SLEEP 2012  Preliminary Program

The Preliminary Program for SLEEP 2012, the 26th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) is now available for download. This program includes comprehensive information about scheduled sessions and courses, continuing education, registration, hotel and travel. The SLEEP 2012 Final Program will be released shortly before the meeting, on June 9-13, 2012.

  Download SLEEP 2012 Preliminary Program

Meeting Sessions

• Lunch Debates
• Meet the Professor Sessions
• Postgraduate Courses

Additional Documents

•  SLEEP 2012 Registration Form 
•  SLEEP 2012 Housing Request Form 
•  AASM Membership Application 
•  SRS Membership Application

Sold-Out Sessions

The following SLEEP 2012 sessions do not have any remaining seats available and are sold-out: the APSS does not maintain waiting lists for sold-out sessions

Meet the Professor Sessions:

M01: Biomarkers for Predicting Response to Sleep Loss
Namni Goel, PhD

M02: Diagnosis and Management of Dream-enacting Behavior
Kenneth Casey, MD

M03: How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?
James Horne, PhD

M04: How to Sleep Like a Rockstar
William Dement, MD, PhD

M05: New Insights into the Pathogenesis of Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep
Arthur Walters, MD

M06: Sleep and Its Relationship to Epilepsy and Other Nocturnal Events in Children
Sanjeev Kothare, MD

M07: Using ASV in Clinical Practice
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD

M08: Using Actigraphy in Clinical Practice
James Wyatt, PhD

M09: Clinical Utility of PSG in Children: How Do Current Recommendations Guide Decisions?
Merrill Wise, MD

M10: Cognition and Sleep
Gina Poe, PhD

M11: DME In Your Sleep Center: Pearls, Perils and Pitfalls
Amy Aronsky, DO

M13: Shift Work Disorder: What to Do?
Gary Richardson, MD 

M14: Sleep-related Eating Disorder: Features, Diagnosis, Treatment and Many Remaining Questions
John Winkelman, MD, PhD

M15: Some Controversies in Sleep Neurobiology
Clifford Saper, MD, PhD

M17: Circadian Rhythms and Psychiatric Disturbances
R. Robert Auger, MD

M20: Evaluating OSA Outside of the Lab
Samuel Kuna, MD

M21: Evaluation and Treatment of Pediatric RLS
Daniel Picchietti, MD

M22: Imaging of the Brain in Sleep
Eric Nofzinger, MD

Postgraduate Courses

C04: PedSleep 2012: Hot Topics and Controversies in Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, MD; and Sanjeev Kothare, MD

C07: 2012 State of the Art for Clinical Practitioners
Charles Atwood, MD; and Michael Littner, MD

C08: Gizmos and Gadgets: Technological Advances in Clinical Outpatient Sleep Medicine
Neil Freedman, MD

C10: The Basics of Sleep
Namni Goel, PhD; Kathleen Sexton-Radek, PhD; and James Shaffery, DPhil

Lunch and Learn

L01: Does the MSLT Provide a Useful Measure of Daytime Sleepiness in Clinical Practice?
Ronald Chervin, MD; and Michael Silber, MBChB