Naresh M. Punjabi, MD, PhD is the 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. 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 where he remained on the faculty until moving to his current position at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the clinical and population epidemiology of sleep apnea with a particular emphasis on outcomes including insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.
