Gwynne Church, MD

Dr. Gwynne Church is a specialist in both respiratory conditions and sleep disorders in pediatric patients. She cares for children with pulmonary disorders such as asthma, exercise intolerance, restrictive lung disease and cystic fibrosis. As medical director of the Pediatric Sleep Laboratory, she oversees the evaluation of children with sleep disorders, including breathing difficulties during sleep, insomnia, sleep movement disorders and narcolepsy.

Dr. Church collaborates with the doctors and care teams of other UCSF specialty clinics to address sleeping disorders common to children with abnormalities of the face or head, neuromuscular weakness or upper airway obstruction. She is an integral faculty member of the pediatric pulmonary and sleep medicine fellowship training programs.

Dr. Church earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed a residency in pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at UCSF, and a fellowship in sleep medicine at Stanford Medicine.
Education
2006 - Sleep Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine
2005 - Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship, University of California San Francisco
2002 - Pediatric Residency, Children's Hospital Oakland
1999 - Medical School, Medical College of Wisconsin
Honors and Awards
  • Top Doctors List-Marin 2015-2021, 2021
  • Exceptional Women in Medicine-Castle Connolly, 2018
  • Great Save Award (for reducing cost and increasing efficiency), 2017
  • Faculty Enrichment Fund, 2015
  • Lead Reviewer Google Search Editorial Health committee, 2015
  • The Caring Tree Award, 2014
  • Cardiovascular Institute Fellowship Award University of California, San Francisco, 2003
Websites

  1. sanaz Vaziri, Gwynne Church, David Panek. 1057 A Tale of Two Languages: Evaluating Caregiver Satisfaction with Telemedicine in a Pediatric Sleep Medicine Clinic. Sleep 2024. PMID:


  2. Stoffella S, Ly N, McGarry M, Neemuchwala F, Church G, Chan M, Cuneo A, Omori M, Gibb E. Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulator administration to a F508del heterozygous infant with meconium pseudocyst and short bowel syndrome: A case report. Pediatric pulmonology 2023. PMID: 38088240


  3. Lim JT, Ly NP, Willen SM, Iwanaga K, Gibb ER, Chan M, Church GD, Neemuchwala F, McGarry ME. Food insecurity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in cystic fibrosis households. 2022. PMID: 35112507


  4. Elizabeth Gibb, Gwynne Church. Infant sleep: control of breathing and common sleep problems. 2021. PMID:


  5. Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Iwanaga K, Ly NP, McGarry ME, Church GD, Faricy LE, Rowan CM, Hume JR, Steiner ME, Crawford ED, Langelier C, Kalantar K, Chow ED, Miller S, Shimano K, Melton A, Yanik GA, Sapru A, DeRisi JL. Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019. PMID: 30239621


  6. Matt S Zinter, Christopher C Dvorak, Madeline Y Mayday, Kensho Iwanaga, Ngoc P Ly, Meghan E McGarry, Gwynne D Church, Lauren E Faricy, Courtney M Rowan, Janet R Hume, Marie E Steiner, Emily D Crawford, Charles Langelier, Katrina Kalantar, Eric D Chow, Steve Miller, Kristin Shimano, Alexis Melton, Greg A Yanik, Anil Sapru, Joseph L DeRisi. Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children. bioRxiv 2018. PMID:


  7. Faricy LE, Church G. Sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal life support in an adolescent with mild cystic fibrosis. Respiratory medicine case reports 2017. PMID: 28948140


  8. LM DelRosso, T MDuba, K Iwanaga, E Gibb, J Dy, G Church, N Ly. 0888 AUTO-ADJUSTING CPAP: AN OPTION FOR TREATMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN OBESE CHILDREN. Sleep 2017. PMID:


  9. Ward SL, Turpin A, Spicer AC, Treadwell MJ, Church GD, Flori HR. Long-Term Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Children After Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Feasibility Investigation. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2017. PMID: 28060170


  10. E.R. Gibb, G.D. Church. Newborn and Infant Sleep. Encyclopedia of Sleep 2013. PMID:


  11. Church GD. . 2012. California Thoracic Society website( http://www.calthoracic.org/content/cts-pediatric-committee) Guidelines for the Use of Home Pulse Oximetry in Infants and Children. 2012. PMID:


  12. Gibb E, Blount R, Lewis N, Nielson D, Church G, Jones K, Ly N. Management of plastic bronchitis with topical tissue-type plasminogen activator. Pediatrics 2012. PMID: 22802609


  13. Church GD. The role of polysomnography in diagnosing and treating obstructive sleep apnea in pediatric patients. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care 2012. PMID: 22221590


  14. Flori HR, Church G, Liu KD, Gildengorin G, Matthay MA. Positive fluid balance is associated with higher mortality and prolonged mechanical ventilation in pediatric patients with acute lung injury. Critical care research and practice 2011. PMID: 21687578


  15. Church GD, Matthay MA, Liu K, Milet M, Flori HR. Blood product transfusions and clinical outcomes in pediatric patients with acute lung injury. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2009. PMID: 19307809


  16. Calfee CS, Budev MM, Matthay MA, Church G, Brady S, Uchida T, Ishizaka A, Lara A, Ranes JL, deCamp MM, Arroliga AC. Plasma receptor for advanced glycation end-products predicts duration of ICU stay and mechanical ventilation in patients after lung transplantation. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2007. PMID: 17613396


  17. Church GD, Price C, Sanchez R, Looney MR. Transfusion-related acute lung injury in the paediatric patient: Two case reports and a review of the literature. Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 2006. PMID: 16999757


  18. McClintock DE, Starcher B, Eisner MD, Thompson BT, Hayden DL, Church GD, Matthay MA, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trials Network. Higher urine desmosine levels are associated with mortality in patients with acute lung injury. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2006. PMID: 16698854


  19. Cepkova M, Brady S, Sapru A, Matthay MA, Church G. Biological markers of lung injury before and after the institution of positive pressure ventilation in patients with acute lung injury. Critical care (London, England) 2006. PMID: 16956410