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OMAR BURSCHTIN, M.D., F.C.C.P., Dipl' A.B.S.M. |
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Director
Sleep Consultation Services
Doctor Burschtin is Board Certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.
Doctor Burschtin's clinical experience includes all areas of sleep disorders, from childhood to adolescence and adulthood to geriatric sleep disorders.
He was born in Argentina and grew up in Uruguay. He moved to The United States from Montevideo, where he received his undergraduate and medical school degree. He received his Internal Medicine training at the NYU Downtown Hospital. Subsequently, he attended his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training at the New York University School of Medicine. He remained at the NYU School of Medicine as post doctoral fellow in sleep disorders medicine.
He is a Faculty Member of the New York University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He also provides sleep consultation services at The NYU Medical Center: Tisch Hospital and The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Doctor Burschtin is dedicated full time to the challenging field of sleep disorders and the consequences of sleep deprivation, sleep fragmentation, and to the improvement of daytime performance and quality of life. During the last few years he has been involved in the interactions between sleep disorders with alcohol and drug abuse.
He is fluent in Spanish and Hebrew.
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DAVID RAPOPORT, M.D., F.C.C.P. |
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Research Program
Dr. Rapoport is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Rapoport attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received his MD in 1974. He did his Internal Medicine training at the Roosevelt Hospital and a Pulmonary Fellowship at New York University Medical Center/Bellevue. He has been involved in Clinical Research in Sleep Medicine since 1979 and co-founded the NYU Sleep Disorders Center with Dr. Walsleben in 1989. He is currently the Director of the Sleep Medicine Program at the NYU School of Medicine and Director of Research at the NYU Sleep Disorders Center (located in Bellevue Hospital).
Dr. Rapoport has a longstanding interest in the physiology of sleep disordered breathing (sleep apnea and snoring). He was one of the early users and developers of nasal CPAP as a treatment for sleep apnea. He holds multiple US and European patents for improvements on nasal CPAP. He is the principal investigator of the NYU site of an NIH sponsored multicenter epidemiologic study on Sleep Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease, and is involved in multiple industry sponsored clinical trials. He is a frequent speaker at both local and national scientific meetings.
Dr. Rapoport is the founder and President of the Foundation for Research in Sleep Disorders. This non-profit organization supports sleep research through grants and fellowship stipends, and has contributed to the education of future sleep scientists and to funding research leading to development of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in sleep medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Sleep Apnea Association and formerly of the American Lung Association of the City of New York.
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JOYCE WALSLEBEN, R.N., Ph.D. |
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Insomnia Program
Joyce Walsleben, RN, Ph.D. is the former director of the New York University School of Medicine's Sleep Disorders Center at Bellevue Hospital. She is a Research Associate Professor in the New York University School of Medicine. As a clinician and researcher she specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of sleep disorders.
Dr. Walsleben is internationally recognized for her work and has authored and co-authored many journal articles and abstracts on narcolepsy, sleep apnea and sleep disorders in general, including articles in journals such as Electroencephalography and Clinical
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Joyce Walsleben
co-author of "A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SLEEP"
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Neurophysiology, Chest and Sleep. She has authored four book chapters and served as co-editor of the "Time Life Medical series on Insomnia", a self teaching video series. She is a co-author of "A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SLEEP" published by Crown books in October 2000. In addition, she is the co-investigator of a multi-center NIH grant to examine the role of sleep apnea in cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Walsleben earned her doctorate in biopsychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook University in 1987 and became board-certified in sleep disorders medicine in 1988. She is a Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine. She served on the New York State Task Force on the Impact of Fatigue and Driving for several years. She is a member of several professional organizations including the National Sleep Foundation and the National Women's Health Resource Center.
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Doctor John S. Schicchi is Board Certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine and is also certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.
After receiving his Medical degree at Buenos Aires University, he finished his internal medicine residence at the Military Hospital in Buenos Aires and thereafter a Pulmonary Diseases Fellowship at the Buenos Aires University. He completed a two years postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, under François Haas, PHD in pulmonary rehabilitation, respiratory physiology and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
He completed his US training in internal medicine at NYU/VA Manhattan Hospital; subsequently, he completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital. Following the conclusion of his training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, he completed a post doctoral Fellowship in Sleep Disorders at the NYU Sleep Center.
He remains, a Faculty Member at New York University School of Medicine and, since 1999 he is on the Columbia University School of Medicine and Surgeons faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He is the Pulmonary Fellowship Director at Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia University.
Dr. Schicchi’s clinical experience includes all areas of sleep disorders including insomnia, sleep deprivation, chronic fatigue and polysubstance abuse including alcohol and drug abuse.
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