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You’ll be part of a community of learners led by faculty mentors who provide the highest caliber training and treat you as a valued colleague. We’ll make sure you leave our program prepared to take the next step on your career path.

Geisinger Northeast Region

Geisinger Central Region

Geisinger Western Region

Staff

Geisinger Northeast Region

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Sreelatha Naik, MD

Program Director, Sleep Medicine Fellowship
Director, Sleep Medicine, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre
Attending Physician, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Home mechanical ventilation, impact of sleep breathing on outcomes in chronic obstructive lung disease and stroke, neuromuscular respiratory failure, sleep in the inpatient setting
• Sleep medicine fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center–Harvard Medical School, 2016
• Pulmonary and critical care fellowship: Yale University, 2015
• Internal medicine residency: Rutgers University, 2012
• Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2009

 
 
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Richard Byrne, MD

Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Hypoglossal nerve stimulation, comprehensive sleep healthcare, wearable sleep technology
• Sleep medicine fellowship: University of Rochester, 2019
• Neurology residency: Thomas Jefferson University, 2016
• Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2012

 
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Anne Marie Morse, DO

Director, Child Neurology
Director, Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Physician, Pediatric Neurology
Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Pediatric sleep medicine, central hypersomnias, impact of sleep on neurologic disease (neurodevelopment and sleep, Down syndrome and sleep, and neurocognitive impact of sleep apnea), impact of school start times
• Sleep medicine fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center, 2016
• Pediatric neurology fellowship: SUNY Downstate, 2015
• Pediatrics residency: SUNY Downstate, 2012
• Medical school: Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010

 
Hema Murali, MD

Hema Murali, MD

Attending Physician, Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine
• Interests and expertise: Comprehensive sleep healthcare 
• Neurology residency: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2006
• Medical school: Mysore Medical College, Mysore, India, 1995
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Kimberly Persaud, DO 

Assistant Program Director of the Geisinger Northeast Internal Medicine Residency 
Chair of the Program Evaluation Committee, Sleep Medicine Fellowship, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre
Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine 

• Interests and expertise: The impact of sleep in the acute care population. The impact of sleep breathing disorders in the peripartum population. Shift work disorder. The impact of sleep breathing disorders in the perimenopausal population. 
• Sleep medicine fellowship: John F. Kennedy Hospital, Hackensack Meridian Health, 2022
• Internal medicine residency: United Health Services Hospitals, 2018
• Medical school: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2015 

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Srinivasarao Ramakrishna, MD

Director, Sleep Medicine, Geisinger Community Medical Center
Director, Respiratory Therapy, Geisinger Community Medical Center
Attending Physician, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Sleep breathing disorders, advanced bronchoscopy, critical care medicine
• Pulmonary and critical care fellowship: Wayne State University, 2013
• Internal medicine residency: Brooklyn Hospital Center, 2012
• Medical school: First Moscow State University, 2006

 
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Kenny Schwartz, MD

Physician, Sleep Medicine
Physician, Neurology

• Interests and expertise: Medical education, sleep apnea, REM sleep behavior disorder, RLS
• Neurology residency: Mount Sinai Hospital (Neurology), 1984
• Internal medicine internship: Rutgers University Hospital, 1981
• Medical school: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 1979

 
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Manoj Suryanarayanan, MD

Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Interests/expertise: Sleep-disordered breathing, the utility of novel non-PAP therapeutic modalities with a patient-centered approach in the management of obstructive sleep apnea, hypersomnia, enhancement of objective evaluation of sleep patterns among adults presenting to the sleep disorders center
• Sleep medicine fellowship: Detroit Receiving Hospital/Wayne State University
• Internal medicine residency: The Brooklyn Hospital Center/Weill Medical College
• Medical school: First Moscow State University named after I.M. Sechenov formerly known as the Moscow Medical Academy

April Wright, MD

Attending Physician, Stroke Neurology and Sleep Medicine
• Interests and expertise: Impact of Stroke and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Fellowship: Vascular Neurology Fellowship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital-Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2022
• Fellowship: Sleep Medicine Fellowship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital-Washington University, St. Louis, MO 2019
• Neurology residency: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2018
• Medical school: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2010
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Geisinger Central Region

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Evelyn Mai, MD

Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Sleep medicine fellowship: University of Pittsburgh, 2008
• Psychiatry residency: University of Pittsburgh, 2007
• Medical school: University of Michigan, 2003

 
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Michael Marino, DO

Associate Chief Medical Officer for Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital
Director, Sleep Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center 
Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Internal medicine residency: Geisinger Medical Center, 1995
• Medical school: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1991

 

 

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Catherine Shoff, DO

Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
Attending Physician, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease, pulmonary infectious disease, airway disease, sleep medicine, quality improvement
• Pulmonary and critical care fellowship: Wilford Hall Medical Center/San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium/Lackland AFB, 2007
• Internal medicine residency: Wilford Hall Medical Center/San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium/Lackland AFB, 2004
• Medical school: Rowan University of Osteopathic Medicine, 2001

 
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Andrew Upchurch, MD

Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Sleep disordered breathing, hypersomnia disorders
• Sleep medicine fellowship: Emory University, 2021
• Internal medicine residency: University of Florida, 2020
• Medical school: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, 2017

 
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Geisinger Western Region

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Karina Henriquez, MD

Director, Sleep Medicine, Geisinger Lewistown Hospital
Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Interests and expertise: Narcolepsy, RLS
• Sleep medicine fellowship: Cleveland Clinic, 2013
• Internal medicine residency: Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 2012
• Medical school: Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, 2000

 

Molly Herring, DO

Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Sleep medicine fellowship: Sleep Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2019
• Internal medicine residency: Internal Medicine at Geisinger, 2018
• Medical school: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2015

 
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Katelyn Smith, DO

Attending Physician, Sleep Medicine

• Sleep medicine fellowship: Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 2016
• Internal medicine residency: Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 2015
• Medical school: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2007

 
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Staff

Administrative secretary

  • Kim Hibbard
  • Elaine Richards

CRNP

  • C. Jamie Karlotski
  • Sandra Reynolds
  • Jennifer Suda
  • Kelly Lobrutto (Respiratory Failure Clinic)

DME billing clerks

  • Mary Jane Walsh
  • Amy Womelsdorf
  • Dawn Domanski (Supervisor)

LPN

  • Karen Kiwak

Medical assistant

  • Rose Tarutis

Patient/physician liaison

  • Casey Deck
 

Registered polysomnographic technologist 

  • Tracy Clossen 
  • Nicole Crisman
  • Angela Elko
  • Margaret Olah
  • Megan Pettit
  • Danielle Rachilla 
  • Bridget Robbins

Regional manager sleep and pulmonary services

  • Patricia Giovinazzo

Respiratory therapist

  • Sharyl Greco

Registered respiratory therapist/navigator

  • Dalia Al-Daoud (Respiratory Failure Clinic)

Scheduler/patient access representative

  • Judy LaPorte Durling
  • Tina Lenahan
 
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