POSTGRADUATE COURSE INFORMATION

Saturday, June 5, 2010

In order to register for postgraduate courses, you must be registered for SLEEP 2010. The APSS does not offer registration to attend only postgraduate courses. Space is limited and postgraduate courses sell-out quickly. If the postgraduate course you select is full when your registration is received, you will not be charged the additional course fees. Attendees registered at the reduced rate (i.e. Resident/ Postdoctoral or Student/Predoctoral) may register for postgraduate courses at the member rate regardless of membership status. Register online at http://www.sleepmeeting.org, or fax or mail the completed registration form on pages XX and XX to the APSS national office.

C01: Best Practices in Sleep Medicine 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Co-Chairs: Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD and Michael Littner, MD
Faculty: W. McDowell Anderson, MD; Dennis Bailey, DDS; Ann Halbower, MD; Timothy Hoban, MD; Shahrokh Javaheri, MD; Susheel Patil, MD, PhD; Michael Perlis, PhD; and James Wyatt, PhD

Target Audience:
Practicing providers of healthcare, including psychologists, for sleep disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the best practices for evaluating and diagnosing the most common sleep disorders in clinical practice.
2. Discuss the best evidence-based and cutting edge evaluations and treatments for various sleep disorders in 2010.
3. Identify major areas of uncertainty regarding best treatment practices in sleep medicine.

C02: A Practitioner's Guide to Behavioral Sleep Medicine Techniques
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Chair: Jack Edinger, PhD
Faculty: Mark Aloia, PhD; Anne Germain, PhD; Allison Harvey, PhD; Brett Kuhn, PhD; Jennifer Martin, PhD; Jason Ong, PhD; and James Wyatt, PhD

Target Audience:

• Clinicians and psychologists interested in developing or augmenting their skills in regard to the assessment and therapy techniques commonly employed by the behavioral sleep medicine specialist
• Researchers interested in the current evidence supporting the assessment and intervention strategies

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate how to use interview, sleep diary and actigraphy data to conduct thorough assessments of patients who present sleep/wake complaints.
2. Discuss the evidence for and nature of currently accepted first line behavioral management strategies for childhood insomnias.
3. Demonstrate how to implement both cognitive and behavioral components of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adult insomnias and to consider evidence for the efficacy of this multi-component treatment with primary and comorbid forms of insomnia.
4. Examine the use of CBT in combination with hypnotic medications and as a component of treatment for addressing hypnotic dependence.
5. Review assessment methods as well as treatments such as light therapy, melatonin, behavior therapy and cognitive therapy for circadian rhythm disorders.
6. Discuss 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.
7. Analyze nightmare assessment techniques and describe imagery rehearsal therapy for treating disturbing dreams and nightmares.
8. Identify useful assessment and management strategies for the sleep disturbances presented by older community dwelling and institutionalized/demented older adults.

C03: The Interface of Neurology and Sleep
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Chair: Alon Avidan, MD, MPH
Faculty: Devin Brown, MD; Charlene Gamaldo, MD; Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, RPSGT; Ronald Postuma, MD; Michael Thorpy, MD; Bradley Vaughn, MD; and Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD

Target Audience:
Clinicians, psychologists, researchers, fellows, residents, nurses, physician assistants and health care providers who encounter neurology patients with sleep disorders or complaints

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the common sleep disorders comorbid in neurology.
2. Distinguish the sleep disorders that may result from underlying neurologic conditions and are directly attributable to the disorder itself or from treatment of the underlying condition.
3. Identify neurologic consequences of untreated sleep disturbances.

C04: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders in Special Populations
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Co-Chairs: Vishesh Kapur, MD; and James Rowley, MD Faculty: Najib Ayas, MD; Joshua Benditt, MD; Shahrokh Javaheri, MD; Sairam Parthasarathy, MD; Grace Pien, MD; and Carol Rosen, MD

Target Audience:
Practicing sleep physicians, fellows, psychologists, technologists and other allied health care professionals

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss pathophysiology of sleep related breathing disorders in special populations.
2. Discuss how to manage sleep related breathing disorders in special populations.
3. Review guidelines on the titration of NIPPV in hypoventilation syndromes.

C05: Advanced Methods and Guidelines for Evaluation and Long-term Management of Restless Legs Syndrome
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00am - 12:00pm
Member Fee: $85 * Nonmember Fee: $150

Chair: Richard Allen, PhD
Faculty: Norma Cuellar, DSN; William Ondo, MD; and Arthur Walters, MD

Target Audience:
Sleep medicine clinicians, scientists and psychologists

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the biological basis for the evaluation and treatment of restless legs syndrome (RLS)
2. Outline how to order and interpret tests for iron status of RLS patients.
3. Discuss how to manage the RLS complicated by other medical and psychiatric conditions.
4. Identify treatment options for long term management of treatment resistant RLS.

C06: Multidisciplinary Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Saturday, June 5, 2010
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $85 * Nonmember Fee: $150

Chair: Jeffrey Prinsell, DMD, MD
Faculty: Robert Rogers, DMD; Patrick Strollo Jr., MD; and Edward Weaver, MD

Target Audience:
Sleep physicians, psychologists and dentists

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the current advances in nasal CPAP, oral appliances and other behavioral therapies for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
2. Identify the numerous upper airway surgical procedures and staging protocols for the treatment of OSA.
3. Differentiate the contributions of sleep physicians, including otolaryngologists, and dentists, including oral and maxillofacial surgeons, in a comprehensive multidisciplinary team approach to OSA.

 

Sunday, June 6, 2010

C07: Year-in-Review
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Chair: H. Craig Heller, PhD
Faculty: Gregory Belenky, MD; Ruth Benca, MD, PhD; Paul Franken, PhD; Sheri Katz, DDS; Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, RPSGT; Carole Marcus, MBBCh; Michael Russo, MD; and Thomas Scammell, MD

Target Audience:
Physicians, researchers, psychologists, postdoctoral or predoctoral fellows and allied health care professionals.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss state-of-the-art knowledge of recent advances in diagnosis and treatment for various clinical topics.
2. Explain how to improve clinical care and outcomes as a result of application of this knowledge in the clinical setting.
3. Discuss key concepts of recent basic and clinical sleep research and how these concepts apply to current practice.

C08: PEDSleep 2010: Evaluating and Treating Sleep Disorders in Fragile and High Risk Infants and Children
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Co Chairs: Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, MD; and Sanjeev Kothare, MD Faculty: Norman Friedman, MD; David Gozal, MD; Kyle Johnson, MD; Valerie Kirk, MD; Beth Malow, MD; and Gerald Rosen, MD

Target Audience:
Sleep specialists, clinicians, psychologists, trainees and technologists interested in pediatric sleep medicine

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss which sleep disorders most often affect infants or children with Chiari malformation, spina bifida, syringomyelia, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, craniofacial syndromes, autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, psychiatric co-morbidities and cerebral palsy.
2. Review how to evaluate, diagnose and treat sleep related breathing disorders, insomnia, parasomnias and circadian rhythm disorders in infants and children with challenging complex medical, neurological and/or psychiatric disorders.
3. Identify which sleep disorders most often affect cancer and autism spectrum disorders.

C09: Sleep Apnea Examination: A Hands-on Course
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Co-Chairs: Ofer Jacobowitz, MD, PhD; and Patrick Strollo Jr., MD Faculty: David Bruce, DDS, MD; Suman Golla, MD; Yosef Krespi, MD; Sally Shott, MD; Noah Siegel, MD; and Edward Weaver, MD

Target Audience:
Sleep medicine physicians, psychologists, pediatricians, pulmonologists, otolaryngologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgeons, dentists, nurses, sleep technologists, respiratory therapists and other allied health care professionals

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the static and dynamic features of the nasal airway that affect obstructive sleep apnea and its treatment with CPAP.
2. Assess the oral and pharyngeal anatomy relevant to the diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
3. Explain methods of anatomical assessment and advanced surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in children.
4. Identify anatomical structures amenable to surgical treatment in adults.
5. Describe the relation of airway inflammation and obstructive sleep apnea.
6. Practice the physical examination of the sleep apnea airway using basic and advanced tools such as peak

C10: Diagnosis and Treatment of Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $150 * Nonmember Fee: $200

Chair: R. Robert Auger, MD
Faculty: Helen Burgess, PhD; Kenneth Wright Jr, PhD; James Wyatt, PhD; and Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD

Target Audience:
Clinical sleep medicine practitioners, trainees, psychologists and/or anyone with an interest in the identification and treatments of circadian rhythm sleep disorders

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify various ICSD-2-defined circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSDs) in the clinical setting, with inclusion of the use of actigraphy and sleep logs.
2. Discuss the utility of salivary melatonin as a means of assessment of circadian phase, which presently has application in circadian-based research.
3. Identify treatment of CRSDs, taking into account best available evidence.
4. Review the various experimental protocols used in chronobiologic assessments to in turn facilitate an understanding of the CRSD-related literature.
5. Explain the morbidity associated with certain CRSDs (e.g. the association between sleep disturbance and institutionalization in the elderly and the positive findings associated with later school start times in adolescents).

C11: Challenging Cases: Patients Beyond the Practice Parameters
Sunday, June 6, 2010
8:00am - 12:00pm
Member Fee: $85 * Nonmember Fee: $150

Chair: Douglas Kirsch, MD, FAASM
Faculty: Lawrence Epstein, MD; Mary Susan Esther, MD; and Carol Rosen, MD

Target Audience:
Sleep medicine practitioners, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists and residents/fellows

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the evaluation and treatment of patients who do not fit into the specific context of the practice parameters.
2. 2. Review aspects of sleep related breathing disorders, limb movements and pediatric sleep medicine and the links between sleep medicine and psychiatric disease.

C12: Individualizing Therapy for Insomnia
Sunday, June 6, 2010
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Member Fee: $85 * Nonmember Fee: $150

Co-Chairs: Kelly Baron, PhD; and Ramadevi Gourineni, MD Faculty: Daniel Buysse, MD; and Jack Edinger, PhD

Target Audience:
Physicians, psychologists and trainees who are looking to augment their knowledge of insomnia management and learn more about individualizing the therapy of insomnia in a multidisciplinary setting

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss how to evaluate patients with insomnia using both clinical and objective evaluation tools.
2. Discuss various management approaches, including pharmacotherapy, behavioral and cognitive therapies, and explain how to individualize therapy to meet each patient’s needs using a case-based approach.
3. Identify different models for the multidisciplinary care of insomnia.