Retno S Wardani, MD, Ph.D. is an Otorhinolaryngologist Consultant with Rhinology as the subspecialty. She has focused on adult and pediatric rhinology, inflammation-immunology of the nose, Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for surgical intervention for any inflammatory disease of the nose, and Advanced Endoscopic Sinus Surgery that uses the nasal corridor to reach the orbit and the skull base.
Her growing interest in sleep medicine has been parallel with the enjoyment of Rumi’s quote about sleep as the addition to the Islamic culture for doing a regular bi-phasic sleep to worship with love to the Almighty. Furthermore, she has been working hard on review and research to prove her belief and hypothesis that everyone has their appropriate sleep duration, and nasal obstruction/inflammation precedes any pathophysiology of sleep apnea.