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Dr. Sharma is the Medical Director of Sleep-i.  He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, and Critical Care; and he is a Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians.

Currently Dr. Sunil Sharma is the Chief Medical Officer of Columbia Lung and Sleep Insitute. Formerly, he was a Professor of Medicine and Director of Sleep Research at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Sharma has also served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a practicing physician in the areas of Pulmonary Critical Care /Sleep Medicine/Internal Medicine and also as the Chief of Staff for Grant Regional Hospital, Lancaster, WI.       

Dr. Sharma did his residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL;  and his residency in Physiology at Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.

 

Dr. Thomas Seastrunk is the Director of Medical Affairs of Sleep-i.
 Dr.Seastrunk did his undergraduate education at the University of South Carolina and his medical studies at the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City, MO.

He completed  his training specializing in Internal Medicine with Summa Health Systems in Akron, Ohio, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Along side of his work with Sleep-i, Dr.Seastrunk  teaches with the USC School of Medicine in various subjects throughout the year.  He is also working with Lexington Medical Center with an emphasis in diabetes and education.

 

Dr. Tummineello of MUSC (Medical University of SC) is the Medical Director of the Sleep-i lab located in Charleston - West Ashley, SC.

Dr.Tummineello is an Associate Professor at the MUSC. She earned her MD from the  Federico II School of Medicine - Napoli, Italy, in 1988. She specialized in Adult/Pediatric Sleep Disorders and Neurology. Dr.Tummineello is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine.

Paola Tumminello  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. David L. Bachman is the Medical Director of the Sleep-i lab in North Charleston, SC. Dr. Bachman is a professor and the Director of the Neurology Department at the Medical University of SC. He is a co-director of the Alzheimer's Research and Clinical Programs and an Associate Director of the Center on Aging.

Dr. Bachman has an M.D. in Neurology awarded by the Emory University School of Medicine in 1977. He is a fellow of the Boston School of Medicine.

Dr. Bachman's specialties and interests include Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, Neurobehavioral disorders, Sleep disorders, Geriatrics, and End of Life Care. 

David Bachman