AlejandraLastraMD
Pulmonology • Chicago, ILCritical Care Medicine, Sleep Medicine
Program Director Sleep Medicine Fellowship @ The University of Chicago
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Office
5841 S Maryland Ave
Chicago, IL 60637Phone+1 888-824-0200
Summary
- I am program director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at The University of Chicago. I also lead as Chair of the AASM Education Committee and Board Member of the Illinois Sleep Society, focusing on building educational programs & platforms that support trainees & patients. My priority is to build clinical programs to improve outcomes in COPD-OSA, respiratory failure and advanced respiratory care.
Education & Training
Rush University Medical CenterFellowship, Sleep Medicine, 2015 - 2016
Temple University HospitalFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2012 - 2015
Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkResidency, Internal Medicine, 2008 - 2011
Central University of VenezuelaClass of 2005- Central University of VenezuelaClass of 2005
Certifications & Licensure
IL State Medical License 2015 - 2026
PA State Medical License 2008 - 2015- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
- American Board of Internal Medicine Sleep Medicine
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Clinical Reasoning: A 65-Year-Old Woman With Isolated Macroglossia as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Disease.Carlos Lara, Alejandra C Lastra, Elizabeth Blair, Helene Rubeiz, Kourosh Rezania
Neurology. 2024-12-24 - Trailblazing Clinical Trials in Asthma, COPD, Sleep Medicine, and Education and Clinical Practice in 2023.Mary Jo S Farmer, Simon Couillard, Alejandra C Lastra, Sanjay Ramakrishnan
Chest. 2024-01-01 - Moving toward standardization: physician reporting of sleep studies.Alejandra C Lastra, David Ingram, John Park, Elisabeth James, Camilla Matthews
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 2023-03-01
Journal Articles
- The persistent gender bias in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea: a commentaryAlejandra Carolina Lastra, Hrayr Pierre Attarian, Gender and the Genome, 4/1/2018
Books/Book Chapters
Committees
- Vice-Chair, American Academy of Sleep Medicine- Education Committee 2019 - Present
Other Languages
- Spanish
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