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Speakers
Alon Avidan, Conrad Iber, Suresh Kotagal, Joyce Walsleben, Patrick Strollo Jr., Arthur Walters and Nathaniel Watson
Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, Timothy Hoban, Valerie Kirk, Carole Marcus, Cynthia Nichols, Judith Owens, Manisha Witmans
Richard Berry, Lawrence Epstein, David Szabo, Paul Valentine
Christopher Drake, Steven Lockley
Mark Aloia, Jodi Mindell, James Wyatt
Diego Garcia-Borreguero, Marta Novak, William Ondo, Arthur Walters
Alon Avidan, Derk-Jan Dijk, Andrew Krystal, Judith Owens, Jeffrey Prinsell, Matthew Walker, James Wyatt
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Carl Bazil, Christian Guilleminault, Wayne Hening, Clete Kushida, Mark Mahowald, Jerome Siegel
Dennis Auckley, R. Robert Auger, Mary Carskadon, Michael Vitiello, Irina Zhdanova
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Richard Berry, Michael Bonnet, Sean Caples, Andrew Chesson, Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, Stuart Quan
David Dinges, Beth Malow, Eric Nofzinger, Allan Pack
Robert Rogers, Patrick Strollo Jr, Edward Weaver
Edward Weaver
J. Allan Hobson
Raffaele Ferri, Birgit Hogl, Alex Iranzo, Jacques Montplaisir
Andrew Goldberg, Edward Weaver
Christian Guilleminault, Harvey Moldofsky, Matilde Velencia-Flore
Orfeu Buxton, Kristen Knutson, Diane Lauderdale, Michael Vitiello, Amy Wolfson, Terry Young
Ronald Szymusiak
Ronald Grunstein
Kun Hu, Hans Van Dongen, Arash Tadjalli, Oleg Lyamin
Eric Powell, Wendy Troxel, Naomi Friedman, Hae Mi Kim
Meng Liu, Stephen Thankachan, Hyun Hor, Rolf Fronczek
Peretz Lavie, Nabil Al Lawati, Peretz Lavie, Alexandros Vgontzas
Thomas Anders, Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, Judith Owens, Sharad Taheri
Horacio de la Iglesia, Dmitry Gerashchenko, Ed Lein, Takeshi Sakurai
Roseanne Armitage, Brian Caffo, Naresh Punjabi, Robert Thomas
Willoughby Britton, Jonathan Emens, Bei Bei, Rebecca Bernert, Richard Ross, Anne Germain, Thomas Mellman, Steven H. Woodward
June Pilcher, Tracy Rupp, Namni Goel, Fred Danner, Lynette James, Sushil Jha, Ricardo Machado, John Lesku
Kelly Baron, Sairam Parthasarathy, Alec Platt, Hsueh-Yu Li, Pu Liao, Brian McGinley, Chris Berka
Roseanne Armitage, Irwin Feinberg, Oskar Jenni, Leila Tarokh
Diane Boivin, Derk-Jan Dijk, Daniel Gottlieb, Fred Turek
Joseph Coresh, Daniel Gottlieb, Reena Mehra, Naresh Punjabi
Jeffrey Ellenbogen, Hans Van Dongen, Jennifer Breslin, Sara Mednick, June Lo, Matthew Walker, Erin Wamsley, Jessica Payne
Margaret Lineberger, Annie Vallieres, Colleen Walsh, Charles Morin, Meredith Rumble, Michael Perlis, Wendy Troxel, Barry Krakow
Rebecca Robillard, Esra Tasali, Mirjam Munch, Natalie Dautovich, Phyllis Stein, Michele Okun, Jennifer Martin, Jana Cooke
Raffaele Ferri, Daniel Picchietti, David Rye, Arthur Walters, Marco Zucconi
AASM National Office Staff
Ramesh Sachdeva
Charles Czeisler
Colin Epsie
David Gozal
Donald Bliwise, Birgit Frauscher, Alejandro Iranzo, Siu Ping Lam
Oscar Carrillo, Armanda Baharav, Daniel Levendowski, Thomas Penzel
Christine Dugovic, Md. Noor Alam, Timothy Roehrs, Philippe Ement
Hans-Peter Landolt, Michael Perlis
Thomas Roth, Michael Vitiello, James Walsh
Luis de Lecea, Takatoshi Mochizuki
Gregory Vander Wal, Douglas Moul, Daniel Buysse, Amanda Hayes, Marta Kaminska, Melanie Perraton-Brillon, Diana Dolan, Lynn Marie Trotti
Jahanbakhsh Naghshin, Peretz Lavie, Ramesh Vijay, Vsevolod Polotsky, Ehab Dayyat, Juliana Perry, Najib Ayas
Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, Ignacio Tapia, Andrea Kelly, Ayelet Snow, Pearl Yu, Daniel Levendowski, Rakesh Bhattacharjee, Melanie Marshall
Daniel Buysse, Colleen Carney, Charles Morin
Charles Czeisler, Chris Landrigan, Kevin Volpp
Mark Mattson, Melvi Methippara
Chris Berka, Danny Eckert, Kumar Budur, Ruth O'Hara, Sarah Honaker, Vincenza Castronovo, Olga Prilipko, Giulia Milioli
Mark Smith, Anne-Marie Chang, Karine Scheuermaier, Sharon Chung, Steven Shea, Misti Paudel, Kun Hu, Frank Scheer
Nicole Smith, Heidi Richardson, Jodi Mindell, Monique LeBourgeois, Lisa Meltzer, Ignacio Tapia, Abdelnaby Khalyfa, David Gozal
Ramin Khatami, Sebastiaan Overeem
Stuart Quan
Richard Berry, Peter Gay, Ronald Grunstein, Carole Marcus, Nelson Powell, Terri Weaver
Sudhansu Chokroverty, Christopher Earley, Birgit Hogl, Ralf Kohnen, David Rye, John Winkelman
Christopher Earley
Terri Weaver
Gary Richardson, Naomi Friedman, Xavier Preud'homme, Eric Nofzinger
Muna, Canales, Katie Stone, Paul Mills, Ramesh Donepudi
Jessica Massicotte-Marquez, Edward Silva, Kenneth Wright, Hans Van Dongen
Tzu-Hsing Kuo, Matthew Thimgan, Lichao Chen, Stephanie Maret
Walter McNicholas, Janet Mullington, Vvsevolod Polotsky
Todd Arnedt, James Horne, Allan Pack
Susheel Patil, Nabil Al Lawati, Peilin Lee, Alexandros Vgontzas, Brandon Lu, Nathaniel Marshall
Emilie Fortier-Brochu, Christoph Nissen, Charles Morin, Alexandros Vgontzas, Yuriy Ustinov, Jianhua Shen, Martica Hall, David Mayleben
Andrea Esteves, John Winkelman, Arthur Walters, Seema Gulyani, Richard Allen, Ralf Kohnen, Philip Becker
Nicole Yee, Jian-Sheng Lin, Carlos Blanco-Centurion, Anna Kalinchuk, Julie Seibt, Sara Aton, Yuval Nir, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
Marilyn Cornelis, Michelle Luciano
Ninad Gujar, Benjamin McKenna, Gilles Vandewalle, Jung Christopher, Orfeu Buxton, Carol Everson, Josiane Broussard, Matthew Puhl
Clete Kushida, Susie Yeh, Alexandros Vgontzas, Luciano Drager, Luciane Mello-Fujita, Dalva Poyares, Peretz Lavie, Nicola Montano
H. Heith Durrence, Emil Chuang, Lisa Knowles, Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau, Daniel Buysse, Tracy Kuo, Diana Dolan, Colin Espie
Rosemary Horne, Fauziya Hassan, Christina Calamaro, Douglas Teti, Xianchen Liu, Maria-Cecilia Lopes, Flavia Giannotti
Barry Krakow, Pu Liao, Indu Ayappa, John Carlile, Sarah Herscovici, Shanmugam Murugappan, Wayne Bardwell, Pierre Philip
Oliviero Bruni, Roger Godbout, Beth Malow, Silvia Miano
Atul Malhotra, Allan Pack, Patrick Strollo Jr, Sigrid Veasey
Mary Umlauf, Toma Omonuwa, Todd Brown, Judith Reishtein, Rohit Budhiraja, Rajesh Rethnam, Christiano Perin, Mihaela Teodorescu
Michael Christie, Clare Anderson, Denise Cai, Matthew Tucker, Mary Carskadon, Orna Tzischinsky, Leisha Smith, Edward Pace-Schott
Lior Appelbaum, Luca Imeri, Christian Burgess, Denys Volgin, Éva Szentirmai, Patricia Brooks, Tom Boer, Patrick Fuller
Armanda Baharav, Jussi Virkkala, Pu Liao, Florian Chapotot, Daniel Levendowski, Richard Kaplan, David Wang, Nancy Redeker
Please rate how well the following objectives were met:
Describe best practices for evaluating and diagnosing the most common sleep disorders in clinical practice
Discuss pediatric sleep scoring, normative values, and recording strategies unique to children.
Specify the components of a successful business plan for opening and operating a sleep center.
Review the importance of developing and using appropriate assessments of sleepiness and the situations in which this is necessary
Discuss the evidence for and nature of currently accepted first line behavioral management strategies for childhood insomnias.
Identify conditions that complicate RLS treatment.
Discuss state-of-the-art knowledge of recent advances in diagnosis and treatment for various clinical topics.
Develop an understanding of the basic neurophysiologic mechanisms for sleep and wake.
Define the circadian science concepts that provide a basis for understanding the pathophysiology, health and safety consequences, and treatment of circadian sleep disorders.
Discuss AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events: Rules, Terminology and Technical Specification.
Provide a forum for the sharing of knowledge, experience and vision necessary for fostering strong growth and development in our research professional careers in sleep research and sleep medicine.
Review the current advances in nasal CPAP, oral appliances, and other behavioral therapies for OSA.
Identify the static and dynamic features of the nasal airway that affect obstructive sleep apnea and its treatment with CPAP.
Review past efforts to develop a science of dreaming.
Improve the clinical diagnostic criteria by discussing possible mimicks and evaluating follow-up data.
Discuss the evidence regarding the impact of upper airway surgery in improving and/or worsening adherence to positive airway pressure therapy.
Develop an understanding of the sleep disorders associated with rheumatologic disorders, polysomnographic findings, and management.
Review known associations between sociodemographic factors and sleep patterns/disorders in population-based samples across the lifespan.
Review the anatomy, neurophysiology and pharmacology of sleep-regulatory neurons in the preoptic hypothalamus.
Review progress in managing sleep apnea form the speaker's perspective.
Please rate how well the following objective was met:
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to physiology.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep and behavior.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to narcolepsy.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to stress and inflammation in OSA.
Review methodological issues in defining normal sleep in children.
Explain the molecular consequences of sleep deprivation on brain gene expression at the global, regional and cellular levels.
Cite alternative approaches to characterizing sleep based on the hypnogram, sleep-wake transitions, and EEG power spectral analysis.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep in mood and anxiety disorders.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep deprivation.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to therapy of obstructive sleep apnea.
Identify sleep EEG changes that accompany childhood and adolescent development.
Describe genetic influences on sleep, sleepiness, sleep disorders and circadian rhythms.
Identify the advantages and limitations of several epidemiological approaches for determining the causal association between a risk factor and outcome using population data.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep, napping and memory
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to insomnia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to aging.
Contrast the differences between limb movements as an observation during sleep and/or wakefulness and the diagnoses of RLS and PLMD.
Discuss the practice of portable monitoring in sleep medicine.
Summarize the legal concepts of civil and criminal liability as it specifically applies to the field of sleep medicine.
List the properties of the human circadian pacemaker including the resetting effects of light.
Review evidence of efficacy/effectiveness of CBT for insomnia.
Cite about unique features of OSA in children.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to parasomnia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to instrumentation and methodology.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to pharmacology.
Review the recent findings on the role of slow wave sleep in glucose homeostasis, cardiac sympatho-vagal balance, and waking performance.
Describe the epidemiology of insomnia, the interactions between insomnia symptoms and their severity.
Identify the sleep-wake network; Channelrhodopsin and the use of optical stimulation to activate hypocretin neurons.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to systemic effects of hypoxia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep related breathing disturbance in Childhood.
Discuss recent efforts and results achieved by a workgroup to develop a standardized sleep log (diary) for insomnia assessment and outcome research.
Describe the potential adverse consequences of prolonged wakefulness in resident physicians (i.e., patient and physician safety, medical errors).
Describe how sleep deprivation and sleep fragmentation perturb ER homeostasis and what this means to neuronal function.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to neurologic correlates of OSA.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to circadian rhythms: Light and Activity.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to developmental and pathophysiologic issues.
Explain how to improve the knowledge and diagnostic accuracy of narcolepsy with cataplexy.
Outline the procedures used to develop the ABMS Sleep Medicine Examination.
Compare the optimal management strategies for patients who present with this group of disorders.
Identify the main diagnostic features of augmentation and differentiate it form other clinical conditions.
Review the current knowledge of the pathophysiology of RLS.
Review the impact of daytime sleepiness on daily functioning.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to biological dimensions of insomnia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to circadian rhythms.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to genes and sleep homeostasis.
Identify the role of cytokines in normal sleep physiology.
Review current data about the prevalence and impacts of drowsy driving in modern society.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to demographic features and consequences of sleep related breathing disorders.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to the consequences of insomnia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to PLMS and RLS.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to neuroscience.
Discuss convergent/divergent findings suggesting pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic mechanisms underlying individual differences in the effects of caffeine in humans.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to the characteristics and consequences of sleep deprivation.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to the heart and OSA.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral approaches to insomnia.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to medical and psychiatric disorders of children.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to OSA.
Discuss the relationships between sleep structure and cognitive functioning in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and different degrees of mental retardation.
Describe the effects of end organ damage and intermittent hypoxia in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep in HIV infection and lung disease.
Discuss the latest research findings and new ideas related to sleep, vigilance & learning.
Discuss the best available evidence-based and cutting edge evaluations and treatments for each of these sleep disorders in 2008.
Review current evidence regarding clinical utility, optimal recording techniques, and scoring of polysomnography in children with sleep related breathing disorders.
Cite the most recent legal issues affecting operating policies and provision of care in a sleep center.
Discuss the relative contributions of the circadian system, homeostatic sleep system and inter-individual differences in the induction and manifestations of sleepiness.
Discuss how to implement cognitive-behavioral therapy for Adult insomnias and consider evidence for the efficacy of this treatment with primary and comorbid forms of insomnia.
Review different treatment options for these complicated cases with RLS.
Explain how to improve clinical care and outcomes as a result of application of this knowledge in the clinical setting.
Identify the common sleep disorders comorbid in neurology.
Differentiate between the various circadian sleep disorders and understand current practice parameters for the clinical evaluation and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders.
Score sleep stages and events using case examples.
Provide information that will help faculty avoid pitfalls and will provide tools useful in navigating the road to building a strong and secure laboratory.
Compare the numerous upper airway surgical procedures and staging protocols for the treatment of OSA.
Assess the oral and pharyngeal anatomy relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
Define and illustrate dream form (vs. content) paradigm.
Evaluate the visual and computerized PSG scoring criteria, with new qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Evaluate surgical outcomes concerning the effectiveness of upper airway surgery in treating obstructive sleep apnea, including those patients who continue with disordered breathing events during sleep.
Review the features of sleep disorders associated with rheumatoid arthritis/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and fibromyalgia, as well as sjogren’s syndrome, scleroderma, seronegative spondyloarthropathies, and osteoarthritis.
Discuss mechanisms through which gender, race, and social status may affect sleep behaviors.
Explain why a critical function of these sleep-regulatory neurons is the inhibition of arousal/activating systems in the posterior hypothalamus and brainstem at sleep onset and during sleep.
Describe limitations in current sleep apnea treatment.
Discuss the normative data available to describe normal sleep in infants and toddlers.
Describe an animal model of internal desychronization and what it can tell us about the circadian and homeostatic control of sleep and wakefulness.
Demonstrate the impact of health risk factors on disturbances in sleep architecture.
Compare the sleep EEG in youth with depression and in children with a parental history of alcoholism.
Discuss recent advances regarding circadian clock genes and the genetic basis of sleep, wakefulness, and sleep disorders.
Utilize a case cross-over study design to dissect the causal relationship between respiratory disturbances and cardiac arrhythmias.
Explain the clinical relationship between RLS and PLMS in both children and adults.
Review the CMS ruling regarding portable monitoring.
Discuss three broad specific areas of unique interaction between sleep medicine and law.
Describe how sleep homeostasis and circadian rhythmicity interact to regulate sleep, alertness and performance.
Review evidence relating to predictors of clinical improvement.
Appraise novel evidence linking OSA and inflammation.
Discuss the role of genetic variation in neuromodulator systems for inter-individual differences in slow wave sleep and performance.
Discuss how nocturnal awakenings are related to psychiatric and medical conditions.
Review the Cre-Lox recombinase method to activate/silence specific genes; viral vectors to transfer specific genes.
Discuss current and newly developed measures for assessing insomnia severity and insomnia treatment outcome.
Describe the impact of resident workhours limits on patient outcomes (i.e. mortality)
Discuss how intermittent hypoxia modeling sleep apnea disturbs ER homeostasis and can promote neuronal death.
Identify the specific role of hypocretin deficiency in the diagnosis of narcolepsy with cataplexy.
Describe the demographic characteristics of persons taking the examination.
Discuss the optimal diagnostic and treatment strategies for sleep apnea.
Evaluate the clinical relevance of augmentation.
Summarize areas of potential or future research endeavors in RLS.
Discuss the change in daily functioning associated with treatments for sleep disorders.
Discuss the potential role of cytokines as mediators of sleepiness in disorders of excessive daytime sleepiness and increased pain perception after sleep loss.
Discuss evidence about the relative contributions of the circadian system, homeostatic sleep system and other contributing factors, including sleep disorders and environmental influences, which contribute to driving capabilities and drowsy driving.
Discuss possible implications of individual differences in the effects of caffeine for public health recommendations in relation to the risk of cardiovascular disease, disturbed sleep, and improved alertness during sleep deprivation.
Describe how sleep can affect daytime functioning of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Compare the new approaches to tracking CPAP in patients with OSA and the effect of CPAP on cardiovascular outcomes.
Workshop selections
Identify major areas of continued uncertainty regarding best treatment practices in sleep medicine.
Review current evidence regarding clinical utility of polysomnography for evaluation of atypical parasomnias, nocturnal seizures, and hypersomnias in children.
Compare options for expanding sleep medicine services within an existing center.
Identify the methodological, logistical, and statistical challenges to assessing sleepiness.
Review assessment methods as well as such treatments as light therapy, melatonin, behavior therapy and cognitive therapy for circadian rhythm disorders.
Discuss options of ‘off label’ drug use for these RLS conditions.
Discuss key concepts of recent basic and clinical sleep research and how these concepts apply to current practice.
Discuss sleep disorders that may result from underlying neurologic conditions and are directly attributable to the disorder itself or from treatment of the underlying condition.
Integrate knowledge of circadian sleep disorders identification and treatment into their clinical practice and research.
Identify artifacts and address technical problems.
Assess the contributions of sleep physicians, otolaryngologists, dentists, oral & maxillofacial surgeons, in a comprehensive multidisciplinary team approach to OSA.
Identify anatomical features that warrant surgical evaluation.
Relate dream science to studies of consciousness.
Standardize criteria for behavior video analysis and define different types of motor events.
Identify the risk factors for surgical complications and their role in treatment decision making.
Summarize management strategies and the interrelationships between sleep symptoms, disease activity, and treatments.
Discuss potential societal implications of links between sleep and disparities in a range of social outcomes such as educational experiences early in life, social mobility in midlife, and health outcomes in later life.
Discuss the role of preoptic hypothalamic neurons in regulating sleep homeostasis, and how they function as targets for endogenous sleep factors.
Propose alternative disease management strategies in sleep apnea.
Review the normative data available to describe normal sleep in adolescents.
Discuss the biology of a newly-described population of sleep-active cortical neurons.
Review the application of EEG spectral analysis during sleep to human disorders.
Explain how sleep EEG can be a useful tool to measure physiological changes.
Cite emerging concepts that circadian genes may also be seen as sleep genes, as opposed to circadian genes only altering sleep wake traits.
Quantify the risk relationship between SDB and incident cardiovascular disease.
Compare the different methods for evaluating PLM including polysomnography, suggested immobilization tests, and actigraphy: advantages and disadvantages.
Explain how the physiology of sleep and circadian rhythmicity impact health and safety, and review the implications for the practice of sleep disorders medicine and for public policy.
Discuss stepped care models as a vehicle for service delivery.
Discuss the causal relationship between morbidity of OSA and inflammation.
Delineate possible relationships betweens slow wave sleep, sleep propensity and mood.
Compare the different needs regarding the assessment and treatment of nocturnal awakenings and other insomnia symptoms.
Discuss preliminary results of a dual-site multi-trait/multi-method trial to assess the reliability and validity of insomnia diagnoses in the DSM-IV-TR and ICSD-2 nosologies.
Describe potential solutions in terms of alternative scheduling, counter measures, etc.
Explore potential therapeutic avenues to augment ER homeostasis in various sleep disorders.
Summarize group outcome results from the first examination.
Identify what pre-test factors will help you to select portable monitoring and auto-titrating positive airway pressure devices and explain how they fit into current diagnostic and treatment algorithms.
Assess the risk factors for augmentation.
Describe how adherence to treatments for daytime sleepiness affects daytime functioning.
Cite the causes of activation of inflammation process in sleep disorders.
Examine the impact of drowsy driving in specific populations of workers, including assessment techniques.
Interpret genotype and phenotype differences in the effects of caffeine to suggest possible mechanisms underlying the regulation of wakefulness and sleep.
Discuss the potential clinical utility of melatonin treatment in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Examine the effect of oral appliances, position therapy, upper airway surgery and bariatric surgery in patients with sleep disordered breathing.
CE credits
Discuss proper coding and billing practices and learn how to integrate these practices with an electronic medical record.
Evaluate the evidence for use of exposure therapy, varied CPAP delivery methods, and motivational interviewing in the management of apnea patients who refuse CPAP or display initial intolerance to this treatment.
Discuss options for combination drug treatments for these RLS conditions.
Identify neurologic consequences of untreated sleep disturbances.
Demonstrate how to populate a standardized sleep study report form.
Practice the essential physical examination of the sleep apnea airway.
Identify future research needed to advance our understanding and assessment of the social determinants of sleep.
Review what constitutes normal breathing in children.
Review the hypocretin/orexin neurotransmitter system and discuss the implications of manipulations of this neurotransmitter system for understanding the control of sleep and wakefulness and for the sleep disorder, narcolepsy.
Review emerging population-based data on the relationships between quantitative measures of sleep disturbances and homeostasis and sleep disordered breathing, cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular disease.
Quantify the risk relationship between SDB and incident stroke.
Evaluate these against the real world issues that confront work-hour limitations of resident physicians: work-force availability, rising costs, medical education, and patient care discontinuity.
Discuss how to optimize your treatment decisions regarding positive airway pressure vs. upper airway surgery vs. oral appliance therapy in children and adults.
Identify the main strategies to manage mild and severe augmentation.
Discuss the implications of the current research findings, and become familiar with the ways in which the sleep community can approach the problem of drowsy driving, and potentially reduce the prevalence of drowsy driving accidents.
Location/time of year
Review practical methods and tools for management of these RLS condition.
Quantify the risk relationship between SDB and mortality.
Affordability
Networking
