Vishesh K. Kapur MD, MPH

Dr. Vishesh Kapur, M.D., is a board certified sleep medicine physician who founded the UW Medicine Sleep Center and serves as the Director of Sleep Medicine for the Division of Pulmonary , Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Kapur is a UW professor of Medicine and an adjunct professor of Neurology

Dr. Kapur enjoys caring for the full spectrum of sleep disorders. He tries to listen carefully to patients. When a good treatment outcome is not achieved, he spends time to understand why. He works with patients to optimize their sleep quality to a level they desire and are motivated to achieve.

Dr. Kapur earned his M.D. at Yale. He is board certified in both Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. His clinical and research interests include complex and difficult-to-treat types of sleep apnea, epidemiology and outcomes in sleep apnea, health-care utilization and sleep apnea and ambulatory diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea.