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Jose S. Loredo, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., F.C.C.P.
Pulmonary Disease
(Sleep Medicine)
Critical Care Medicine
Sleep Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Loredo received his undergraduate education and medical education at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California where he graduated with a combined MD and MS degree in 1984. After specializing in Internal Medicine, he practiced general medicine for four years in rural Alabama. Since 1992, he has been at UCSD where he finished his Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship and Sleep Medicine training. Dr. Loredo also completed a MPH in Epidemilogy at San Diego State University in 2005.
Dr. Loredo's medical practice is divided into patient care, medical education and clinical research. His clinical practice focuses primarily in the evaluation and treatment of patients with sleep disorders. He is active in the teaching of medical students, Internal Medicine residents and Pulmonary fellows in the area of Pulmonary/ Critical Care/Sleep medicine. As part of his teaching duties, Dr. Loredo attend the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the San Diego VA Hospital, and teaches sleep medicine during sleep clinic at the UCSD Sleep Medicine Center and at the San Diego VA Pulmonary Sleep Disoreders clinic.
Dr. Loredo is active in clinical research. He has NIH funding and currently is undertaning a large epidemiological study of sleep-health in Hispanics in San Diego County. Dr. Loredo is co-investigator in the largest NIH sponsored reaserch project to study Hispanics (Study of Latinos [SOL]) that seeks to follow longitudinally the health of 16,000 Hispanics in the US. Other reaserch projects include the investigation of the role of peripheral chemoreceptors in the development of hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the association of sleep apnea with asthma. Dr. Loredo has published on the role of arousals from sleep in the activation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) of patients with OSA and has published works documenting the effectiveness of CPAP and supplemental oxygen in improving sleep quality in OSA.
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Board Certification:
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Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
Critical Care Medicine
Sleep Medicine
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Experience:
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Dr. Loredo is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSD and Medical Director of the UCSD Sleep Medicine Center.
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Languages other
than English:
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Spanish
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Education:
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Loma Linda University, School of Medicine
Loma Linda, CA
Doctorate in Medicine
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Training:
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Sleep Medicine Training
UCSD School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Fellowship in Pulmonary Critical Care
UCSD School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Chief Resident of Internal Medicine
Baystate Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Springfield, MA
Residency in Internal Medicine
Baystate Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Springfield, MA
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Clinical Interests:
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Management of obstructive sleep apnea
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Hospital Affiliations:
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UCSD Thornton Hospital, La Jolla
UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest
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Office Address:
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Fourth & Lewis Medical Office
330 Lewis Street
201A
San Diego, CA 92103
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Last Updated April 16, 2008
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