Biography

Dr. Mehra is a clinician scientist and trained epidemiologist dedicated to investigating sleep disorders and their impact on health and disease with a focus on cardiopulmonary disease via leveraging large NIH and clinical cohort datasets and clinical trials. She has extended this work to conduct translational science to characterize underlying pathophysiology and innovations in sleep apnea therapeutics. She is Division Head of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, tenured Professor of Medicine and A. Bruce Montgomery, MD, American Lung Association Endowed Chair in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. She has served as Chair of the AASM Inpatient Sleep Medicine task force, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and sole author of Up to Date: Obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease in adults for over 10 years. She has served as Chair of NIH Workshops and Chair of the 2022 AHA statement on Sleep Apnea and Cardiac Arrhythmia. She has over 200 publications (>26K citations) including in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA journals, delivered >350 lectures including nationally and internationally and mentored more than 45 trainees.

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