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Michael
Coppola, M.D.
Michael
Coppola, M.D., is a leading pulmonary critical care and sleep
disorders physician in private practice in Massachusetts.
He is an attending physician at Baystate Medical Center and
Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MA and a Fellow of the American
College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Cappola is chairman of the
Massachusetts Sleep Breathing Disorders Society and is a national
expert on management of sleep disordered breathing in the
home. He is also the medical director of Winmar Diagnostics,
a sleep disordered breathing specialty company, and Associate
Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School
of Medicine.
Eugene
C. Fletcher, M.D.
Eugene C. Fletcher is Professor of Medicine and Director,
Division of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Environmental
Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
He also directs the Clark Memorial Hospital Sleep Laboratory
in Jeffersonville, IN. Prior to taking the position at Louisville,
Dr. Fletcher was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor
of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Dr.
Fletcher completed medical school at Temple University, internal
medicine training at the University of Colorado, and Pulmonary
Medicine-Critical Care training at the University of Oklahoma.
He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine,
with subspecialties in Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine,
and by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Fletcher's
research interests are in the cardiovascular effects of chronic
hypoxemia in patients with intrinsic lung disease and obstructive
sleep apnea. He has been doing clinical and bench research
in these areas since beginning his research. He regularly
reviews manuscripts for the journals Chest, Sleep, Journal
of Applied Physiology, and American Journal of Physiology.
Ed
Schuck, B.S.E.E.
Ed Schuck was a cofounder of EdenTec, a medical
device company that developed equipment to diagnose and treat
sleep breathing disorders in infants and adults. EdenTec was
aquired by Nellcor in 1991 and then added Puritan Bennett and
Mallinckrodt to create the largest respiratory care
company in the world. Mr. Schuck was responsible for acquisition
and development when Tyco International acquired the companies in
1999. He is currently a consultant and director of several
start up medical companies and is the chairman of the Alpha-1 foundation, a not
for profit organization. Mr. Schuck continues to work with sleep researchers
world wide to develop new generations of diagnostic and therapeutic
devices.
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