Richard J. Castriotta

Richard J. Castriotta, M.D., FCP, FAASM is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School (UTHealth). He has served as Professor of Internal Medicine, and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at UTHealth as well as Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, Chairman of the Institutional Ethics Committee and Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center and Pulmonary Diagnostic Services at Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center in Houston. He has served as President of the Southen Sleep Society, Chair of the Connecticut Thoracic Society Section on Sleep Medicine, Chair of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Sleep NetWork Steering Committee, Chair of the ACCP Palliative and End-of-Life Care NetWork Steering Committee, a member of the ACCP SEEK Editorial Board, Vice-Chair of the Southern Medical Association Chest Disease Section, and President of the Southern Sleep Foundation Board of Directors. He is a Distinguished CHEST Educator and Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Listed for many years in Marquis Who's Who, in 2018 he was the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and recognized in the Wall Street Journal in 2019.