Pediatric Airway & Sleep Health:

Where Form meets Function

with Dr. Umakanth Katwa & Dr. Stanley Liu

Day 1: March 20th, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 12:45 PM ET

Day 2: April 3rd, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 1:30 PM ET

Building on the foundation of the Pediatric Mini-Residency with Dr. Ben Miraglia, this advanced program dives deeper into pediatric airway orthodontics—bridging early diagnosis, functional therapy, and expansion techniques across developmental stages.

Through real case studies and hands-on expander design discussions, participants will learn to confidently plan and execute airway-centered orthodontic treatments for patients ages 3 to 12.

Pediatric Airway & Sleep Health: Where Form Meets Function

with Drs. Umakanth Katwa & Stanley Liu

Day 1:

March 20th, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 12:45 PM ET

Day 2:

April 3rd, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 1:30 PM ET

Pediatric Airway Health:

Where Form meets Function

Course Description

Pediatric airway health requires more than isolated expertise. It requires alignment.

This interdisciplinary program brings medicine and dentistry together within a unified framework focused on early recognition, prevention, and appropriate escalation across the continuum of care.

Participants will explore how prenatal development, craniofacial growth, airway physiology, and breathing patterns evolve together from infancy through early childhood. Prevention remains central, while the full spectrum of medical, dental, and surgical treatment modalities is reviewed within a collaborative decision-making model.

This program provides a structured roadmap for shared language, aligned diagnostics, and confident collaboration between dental professionals, pediatricians, and ENT colleagues.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the relationship between prenatal influences, craniofacial development, airway physiology, and pediatric breathing patterns.
Recognize early developmental markers and dysfunctions that compromise airway health.
Differentiate normal developmental breathing from early indicators of airway compromise.
Understand prevention-focused strategies and the continuum of medical, dental, and surgical treatment modalities.
Initiate confident collaborative conversations with pediatricians and ENT colleagues.

Pediatric Airway & Sleep Health:

Where Form meets Function

Course Description

Pediatric airway health requires more than isolated expertise. It requires alignment.

This interdisciplinary program brings medicine and dentistry together within a unified framework focused on early recognition, prevention, and appropriate escalation across the continuum of care.

Participants will explore how prenatal development, craniofacial growth, airway physiology, and breathing patterns evolve together from infancy through early childhood. Prevention remains central, while the full spectrum of medical, dental, and surgical treatment modalities is reviewed within a collaborative decision-making model.

This program provides a structured roadmap for shared language, aligned diagnostics, and confident collaboration between dental professionals, pediatricians, and ENT colleagues.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the relationship between prenatal influences, craniofacial development, airway physiology, and pediatric breathing patterns.
Recognize early developmental markers and dysfunctions that compromise airway health.
Differentiate normal developmental breathing from early indicators of airway compromise.
Understand prevention-focused strategies and the continuum of medical, dental, and surgical treatment modalities.
Initiate confident collaborative conversations with pediatricians and ENT colleagues.

Pediatric Airway & Sleep Health:

Where Form meets Function with

Dr. Umakanth Katwa and Dr. Stanley Liu

Date & Time

Day 1:

March 20th, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 12:45 PM ET

Day 2:

April 3rd, 2026 | 8:45 AM - 1:30 PM ET

(High speed internet connection required for virtual)

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Tuition Fee: $899

Tuition includes

(7) CE Hours
PDF course handouts

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On-Demand Access

1-year On-Demand Access will be available after the live course.

Complete the course at your own pace

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Airway Chat with Dr. David McCarty

Treating the Acute TMD Patient

This was an epic hour of dental education!

Watch Dr. Gelb's and Dr. Miraglia's informative hour filled with learnings about managing the Acute TMD Patient and Collaborative Care using Airway Orthodontics to help treat TMD patients.

You will be amazed by the pearls provided throughout the entire hour. Please consider sharing with your colleagues!

Umakanth Katwa, MD

Dr. Umakanth Katwa is a pediatric pulmonologist and pediatric sleep specialist, and Director of Sleep Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He did his fellowship training in pediatric pulmonary and sleep medicine at the Harvard University in Boston.

He is the director of Infant Apnea Clinic, and co-directs, multidisciplinary sleep apnea and sleep surgery program (PSASS). He has extensive teaching experience and co-directs pediatric sleep medicine courses at Harvard and Tufts Universities. He is the

member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine on Sleep and Respiratory

Technologist Education Task force. His research interests include phenotyping

pediatrics OSA, infant sleep apnea, drug induced sleep endoscopy, and technology

integration in sleep evaluation. His current NIH funded research includes AI based

modeling of sleep study interpretation of pediatric OSA called Complete Artificial

Intelligence Based Sleep Report (CAISR) and Quantitative Retrospective Analysis of

Sleep Physiology (QRASP). He lectures widely across the world and involved in

teaching sleep physicians, dentists and medical students and has extensively published in several peer reviewed national and international journals.

Stanley Liu, MD, DDS, FACS

Stanley Yung-Chuan Liu, MD, DDS, FACS is dual-trained in oral and maxillofacial

surgery and ENT-sleep surgery. His work bridges dentistry, medicine, and sleep

science. He serves as Chair of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of the Breathe & Sleep Wellness Center at Nova Southeastern University.

Formerly on faculty at Stanford University, Dr. Liu updated the Stanford Sleep Surgery Protocol and helped define the contemporary surgical approach to obstructive sleep apnea. A past keynote speaker at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine/SLEEP meeting (2019) and the World Sleep Congress (2023), he has lectured globally on airway surgery, interdisciplinary care, and the future of sleep medicine. With over 100 peer-reviewed work, his mission — Innovation by Integration —focuses on restoring sleep breathing health as the gateway to wellness.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be offered. Attendee may attend a future virtual or live event if unable to attend the scheduled event.

Have questions about these courses?Contact us for more information | Pacific Time Zone options | Convenient monthly payments.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be offered. Attendee may attend a future virtual or live event if unable to attend the scheduled event.

If the live event needs to be cancelled due to Covid or unforeseen events, AHS will run the Advanced Mini-Residency virtually. AHS will refund the live tuition difference.

Have questions about these Mini Residencies?Contact us for more information | Pacific Time Zone options | Convenient monthly payments.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be offered. Attendee may attend a future virtual or live event if unable to attend the scheduled event.

If the live event needs to be cancelled due to Covid or unforeseen events, AHS will run the Advanced Mini-Residency virtually. AHS will refund the live tuition difference.