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Narong Simakajornboon, MD


  • Director, Sleep Disorders Center
  • Director, Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

MD: Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand, 1992.

Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI.

Fellowship: Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.

Interests

Pediatric sleep disorders; respiratory control disorders

Services and Specialties

Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Disorders

Interests

Effect of nicotine exposure on the developing brainstem

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Publications

Polysomnographic parameters and clinical risk factors predicting postoperative respiratory complications in children undergoing supraglottoplasty. Kanavitoon, S; Ngamprasertwong, P; Gurbani, N; Nakamura, A; Hossain, MM; Heubi, CH; Simakajornboon, N. The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2024; 20:9-16.

Occurrence of sleep-disordered breathing in children with pulmonary hypertension. Ignatiuk, D; Miles, K; Gurbani, N; Hossain, MM; Cash, M; Magness, M; Hirsch, R; Simakajornboon, N. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2023; 58:3566-3573.

Comparing the Driving Skills of Adolescents with Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Healthy Controls: The Results of a Case-Controlled Observational Study. Fidler, AL; Zhang, N; Simakajornboon, N; Epstein, JN; Kirk, S; Beebe, DW. Children. 2023; 10:1624.

Transitional Care of Sleep-Disordered Breathing: Management. Dye, TJ; Simakajornboon, N. Sleep Medicine. : Springer Nature; Springer Nature; 2023.

0810 Effect of supraglottoplasty on respiratory parameters in infants and children with laryngomalacia and oxygen dependence. Wickemeyer, J; Nakamura, A; Hossain, MM; Simakajornboon, N. Sleep. 2023; 46:a356.

0794 Effect of Surgical OSA Treatment on Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep in Pediatric Patients. Ignatiuk, D; Nakamura, A; Hossain, MM; Simakajornboon, N. Sleep. 2023; 46:a350.

0787 Sleep Problems and Sleep Disorders in Children with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome. Srisinghasongkram, P; Simakajornboon, N. Sleep. 2023; 46:a347.

Periodic limb movements during wakefulness in children with RLS and PLMD. Liu, W; Patterson, C; Hossain, MM; Dye, T; Simakajornboon, N. Sleep Medicine. 2022; 100:s203.

Children, adolescents, and their providers: the Narcolepsy Assessment Partnership (CATNAP™) Paediatric Narcolepsy Registry: study design. Macfadden, W; Whalen, M; Steininger, TL; Simakajornboon, N; Gwadry-Sridhar, F; Owens, JA. Sleep Medicine. 2022; 100:s154-s155.

Increased incidence of pediatric narcolepsy following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic: a report from the pediatric working group of the sleep research network. Simakajornboon, N; Mignot, E; Maski, K; Owens, J; Rosen, C; Ibrahim, S; Hassan, F; Chervin, RD; Perry, G; Brooks, L; et al. Sleep. 2022; 45:zsac137.

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