Meir H. Kryger, MD is the director of Sleep Medicine Research and Education, Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, Connecticut.

Dr. Kryger graduated from the McGill University Medicine School in 1971. He completed his internship at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and internal medicine training at the Royal Victoria Hospital of McGill University in Montreal, followed by a year of research training at the Meakins-Christie Lab at McGill University. He then trained in pulmonary medicine at the University of Colorado, followed by two years of research training.

Dr. Kryger's research has spanned the areas of sleep breathing disorders, especially neurological disorders affecting sleep of both adults and children, and sleep problems in women. Some of the research produced by his laboratory has had an important impact on clinical practice. His laboratory was the first to show the feasibility of ventilating people with post-polio syndrome at home using noninvasive techniques. His laboratory elucidated the interaction between heart failure and sleep respiration and published the first systematic study of oxygen in this condition. He reported the first use of computers in analyzing sleep breathing patterns and validated techniques of monitoring in which diagnostic data as well as therapeutic data on CPAP are obtained during the same night.

Dr. Kryger's laboratory has obtained research funding from government and industry sources from Canada, France, and the U.S. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He is the chief editor of the main textbook used in sleep medicine, The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, which is currently in its fourth edition. He is also the author of A Woman's Guide to Sleep Disorders. He has served the sleep medicine community in many roles, including as president of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation in Washington, DC, serving as vice president and as chairman of the Education Committee. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. In 1996, he received the William C. Dement Award for Academic Achievement in sleep medicine. He has trained medical practitioners in sleep medicine from Canada, Australia, China, Japan, and Greece.