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At Boston Children’s Hospital, we consider you and your child as a very important part of the Sleep Center team and not simply recipients of care. 

We specialize in family-centered care, which means that starting from your first visit, you’ll work with a team of professionals who are committed to supporting all of your family’s physical and psychosocial needs.

Our Sleep Center at Boston Children’s brings together physicians specializing in pediatric neurology, pulmonology, and developmental medicine, pediatric nurse practitioners and nurses; psychologists; technologists and administrative professionals. Our multidisciplinary approach ensures that your child’s sleep problems will be approached in the most comprehensive and thoughtful way possible and that the full range of treatment options will be explored.

Center Medical Director

Umakanth Katwa, MD

Director, Sleep Center; Pulmonologist, Division of Pulmonary Medicine; Director, Sleep Laboratories; Director; Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Program

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Sleep Providers

Ronald Becker, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Developmental Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Rachael Dufresne, FNP-C

Nurse Practitioner, Sleep Center

Jennifer Gingrasfield, BFA, MSN, RN, PNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner, Department of Neurology

Seyni Gueye-Ndiaye, MD

Pulmonologist, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Center

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Kiran Maski, MD, MPH

Neurologist, Department of Neurology

Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Maile Moore, BA, MSN, RN CPNP-PC

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Department of Neurology

Dennis Rosen, MD

Medical Director, Pulmonary Function Testing Lab; Senior Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Pulmonary Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Robert C. Stowe, MD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology

Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Po-Yang Tsou, MD

Pulmonologist, Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Eric Zhou, PhD

Clinical Psychologist, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Nursing

Gina Gardner DNP, RN,NE-BC, CNML, CPN,CCRN, Nurse Director

Anne Weaver, PhD, RN, CCRN, CHSE, Clinical Coordinator

 

Speech-Language Pathologists

Christianna (Gilbert) Miller, MA, CCC-SLP, MBA, Senior Quality Improvement Consultant

 

Technical Staff

Walter Kuropatkin, RPSGT, Director of Operations

Adriana Rondinelli, RPSGT, Supervisor

 

Administrative Staff

Victoria Carpenter, Administrative Manager