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. 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


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


  3. 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


  4. 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:



  5. 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:



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



  7. 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







  8. 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