Amal IsaiahDr Isaiah earned a medical degree in India with multiple honors and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to read for a DPhil (PhD) in Neuroscience at University of Oxford. During doctoral training, he studied brain plasticity using electrophysiological, tatistical, computational, and behavioral techniques. Following postdoctoral training, residency in otolaryngology and a clinical fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology, he joined the faculty at University of Maryland in September 2016. His principal areas of interest are sleep disordered breathing (SDB), brain development, and statistical modeling. He has received the Charles Ferguson Award for clinical research from the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, the Mentor Award for transformative impact on medical students interested in research and was a featured Early Career Investigator by the journal Pediatric Research. He is also a co-investigator in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, the largest study of brain development in children. He participated in a writing group for pediatric SDB and cardiovascular disease commissioned by the American Heart Association. He has a robust clinical practice and has performed both cross-sectional and prospective studies related to SDB. His work has received extensive media coverage, including a recent paper in Nature Communications on the association between SDB and brain outcomes, which received worldwide attention. Read More Read Less