John Miclot Professor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania
Pulmonology
Dr. Allan I. Pack, MD
Allan Pack is an expert in the field of Pulmonology. He received awards:"Philadelphia Magazine", "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Elected Member" and "Super Doctor". Allan Pack is a published doctor. He has 101 papers published. The most current publication "MRI study of regional variations of pharyngeal wall compliance in cats." He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- The impact of obstructive Sleep apnea on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with severe obesity.
- Simulating Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients' Oxygenation Characteristics into a Mouse Model of Cyclical Intermittent Hypoxia.
- Adhesion molecule increases in Sleep apnea: beneficial effect of positive airway pressure and moderation by obesity.
- CPAP, weight loss, or both for obstructive Sleep apnea.
- Obstructive Sleep apnoea treatment and fasting lipids: a comparative effectiveness study.
- Aging induced endoplasmic reticulum stress alters Sleep and Sleep homeostasis.
- Dietary therapy mitigates persistent wake deficits caused by mild traumatic brain injury.
- Risk factors for Sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy.
- Performance of an automated polysomnography scoring system versus computer-assisted manual scoring.
- Circulating adhesion molecules in obstructive Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease.
- Obstructive Sleep apnea and cognitive impairment: Addressing the blood-brain barrier.
- Statistical Learning with Time Series Dependence: An Application to Scoring Sleep in Mice.
- Sleep-disordered breathing and daytime napping are associated with maternal hyperglycemia.
- In-home, self-assembled Sleep studies are useful in diagnosing Sleep apnea in the elderly.
- Heritability of craniofacial structures in normal subjects and patients with Sleep apnea.
- Blood-gene expression reveals reduced circadian rhythmicity in individuals resistant to Sleep deprivation.
- Tongue fat and its relationship to obstructive Sleep apnea.
- Strategic opportunities in Sleep and circadian research: report of the joint task force of the Sleep research society and american academy of Sleep medicine.
- Aging in mice reduces the ability to sustain Sleep/wake States.
- Agreement in Computer-Assisted Manual Scoring of Polysomnograms across Sleep Centers.
- Effect of altered gas diffusivity on alveolar gas exchange-a theoretical study.
- The use of a time variant simulation of pulmonary gas exchange to examine factors contributing to the expired gas pattern.
- Gas exchange and acid-base status during the normal human menstrual cycle and in subjects taking oral contraceptives [proceedings].
- Augmentation of phrenic neural activity by increased rates of lung inflation.
- Role of the diaphragm in the genesis of lower esophageal sphincter pressure in the cat.
- Adaptation to reflex effects of prolonged lung inflation.
- Effect of aging on ventilatory response to exercise and CO2.
- Augmented senile plaque load in aged female beta-amyloid precursor protein-transgenic mice.
- [Study of recovery and the post-anaesthetic period (author''s transl)].
- Proceedings: Measurement of ventilation-perfusion distribution.
- Behavior of VRG neurons during the atonia of REM Sleep induced by pontine carbachol in decerebrate cats.
- Central Sleep apnea in hypothyroidism.
- Role of medullary inspiratory neurones in the control of the diaphragm during oesophageal stimulation in cats.
- Changes in serotonin level in the hypoglossal nucleus region during carbachol-induced atonia.
- "Canine model of obstructive Sleep apnea".
- Simplifying the diagnosis of obstructive Sleep apnea.
- Cholinergic stimulation of the pons depresses respiration in decerebrate cats.
- Serotonergic excitatory drive to hypoglossal motoneurons in the decerebrate cat.
- Guidelines for in-home testing: a need for reassessment.
- Microinjections into the pedunculopontine tegmentum: effects of the GABAA antagonist, bicuculline, on Sleep, PGO waves and behavior.
- Reduction of thyrotropin-releasing hormone concentrations in central nervous system of African lungfish during estivation.
- Characterization of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in the central nervous system of African lungfish.
- Differential sensitivity of laryngeal and pharyngeal motoneurons to iontophoretic application of serotonin.
- Behaviour of raphe cells projecting to the dorsomedial medulla during carbachol-induced atonia in the cat.
- Responses of pulmonary stretch receptors during ramp inflations of the lung.
- Pulmonary mechanoreceptors in the dipnoi lungfish Protopterus and Lepidosiren.
- Response of stretch receptors to static inflations and deflations in an isolated tracheal segment.
- Is Sleep-disordered respiration part of pulmonary medicine?
- Clinical significance of Sleep apnea in the elderly.
- Obstructive Sleep apnoea. Superficial analysis ignores evidence on efficacy of treatment.
- Suppression of hypoglossal motoneurons during the carbachol-induced atonia of REM Sleep is not caused by fast synaptic inhibition.
- Effect of hypothyroidism on myosin heavy chain expression in rat pharyngeal dilator muscles.
- Sleep-induced periodic breathing and apnea: a theoretical study.
- Ventilatory and arousal patterns during Sleep in normal young and elderly subjects.
- Mechanisms of ventilatory periodicities.
- Addressing the ethical problems of randomized and placebo-controlled trials of CPAP.
- Obstructive Sleep apnea.
- Effect of dorsolateral pontine lesions on diaphragmatic activity during REMS.
- The scope and nature of the drowsy driving problem in New York State.
- Indications for positive airway pressure treatment of adult obstructive Sleep apnea patients: a consensus statement.
- Differential suppression of upper airway motor activity during carbachol-induced, REM Sleep-like atonia.
- Control of activity of the diaphragm in rapid-eye-movement Sleep.
- Evocation of postural atonia and respiratory depression by pontine carbachol in the decerebrate rat.
- A network model of respiratory rhythmogenesis.
- Economic implications of the diagnosis of obstructive Sleep apnea.
- Correlation between oscillations in ventilation and frequency content of the electroencephalogram.
- Changes in control of ventilation, awake and aSleep, in the elderly.
- Central administration of a 5-HT2 receptor agonist and antagonist: lack of effect on rapid eye movement Sleep and pgo waves.
- Role of chloride-mediated inhibition in respiratory rhythmogenesis in an in vitro brainstem of tadpole, Rana catesbeiana.
- Role of lung inflation in control of air breath duration in African lungfish (Protopterus annectens).
- Control of interbreath interval in the African lungfish.
- Changes in compartmental ventilation in association with eye movements during REM Sleep.
- The demise of portable monitoring to diagnose OSA? Not so fast!
- Spectral analysis of ventilation in elderly subjects awake and aSleep.
- Who should get treated for Sleep apnea?
- Multiple modes of periodic breathing during Sleep.
- Interaction of serotonergic excitatory drive to hypoglossal motoneurons with carbachol-induced, REM Sleep-like atonia.
- Practice parameters for the use of portable monitoring devices in the investigation of suspected obstructive Sleep apnea in adults.
- Neural mechanisms in the genesis of Sleep apnea.
- Activation of a distinct arousal state immediately after spontaneous awakening from Sleep.
- Serotonin at the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus suppresses rapid-eye-movement Sleep in freely behaving rats.
- Respiratory activity in the facial nucleus in an in vitro brainstem of tadpole, Rana catesbeiana.
- Issues in Sleep and breathing.
- Elicited pontogeniculooccipital waves and phasic suppression of diaphragm activity in Sleep and wakefulness.
- Simultaneous assessment of ecto- and cytosolic-5''-nucleotidase activities in brain micropunches.
- Dynamic upper airway imaging during awake respiration in normal subjects and patients with Sleep disordered breathing.
- MRI study of regional variations of pharyngeal wall compliance in cats.
- Ventilation during early and late rapid-eye-movement Sleep in normal humans.
- Rip Van Winkle: will academic pulmonary programs ever wake up to Sleep?
- The need for a simple animal model to understand Sleep.
- Objective measurement of nasal continuous positive airway pressure use: ethical considerations.
- The English bulldog: a natural model of Sleep-disordered breathing.
- Objective measurement of nasal continuous positive airway pressure use. Ethical considerations.
- Pharyngeal myopathy of loaded upper airway in dogs with Sleep apnea.
- Characteristics of crashes attributed to the driver having fallen aSleep.
- Startle-evoked changes in diaphragmatic activity during wakefulness and Sleep.
- Dynamic imaging of the upper airway during respiration in normal subjects.
- Effects of acute Sleep deprivation on control of the diaphragm during REM Sleep in cats.
- Does upper airway muscle injury trigger a vicious cycle in obstructive Sleep apnea? A hypothesis.
- Shortened Sleep duration does not predict obesity in adolescents.
Conditions Treated
- Sleep Apnea
Doctors Specialties
- Pulmonology
- Sleep Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Personal Choice PPO
- Regional Pref Network EPO
- Regional Pref Network HMO
- Regional Pref Network HMO+
- Regional Pref Network POS+
- Regional Pref Network PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Coventry Health America PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan
- Community Blue PPO
- Direct Access
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Keystone Health Plan East HMO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- Freedom Plan
- QualCare HMO
- QualCare PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- Oxford Liberty
Awards
- Philadelphia Magazine
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Elected Member
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Glasgow Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1568555241 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | PACK |
| First Name Of The Provider | ALLAN |
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