UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON



Yemiserach Kifle, M.D. 3/01/09

Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Place of birth: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Citizenship: USA

Foreign language: Amharic

Home address: 8454 55th Ave South

Seattle, Washington 98118

Professional Address Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center

Mail stop A-5937

4800 Sand Point Way N.E.

Seattle, Washington 98105

Phone: (206) 987 2174, fax: (206) 987 2639

Education

1969-1971 Pre-Medical Training, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1971- 1976 MD, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Postgraduate Training

1980 Internship Anesthesiology (Quedlinburg), Germany

(Aug-Dec)

82. German language study

1982-84 Preparation and execution of requisite residency exams – ECFMG and FLEX

87. Externship in Pediatrics, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

89. Internship in Pediatrics, Staten Island Hospital, Staten Island, NY

91. Residency in Pediatrics, SUNY Health Science Center, Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

95. Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology, Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Faculty Positions Held

1991-1992: Assistant Attending, Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn, New York

2000. Clinical Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics,

University of Florida, Gainesvill, FL

2001-2005 Acting Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of

Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2005-present Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Hospital Positions Held

78. General Practice, Debra Berhan Hospital, Debra Berhan, Ethiopia

80. House Medical Officer, St. Paul’s Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

86. Researcher, Department of Pathology and Hematology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

1987-88 Quality Assurance Monitor, Astoria General Hospital, Queens, NY

92. Assistant Attending, Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

2000. Attending Physician, Pulmonology Division, Shands Children’s Hospital,

Gainesville, FL

2001-Present Medical Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Program, Division of Pulmonary

Medicine, Department of Medicine, Seattle Children’s, Seattle, WA

Honors

1995. Crystal Apple Teaching Award, awarded by pediatric residents to pediatric pulmonary division faculty, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

95. Clinical Fellowship Training Award, American Lung Association

1992-95 Pediatric Department Fellowship Training award

Board Certifications,

1982 Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)

1983 Federation Licensing Examination (FLEX)

1991-98 American Board of Pediatrics

1998-2005 American Board of Pediatrics (Recertification)

1998-2005 Pediatric Pulmonology Subspecialty Board

2006-2012 Pediatric Pulmonology Subspecialty Board (Recertification, # 00566)

2004 American Academy of Sleep Medicine, board certification (# 2441)

2007- 2017 ABIM /ABP, Sleep Medicine, board certification (#31).

Licensure:

1998-Present License # 00035838, Physician and Surgeon, State of Washington

1992- 2002 License # ME 63137, Physician and Surgeon, State of Florida

1991-1993 Physician and Surgeon, State of New York

Professional Organizations

95. American Medical Association

96. American Academy of Pediatrics

95. American College of Chest Physicians

1993-Present American Thoracic Society

2001-Present American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Directorship:

Medical Director, Sleep Disorder Center, Seattle Children’s 2001-present

Associate Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary grant

Teaching Responsibilities

Residents and medical students

Pulmonary fellows

Adult Sleep Medicine fellows at the UW/Seep Disorders Program (Pediatric rotation 4-5 months)

Sue Mystowski, MD, Diplomate American Board of Sleep Medicine, ABSM, (2006-2007)

Sina Gharib, MD, (adult pulmonary fellow, sleep fellow from 2007-2008, board eligible)

Mari Viola Salzman (adult sleep fellow 2008- 2009, board eligible)

Graduate school committee member; Yona Cloonan, PhD, Department of Biostatstics, UW (2007)

Developed curriculum of the pediatric component of the sleep fellowship program at the University of Washington (ACGME accredited 2008)

Mentored UW, UDOC high school students summer of 2008 through the office of multicultural affairs

Nurse Practitioners:

- Amber McAfee

- Lisa Musso

- Shay Jackman

Scheduled Lecture series:

Pediatric House Staff Conference; 2002-present

Nurse practitioners lecture; 2004-present

Orthodontic students lecture; 2005-present

UW Sleep Disorder Center; 2002-present

Psychiatry academic presentation 2007-present

Editorial Responsibilities

No editorial activities at this time.

Special National Responsibilities

Associate Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Center (PPC) grant

Sub committee member (sleep disorders) of the Autism Treatment Network (multi center)

Cultural Competency Program of the Pediatric Pulmonary Centers

Special Local Responsibilities

Member of the Minority Mentorship Program – University of Washington Multi-cultural Office (since 2005)

Consultant of Blue Nile Children’s Organization (NGO in Ethiopia, since2006)

Member of the Ethiopian Community Organization

Research Funding

None

Manuscripts in Refereed Journals

Davenport P, Kifle Y. Inspiratory resistive load detection in children with life-threatening asthma. Pediatr Pulmonol 2001; 32:44-8.

Davenport PW, Cruz M, Stecenko A, Kifle Y. Respiratory related evoked potential in children with life-threatening asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000; 161(6):1830-5.

Kifle Y, Seng V, Davenport P. Magnitude estimation of inspiratory resistive loads in children with life-threatening asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997 Nov; 156(5):1530-5.

Kifle Y, Monnier J, Chesrown SE, Raizada MK, Nick HS. Regulation of the manganese superoxide dismutase and inducible nitric oxide synthase gene in rat neuronal and glial cells. J Neurochem 1996; 66:2128-35

Hendeles L, Marshik P, Ahrens R, Kifle Y, and Shuster J. Response to nonprescription epinephrine inhaler during nocturnal asthma. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2005; 95: 530-4.

Heike C. Avellino A., Mirza A., Kifle Y, Perkins J, Sze R, Egbert M and Hing Anne. Sleep Disturbance in 22q 11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Case with Obstructive and Central Sleep Apnea. Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal. 2007 May; 44 (3):340-6.

Tauyee Hsieh, MD, Maida Chen, MD, Amber McAfee, MN, Y. Kifle, MD. Sleep Related Breathing Disorders in Children with Vagal Nerve Stimulators. Pediatric Neurology 2008 Feb;38: 99-103.

Tauyee Hsieh, MD, Maida Chen, MD, Amber McAfee, MS, Y.Kifle, MD Sleep-related breathing disorder in children with vagal nerve stimulators: Pediatric Neurol.2008 Aug; 39(2): 142; author’s reply, 142

Yona Cloonan, PhD, Yemi Kifle, MD, et. al., Pediatric electronic “Sleep Outcome in Children with and without Hemifacial Microsomia” (Accepted with minor revisions) 2009

Abstracts

Gaeta H, Kifle Y, Davenport P. Scalp distribution of the respiratory related evoked potential in asthmatic children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996; 153(4):A569.

Kifle Y, Gaeta H, Smith-Hammond C, Danziel D, Davenport P. The effect of externally added graded inspiratory loads on the Nf peak of the respiratory related evoked potential (RREP). Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1996; 153(4):A569.

Cloonan YK, Kifle Y, Davis S, Speltz ML, Werler MM, Starr JR. Sleep Outcome in Children with craniofacial microsomia and controls. (Abstract presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research, Boston, June 18th 2007)

Strigel A., Chen, M, Kifle Y., Song Kit, Redding, Gregory. Sleep related abnormalities in children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome. ATS meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2008

ML Chen, FB Lynn, SC Casey, A. McAfee, Y. Kifle. Obesity: the New Standard in Pediatric Sleep Center. ATS meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2008

Archbold KH, Kifle Y, McAfee, A, Chen ML “Patterns of at-home positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment parameters and adherence patterns in children with obstructive sleep apnea: preliminary results. APSS (national sleep meeting), Baltimore, Maryland, June 2008

Archbold KH, Kifle Y, McAfee A, Chen ML. “ Behavioral and cognitive patterns in children with OSA following 3 months of positive airway pressure therapy. APSS (national sleep meeting) Baltimore, Maryland, June 2008

Andrea Landis, PhD, RN, FNP: Eleanor Bond, PhD, RN: Yemiserach Kifle, MD; Maida Chen, MD. “A retrospective Look at Relationships among Sleep Variables and Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents”. Accepted at APSS (national sleep meeting) Seattle, June 2009

Invitational Lectures (national and international)

Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing, Addis Ababa University, AA, Ethiopia, April 2007

Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea, October 7th 2008, Great Falls, Montana

Behavioral Insomnia of Childhood, October 6th 2008, Great Falls, Montana

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