David Panek, MD

After studying biology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, I attended the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Following medical school, I completed pediatric residency at the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington, Vermont. I then completed a pediatric pulmonology fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. While completing my pediatric pulmonology fellowship, I also obtained a graduate certificate in maternal and child health from the University of Washington School of Public Health. After pediatric pulmonary fellowship, I completed a sleep medicine fellowship at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. Now, as a pediatric sleep specialist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, my clinical interests span pediatric sleep medicine and include the management of sleep related breathing disorders, insomnia, central disorders of hypersomnolence, circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, parasomnias, and sleep related movement disorders. My research interests have been largely focused on sleep disordered breathing in the pediatric population.