Maninder Kalra, MD

Dr. Kalra is a pediatric specialist in both the pulmonary and sleep departments at Dayton Children’s.  Dr. Kalra is the medical director of Sleep Center and leads the programs on sleep disorders in overweight and obese children and use of web-based monitoring of adherence to the prescribed therapy.  He is a board member of the Sinclair Community College in Dayton.  He was on the medical staff at Cincinnati Children’s and an assistant professor at University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics. Along with English, Dr. Kalra also speaks Hindi and Punjabi.

Dr. Kalra's research focus is to educate the pathogenesis of breathing disorders in obese children and reduce morbidity due to poorly controlled respiratory disorders in this high-risk group.