Umakanth Katwa / MD

Dr. Umakanth Katwa is a pediatric pulmonologist and pediatric sleep specialist, and Director of Sleep Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He did his fellowship training in pediatric pulmonary and sleep medicine at the Harvard University in Boston.

He co-directs, multidisciplinary sleep apnea and sleep surgery program. He has extensive teaching experience and co-directs pediatric sleep medicine courses at Harvard and Tufts Universities. His research interests include phenotyping pediatrics OSA, infant sleep apnea, drug induced sleep endoscopy, and technology integration in sleep evaluation. His current research includes AI based modeling of sleep study interpretation of pediatric OSA. He lectures widely across the world and involved in teaching sleep physicians, dentists and medical students and has extensively published in several peer reviewed national and international journals.