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UPMC's Sleep Medicine Center — an accredited sleep medicine center by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine — is the only multidisciplinary sleep medicine facility in western Pennsylvania.

The Sleep Medicine Center performs approximately 2,000 sleep studies annually for adult patients with all types of sleep disorders. The staff at the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center include board certified physicians, certified nurse practitioners, and registered sleep laboratory technologists.

During your first visit to the UPMC Sleep Medicine Center, a sleep medicine clinician will take a comprehensive sleep history and perform a physical examination. If you have a bed partner who has witnessed you stop breathing, can verify loud snoring, or has observed other behaviors during your sleep, he or she is welcome to attend this visit with you. At the end of this visit, the doctor will determine if a sleep study is needed to further evaluate your sleep. Our staff will schedule you for a sleep study and other diagnostic studies, if necessary.

When your sleep study is completed, you should schedule a return clinic visit in 4 to 8 weeks to review your study results. If you are prescribed therapy for sleep apnea such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bilevel positive airway pressure ventilation (BPAP) therapy, please bring your equipment to the clinic so it can be checked by our technicians. As with many medical conditions, regular follow-up with your physician is important for you to achieve the best results from therapy.

Our Office Hours
UPMC's Sleep Medicine Center is open:

Contact us to schedule an appointment or if you have an emergency and require immediate assistance.

Our Staff
All of the doctors at the center are faculty members of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine. They strive to advance pulmonary sleep medicine treatments by taking an active part in pulmonary sleep medicine education and research. In addition to providing sleep medicine education to health care professionals, they offer post-graduate and public education on sleep and sleep disorders.

As part of the center's commitment to education, medical students and resident physicians who receive training in pulmonary sleep medicine, may assist your doctor with your care.

Our doctors:

• Charles W. Atwood, Jr., MD
• Daniel Buysse, MD
• Sangeeta Chakravorty, MD
• Rachel J. Givelber, MD
• Douglas Moul, MD
• Mark H. Sanders, MD
• Patrick J. Strollo, MD
  

Nurse practitioners provide care to patients in collaboration with our doctors. They are highly trained in pulmonary sleep medicine and can review your sleep studies, provide strategies in helping use your equipment, and closely monitor your response to therapy in subsequent clinic visits.

Our nurse practitioner:

• Shari Rogers, MS, ACNP

Sleep technicians are specially trained in conducting and interpreting sleep studies. Many of the sleep technicians in our lab are also respiratory therapists. They are highly knowledgeable about continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bilevel positive airway pressure ventilation (BPAP) devices and the many different masks/interfaces available. They will be closely monitoring your sleep and breathing patterns during your sleep study in our laboratory.