Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School

Faculty Profile

Geoffrey S. Gilmartin, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Administrative Title(s)

Medical Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sleep Laboratory
Associate Director, Beth Israel Medical Center Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program
Clinical Director, Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary Division

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Address

330 Brookline Avenue
GZ-402
Boston, MA 02215
USA

Inter-office Mail Address

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
GZ-402

Phone 617-667-4120

Society Memberships

American Thoracic Society
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Massachusetts Medical Society

Research Unit(s)

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Research Interests

Dr. Gilmartin and his collaborators have designed and are implementing both animal and human studies to evaluate the vascular, metabolic and sympathetic nervous system responses to hypoxia in patients with OSA and normal volunteers. The current protocols involve exposures to human subjects of 8 hours of hypoxia during a single exposure as well as two weeks of an 8-hour exposure to hypoxia overnight, every night. Variables measured include MSNA (muscle sympathetic nerve activity), forearm blood flow (measured by venous occlusion plethysmography) and hypoxic ventilatory responses both before an after the exposures. In addition, ongoing clinical invetigations into the mechanisms of and response to treatment in central sleep apnea are a significant focus of his research.

Trainees

Tustin Ennacheril, MD 2007-08

Mentor(s)

J. Woodrow Weiss, MD

Teaching

Human Physiology-Pulmonary Pathophysiology-Lecturer-HMS

Selected Publications

Original Articles

Thomas RJ, Tamisier R, Boucher J, Kotlar Y, Vigneault K, Weiss JW, Gilmartin G. Nocturnal hypoxia exposure with simulated altitude for 14 days does not significantly alter working memory or vigilance in humans.
Sleep. 2007;30(9):1195-1203.

Tamisier R, Hunt BE, Gilmartin GS, Curley M, Anand A, Weiss JW. Hemodynamics and muscle sympathetic nerve activity after 8 h of sustained hypoxia in healthy humans.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2007;293(5):H3027-35.

Gilmartin GS, Tamisier R, Anand A, Cunnington D, Weiss JW. Evidence of Impaired Hypoxic Vasodilation After Intermediate Duration Hypoxic Exposure in Humans.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006;291(5):H2173-80.

Gilmartin G, Ernst A. Metastatic Ovarian Carcinoma to the Airway.
Journal of Bronchology. 2002;9(1):25-26.

Reviews/Chapters/Editorials

Gilmartin GS, Daly R, Thomas RJ. Recognition and management of complex sleep-disordered breathing.
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 2005;11(6):485-93.

Gilmartin GS, Thomas RJ. Mechanisms of Arousal from Sleep and Their Consequences.
In: Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2004. p. 468-74.

Gilmartin G, Koziel H. Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia in Adult Non-HIV Disorders.
In: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage Publications; 2002. p. 283-301.

Abstracts

Lynch ME, Gilmartin GS, Curley MJ, Tamisier R, Prabakar C, Weiss JW. Changes in Flow-Mediated Vasodilation after 2 weeks of Continuous vs. Cyclic Nocturnal Hypoxia in Humans.
Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 2006;3(Abstracts):A196.

Gilmartin GS, Prabakar C, Curley M, Tamisier R, Weiss JW. Changes in Insulin Sensitivity in Human Subjects Exposed to 14 Nights of Hypoxia.
Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 2006;3(Abstracts):A195.

Curley MJ, Gilmartin GS, Prabakar C, Lynch ME, Tamisier R, Weiss JW. Changes in Sympathetic Nervous System Activity and Hemodynamics after 4 weeks of Cyclic, Nocturnal Hypoxia in Normal Volunteers.
Proceddings of the American Thoracic Society. 2006;3(Abstracts):A195.

R Tamisier, GS Gilmartin, M Curley, AN Anand, JW Weiss. 8-Hour Poikilocapnic Hypoxia Causes Decreases in Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity (MSNA) and Blunted Vagal Baroreflex in Normal Human Volunteers.
American Journal of Critical Care Medicine. 2005;2(Abstract Issue): A878.

R Tamisier, GS Gilmartin, AN Anand, MJ Curley, JW Weiss. Fourteen Days of Nocturnal Sustained Hypoxia Induces Increases in Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity (MSNA) and Arterial Blood Pressure in Normal Human Volunteers.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2005;2(Abstract Issue): A877.

Ingenito EP, Tsai L, Gilmartin G. Bronchoscopic Volume Reduction (BVR) Using Biopolymers Which Target Fibroblast, Machrophage, and Epithelial Cell Responses.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2001:163(5).

GS Gilmartin, R Tamisier, AN Anand, D Cunnington, JW Weiss. Evidence of Impaired Hypoxic Vasodilation after Intermediate Duration Hypoxic Exposure.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2005;2(Abstract Issue): A235.