Onslow Medical Specialties Clinic
Jacksonville, NC  
American College of Chest Physicians'  
Sleep Medicine 2009, Phoenix, AZ -
August 21-24, 2009
Neil Freedman, MD,FCCP
IL

Alon Avidan, MD,MPH
Associate Professor, Neurology Residency Program Director; Medical Director, UCLA
Neurology Clinic; Associate Director, Sleep Disorders Center, UCLA Department of
Neurology, Los Angeles, CA

Philip Becker, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas

Lee Brooks, MD,FCCP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania; Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Peter Gay, MD,FCCP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

Teofilo Lee- Chiong, MD,FCCP
Head, Division of Sleep Medicine, National Jewish Health; Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver, CO

Medical Director, Brigham Sleep Disorders Program; Asst Professor of Medicine, Sleep
Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Divisions, Brigham & Women's Hospital and
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Kent Moore, MD,DDS
Diplomate, American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and American Board of Dental
Sleep Medicine; Private Practice - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charlotte, NA

David Neubauer, MD
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, Baltimore, MD

James Parish, MD,FCCP
Directors, Sleep Disorders Center, divison of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine,
Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ

Susheel Patil, MD,PhD
Asst Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center, Asthma & Allergy Center,
Baltimore, MD

Michael Perlis, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Penn Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Gary Tichardson, MD
Senior Research Scientist and Staff Physician, Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry
Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

H Klar Yaggi, MD,MPH
Asst Professor of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Yale Unibversity
School of Medicine; Medical Director, VA- CHCS Sleep Laboratory, Yale University, New
Haven, CT

Phyllis Zee, MD,PhD
Professor of Neurology; Director, Sleep Disorders Center, Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Friday - August 21, 2009

8 AM - 5:15 PM
Tutorial Questions
Why We Sleep : Structure, Function and Sleep Deprivation   -  Dr Lee-Chiong
Shift Work and Countermeasures  - Dr Lee- Chiong
Workshop
Technical Aspects of Sleep Testing including Artifacts and Filters - Dr Patil
Sleep Dementias and Neurologic Disorders  - Dr Avidan
Central Nervous Systems Hypersomnia  - Dr Avidan
Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders - Dr Zee

Saturday - August 22, 2009

8 AM- 8:30 PM
Complex Nocturnal Behaviors and Nocturnal Seizures - Dr Avidan
Sleep in Psychiatric Disorders  - Dr Becker
Sleep and Respiratory Disease: Pulmonary Hypertension, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, COPD
and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome  -  Dr Parish
Sleep and the Cardiovascular System: Ischemia, Arrhythmias, Stroke and Hypertension - Dr
Yaggi
Workshop
Medication Effects on Sleep - Dr Neubauer
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness: Medico-Legal Aspects - Dr Patil
Sleep and Wake Neuroscience  - Dr Zee
Sleep and the Endocrine System  - Dr Richardson
Polysomnography Practice and Parameters Trivia Session  - Dr Patil

Sunday - August 23, 2009

7:30 AM - 5:15 PM
Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome : Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Diagnosis  -
Dr Yaggi
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Central Sleep Apnea: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Risk
Factors  - Dr Malhotra
Insomnia: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Assessment  - Dr Becker
Central Sleep Apnea: Diagnosis and Treatment  - Dr Malhotra
Workshop
Insomnia: Pharmacologic Treatment - Dr Neubauer
Cognitive- Behavior Treatment of Chronic Insomnia - Dr Perlis
Sleep in the Child: Normal and Abnormal - Dr Brooks
Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing - Dr Brooks

Monday - August 24, 2009

7:30 AM - 3:45 PM
Oral Appliances and Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Dr Moore
Snoring, Complex Sleep Apnea, Upper Airways Resistance Syndrome and Non-CPAP
Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea-  Dr Gay
Sleep, Genetics and Immunology  - Dr Parish
Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements - Dr Phillips
CPAP Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Dr Freedman
Sleep, Sleep Disorders and Cognition  - Dr Gay
Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Older People -  Dr Phillips