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SEPTEMBER 2010 - JUNE 2011

Sessions are held once a month, on the second Friday from 8:30 to 9:45 am
Seminar Room 025-026, Ground Floor, Medical Education Department, Toronto General, unless otherwise stated.

This seminar series is organized by the The Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology and supported by Division of Respirology,
and Chaired by Dr Chris Li

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October 8, 2010

Dr Sina Gharib

Assistant Professor of Medicine Center for Lung Biology 
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington    
  Order from Chaos? A Systems Approach to Complex Disease Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca

November 12,
8.30-9.30am

DR LAKSHMI NAGARAJAN
Paediatric Neurologist/Epileptologist
Head, Department of Neurology Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
  SLEEP AND EPILEPSY All paroxysmal phenomenon in sleep are not seizures Epilepsy has an impact on sleep Sleep influences epilepsy
Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
Dec 10
8.30-9.45am
Hisham Alshaer
IBBME,
University of Toronto 
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
  Development of a Home Monitor for Sleep Apnea Based on Acoustic Analysis of Breath Sounds Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
Jan 14, 2011 8:30- 9:45 AM LUIGI TARANTO MONTEMURRO
Division of Respirology, UT
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

  Relationship between lack of sleepiness and cardiovascular impairment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca

Feb
8.30-9.30am

MATTHEW HEFFER
Sleep Fellow
Respirology Division UT
  EXPLOSIVE AND SAVORY SLEEP CASES Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca

March 11, 2011
8.30-9.30am

DR. J. FRAIGNE
Postdoctoral Fellow                Department Cell and System Biology
University of Toronto
  Phasic motor activity of respiratory and non-respiratory muscles during REM sleep Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
April 8, 2011
8.30-9.45am

Dr Al Juwayed
Sleep Medicine Fellow
University of Toronto

  Sleep Deprivation and Physician Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
          Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
          Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
          Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca

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