PULLMAN, WA – Pullman Regional Hospital has named Usha Nandhini, MD Medical Director of the Sleep Lab.
The position, which oversees the sleep lab program at Pullman Regional Hospital, includes developing and reviewing all sleep studies, policies, sleep lab technologists and technology.
Dr. Nandhini has provided care on the Palouse in the sleep medicine setting since 2022. Prior to that, she attended medical school at Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India. She also completed her Internal Medicine residency at St Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Mass., followed by a Sleep Medicine fellowship at Boston Medical Center in Boston.
As part of her Medical Director role, Dr. Nandhini will continue to provide sleep medicine care at Palouse Sleep Medicine, part of the Pullman Regional Hospital Clinic Network.
“Dr. Nandhini’s passion for helping patients achieve quality sleep, coupled with her depth of experience reading sleep studies, make her an exceptional physician,” said Dr. Pete Mikkelsen, Medical Director of Emergency Services and Chief Medical Officer for Pullman Regional Hospital. “I’m confident her leadership of the Sleep Lab here at Pullman Regional Hospital will continue to elevate the patient experience.”
As the first act in this new role, Dr. Nandhini is implementing a new sleep study technology, the Nihon Kohden Polysmith 12 polysomnography software. According to PRH, this upgrade will be used for in-lab and at-home sleep studies and will replace the current system.
“I’m very excited about this technology- it’s what I trained on during my fellowship,” says Dr. Nandhini. “This system interfaces well with Epic electronic medical records, which means quicker results for patients and the ordering providers, as well as improved quality of the sleep studies.”
