Board of Directors

Dr. Mandeep Singh is an early-career clinician-scientist, uniquely dual-certified in Sleep Medicine and Anesthesiology, having completed the training from University of Toronto (UT) and practices in both the disciplines. He also completed a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Sciences Research from the Institute of Health and Policy Management and Evaluation, UT. He is Director of the inaugural Sleep, Anesthesiology and Pain medicine (SleAP) program at Women’s College Hospital, and University Health Network, UT. He is the recipient of prestigious Canadian Anesthesiologists Society Career Scientist Award, Merit Award program at University of Toronto, and recently, the 2020 SASM Presidential Scholar Award. His current translational research interests include evaluating perioperative outcomes in patients with sleep health disruption, including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), chronic insomnia and disorders of daytime hypersomnolence such as narcolepsy and idioathic hypersomnia. Current projects include the impact of optimal sleep health on quality of life and wellness amongst health care workers, perioperative and chronic pain population; evaluation of health technology such as Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) and other tools to measure objective sleep-health data in patients with various sleep disorders in these settings.

Dr. Nafiu is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Attending Anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is a principal investigator in the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Nafiu received his medical degree from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He then completed a Pediatric residency at the same hospital in Nigeria, before moving to the United Kingdom, where he trained as an Anesthesiologist and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists, London. He came to the United States as a visiting Instructor in 2002 and after completing that stint signed up for the US anesthesiology residency training program, which he completed at the University of Michigan. He also received a Master of Science in Clinical Research Design and Biostatistics from the University of Michigan. Dr. Nafiu has received a K23 award entitled “Association of Childhood Obesity with Early Post-Tonsillectomy Pain” from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. His research and clinical interests focus on healthcare disparity in pediatric surgical patients as well as the role of obesity and sleep-disordered breathing on pediatric perioperative health.

Dr. Bhargavi Gali is an anesthesiologist and intensivist, associate professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Gali serves as Rochester Methodist Hospital PACU medical director, and vice-chair of quality for the Critical Care independent multidisciplinary practice. Her areas of interest include perioperative management of patients with sleep disorders, and perioperative quality and safety.

Dr. Kara Dupuy-McCauley is an assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and specialized in pulmonary and sleep medicine. She completed medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, internal medicine at Corwell Health in Dearborn, Michigan, and then pulmonary and sleep fellowships at Mayo Clinic Rochester.  She is passionate about diagnosing and treating a wide range of respiratory and sleep disorders, but has a particular interest in perioperative management of respiratory sleep disorders, hypoventilation syndromes, and central sleep apnea.

Mary Hargett is the Director of Education and Clinical Affairs for the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, at Hospital for Special Surgery, where she has been on staff for more than 36 years.

In addition to Mary’s current role on the Board of Directors for the Society of Anesthesia Sleep Medicine, Mary is one of the Founders of the Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship Directors Group and has served as its Administrative Director since its inception in 2001.  This is a Group comprised of over 85 Fellowship Program Directors, who represents almost ever Program, in this subspecialty, in North America.  Mary now serves on the Board of Directors for this Group, which has formalized into the Regional Anesthesiology Fellowship Directors Association (RAFDA).

Mary is an author on more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, including all 3 versions of the Guidelines for Fellowship Training in Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine.  Mary has presented several times at national and international conferences and is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Special Recognition Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, an award that has only been presented once, in recognition of Mary’s work and organizational efforts to advance Fellowship and Residency Education.

Mary has served and continues to serve on several Hospital and Society Committees and has been the Administrative Director for multiple Symposia and Consensus Conferences since 1996, including her current role as the Administrative Lead for Dr. Stavros Memtsoudis’ (Past SASM Present) International Consensus Study on Anesthesia- Related Outcomes after Hip Fracture Surgery, 3rd in a series of studies.

Mary is active in volunteer activities, and in her role as Chair of Hospital for Special Surgery’s Employee Activities Committee has organized food drives, toy drives and other charitable endeavors for 3 decades.  Currently, Mary is involved in several endeavors to benefit Veterans, including event organization and fundraisers, along with her Husband, Steven, a U.S. Navy Veteran, who serves as House Chair for his American Legion Post.

Dr. Philip Kurien is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).  He is subspecialized in Sleep Medicine.  He completed his medical school at Stanford University School of Medicine.  He then completed his residency training in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF.  After residency he finished a post-doctoral fellowship in Neurogenetics in the labs of Ying-Hui Fu and Louis Ptacek at UCSF studying the molecular control of sleep timing and sleep duration.  Following the lab fellowship he completed a clinical Sleep Medicine fellowship at UCSF.  He is currently practicing both Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine at UCSF.  He is keenly interested in the overlap between anesthesia and sleep to treat disorders of sleep that confound care in the perioperative period, and more broadly, to explore how anesthetic techniques can facilitate natural sleep.  

Dr. Christine Won is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale University and the Medical Director of the Yale Sleep Center. She is the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program. She is Chair of the Sleep-disordered breathing section of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and member of the national VA Sleep Network.