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Division Head, Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Center
Education BS, Technion Israel’s Institute of Technology, School of Medicine, 1993 MD, Technion Israel’s Institute of Technology, School of Medicine, 1997
Residency Maimonides’ Infant and Children’s Hospital, 1999-2002
Fellowship Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2002-2005
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Haviva Veler, MD, is the Division Head of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine and the Sleep Center at Connecticut Children’s. Dr. Veler specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, and she brings together the three disciplines to benefit her patients.
Dr. Veler was the Pediatric Sleep Center Director at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York before coming to Connecticut Children’s, and is a strong supporter of sleep health – providing sleep education to families as well as addressing any sleep issues, so children can grow healthy, and reach their potential. She has been treating children with behavioral sleep issues, such as insomnia, as well as children with sleep apnea, snoring, restless leg syndrome, sleep walking/talking, daytime sleepiness and many other sleep conditions. She had published on topics related to the different diagnostic modalities and potential therapies for children with sleep disordered breathing. She is also looking at the role and function of a new baby monitor device that includes a smart camera.
Dr. Veler also has wide experience in caring for children who are technology dependent; children who require mechanical ventilation (breathing machine), non-invasive ventilation (CPAP or BPAP), supplemental oxygen, or airway clearance devices that assist with breathing, coughing and clearing secretions.
Dr. Veler has extensive experience treating children with other respiratory problems, such as chronic cough, asthma, chest pain, chronic lung disease and lung disease of prematurity.
Dr. Veler enjoys biking, hiking, reading and cooking.
Veler H, Hu A, Fatma S, Grunstein JS, DeStephan CM, Campbell D, Orange JS, Grunstein MM. Superantigen Presentation by Airway Smooth Muscle to CD4+ T Lymphocytes Elicits Pro-Asthmatic Changes in Airway Function. J Immunol 2007; 178(6):3627-36
Shah MB, Bent J, Vicencio AG, Veler H, Arens R, Parikh S. Flexible bronchoscopy and interdisciplinary collaboration in pediatric large airway disease. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2008 ;72(12):1771-6.
Vicencio AG, Bent J, Tsirilakis K, Nandalike K, Veler H and Parikh S. Management of severe tracheal stenosis using flexible bronchoscopy and impulse oscillometry. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol 2010;17(2):162-4
Kim J, Gueye-Ndiaye S, Mauer E, Modi VK, Perlman J, Veler H. Retrospective Review of Polysomnography Use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. J Clin Sleep Med. 2021 Aug 1;17(8):1653-1663
Kochhar, R, Modi VK, de Silva N, Gueye-Ndiaye S, Neugarten JM, Ward MJ, Gerber LM, An A, Mauer, E, Veler H. J Clin Sleep Med. March 28, 2022.
It’s 3 am and you caught your toddler trying to climb out of the crib! Or, maybe you’re just wondering when, how or why you should make the switch to a bed. We turned to Dr. Haviva Veler, Division Head of Connecticut Children’s Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine team, for answers. Want more articles like […]
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