Gwynne Church, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

As medical director of the Pediatric Sleep Laboratory, she oversees the evaluation of children with sleep disorders, including breathing difficulties during sleep, insomnia, sleep movement disorders and narcolepsy.

Dr. Church collaborates with the doctors and care teams of other UCSF specialty clinics to address sleeping disorders common to children with abnormalities of the face or head, neuromuscular weakness or upper airway obstruction. She is an integral faculty member of the pediatric pulmonary and sleep medicine fellowship training programs.

Dr. Church earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed a residency in pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at UCSF, and a fellowship in sleep medicine at Stanford Medicine.

• Sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal life support in an adolescent with mild cystic fibrosis.
  Respiratory medicine case reports 2017 Faricy LE, Church G
• 0888 AUTO-ADJUSTING CPAP: AN OPTION FOR TREATMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN OBESE CHILDREN.
  Sleep 2017 LM DelRosso, T MDuba, K Iwanaga, E Gibb, J Dy, G Church, N Ly
• Long-Term Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Children After Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Feasibility Investigation.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2017 Ward SL, Turpin A, Spicer AC, Treadwell MJ, Church GD, Flori HR
• Newborn and Infant Sleep.
  Encyclopedia of Sleep 2013 E.R. Gibb, G.D. Church
• California Thoracic Society website( http://www.calthoracic.org/content/cts-pediatric-committee)
  Guidelines for the Use of Home Pulse Oximetry in Infants and Children. 2012 Church GD. . 2012
• Management of plastic bronchitis with topical tissue-type plasminogen activator.
  Pediatrics 2012 Gibb E, Blount R, Lewis N, Nielson D, Church G, Jones K, Ly N
• The role of polysomnography in diagnosing and treating obstructive sleep apnea in pediatric patients.
  Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care 2012 Church GD
• Positive fluid balance is associated with higher mortality and prolonged mechanical ventilation in pediatric patients with acute lung injury.
  Critical care research and practice 2011 Flori HR, Church G, Liu KD, Gildengorin G, Matthay MA
• Blood product transfusions and clinical outcomes in pediatric patients with acute lung injury.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2009 Church GD, Matthay MA, Liu K, Milet M, Flori HR
• Plasma receptor for advanced glycation end-products predicts duration of ICU stay and mechanical ventilation in patients after lung transplantation.
  The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2007 Calfee CS, Budev MM, Matthay MA, Church G, Brady S, Uchida T, Ishizaka A, Lara A, Ranes JL, deCamp MM, Arroliga AC
• Transfusion-related acute lung injury in the paediatric patient: Two case reports and a review of the literature.
  Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 2006 Church GD, Price C, Sanchez R, Looney MR
• Higher urine desmosine levels are associated with mortality in patients with acute lung injury.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2006 McClintock DE, Starcher B, Eisner MD, Thompson BT, Hayden DL, Church GD, Matthay MA, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trials Network
• Biological markers of lung injury before and after the institution of positive pressure ventilation in patients with acute lung injury.
  Critical care (London, England) 2006 Cepkova M, Brady S, Sapru A, Matthay MA, Church G