About Ventus Medical

Scientific Advisors

Ventus Medical's scientific advisory panel includes thought leaders who are committed to research and development of products for treatment of Obstructive sleep apnea.

Philip Westbrook, MD Chairman

Dr. Westbrook is the Chief Medical Officer of Ventus Medical. He served as President of the American Sleep Disorders Association and as a member of the Board of Directors and Standards of Practice Committee. Dr. Westbrook was Editor-in-Chief of the Sleep Medicine Review and an editor for Sleep. He is an emeritus faculty member of the Mayo Medical School (associate professor) and the UCLA School of Medicine (professor). Dr. Westbrook was the founding Director of the Sleep Disorder Centers at the Mayo Clinic and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He earned a BS and MD from Stanford University.

James Walsh, PhD

Dr. Walsh is executive director and senior scientist of St. Luke's Sleep Medicine and Research Center, visiting professor at Stanford University and adjunct professor of psychology at Saint Louis University. He also serves as executive director of the Academic Alliance for Sleep Research. He is on the editorial board of Sleep and was a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Sleep Foundation. He has served on the board of directors of the Sleep Research Society. Dr. Walsh was a member of the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board for the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Walsh received his doctorate in experimental psychology from Saint Louis University in 1978.

David Rapoport, MD

Dr. Rapoport has been involved in clinical research in sleep medicine since 1979 and cofounded the NYU Sleep Disorders Center in 1989. He is currently director of the Sleep Medicine Program at the NYU School of Medicine. He is also an associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Rapoport was one of the early users and developers of nasal CPAP as a treatment for sleep apnea and holds multiple U.S. and European patents for improvements on nasal CPAP. He is the principal investigator of the NYU site of an NIH-sponsored multicenter epidemiologic study on sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Rapoport is the founder and president of the Foundation for Research in Sleep Disorders. He is also a member of the board of directors of the American Sleep Apnea Association and a former member of the board of directors of the American Lung Association of the City of New York. Dr. Rapoport earned his physics degree at MIT and his MD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1974.

Meir Kryger, MD

Dr. Kryger practices at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut and holds a faculty position at Yale University. His research has spanned the areas of sleep breathing disorders, especially neurological disorders affecting sleep of both adults and children, and sleep problems in women. His laboratory elucidated the interaction between heart failure and sleep respiration and published the first systematic study of oxygen in this condition. He reported the first use of computers in analyzing sleep breathing patterns and validated techniques of monitoring in which diagnostic data as well as therapeutic data on CPAP are obtained during the night. He is chief editor of the main textbook used in sleep medicine, The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine. He is the former president of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is Chairman of the Board for the National Sleep Foundation and a diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Kryger graduated from the McGill University Medicine School.