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 Richard
Millman, MD
Richard Millman, MD, is a nationally recognized expert in sleep
disorders and pulmonary
and critical
care medicine. His expertise in sleep
apnea, insomnia and
other sleep disorders has earned him appointments on the National
Sleep Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American
Sleep Apnea Association, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
and the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Millman's research focuses on the causes, consequence, diagnoses
and treatment of sleep apnea in adolescents and adults. In addition,
Millman has published on the significance of sleep apnea in the
elderly and has investigated the correlation between obstructive
sleep apnea and depression, panic attacks, hypertension and diabetes.
Other research interests include the influence of noise on the sleep
of hospitalized patients.
Millman co-chaired the Working Group on Sleepiness in Adolescents
and Young Adults sponsored by the National Institutes of Health
and the American Academy of Pediatrics. This task force produced
a major report that was recently published in Pediatrics, which
reviewed data that demonstrated a marked prevalence of insufficient
sleep in this adolescents and young adults. This sleep loss leads
to problems with school performance and mood and increases the rate
of automobile accidents. It also provided practitioners algorithms
to differentiate insufficient sleep from physiological sleep problems
such as obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy and delayed phase syndrome.
He is the director of the Sleep
Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals, a healthcare system
based in Providence, RI. Millman is also the director of the Pulmonary
Function Laboratory and a physician in medicine at Rhode Island
Hospital and a professor of medicine at Brown Medical School.
Millman earned a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in
molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and a
medical degree from University of Pennsylvania. He completed his
residency in internal medicine at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at University of Pennsylvania.
He has been named in America's Top Doctors.
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