He is also the inventor of the NIMS Respitrace sleep-monitoring products and more than 20 other successful medical devices. Respitrace products are used in sleep laboratories worldwide to detect sleep apneas and other sleep abnormalities.

Dr. Sackner is currently the Medical Director and a Member of the Board of Directors of VivoMetrics, Inc., which is marketing the LifeShirt™ System. The underlying patents used to make the LifeShirt were created by Dr. Sackner and NIMS received an equity ownership in VivoMetrics and royalties on LifeShirt revenues in return for the right to those patents.

He is an internationally known and respected physician and medical innovator - a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami at Mt. Sinai, Emeritus Director of Medical Services at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Past President of the American Thoracic Society, Past Chairman of the Pulmonary Disease Subspecialty Board and a Past Member of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Sackner has been honored three times by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America in Town & Country magazine and was named one of the Best 400 Doctors in America by Good Housekeeping magazine.

He hold 25 patents for successful, commercial medical devices including the AeroFlo and AsperSafe suction catheters and the InspirEase MDI aerosol delivery system.

A well-established and sought-after medical investigator, Dr. Sackner has authored and published more than 200 peer-review journal articles, four books and 20 chapters in medical texts.

Dr. Sackner and his wife, Ruth, were honored in a Special Edition of Art & Antiques magazine in 2002 as being among the nation's 100 Top Collectors, citing their extensive collection of rare and valuable Art with Text and Artists' Books.