Sleep Rounds

SEPTEMBER 2012- JUNE 2013

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

Rounds will be live webcast and can be viewed from anywhere with internet connection. Please test your browser before the event to make sure you can watch it. Here is the link, http://webcast.otn.ca/support.html (click on the Test Video box in order to test your browser)

Webcast and Video Conferences - How To Join

DATE
SPEAKER
Telehealth
Ref #
TOPIC
OBJECTIVES
CONTACT PERSONS

Sept 14

 Sutapa Mukherjee   The Ontario Health Study-Preliminary data and future directions   Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
Oct 12 Andrew Lim MD, MMSc FRCPC
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 		 

Sleep Fragmentation, Cognitive Impairment, and the Risk of Alzheimer ’s Disease in Older Individuals: Results from the Memory and Aging Project Cohort
  1. To describe a novel state-transition based probabilistic approach to quantifying sleep fragmentation from actigraphic data
  2. To describe the association between sleep fragmentation, cognitive performance, cognitive decline, and incident Alzheimer disease in older persons
  3. To describe the neuropathological correlates of sleep fragmentation
 Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
Nov 9 Anju Anand and Daniel Cortes   Getting a “Natural” Nights Sleep.What all sleep professionals need to know
  1. To review the use of natural health products in Canada
  2. To review the pharmacology (mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, interactions) of the most commonly used natural health products and over the counter medicines used in sleep medicine
  3. Review the limited literature in this area
 Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
Dec 14 Dr. Brian Murray, MD FRCP(C), ABSM
Director of Integrated Medical Education for the University of Toronto Department of Medicine Associate Professor 		  The Second Annual Sleep Medicine Trivia Competition
  1. To appraise understanding of new developments in sleep medicine
  2. To demonstrate implications of recent findings
  3. To improve sleep medicine knowledge
 Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
January 11 DR. MARK BOULOS Clinical Associate & Clinical Research Fellow (Sleep & Stroke Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   Prevalence and Correlates of Restless Legs Syndrome after TIA and Minor Stroke
  1. Explore the prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome & Periodic Limb Movements after TIA and Minor Stroke.
  2. Describe the association of Restless Legs Syndrome with depressive symptoms and quality of life after TIA and Minor Stroke.
  3. Explore possible associations of Periodic Limb Movements with evidence of prior vascular disease.
 Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
February 8 MICHAEL ARZT, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Sleep 		  Implications of sleep apnea in the early phase after acute myocardial infarction   Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
March 8 Dr. Marc J. Poulin, PhD,
University of Calgary
Professor, Depts. Physiology, Pharmacology, and Clinical Neurosciences; Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Kinesiology		   Physiological Responses to Intermittent Hypoxia in Healthy Humans: Implications for Obstructive Sleep Apnea   Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
April 12 TBA       Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
May 10 TBA       Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca
June 14 TBA       Bradley/Tran
Melissa.Tran@uhn.on.ca

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