Mystery of Sleep: Can’t Sleep-Insomnia

Can’t Sleep-Insomnia is the 2nd in the amazing continued education series the Mystery of Sleep opportunity. Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC from Yale School of Medicine is an authority on Sleep. Sign Up for all Three or, you may sign-up for individual sessions but would recommend making a commitment to attending all three in the series. This page will allow you to sign up for the second in the series of the Mystery of Sleep-Can’t Sleep Insomnia. Links to the other 2 sessions in the series are below and will take you to the registration pages for each of the other 2 sessions (scroll down.)

Dr. Meir Kryger Bio

Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC, joined the Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Health System, November 2011. Previously he was Professor of Medicine, University of Manitoba where he established the first clinical laboratory studying patients with sleep breathing problems in Canada. Dr. Kryger has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters. He is the chief editor of the most widely used textbook in sleep medicine, The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, currently in its 7th edition and is the author of A Woman’s Guide to Sleep Disorders, the Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and Kryger’s Sleep Medicine Review. Dr. Kryger was the first to diagnose and report obstructive sleep apnea in North America. His research was the first to show the feasibility of using noninvasive techniques to ventilate post-polio patients in their homes. His laboratory elucidated the interaction between heart failure and sleep respiration publishing the first systematic study of oxygen in this condition. He has been president of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation in Washington, D.C. He received the William C. Dement Award for Academic Achievement in sleep medicine. In 2011 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Canadian Sleep Society at the meeting of the World Association of Sleep Medicine

SESSION 1 MYSTERY OF SLEEP-WHY SLEEP
February 12
10 am – 12 pm
SESSION 3-MYSTERY OF SLEEP-CAN’T STAY AWAKE HYPERSOMNIA
February 19
10 am – 12pm

Meadows Community Lifestyle & Wellness Facility.