Rob Basner

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, United States of America

Robert Basner is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Adult Pulmonary Diagnostic Unit and the Cardiopulmonary Sleep and Ventilatory Disorders Center at Columbia University.

His clinical interests include sleep-disordered breathing; abnormal pulmonary physiology while awake and during sleep, and non-invasive ventilation. His research interests comprise cardiopulmonary interactions while awake and during sleep; cardiovascular complications of sleep deprivation; pathophysiology and treatment of metabolic syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

He is a Member of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Physiological Society, and the American Thoracic Society.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Respiratory Disorders > Sleep & Ventilation Disorders (since 12 June 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 3.2
  Sleep disordered breathing and mortality: eighteen-year follow-up of the Wisconsin sleep cohort.
  Recommended by James A. Rowley, Rob Basner
  
• 4.9
  Noninvasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema.
  Recommended by Patrick Ray, Rob Basner, Yoshinori Nakata with Soichiro Nagamatsu
  
• 8.8
  Rapid disuse atrophy of diaphragm fibers in mechanically ventilated humans.
  Recommended by Marc De Kock with Patrice Forget , Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Christer Sinderby, Harald Groeben, Rob Basner, Naoto Morimura, Antoni Torres with Jacobo Sellarés
  
• 6.0
  Effects of non-invasive ventilation on survival and quality of life in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a randomised controlled trial.
  Recommended by Stefano Nava
  Dissent by Rob Basner
• 3.0
  Suppression of central sleep apnea by continuous positive airway pressure and transplant-free survival in heart failure: a post hoc analysis of the Canadian Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Patients with Central Sleep Apnea and Heart Failure Trial (CANPAP).
  Recommended by Rob Basner