Sleep Disorders Center

Boris Dubrovsky, Ph.D., earned his degree in Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2006, specializing in cognitive neuroscience and sleep. He completed his clinical post-doctoral training in sleep at Weill Cornell Medical College and at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and is certified in behavioral sleep medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He has served as a consultant and data analyst at Rockefeller University and New York University for research projects on circadian rhythms and on sleep in women with a chronic pain condition. He authored and co-authored articles and chapters on sleep and circadian rhythms in peer-reviewed publications, including Chest, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and Contemporary Sleep Medicine for Physicians. He is currently the associate director at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Center for Sleep Disorders, where he provides cognitive-behavioral therapy for patients with insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders, reviews clinical sleep studies and conducts research projects on pain experience and quality of life in children and adults with obstructive sleep apnea.

Dr. Katharina Graw-Panzer is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, she is the Director of the Pediatric Sleep and Breathing Disorders Center at WCM, the Director of the Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program at WCM and the Pulmonary Director of the Pediatric Aerodigestive Program and the Pediatric Technology Dependence/Home Ventilation Program. She is an assistant attending pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital, and NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she is providing sleep consultations. Dr. Graw-Panzer is board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology and in Sleep Medicine. She has extensive experience and interest in the evaluation and treatment of children with upper and lower airway dysfunction, with complex medical disorders, dependence on technology and sleep disorders.Dr. Graw-Panzer received her medical education at the University of Hamburg in Germany and completed her residency training in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Her recent research experience includes the effect of obstructive sleep apnea on learning and memory in children, the clinical manifestations of children with sickle cell disease and periodic limb movements in sleep as well as to examine the health care utilization in children with long-term tracheostomy tubes who live at home.She is Fluent in English and German.

Dr. Weingarten attended medical school at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and trained at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Internal Medicine, including an additional year in Transplant Pulmonology. He returned to New York and completed his training at Columbia University Medical Center in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine.Dr. Weingarten's clinical focus is Sleep Medicine; he has been the Director of the Center for Sleep Disorders at NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital since 2009 and sees the full spectrum of sleep disorders. He is also clinically active in Critical Care Medicine, rounding in the medical ICU as an intensivist.His research interests are varied, but include observational and clinical trials in Sleep Medicine, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.