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AASM Membership Sections Newsletter Issue #1
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Steering Committee
Profiles
Sanjeev V. Kothare, MD (Chair)
is
the current chair of your section. He is
the Interim Medical Director and the
Fellowship Director of the Pediatric
Sleep Medicine Training Program at
the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disor-
ders, Children’s Hospital Boston, and
Associate Professor, Department of
Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
He received his training in Child
Neurology from the Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA, and in Clinical
Neurophysiology, Epilepsy, and Sleep
Medicine at Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, NC. His research
interests include circadian neurology,
epilepsy and sleep, and mechanisms to
understand sudden unexpected death
in the epilepsy population, besides
his interest in sleep disorders in rare
diseases. He is actively funded via the
NIH with several R21 grants, and is
the recipient of the Harvard catalyst.
He has authored a book named
Sleep
in Childhood Neurological Disorders
.
Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, MD (Vice-
Chair)
is currently the Director of
Clinical Sleep Research, Section of Pe-
diatric Sleep Medicine, University of
Chicago. Her current research activi-
ties explore changes in the systemic
vasculature that may reflect morbid
consequences of sleep disorders in
children as well as the presence of rare
gene variants that may shed light into
mechanistic determinants of sleep
apnea in children. She has extensively
published over 90 articles in pres-
tigious peer reviewed journals, and
has extramural funds from industry
Childhood Sleep Disorders and
Development Section
2011–2012
CHAIR
Sanjeev Kothare, MD
VICE-CHAIR
Leila Kheirandish-Gozal, MD
MEMBERS
Oliviero Bruni, MD
Reut Gruber, PhD
Narong Simakajornboon, MD
Thank you for reading about the activities of the AASM’s
Childhood Sleep Disorders and Development Section!
Accomplishments
of the Section
In the past few years, the steering
committee has created a new format
for the APSS section meeting, with
presentation of key topics like the
consensus paper on respiratory
indications for obtaining pediatric
sleep studies which was discussed by
lead authors, and the presentation by
the first author of the best pediatric
abstract as judged by the pediatric
steering committee. We have also
provided input to the Board of
Directors and Program Commit-
tee in planning the various annual
courses and seminars at the annual
meeting with a pediatric perspective.
Several key members of the section
are on the advisory panel advising
the
DSM-5
and the
ICSD-3
commit-
tees on important aspects of pedi-
atric sleep medicine. This will have
a direct impact on the final version
of both manuals. Drs. Judith Owens
& Jodi Mindell (insomnia), Gerald
Rosen (parasomnias), David Gozal
(sleep disordered breathing), Sanjeev
Kothare (child neurology & sleep),
Preliminary Agenda: Childhood Sleep Disorders
and Development SLEEP 2012 Section Meeting
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center
Monday, June 11, 2012 from 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
I.
Call to Order – Sanjeev Kothare, MD,
Chair
5:15 p.m.
II.
Welcome
5:15-5:20 p.m.
• Introduction of 2011-2012 Steering Committee
• Call for Volunteers: 2012-2013 Steering Committee
• Update of Section Activities
III.
Integrated Pediatric Sleep Medicine in Canada
5:20-5:30 p.m.
• Dr. Reut Gruber
IV.
Board of Directors Update
5:30-5:45 p.m.
V.
ICSD-3
&
DSM-5
Update
5:45-6:00 p.m.
VI.
Section Investigator Award Presentation
6:00-6:15 p.m.
• Lauren C. Nisbet – Monash University
Nocturnal Dipping of Blood Pressure: Is it Preserved in
Preschool Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing?
VII.
Adjournment
6:15 p.m.
VIII.
Membership Sections Reception
6:15-7:15 p.m.