Sleep medicine designed for how you live.
Nitun Verma, MD, MBA. Stanford-trained sleep medicine physician.
Nitun Verma, MD, MBA
Nitun Verma is a sleep medicine physician who has spent 20 years treating ambitious people who don't sleep well.
He trained at Stanford under Christian Guilleminault, the physician who founded clinical sleep medicine and co-founded the journal Sleep. After his fellowship, Nitun built the first dedicated sleep programs at Apple and Meta. Over years of clinical work with high-performing patients, he tracked sleep through wearables, sleep diaries, and patient-reported outcomes, iterating his protocol based on the data to refine what works for people whose lives do not accommodate standard sleep advice.
He serves as a National Spokesperson for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and has served on multiple AASM committees, including the Emerging Technology Committee, which evaluates new consumer and clinical sleep technologies. He was Vice Chair of Apple’s research advisory board for sensors and wearables, evaluating consumer and clinical health technologies. He holds an MD and MBA from Tufts University.
Sleep Decode is his private practice. All care is delivered via telemedicine to patients in California.
“Nitun doesn’t start with sleep. He starts with how you actually live your day, and shows you where sleep is breaking down and why. I made a couple of changes after just one conversation and my sleep noticeably improved. I wasn’t expecting that.”
How Sleep Decode Works
Sleep Decode treats insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, perimenopausal sleep disruption, jet lag management, structured weaning from sleep medications, and sleep optimization for high-stakes events. Patients with untreated or unstable mental health conditions, untreated sleep apnea, or narcolepsy are referred to appropriate specialists.
The process begins with an introductory phone call to confirm fit. If we both want to move forward, you book your Sleep Assessment Visit.
Sleep Assessment Visit
A comprehensive evaluation of your sleep, your days, and how they connect. This includes a full circadian profile and a daytime assessment covering caffeine, light, exercise, meals, and work patterns.
Programs
Three engagement models, each beginning after the Sleep Assessment Visit:
Annual Sleep Medicine Membership. The full clinical practice. The first few months are spent resolving the core problem, whether it is insomnia, stress-related sleep disruption, or perimenopausal sleep changes. The work then shifts to optimization and resilience: sleep scheduled around the events that matter, personalized jet lag planning, and protocols that adjust as your life and biology change. Between visits, the work moves by email, directly with me. Each membership year closes with a review of how your circadian rhythm and daytime performance have evolved.
Concierge Jet Lag Program. If your jet lag is simple, one origin, one destination, and time to adapt on both ends, that is the spring break flier's problem, and an app like Timeshifter solves it well. I recommend it. This program exists for compound jet lag, where each leg departs before your body has settled from the last and the deficit does not reset between flights. It compounds. You forward itineraries as travel gets booked, and plans arrive before you fly, covering meal timing and light exposure coordinated with your crew, sleep on the plane, and the meeting schedule at the destination. A kickoff cannot move. Your meeting can. I prescribe meeting times.
Short Course for Insomnia or Sleep Optimization. For one defined problem, most often insomnia, or one defined goal. A structured course of treatment with a beginning, a middle, and an end. We resolve the problem, and you are done. No membership required.
You work directly with me throughout. No front desk, no intake team, no handoffs. The practice is intentionally limited to 50 patients so access remains personal and responsive.
Fees are discussed during the introductory phone call.
All visits are conducted via telemedicine.
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