David P. White, MD, was the first Gerald E. McGinnis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he trained many of today’s leaders in sleep medicine. He is a former editor-in-chief of the journal SLEEP, president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and chairman of the NIH's sleep research task force, He also served as Chief Medical Officer for Respironics and Philips Respironics until 2013. With 300 publications, he continues his primary research at Harvard focusing on the pathophysiology of sleep breathing disorders.