Richard J. Castriotta, M.D., FCCP, FAASM is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School, where he served as Professor and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine as well as Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center. He has served as Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Centers at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center in Houston and Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the Southern Sleep Society, Chair of the Connecticut Thoracic Society Section on Sleep Medicine, Chair of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Sleep NetWork Steering Committee, and President of the Southern Sleep Foundation Board of Directors. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and American College of Chest Physicians and has been a pioneer in the field of sleep medicine, establishing one of the earliest formal sleep medicine training programs in 1999 (at the University of Texas in Houston, Texas) and one of the early sleep disorders centers in 1981 (in Hartford, Connecticut). He currently lives in Monterey, California.