Keynote Address - Joseph Takahashi, PhD, UT Southwestern "Molecular Architecture of the Circadian Clock in Mammals"
Dr. Derk-Jan Dijk, Professor of Sleep and Physiology, University of Surrey "Insufficient Sleep in Young Adults: Effects on Cognition and the Blood Transcriptome"
Matthew Nelson, PhD “A Neuropeptide Circuit Regulates Sleep-wake Transitions in Caenorhabditis elegans”
Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, Northwestern University "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep as an Explanation for Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease”
Richard J. Schwab, MD “Treatments for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights from Upper Airway Imaging”
John D. Hughes, MD, U.S. Naval Medical Research Center “Thalamocortical Physiology of NREM Sleep, Part I”
Robert L. Owens, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital “Is the Upper Airway a Starling Resistor? Implications for OSA Pathogenesis and Treatment”
Jinyoung Kim,PhD,RN "Do Snoring Sounds Arouse the Snorer?"
Ignacio Blasi, DDS, MS “Airways and Orthodontics”
Samuel T. Kuna, MD & Philip Gehrman, PhD, CBSM “Telehealth Management of Patients with Sleep Disorders”
Louis J. Ptáček, MD, John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, UCSF "Phosphoproteomics reveals novel clock genes and clock regulation"