Hiren Muzumdar

Hiren Muzumdar, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonology. He is the program director of the fellowship in pediatric pulmonology and director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Muzumdar completed medical school and earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from the University of Bombay. He completed residency in pediatrics and earned his post graduate degree (M.D.) in pediatrics at the Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai, India. He completed pediatric residency and a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at the State University of New York at Brooklyn, New York. He was an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York in Brooklyn and subsequently at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He completed training in sleep medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as associate professor of pediatrics.

Muzumdar is interested in the obstructive sleep apnea in pediatrics and his work has demonstrated the changes in autonomic function in children caused by sleep apnea. He is also interested in identification of obstructive sleep apnea in children with tracheostomies prior to decannulation of the tracheostomy. He was a member of the group that defined the effects of adenotonsillectomy in children with obstructive sleep apnea in a large multicenter study (the ChAt study). In his role as program director of pediatric pulmonology, he is interested in the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on training, trainees and faculty.