Pregnancy-related cardiovascular disease and obstructive sleep apnea

Department of Medicine: Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds

When

9 to 10 a.m., Nov. 17, 2023

Where

Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room 2343 (Burbank Conference Room)
1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724

Presenter Details

Snigdhasmrithi Pusalavidyasagar, MD, FAASM
Associate Professor, Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of Minnesota

Pusalavidyasagar (“Sagar”) is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She serves as the University of Minnesota Medial Center Site Director for the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program. She is board certified in internal medicine and sleep medicine. Her research interests include the role of sleep in women's health and sleep disordered breathing as it related to cardiovascular disease.

She is active with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and was recognized with Fellow status in 2013. She serves on the Sleep Advisory Committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine, the Advisory Board of the American Academy of Cardiovascular Sleep Medicine and is president-elect for the Minnesota Sleep Society

She completed her internal medicine residency at Howard University, Washington, DC, and sleep medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Before her sleep medicine fellowship, she was a research fellow in cardiovascular physiology also at the Mayo Clinic. Read more.