BIO: Dr. Pedro J. Cuartas
Dr. Pedro J. Cuartas is the Founder of the Collaborative Airway Management Summit (CAMS™) and a practicing dentist with extensive experience in dental sleep medicine, interdisciplinary airway-focused healthcare, and clinical implementation systems. He serves as Clinical Director of South LA Dental Sleep Medicine and has spent years helping integrate practical airway-focused treatment pathways within both dental and medical environments.
Dr. Cuartas is passionate about advancing collaborative models that bridge physicians, dentists, and interdisciplinary healthcare providers through practical implementation, continuity of care, diagnostics integration, and patient-centered treatment coordination. His work focuses heavily on transforming airway-focused healthcare from isolated treatment silos into collaborative long-term care pathways centered around real-world implementation and improved patient outcomes.
In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Cuartas is actively involved in education, mentorship, and development of interdisciplinary systems designed to help clinicians better integrate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) screening, diagnostics, treatment pathways, workflow coordination, and continuity-of-care strategies into everyday practice.
At CAMS™, Dr. Cuartas will help lead educational sessions focused on collaborative airway management, clinical screening, treatment integration, implementation systems, interdisciplinary communication, and long-term patient-centered care models. His vision for CAMS™ is to create a boutique immersive summit experience centered around meaningful collaboration, practical implementation, and transformational interdisciplinary healthcare relationships.
BIO: Dr. Michael Watkins, MD
Dr. Michael Watkins, MD, serves as a strategic advisor for physician integration and engagement for the Collaborative Airway Management Summit (CAMS). Dr. Watkins is passionate about advancing collaboration among physicians, dentists, and healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes and expand access to comprehensive care. He believes that the most complex challenges in the diagnosis and management of OSA are best addressed through integrated, multidisciplinary approaches that bring together diverse perspectives and expertise.
As a physician advisor to CAMS™, Dr. Watkins hopes to foster meaningful engagement among physicians and other healthcare professionals while supporting the summit’s mission of building practical, collaborative pathways for patient care. His commitment to education, innovation, and professional relationships reflects the core values upon which CAMS™ was founded.
Dr. Watkins is particularly interested in helping bridge the gap between medical and dental providers, creating opportunities for collaboration that ultimately benefit patients, practices, and communities alike. He is honored to be part of the inaugural CAMS™ experience and looks forward to contributing to the continued growth of collaborative airway management across the healthcare landscape.
BIO: Dimi Barot, MD
Dr. Dimi Barot is a Yale-educated, nationally licensed, fellowship-trained and dual board-certified neurologist & sleep specialist. He has been repeatedly honored with the Patients' Choice Award, the America's Top Physicians Award, and the America's Most Compassionate Physicians Award. Dr. Barot was elected as the youngest Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the youngest Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
He has also published articles in national journals and chapters in authoritative textbooks on sleep medicine. Dr. Barot has worked with some of the most successful professional athletes and sports organizations in a white-glove, concierge model designed to supercharge sleep and mental health to optimize performance and career longevity. For several years he was a Partner at a venture capital fund based in Los Angeles, but he has since chosen to focus on his own digital health ventures. Dr. Barot now leads Arima Health, an early stage, full-stack, agentic-AI powered sleep care platform with a national virtual clinical practice.
Arima Health provides both modular and vertically integrated sleep specialty care designed to address the unmet need for those suffering from sleep disorders, from population scale screening upstream to therapy-agnostic longitudinal care downstream. Powered by a unique combination of proprietary technology coupled with clinical leadership from world-class, fellowship-trained, and nationally licensed sleep physicians, Arima Health’s mission is to serve patients with an elegant and streamlined sleep care delivery experience.
BIO: David E McCarty MD, FAASM
Patient-Centered Sleep Medicine Specialist, Award-Winning Educator, Author, Cartoonist, Podcast Host Dr. Dave McCarty is a board-certified specialist in Sleep Medicine and a pioneer in the practice of patient-centered care for those who suffer from sleep disorders. An award-winning educator, he is passionate about empowering individuals with knowledge that restores confidence and personal agency, as each patient navigates the landscape of disease and wellness, within an increasingly fragmented healthcare system. He is the co-creator of Empowered Sleep Apnea, an innovative cross-platform educational project combining storytelling, cartooning, scientific rigor, and quite a bit of fun, all in the name of helping individuals (and providers) navigate the fascinating but complex disorder known as “Sleep Apnea.” In 2025/26, the project comprises a website, two books (Empowered Sleep Apnea: A Handbook for Patients and the People Who Care About Them, co-authored with Ellen Stothard, PhD, and Empowered Sleep Apnea Presents: THE NOSE RULES!, a children’s book co-created with Rebeka St. James and Iola C.E. McCarty) , a blog (Dave’s Notes) and a podcast (Empowered Sleep Apnea: THE PODCAST). Dr. McCarty is the Chief Medical Officer of Rebis Health. Rebis Health (www.RebisHealth.org) is a Sleep Medicine clinical ecosystem built around the patient-centered language of the Empowered Sleep Apnea project. Patients and providers engage in clinical co-discovery to unravel the individual complexity of each case in a supportive and safe environment that supports multiple treatment pathways, including traditional options along with future-facing trajectories such as expansive orthodontia and integrative/functional medicine .
BIO: Dr. Ashley Spooner
Dr. Ashley Spooner is a practicing dentist, practice owner, entrepreneur, and one of the most innovative voices at the intersection of dental sleep medicine, medical integration, and clinical technology. She is the owner of Falcon Park Dental Group in Highlands Ranch, Colorado — a general dentistry practice built on a foundation of oral-systemic health — and the Founder and CEO of Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC, an AGD PACE-accredited education company dedicated to training dentists and their teams to successfully implement dental sleep medicine without disrupting daily practice. A Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine since 2020, Dr. Spooner has been immersed in the sleep space since 2015. She didn’t just learn dental sleep medicine — she built a system around it. Through Dynamic Dental Sleep, she has developed turnkey clinical, team, billing, and technology workflows that allow any general dental practice to add a sleep program efficiently, profitably, and with confidence. What sets Dr. Spooner apart is her rare combination of clinical expertise, business acumen, and technology fluency. As a former Physician Builder for Epic, she worked inside one of the world’s most widely used health systems to optimize EHR workflows for dental providers — a credential that reflects her deep commitment to true medical-dental collaboration at a systems level. She doesn’t just talk about dentistry and medicine working together; she has actually built the infrastructure to make it happen.
BIO: Archie Defillo, MD
Archie Defillo, MD, is a physician-scientist, healthcare executive, and health technology innovator with more than three decades of experience across neuroscience, clinical research, medical device development, and digital health. As CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of NeuroWellness Analytics and Founder of HanaSleep™, Dr. Defillo advances the development of AI-driven technologies that combine sleep medicine, neurological and mental health assessment, wearable biosensors, and long-term physiological data to produce clinically actionable insights. Throughout his career, he has led clinical research, product development, and regulatory initiatives for emerging medical technologies, and has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His current work focuses on advancing sleep assessment beyond isolated measurements by using artificial intelligence and longitudinal patient data to enable more personalized, predictive, and actionable care.