Naresh M. Punjabi, MD, PhD is Mary Jane and Lino Sertel Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate education in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and his MD from the University of Chicago (Pritzker School of Medicine) in 1991. He completed his post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Medicine, and Sleep Medicine all at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined the faculty as an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in 1999 and rose through the ranks to become Professor of Medicine in 2010. He moved to the University of Miami as the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in 2020. His academic tenure has been marked by significant contributions on the epidemiology of sleep apnea with a particular emphasis on outcomes including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. He has also been a co-investigator or a field site PI for multiple multi-center epidemiological studies and randomized clinical trials related to obstructive sleep apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health including studies focused on the significance of HIV on sleep health.
