Meir Kryger, MD has been diagnosing and treating patients with sleep disorders for over 25 years. His lab has helped define sleep medicine over the years, developing the first computer system to analyze sleep breathing patterns. He is the chief editor of the first comprehensive textbook on sleep disorders, Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Kryger has served the sleep community in many other ways. He was president of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Sleep Association. He is currently Vice President of the National Sleep Foundation.

Kryger graduated from McGill University in 1971 and interned at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. He trained in internal medicine at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, and pulmonary medicine at the University of Colorado. He spent 29 years in Winnipeg, Canada as the director of the St. Boniface Hospital Sleep Lab.

Presently, he is the director of research and education at the Sleep Clinic of Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife and three children.