Ravi S. Aysola is a pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine physician, scientist, inventor, and founder. He is the founder and CEO of The Aysola Center for Respiratory, Sleep, and Restorative Medicine, a concierge medical practice focused on complex sleep, breathing, fatigue, autonomic arousal, and restorative health.
Dr. Aysola previously served in senior academic leadership roles in sleep medicine, including as clinical professor of medicine and chief of the sleep medicine section at UCLA, where he was also the former director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. He helped build multidisciplinary programs integrating pulmonary medicine, critical care, sleep medicine, neuromuscular care, dental sleep medicine, ENT, behavioral sleep care, and post-ICU recovery. His work is shaped by both clinical expertise and lived experience as a former ICU survivor, giving him a rare perspective on how medicine can better address recovery, resilience, and human physiology.
He is also the founder and CEO of TOORYA, a health technology company developing tools to measure and improve sleep, vigilance, and physiologic readiness. His research spans pulmonary imaging, obstructive sleep apnea physiology, cardiopulmonary sleep medicine, patient-centered sleep apnea care, and physiologic signal analysis, with additional work available on PubMed. His current focus bridges clinical medicine, technology, restorative sleep therapy, and human performance, helping patients and organizations move beyond fragmented care toward deeper recovery and sustained function. He shares updates on LinkedIn.
Years ago, I read about the sapeurs of Congo, men living with limited means who spent extraordinary care, money, and intention on clothing, color, elegance, and style. At first glance, it can seem irrational. It is not.
Dress, for them, is not vanity. It is dignity. It is self-definition. It is a refusal to let circumstance have the final word on identity. I have been thinking about that today.
Today is Juneteenth.
Today, …
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Dignity in medicine starts with how we are seen
I was never suicidal.
I said the words because I believed I had no other way out.
By then I was restrained, masked, surrounded, and being moved through a medical system I understood too well. I am a physician. I have spent my career in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. I have managed patients on ventilators, spoken with families at the edge of death, treated sleep and breathing disorders, and taught …
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A physician’s involuntary psychiatric hold, from inside
