Children's Hospital Foundation Chair for Pediatric Research
School of Medicine
David Gozal, M.D., is professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Pediatrics. A pediatric pulmonologist and respiratory/sleep physiologist, he also serves as director of the Kosair Children’s Hospital Research Institute, an 18-lab unit in the Donald E. Baxter Biomedical Research Building.
Since his arrival in 1999, Gozal has expanded the institute's faculty to 10 independent researchers whose current annual funding exceeds $4.6 million. He established the country’s first division of pediatric sleep medicine and the state’s only pediatric sleep lab, the University of Louisville Pediatric Sleep Medicine Center. Gozal also directs an ACGME-accredited international sleep medicine fellowship program.
Gozal’s groundbreaking research into the developmental neurobiology of respiratory control and sleep-disordered breathing has led to several grants from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies, as well as multiple publications in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and the Journal of Neuroscience. In addition, his research into the relationship between sleep disorders and neurobehavioral or cardiovascular diseases has been published in leading pediatric journals and gained national press coverage.
A graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical School, Gozal interned at Hadassah University Medical Center and at Beaujon Hospital in Paris. He spent his residency at the Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem, was chief resident in the pediatrics department at Haifa Medical Center and a post-graduate fellow in neonatology and pediatric pulmonology at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.
Before coming to UofL, he directed the Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. He has also served as an associate research anatomist at UCLA and a pediatric pulmonologist at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles and was on the faculty of the pediatrics department at the University of Southern California.