Sleep Disorders

Our Experts

Doctors

• Dr. Brian T. Bast, oral and maxillofacial surgeon

• Dr. Radhika Chigurupati, oral and maxillofacial surgeon

• Dr. David Claman, director of the UCSF Sleep Disorders Center

• Dr. Andrew N. Goldberg, Director of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery

• Dr. Eric J. Kezirian, head and neck surgeon

• Dr. Janice S. Lee, oral and maxillofacial surgeon

• Dr. M. Anthony Pogrel, oral and maxillofacial surgeon

Nurses

Christine Garvey is a nurse practitioner at the UCSF Sleep Disorders Center at Mount Zion where she cares for patients with sleep and pulmonary conditions. Under the supervision of a doctor, she provides assessments, orders diagnostic tests, interprets test results and makes recommendations for treatment. Her research interests include the areas of pulmonary rehabilitation, asthma and congestive heart failure.

Garvey earned a bachelor's degree in nursing and a master's degree in public administration at the University of San Francisco and a master's of science and nursing degree from Holy Names College in Oakland. She has authored chapters in the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice and has been published in several national professional journals. She has served as chair and as a member of many national and state committees, including co-chair of the American Thoracic Society's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Section. Her awards include the Mary Burns Award for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services and the American Lung Association of California Research Program Scholarship.

Other Experts

Kimberly Trotter is a registered sleep technologist who co-founded the UCSF Sleep Disorders Center in 1994 with Dr. David Claman. Today, she is the center's practice manager and chief technologist. As an educator, Trotter shares her special understanding of conditions such as sleep apnea and insomnia through community health talks and fairs.

Trotter earned bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from California State University, Sacramento. During that time, she learned to read and set up electroencephalograms (EEG), a test that traces variations in electrical force in the brain. This skill helped her earn certification as a registered polysomnographic technologist or RPSGT, one skilled in monitoring sleep activity. Prior to joining the staff at UCSF Medical Center, she worked as a chief technologist and coordinator at two sleep labs in Northern and Central California. Her research on equipment and the way behavior changes affect sleep has led to the publication of several abstracts and earned her the Mary Carskadon Award for Excellence in research by a sleep technologist.