Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Associates, PA welcomes Dr. Gerard Joseph Meskill as Staff Neurologist and Sleep Disorders Specialist.

Dr. Meskill is a neurologist and sleep disorders specialist. He completed his neurology residency at the Hofstra-North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine. The North Shore Long Island Jewish healthcare system is the largest provider of patient care in New York City, with 16 hospitals serving a population of 7 million people spanning three boroughs of New York City and Long Island. The two flagship hospitals of that system, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, serve as the tertiary care centers for the entire system. Training almost exclusively in those two hospitals, Dr. Meskill was exposed to the full breadth of neurologic disorders, ranging from critical care to outpatient cases, as well as some of the rarest disease processes to common ailments.

After residency, Dr. Meskill switched coasts to continue his training at Stanford University School of Medicine's Sleep Disorders fellowship program. Founded by Dr. William Dement, Stanford's program is recognized internationally as the birthplace of the field and is considered the world's best academic sleep program. Dr. Meskill trained under many of the most recognized innovators in sleep medicine, such as Dr. Dement, considered the father of sleep medicine; Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, the chairman of the program and the world authority on Narcolepsy; and Dr. Christian Guilleminault, one of the world's most published authors in the field of sleep and a major contributor to the discovery of the physiologic mechanisms behind Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Due to Stanford's international reputation and extensive clinical case diversity, Dr. Meskill routinely evaluated and treated both common and rare sleep disorders, ranging from Obstructive Sleep Apnea to Kleine-Levin Syndrome.

Dr. Meskill treats a wide range of neurologic disorders, but like his colleague and fellow Stanford graduate, Dr. Jerald Simmons, he spends majority of his time evaluating and treating sleep disorders. This includes the full spectrum of sleep-disordered breathing, from Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome to Obstructive Sleep Apnea, as well as nocturnal bruxism (teeth clenching/grinding), pediatric and adult ADD/ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, TMJ/TMD, Narcolepsy, Restless Legs Syndrome, Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, Epilepsy, and many other disorders. Many of these disorders are related to or are exacerbated by obstructive respirations during sleep. Like Dr. Simmons, Dr. Meskill is trained in the implementation and interpretation of esophageal manometry, which is considered the gold standard measure for detecting sleep-disordered breathing events.

Dr. Meskill is dedicated to improving the standard of care for sleep and neurologic disorders in the Houston area, as well as promoting better understanding of these fields through community education and collaboration with primary care physicians, subspecialists, and community dentists.
 
 Dr. Meskill has recently published two articles in Huffington Post "Healthy Living": Episodic Excessive Sleepiness in Teens May Represent Kleine-Levin (April 09 2013) and Nocturnal Teeth Grinding May Suggest a Sleep Disorder (October 24 2013).