EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
A.B. (Chemistry), Harvard College, Cambridge, MA,
1984.
M.D. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1989.
M.P.H. University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
1997.
Internship in Internal Medicine completed at
University of Rochester Rochester, NY, 1990.
Residence in Internal Medicine completed at
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 1993.
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CURRENT RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Primary research interests are clinical
epidemiology, healthcare utilization and outcomes
research in sleep disorders. A co-investigator in
The Sleep Heart Health Study, a multi-center
study of cardiovascular outcomes in sleep apnea.
Also involved in several studies of sleep
disordered breathing that focus on topics such as
spinal cord injury, cognitive function and
treatment outcomes.
Additional information can be obtained by
visiting the Sleep
Disorders Center.
REPRESENTATIVE
PUBLICATIONS
Kapur VK, Koepsell TD, deMaine J, Hert R,
Sandbloom RE, Psaty BM. Association of
hypothryoidism and obstructive sleep apnea. Am
J Respir Crit Care Med, 158(5):1379-1383,
1998.
Kapur, VK, Blough D, Sandblom RE, Hert R, de
Maine J, Sullivan SD, Psaty BM. The medical costs
of undiagnosed sleep apnea. Sleep 1999,
22(6): 749-755.
Redline S, Kapur V, Sanders M, Gottlieb D, Kiley
J, Quan S, Rapoport D, Smith P. Effects of
varying approaches for identifying respiratory
disturbance in sleep apnea assessment. Am J
Respir Crit Care Med. 2000 Feb 1; 161(2):
369-374
Kapur V, Rapoport D, Sanders M, Enright P, Hill
J, Iber J, Romanuik J. Rates of polysomnography
sensor loss in unattended polysomnography. Sleep
2000, 23(5): 682-688.
Kapur VK, Redline S, Nieto FJ, Young TB, Newman
AB, Henderson JA. The relationship between
disrupted sleep and healthcare use. Sleep
2002 25(3): 289-296.
Baldwin CM, Kapur VK, Holberg CJ, Rosen C, Nieto
FJ. Associations between gender and measures of
daytime somnolence in the Sleep Heart Health
Study. Sleep 2004; 27(2): 305-11.
Kapur VK, Baldwin CM, Resnick HE, Gottlieb DJ,
Nieto FJ. Sleepiness in moderate to severe sleep
disordered breathing. SLEEP 2005;
28(4):472-7.
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