David Gozal
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David GozalMDChair, Academy Special Project: Treatment of OSA in Pediatric Populations |
| back to team | David Gozal, MD, a leading expert in the treatment of pediatric sleep disorders, the developmental neurobiology of respiratory control, and sleep-disordered breathing, is known as a pioneer in the study of childhood sleep problems, and the relationships between sleep disorders and neurobehavioral, cardiovascular, and metabolic disease. Gozal’s research focuses on bench-to-bedside approaches to pediatric sleep disorders, such as childhood obstructive sleep apnea and sudden infant death syndrome and is funded by several NIH grants.
A native of Barcelona, Spain, Gozal grew up in Portugal and received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He completed his pediatric residency in 1988 at the Haifa Medical Center in Israel. He completed his pediatric pulmonology and sleep training at the University of Southern California’s Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles in 1993, then joined the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1994, he moved to Tulane University as an associate professor of pediatrics and physiology, and director of the Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Center. He was appointed the Constance Kaufman Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology Research there in 1997. He moved to the University of Louisville as a professor of pediatrics, pharmacology and toxicology. At Louisville, he launched the sleep program, which quickly built a reputation for distinguished sleep research, especially in pediatrics, and was home to an ACGME-accredited international sleep medicine fellowship. He also was a founder of the Kosair Children’s Hospital Research Institute, dedicated to research programs in sleep and neurobiology, diabetes research, tumor biology and outcomes research. The Institute grew to include 15 principal investigators and 10 affiliated research labs. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center. His wife, clinical sleep researcher Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, MD, is also on the faculty at the University of Chicago. |
