Minnesota Sleep Society
8th Annual Conference
Saturday October 14, 2017
7:30-8:20 Registration/ Continental Breakfast/ Exhibits
8:20-8:30 Welcome
Jagdeep Bijwadia, MD
President Minnesota Sleep Society
8:30-9:30 Keynote: Pediatric OSA: 1001 Diseases and Counting
David Gozal, MD
9:30-10:30 Teen Health and School Start Times: Evidence Review
Conrad Iber, MD
Timothy Morgenthaler, MD
10:30-11:00 Break and Exhibits
11:00-12:00 OSA: Year in Review
Tacjana Friday, MD
12:00-12:30 MN Sleep Society Membership Meeting
12:30–1:30: Lunch (provided) and Exhibits
1:30-2:30 Improving Sleep in College Students
J. Roxanne Pritchard, PhD
2:30–3:00 Break and Exhibits
3:00-4:00 Breakout Sessions:
• Neurology Cases in Sleep
Muna Irfan, MD
• Licensing Legislation for Sleep Techs: Pros & Cons
Bradley Hix, RPGST
4:00-5:00 Breakout Sessions
• Interesting EKG and Other Cases in Sleep Medicine
Louis Kazaglis, MD
• Scope of Practice for Sleep Educators
Colleen Bazzani, RPSGT
5:00 Adjourn
Pediatric OSA: One Thousand and One Diseases and Counting!
David Gozal, MD, MBA
The Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Department of Pediatrics
The University of Chicago
Immediate Past President American Thoracic Society
- 1. To review diagnostic approaches in pediatric OSA
- 2. To illustrate the phenotypic variance of the disease
- 3. To describe some of the potential approaches for detection of end-organ morbidity
Dr. Gozal is currently the Herbert T. Abelson Professor at the University of Chicago, where he also holds the title of Pritzker Scholar. He received his M.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completed his pediatric residency at the Haifa Medical Center in Israel, and then spent 2 years in Cameroon, West Africa, developing rural healthcare networks, for which he received the title of “Knight of the Order of Merit”. He then completed his pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine training at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles in 1993, and joined the faculty at the University of Southern California and UCLA. In 1994, he moved to Tulane University, and was appointed tenured Professor and Constance Kaufman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Pulmonology Research. From 1999 till 2009, Dr. Gozal was at the University of Louisville as the Children’s Hospital Foundation Chair for Pediatric Research, Distinguished University Scholar, Director of the Kosair Children’s Research Institute, and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program, both of which were recognized as programs of distinction by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. From 2009 till 2014, Dr. Gozal served as Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief of Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. Dr Gozal’s research interests include projects such as gene and cellular regulation in hypoxia and sleep disruption, murine models of sleep disorders, and genomic and proteomic approaches to clinical and epidemiological aspects of sleep in children. More recently, he has begun exploration of the role of the gut microbiome in sleep disorders and associated morbidities.
He is the current Immediate Past President of the American Thoracic Society, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society 2014-2016, is editor in chief of the Journal of Child Science, deputy editor for the journals Sleep and Frontiers in Neurology. He has been the recipient of the ATS Amberson Lecture in 2002, and most recently was awarded the William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2013 and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Sleep Foundation. His research work is supported by grants from the NIH, he has published over 590 peer-reviewed original articles, >130 book chapters and reviews, 3 books, and > 900 scientific abstracts with a H index of 98, and has extensively lectured all over the world.
