational, research, clinical, and industry roles.  Pam currently serves the Sleep Apnea Patient Centered Outcomes Research (SAPCON) group as a patient recruiter for the MyApnea.Org sleep apnea patient centered outcomes research network. The groundbreaking group is tasked with enrolling over 50,000 patients and professional to participate in patient-driven outcomes research over the next 10+ years.  Pam holds credentials in respiratory care, polysomnography, clinical sleep health, and pulmonary function testing. She is a national and international speaker and educator in clinical sleep medicine and technology.

Kenneth A. Mogell, DMD, DABDSM
Florida Dental Sleep Disorders
Boca Raton, Florida

Kenneth A. Mogell, DMD, DABDSM, has practiced general, neuromuscular, and cosmetic dentistry for over 25 years. A passion for patient welfare, combined with his breadth of dental experience, led Dr. Mogell to complete extensive training in the field of dental sleep medicine to ensure the effective and appropriate treatment of patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea.

In the last decade, Dr. Mogell has gained recognition among physicians, dentists, and patients for his ability to effectively treat and manage patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea using oral appliance therapy. In 2013, Dr. Mogell became the first Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine in Palm Beach County and one of only three (as of 2016) in the state of Florida.

In 1984, Dr. Mogell received his Doctor of Medical Dentistry (D.M.D.) from the University of Florida College of Dentistry and completed extensive training in dental sleep medicine through the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, among other education providers. He also completed advanced training in neuromuscular dentistry and aesthetic dentistry at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Studies including full mouth reconstruction and neuromuscular occlusion. Dr. Mogell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Florida State University.

Dr. Mogell is a past president of the University of Florida College of Dentistry Alumni Association. He is a member of the American Dental Association, American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, National Sleep Foundation, Florida Dental Association, and the International Association of Comprehensive Aesthetics. He is a Fellow with the American Academy of Pain Management.

Shari Angel Newman, RST, RPSGT
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg Regional Medical Center started its sleep medicine program in 1985, making it one of the oldest sleep centers in our country. Newman is privileged to have been a part of this program for 27 of these years of service serving as manager for 22 of those years. The staff consists of highly trained sleep technologists and physicians from pulmonary, cardiology, neurology, and ENT specialties.

Joseph Ojile, MD, FCCP, DABSM
Clayton Sleep Institute
St Louis, Missouri

Dr. Joseph Ojile is the founder and chief executive officer of Clayton Sleep Institute (CSI), a sleep medicine clinical and research organization that includes branded and non-branded sleep clinics, an insomnia center, and a research center. He is president of the Clayton Sleep Research Foundation, which produces an annual national conference, Updates in Sleep Medicine. Dr. Ojile also serves as clinical professor of Internal Medicine for Saint Louis University School of Medicine, is a member of the board of directors of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), and serves as chair of the NSF subcommittee on continuing medical education. For the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), Dr. Ojile serves on the Practice Development Committee and in the Technology Evaluation Group. Dr. Ojile is a member of the AASM, a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, a member of the American Thoracic Society, and a member of the American Society of Internal Medicine. Dr. Ojile is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Pulmonary Diseases, and the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

Shalini Paruthi, MD
Saint Louis University School of Medicine and SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
St Louis, Missouri

Shalini Paruthi, MD, sees patients of all ages, with a special focus in pediatric sleep disorders. Dr. Paruthi earned her medical degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in sleep medicine and at the University of Michigan. She is currently an adjunct associate professor in Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Sleep and Research Center at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital.

She previously served as the Education Committee chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Dr. Paruthi has also been a task force member for the creation of the Outcomes Measures: Quality Metrics in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Dr. Paruthi also assisted in the creation and maintenance of the updated Sleep Medicine In-Training Fellow Exam. She has chaired a pediatric sleep-focused conference for the AASM.

Emmanuel (Joel) Porquez, BS, CCSH, RST, RPSGT
Nox Medical
Sleepkidzzz.com
Cleveland, Ohio

Joel Porquez, BS, RST/RPSGT, CCSH is the founder & principal of Sleepkidzzz. Joel is an experienced polysomnographer with an educational background including a doctor of medicine degree from the Philippines. His credential in Clinical Sleep Health from the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) reflects his dedication to educating patients/families, practitioners, and the community in pediatric sleep. Over the past 10 years, Joel has lectured in pediatric courses, Physician Board Reviews, Technician’s Board Reviews, Technician’s A-Step Programs, pediatric scoring classes and dental seminars. He is a technical support specialist at Nox Medical.

Russell E. Rozensky, RRT-SDS, RPSGT, CPFT, MS
The State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York

Stony Brook Professor Rozensky earned a bachelor of science degree in Respiratory Care, a master of science degree in Healthcare Policy and Management, and an advanced certificate in Health Care Management at Stony Brook University.  Russ started his career as a respiratory therapist at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, NY. He was later trained in polysomnographic technology and opened the sleep laboratory at the hospital, where he was later promoted to supervisor.  Russ joined the Respiratory Care Program at Stony Brook University in 2001 as an adjunct faculty member and in 2005 he accepted a full-time faculty position. He has served as the program director for the Polysomnographic Technology Program since 2009 and in 2017 converted that program from a non-credit certificate program to a bachelor’s degree program. Rozensky has been a member of the board of directors for the New York State Society for Respiratory Care Southeastern Chapter and is a site visitor for CoARC, specializing in polysomnography accreditation.

Muhammad Sayed, MD, RST, RPSGT, CHCQM, D.ABPN, D.NBPAS, D.WASM, F.ABQAURP
Charles George VA MC
Asheville, NC

Dr. Sayed is chief, sleep medicine, at the Charles George VA MC in Asheville, NC. Dr. Sayed has completed fellowships in both neuro-imaging and stroke research from SUNY at Buffalo, New York. He also completed fellowships in both Healthcare Policy at the US Congress Health Committee in Washington, DC with late Senator Edward Kennedy, and a sleep medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. He has given presentations on various sleep disorders topics in many countries and cities across the US. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM), the American Academy of Sleep Technologist (AAST), The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), The American Institute for Healthcare Quality (AIHQ) and the American Medical Association (AMA) where he has obtained his Physician Recognition Award (PRA) with Commendation.

Lee A. Surkin, MD, FACC, FCCP, FASNC
Carolina Sleep
Greenville, NC

Dr. Surkin is triple board certified in sleep medicine, cardiology, and nuclear cardiology and is in private practice in eastern NC. His unique practice incorporates evaluation and management of sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, and obesity medicine. He is also the founder of the American Academy of Cardiovascular Sleep Medicine, an organization dedicated to supporting clinical and academic research, educating healthcare providers, and increasing public awareness on the converging areas of sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease. 

Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD, ABPP, CBSM
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Wickwire has recently been named director of the insomnia program and assistant professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. After completing his advanced training in sleep at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Wickwire co-founded a leading interdisciplinary sleep medicine center that became a model for comprehensive sleep medicine centers throughout the country. He is a frequently sought after expert and has been featured in publications including US News and World Report, Fast Company, the Baltimore Sun, and numerous others.

Among his innovative approaches to the science of sleep is the creation of the WellTap patient portal, currently used by the United States Department of Defense. WellTap integrates telehealth approaches, real-time data analytics, and media-rich patient education to improve health-related outcomes while reducing costs. Wickwire has published over two-dozen peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and scientific abstracts, and has served as a reviewer for numerous academic publications. He is president-elect of the Maryland Sleep Society.

A fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), Wickwire is also an active and award-winning educator. He has served on the education committees of the AASM, National Sleep Foundation, and American Pain Society. He holds a special interest in sleep in military populations and serves as a local site director for the Walter Reed National Army Medical Center/National Capitol Consortium sleep medicine fellowship.

An active speaker, Wickwire has presented invited lectures at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the University of Maryland, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, NC, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and elsewhere. His presentations on human motivation and behavior change were selected by his peers among the top 1% of over 1,300 medical presentations in 2011.