Claude Albertario, RST, RPSGT, FAASM is Chief Sleep Technologist at the Mount Sinai South Nassau Center for Sleep Wellness on Long Island. He received his undergraduate training in Psychobiology at SUNY College at Purchase, NY. Previously, Albertario led the development of the Weill Cornell Medicine/NYP Pediatric Sleep Center. Albertario began his career in Sleep Medicine in 1984 at Dr. Elliot Weitzman’s Institute of Chronobiology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Albertario obtained his RPSGT credential in 1990 (474), and received the RST credential in 2011 (#100) and was appointed an AASM Fellow in 2022. As an early advocate of digital recording methods, Albertario spearheaded an effort at the Winthrop University Hospital (presently NYU-Winthrop) to become the first accredited, paperless sleep center in the world. He was instrumental in forming the New York State Society of Sleep Medicine in 1998, helping to codify polysomnography into NYS law. His research interests revolve around his invention, z-ratio, a second-by-second unified metric of sleep/wake. Albertario has delivered national and international presentations on all manner of polysomnography and its analysis. He has served on the AASM Scoring Manual Committee (ver 2.5.) Albertario presently serves on both the Adult and Pediatric ISR panels. Albertario has OSA which he successfully manages with CPAP.