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                             Preliminary Conference Program and Agenda

Framework for the Fourth Annual TRU Sleep Science Conference
March 8-10 2013
TRU Campus Activity Centre
2013 Schedule

Thursday March 7th

 
18:00 Early Registration and Conference Set Up
Campus Activity Centre

Friday, March 8th

Exhibit Area Open to Public - Friday Only

 CAC Mountain Room - Top Floor
08:45 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:45 		Opening Remarks and Introductions
SS1 The Spectrum of Sleep Disorders, Dr. Richard Smyth
09:45 - 10:00  Coffee and Sweets served in room
10:00 - 11:00  SS2  Circadian Rhythms and Sleep, Dr. Elaine Waddington Lamont
11:00 - 12:00 SS3 Improving Adherance to Treatment,  David Darwin
12:00 - 13:30

Lunch in Heroes or Cafeteria

 Exhibits Open ( 1200- 1700 and 1900-2100 )

Two Parallel Streams Friday Afternoon

A. The Biology of Sleep

B.  Sleep Medicine 
13:30 - 14:30
SS6A-  Birds and Sleep, Dr. Matt Reudink
  		 SS4B  Sleep Physiology
Dr. Wayne Lai
14:30 - 15:15

15:15 - 16:00
SS5A    Hibernation and Sleep , Dr. Val Collins  SS5B   Pharmacology Pain and Sleep

 Chris Cameron
Coffee break and exhibits
16:00 - 1700

  
SS4A   Sleep with the fishes: Ecology, Neurophysiology, and Behavior 
Dr. Brian Heise and Dr. Elaine Waddington Lamont		 SS6B  Impact of Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction on Breathing during Sleep 
Dr. Jeffrey Liou  
Afternoon Coffee and water only
17:30 - 19:00 Heroes open for food
19:00 - 20:30

Evening Public talks
 1. Sleep and Neurophysiology: Dr. Wayne Lai 
 2. Children and Sleep: Dr. Manisha Whitmans 

 
19:00 - 21:00 Appetizers served in exhibitors lounge
20:30 - 21:00 Exhibit area open 
21:00 - 0100 Social Event Details TBA 
 

Saturday, March 9th
07:30 - 08:30 Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall; various a la Carte items with Coffee/Tea

 

Exhibits Open 07:30 - 15:45

Morning Topics in Sleep Medicine
08:30 - 09:30 SS8  CPAP and BiPAP: Basic Titration Strategies - Nic Butkov, RPSGT
09:30 - 10:30 SS9 Oxygen and Sleep - Dr. Avinder Minhas
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea
11:00 - 12:00

SS10 Oral appliance Therapy as a first line treatment in OSA 
Dr. Wayne Halstrom                                                                                         

11:00  -12:00 SS10 The Future of Pediatric Sleep Medicine:
Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch in Exhibit Area
French Quarter Basket with Soup, Salad, Coffee/Tea and Sweets

A. Topics in Polysomnography

B. Topics in Sleep Medicine

C. Business and Management

13:30 - 14:30
SS11A  Advanced PAP Modalities: Understanding the Tools ( Part 1 )             
 Nic Butkov RPSGT		 SS11B  Pain and Sleep
Part 1
Dr. Atul Khullar		  SS11C "The Model for Improvement: A Standardized Approach for Using PDSA Cycles to Make Improvements" Gil Virgilio M.Ed.
14:30 - 15:30
SS12A Advanced PAP (Part 2) 
 Nic Butkov RPSGT 		SS12B Pain and Sleep Part 2
 Dr. Atul Khullar		  SS12C Children and Sleep Disorders
Dr. Manisha Whitmans
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee/Tea and Sweets
15:45 - 16:45 
SS13A Complicated Polysomnograms
Nic Butkov RPSGT		 SS13B Menopause and Sleep 
 Dr.Tami Shandro		  

SS13C "What About Those Other Tools for Quality Improvement?; A broader look at some of the QI tools that support system improvements and patient safety".

Gil Virgilio M.Ed.
                     

18:00 - 01:00

 Banquet;  The Sleep Science  Dinner Buffet and Silent Auction: 
 Social to follow in Heroes with Stan Bailly
2012 Schedule

Sunday, March 10th
07:30 - 08:30 Breakfast in Exhibit Hall; various a la Carte items with Coffee/Tea
08:30 - 09:30  
SS16A Orthodontics and Breathing
Dr. E. Liem		 SS14B "Perils and Portents: what to look out for in the upper airway of sleep patients"
Dr. Richard Smyth		 SS14C Pediatric Ambulatory Monitoring Theory
Dr. Manisha Whitmans
09:30 - 10:30
SS15A COPD and OSA, Overlap Syndrome
Dr. Avi Minhas		 SS15B GERDs in Sleep and respiratory Disease
Dr. Wayne Lai   		  SS15C  Pediatric Ambulatory Monitoring Worshop 
Dr. Manisha Whitmans
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea
11:00 - 12:00  
SS14A Willis-Ekbom Disease  ( RLS)
 Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu		 SS16B NA  SS16C Buteyko Breathing in Sleep 
 Christine Bauman, MA
12:00 - 13:30 Board meeting and Lunch


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