Dr. Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC, is a physician and sleep researcher. He is known for being the first person to diagnose and report obstructive sleep apnea in North America. Currently, he is Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Clinical Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Medicine, and he practices in the VA Connecticut Health System.Previously, Dr. Kryger was Professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, where he established the first clinical laboratory studying patients with sleep breathing problems in Canada.Dr. Kryger has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters, and is the chief editor of the most widely-used sleep medicine textbook, "The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine." He wrote the books "A Woman's Guide to Sleep Disorders," "The Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine," and "Kryger’s Sleep Medicine Review."Kryger graduated from the McGill University Medical School, interned at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and completed internal medicine training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. His pulmonary fellowship was at the University of Colorado, followed by two years of research training. He is boarded in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.