Sleep Medicine Fellowship
SLEEP MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP
Thank you for your interest in the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Utah. Our mission is to provide evidence-based sleep medicine education to applicants from a variety of prior training settings including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, or anesthesiology. It is our hope at the completion of this fellowship, our trainees will be well-rounded, excellent clinicians who treat the full spectrum of sleep disorders in the practice setting of their choice.
Program Director's Statement
Thank you for your interest in the University of Utah Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program.
Our fellowship is a shared endeavor between the University of Utah, Intermountain Health and the George Whalen Veterans Medical Center in Salt Lake City Utah. Our fellows provide care to patients from a large geographic area including Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. Trainees are immersed in sleep medicine clinics at the University of Utah Sleep Wake Center, multiple Intermountain Health sleep medicine clinics and sleep laboratories, the VA Medical Center and Primary Childrens Hospital. Faculty include physician scientists, community sleep physicians and medical educators. Graduates of our program have been successfully practicing sleep medicine in both academic and private practice settings all across the country. We accept applications through ERAS and participate in the National Resident Matching Program. Our goal is for finishing fellows to feel clinically competent managing the full spectrum of sleep disorders including sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, parasomnias, central hypersomnias and sleep related movement disorders in both adult and pediatric patients.
I hope you will strongly consider applying to our training program. Please contact Melissa Dobson, fellowship coordinator with any further questions at 801-581-7693 or via email at melissa.dobson@hsc.utah.edu.
The University of Utah Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program is a one-year ACGME-accredited fellowship. The goal of our program is to provide an evidence-based sleep medicine education to our trainees after which a graduate can easily begin a career in sleep medicine in academic or community-based practices of their choosing.
Fellows will see patients with a variety of sleep complaints in both virtual and outpatient ambulatory clinic settings.
Training commences in July with a one-month of didactics focused on introducing fellows to the general principles of sleep medicine as well as the technical aspects of sleep medicine. This technical training includes an introduction to sleep medicine testing including polysomnography and home sleep apnea testing, sleep scoring, and interpretation.
Fellows will attend and participate in weekly didactics that continue their learning throughout the year.
- The University of Utah Sleep Wake Center
- Intermountain Sleep Medicine Clinics at LDS Hospital, Riverton Hospital, Alta View Hospital and The Orthopedics Specialty Hospital (TOSH)
- The George Whalen VA Medical Center
- Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital
To be eligible for this fellowship program, an applicant must:
- Be a graduate of a US or Canadian medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and have three years of residency training experience in an ACGME-approved program in family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry, pediatrics, otolaryngology, or anesthesiology OR
- Be a graduate of a college of osteopathic medicine in the US accredited by the AOA and have three years of residency training in an ACGME-approved program OR
- Be a graduate of a medical school outside the US who has also completed a three-year residency in an ACGME-approved program.
The Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program requires the following documentation for application:
- A completed fellowship application through ERAS
We participate in the National Residency Matching Program.
2022-2023
Dr. Nicholas Anderson
Dr. Anderson completed his undergraduate education at Brigham Young University. He then attended the University of Colorado Medical School and completed a family medicine residency in Hawaii. He will return to Hawaii upon completion of his fellowship to practice sleep medicine.
Dr. Sanjay Kaji
Dr. Kaji was a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist in Phoenix, AZ having completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia in 2019. After completion of his fellowship training, he decided to return to Phoenix and accept a position in sleep medicine.
We offer an equal opportunity selection process for all applicants who meet the minimum requirement as stated above. Completed applications submitted through ERAS are reviewed by the program director and interviews are extended to selected applicants.
Since the COVID pandemic and in line with the recommendation of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, interviews have been conducted virtually. On the day of your interview, applicants will receive a detailed information packet regarding our program. The interview day generally begins at 12 pm MT and ends at 5 pm MT. The interview experience includes:
- An introduction to the fellowship program by the fellowship director
- Four 30-minute small group or individual interviews with core faculty members
Applicants are also encouraged to attend our Intermountain Sleep Case Conference at 3 pm MT vis Teams and The University of Utah Sleep Grand Rounds conference at 4 pm MT via Zoom.
Your interview day will end at the conclusion of Sleep Grand Rounds.
Jeremy Stoddart MD
Assistant Professor (Clinical) Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Utah
University of Utah Sleep Medicine Fellowship Director
Melissa Maloney MD
Associate Sleep Medicine Fellowship Director
Director of Sleep Services, Primary Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah
Tom Cloward MD
Medical Director of Sleep Services at Intermountain Health
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Utah
Kevin Walker MD
Medical Director of Intermountain Health Salt Lake Valley Sleep Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Utah
Scott Hollingshaus MD
Director of Sleep Services, George Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Utah
Robert Mazzola MD
Chairman, Department of Medicine and Medical Director for Inpatient Medical Services
Medical Director of Respiratory Care at TOSH, Intermountain Health
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Utah
Brian McGinley MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, University of Utah
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Sonia Malik MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah
Peter Edmonds MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Division, University of Utah
Spencer Jasper MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah
Kelly Baron PhD, MPH, DBSM
Professor, Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah
Culture & Community
The University of Utah Sleep Medicine Fellowship is committed to eliminating health disparities by fostering an all-encompassing learning environment that allows each fellow to achieve their personal goals. We actively recruit outstanding physicians from a variety of backgrounds who will become future leaders committed to clinical excellence, education and research with the overarching goal of improving the health of the population they serve and all individuals.
Contact Us
Contact our Program Director, Jeremy Stoddart, MD
Email: jeremy.stoddart@hsc.utah.edu