Dr. Mohammad M Amin

Mohammad M. Amin, MB, CHB, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

 


 

Dr. Amin is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He graduated from Cairo University, School of Medicine in 1990. Dr. Amin received his clinical training as an intern and resident in the internal medicine residency program at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. He completed fellowships in Pulmonary/ Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research activities are focused on upper airway dynamics and pressure-flow relationship in patients with sleep disordered breathing. He has also investigated the pre- and post-treatment comparison of the patient-reported outcomes of fatigue, cognitive function, sleepiness, insomnia and other physical and mental components of human health that are related to sleep-disordered breathing. His research at the VAMC- Northport has been reported in publications on Gulf War Illness and its relationship to sleep-disordered breathing and the effect of nasal CPAP treatment on symptoms of veterans with this disorder. He is currently the Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at VAMC-Northport. Presently, he is actively involved in a collaborative research study with the Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology at Stony Brook University examining the neuro-inflammatory changes, as shown in PET-MRI images, in PTSD veterans with sleep-disordered breathing before and after treatment with nasal CPAP.  Dr. Amin actively practices at the Sleep Disorders Center of Stony Brook University Hospital. He specializes in Sleep Medicine as well as Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is board certified by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as well as The American Board of Internal Medicine Sub-specialties in Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine.