Meet Our
Medical Advisors
Our Medical Advisory Board draws from thought leaders in the fields of medicine and science. Their expertise guides our innovation, ensuring our products have a significant clinical impact while safely and effectively improving patient outcomes.
Benjamin Bleier, MD
Dr. Benjamin Bleier specializes in sinus, nasal, skull base, and orbital surgery and is committed to providing exceptional patient care. As Director of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, he focuses on complex and revision sinus procedures plus advanced endoscopic treatment of sinus, orbital, and skull base conditions, including sinonasal tumors, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, and encephaloceles.
As Co-Director of the Center for Thyroid Eye Disease and Orbital Surgery, he has pioneered minimally invasive approaches for orbital tumors and authored more than 175 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and two textbooks. He lectures nationally and internationally on orbit, skull base tumors, sinusitis, endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy, and intranasal drug delivery techniques.
As Director of Otolaryngology Translational Research, Dr. Bleier holds patents.
Kari C Nadeau, MD, PhD
Dr. Kari Nadeau is Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies. She practices allergy, asthma, and immunology in children and adults and has published more than 400 scientific papers.
For over 30 years, Dr. Nadeau has researched how environmental and genetic factors influence allergies, asthma, and immune health, with a focus on wildfire smoke and air pollution. Her multidisciplinary team studies climate-related health impacts on children, adults, and firefighters while advancing solutions with scientists, engineers, community leaders, and policymakers.
She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and served on the U.S. Federal Wildfire Commission.
Clete A. Kushida, MD, PhD
Dr. Clete A. Kushida is a neurologist specializing in sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and parasomnias. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Division Chief and Medical Director of Stanford Sleep Medicine, and Director of the Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research.
Dr. Kushida has conducted sleep research since 1977 and served as Principal Investigator on numerous federally and industry-funded studies. His research focuses on sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and the effects of sleep loss. He has authored or edited more than 300 publications, including six books, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sleep Science and Practice and the Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms.
Amber Luong, MD, PhD
Amber Luong, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston.
She obtained her doctorate under the Nobel laureates Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein for the identification and biochemical characterization of a novel human enzyme, acetyl coA synthetase. Dr. Luong has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her primary research interest focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) as a model for studying the local immune response of the paranasal sinuses.
Board-certified in otorhinolaryngology, Dr. Luong’s clinical interests include medical and surgical management of refractory chronic rhinosinusitis, sinonasal tumors, cerebrospinal fluid leak repairs, and endoscopic orbital and dacryocystorhinostomy surgery.
Robson Capasso, MD
Dr. Capasso is Chief of Sleep Surgery, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Associate Dean of Research at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Advisor to the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Trained in head and neck surgery, neurosciences, and sleep medicine, his research focuses on obstructive sleep apnea, large clinical datasets, and consumer health technologies for sleep-disordered breathing.
An internationally recognized educator, Dr. Capasso frequently lectures worldwide and has mentored hundreds of medical students, residents, fellows, and visiting scholars from more than 30 countries. He also mentors Stanford Biodesign innovators developing healthcare technologies and helps advance translational research and leadership through the Stanford Medical Leadership Academy.
Ash Khanwalkar, MD
Ash Khanwalkar, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus .
Dr Khanwalkar specializes in performing endoscopic nasal, sinus, and skull base surgery, including but not limited to the management of nasal obstruction, inflammatory sinus disease, sinonasal masses/tumors, CSF leaks, skull base tumors, and epistaxis. He works closely with colleagues in allergy, pulmonology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, facial plastic surgery, among other specialties. Dr Khanwalkar obtained his M from University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine. He is a member of American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, American Rhinologic Society and American Medical Association.
Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
Dr. Mehta earned his BA in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University and his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois–Chicago and a clinical research fellowship in complementary and integrative medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he also earned a Master of Public Health.
His work focuses on complementary and integrative medicine, mind-body therapies, medical education, and stress management. Dr. Mehta directs medical student and resident electives at the Benson-Henry Institute and consults with patients on integrative treatment approaches. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction.
Audrey Yoon, DDS
Dr. Yoon is a double board-certified sleep specialist at the Stanford Health Care Sleep Medicine Center and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in diagnosing and treating obstructive sleep apnea in children and adults using surgical and non-surgical approaches, including MARPE, DOME, and maxillomandibular advancement.
Her research focuses on improving sleep-disordered breathing by modifying craniofacial growth, developing customized orthodontic devices, and studying genetic factors linked to obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Yoon helped develop the DOME technique and pioneered a surgery-first protocol for jaw advancement procedures. She has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed sleep and orthodontic journals.