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Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

OUR EXPERTISE

The Pediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine program offers comprehensive contemporary care for a wide variety of complex respiratory conditions across the pediatric age range, including asthma, lung disease of prematurity, chronic respiratory failure, technology dependence, neuro-muscular and chest wall disorders, rare lung diseases, bronchiectasis, congenital lung anomalies, airway anomalies as well as a range a sleep disorders. Our evaluation, when necessary, includes detailed diagnostic imaging, including airway evaluation with pulmonary function testing, exercise stress testing, flexible bronchoscopy, and sleep studies. 

We have a State-of-the-Art multidisciplinary Pediatric Asthma Center which is one of the first in the country, developed 15 years ago. It serves children with high levels of asthma burden, with success rates of decreasing disease burden by up to 90% among those receiving care in this program.  

We offer specialized services at our Sleep Center for a variety of sleep disordered breathing, including sleep apnea, movement disorders of sleep, and need for non-invasive positive pressure ventilation. 

The Technology Dependent Center offers care and support for patients with tracheostomy who may or may not be dependent on a ventilator.  

We are also part of the Aerodigestive Center of Children’s Hospital Montefiore and provide unique multidisciplinary services to patients with a wide range of complex airway problems. 

In addition, we provide multidisciplinary care for children with respiratory complications due to prematurity, neuromuscular diseases, sickle cell disease, cancers and rheumatology conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma 

We have several Board certified physicians and qualified nurse practitioners whose primary aim is to provide excellent comprehensive contemporary clinical care and service to our patients. 

OUR TEAM

Deepa Rastogi, MD

Our division’s mission is to relieve the daily burden imposed on patients with respiratory and sleep disorders and their caregivers by providing excellent, compassionate contemporary care and continued holistic social and medical support.

Deepa Rastogi, MD

Chief, Division of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship Program

RESEARCH

CHAM_Pulmonology_Sleep_2011_07_116_316x210.jpgOur team is actively involved in clinical, translational and basic science research investigations (with grants from the NIH, private foundations and others) that, among other things, examine the relationship between obesity and asthma in children, the sleep effects of neuromuscular diseases, the effectiveness of biologics in asthma, and effect of social drivers of health on childhood lung diseases 

 

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