Department of Medicine

Division of
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine

Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center

1 Robert Wood Johnson Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(732) 937-8683

Program Description:

The Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Center is a joint program of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and is a fully accredited center by the American Sleep Disorders Association.

The Center, which evaluates and treats approximately 1,500 patients annually, provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for disorders of sleep and wakefulness. These include hypersomnias, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, periodic limb movements in sleep, insomnias, parasomnias (sleep walking, night terrors), and disorders of the sleep-wake schedule. The staff of the center includes specialists in medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, otolaryngology and dentistry who provide a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care.

Diagnostic services of the Center include an outpatient clinic and sleep laboratory where polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing are performed. Patients with sleep apnea receive nasal CPAP/BiPAP evaluation and treatment when indicated. Other treatment services include pharmacological therapy, behavioral therapy, sleep hygiene training, dental appliances and upper airway surgery in selected cases. Long-term follow-up is provided for all treatment cases.

Special Service:

  • Diagnosis and management of sleep disorders

Participating RWJUMG Physicians & Professionals:

  • Rochelle Zozula, Ph.D. (Director)
  • Norman T. Blumenstock, D.D.S.-Dentistry
  • Sandra J. England, Ph.D.-Pediatrics
  • Jay B. Horowitz, M.D.-Otolaryngology

 

You can find us on the web ...
http://www2.umdnj.edu/medpweb

Teodoro V. Santiago, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6511

Fax:  

732-235-6524

Email:  

santiate@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200B
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Specialty:  

Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1974

Degree:  

University of the Philippines, 1967

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital/University of Pennsylvania, 1970

Fellowship:  

Pulmonary Diseases, Hospital Of University of Pennsylvania, 1972


Anays M. Sotolongo, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6511

Fax:  

732-235-6524

Email:  

sotoloam@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 5200B
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Control of Breathing, interventional bronchoscopy

Specialty:  

Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine, 1998

Degree:  

State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992

Internship:  

Internal Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Sch, 1993

Residency:  

Internal Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1995

Fellowship:  

Pulmonary/Critical Care, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1999


Mary E. Swigar, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-7647

Fax:  

732-235-7677

Email:  

swigar@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Clinical Academic Building - Suite 2200
125 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977

Interests:  

Neuropsychiatry, Iuniversity Student Health, Ethics in Research

Specialty:  

Psychiatry - American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 1972

Degree:  

Temple University Health Sciences Center, 1966

Internship:  

Rotating, Bryn Mawr Hospital, 1967

Residency:  

Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 1970