Deepa Burman, MD, FAASM, is a board-certified pediatric sleep medicine specialist and co-director of the Pediatric Sleep Evaluation Center at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is also an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Burman is directly involved in the patient care, education, and quality improvement initiatives of the Pediatric Sleep Evaluation Program.
She received her medical degree from the University College of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India, and received residency training at UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency Program followed by Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the UPMC Montefiore Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Her academic work includes the identification of gaps in the management of patients with sleep disorders in a primary care setting. Dr. Burman has also been instrumental in disseminating sleep medicine knowledge regionally, nationally, and internationally.
She has continually educated many audiences in the field of Adult and Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Obesity Medicine and delivered several talks on those topics. Her research interests include the management of pediatric sleep disorders in a diverse population, weight management as a tool for the treatment of sleep disorders, and increasing public health awareness regarding sleep disorders.
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