Sleep Medicine KOLs
About this list
566 key opinion leaders work in Sleep Medicine. All 566 are basic profiles built from NPPES, OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov.
University of Washington, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have the largest Sleep Medicine groups. They are spread across 104 institutions; the five largest account for 5%.
341 have reported industry payments.
9 carry the Emerging badge for the trajectory of recent publications. The most cited are Atul Malhotra, Allan Pack and Stuart Quan. Every count comes from public federal and open sources and was last published on November 8, 2026.
- 566
- Key opinion leaders
- 341
- Reported industry payments
- 9
- Emerging
- November 8, 2026
- Data as of
How these numbers are counted: sources and methodology.
By the numbers
- $26.0M
- Industry payments reported, program year 2025Source: CMS Open Payments
Where the work is
The institutions with the most profiles on this list. Each links to its own page.
How this list is built
Who is listed: every profile whose published research or registered trial activity places them in Sleep Medicine, read from OpenAlex topics, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. This KOL finder lists the area as a whole, sub-areas included.
How the grid is ordered: enriched profiles first, then by citations on OpenAlex. The directory lists the same people with every filter and sort it offers, including recent and rising activity, and exports the result.
What is never here: scraped contact details, prescription claims data, or a judgment of anyone's influence. Every count on this page is read from a public registry and republished with its source and the date it was last published.
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The 24 most cited
Atul Malhotra, MD
UC San Diego Health System
- 1,059
- publications
- 114
- h-index
- 24
- companies
Allan Pack, MBCHB, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
- 683
- publications
- 105
- h-index
Stuart Quan, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 675
- publications
- 84
- h-index
- 1
- company
Ronald Chervin, MD
University of Michigan
- 453
- publications
- 87
- h-index
Clete Kushida, MD, PhD
- 510
- publications
- 72
- h-index
- 8
- companies
Meir Kryger, MD
Yale University
- 401
- publications
- 76
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Vishesh Kapur
University of Washington
- 138
- publications
- 45
- h-index
Arthur Walters, MD
Vanderbilt University
- 268
- publications
- 66
- h-index
Sairam Parthasarathy, MD
University of Arizona
- 331
- publications
- 51
- h-index
- 9
- companies
Akram Khan, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
- 260
- publications
- 54
- h-index
- 4
- companies
Richard Schwab, MD
University of Pennsylvania
- 243
- publications
- 58
- h-index
- 13
- companies
Daniel Picchietti, MD
Carle Foundation Hospital
- 82
- publications
- 43
- h-index
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD
- 260
- publications
- 53
- h-index
- 22
- companies
Nancy Collop, MD
Emory University
- 239
- publications
- 49
- h-index
- 4
- companies
Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD
National Jewish Health
- 169
- publications
- 31
- h-index
Henry Baggett, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 131
- publications
- 42
- h-index
Rohit Budhiraja, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 82
- publications
- 30
- h-index
Robert Kowatch, MD
Nationwide Children's Hospital
- 180
- publications
- 47
- h-index
John Brockington, MD
- 97
- publications
- 47
- h-index
Brydon Grant, MD
University at Buffalo
- 116
- publications
- 43
- h-index
Miranda Lim, MD
- 201
- publications
- 39
- h-index
Rashmi Aurora, MD
- 105
- publications
- 36
- h-index
Ulysses Magalang, MD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- 170
- publications
- 43
- h-index
Edward Weaver, MD
University of Washington
- 158
- publications
- 36
- h-index
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