NVDS ONLINE CE PROGRAM – “Pediatric Sleep Apnea” with David Gozal, MD, MBA, PhD

Location: Live Webinar

Contact: Erin Matlock

Email: ematlock@nvds.org

Phone: 703/642-5297

ONLINE CONTINUING EDUCATION

**Deadline 2/5/25**

Download the 02-07-25 Webinar Registration Form

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THIS LIVE STREAMING WEBINAR WILL INCLUDE A QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

  • Preregistration is required
  • All registrations will be confirmed by email
  • Webinar log-in information will be sent by email within three(3) business days
  • Each registrant must have a unique email address
  • Attendees will receive their CE certificate by email three(3) business days after the webinar

The webinar will be recorded and available on demand for credit in the Member Resources section of the NVDS website after the event

Synopsis:

Pediatric sleep apnea is a very frequent condition affecting 3-5% of all children.  This presentation will focus on the clinical presentation of sleep apnea in children including the various phenotypic variants that have been identified to date, approaches to the diagnosis of the disease that extend being overnight polysomnography, and description of some of the more important end-organ morbid consequences of sleep apnea in children.  The second presentation will then encompass an improved understanding on the pathophysiology of morbidity in sleep apnea in general. In addition to well-stablished processes such as inflammation, autonomic nervous system imbalances and remodeling, the lecture will also focus on novel mechanisms encompassing gut microbiome, senescence and blood brain barrier permeability.

* Part #1: Clinical Presentation,  Pathophysiological Considerations and Diagnostic Approaches

* Part #2: End-Organ Morbidity and its Mechanisms, As Drivers of Phenotypic Variance

Course Objectives:

  • To enable the audience to recognize symptoms and signs associated with an increased risk of sleep apnea in children.
  • To identify the various diagnostic modalities, their advantages and limitations.
  • To recognize phenotypic variance and the potential mechanisms driving morbid consequences of sleep apnea.

About Our Presenter:

Dr. Gozal is currently the Dean of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. 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 apnea in both adults and children. In addition, he has pioneered biomarker discovery and machine learning approaches for the diagnosis of sleep apnea across the lifespan. More recently, he has begun exploration of the role of the gut microbiome and circulating exosomes as mechanistic effectors and biomarkers in sleep disorders and associated morbidities.
He is Past President of the American Thoracic Society, the world leading organization for pulmonary, critical are and sleep medicine, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society 2014-2016 and is Deputy Editor-in-Chief for the journal Sleep, and Associate Editor for ERJ, Pediatric Pulmonology, and Frontiers in Neurology and Frontiers in Psychiatry. He has been the recipient of the ATS Amberson Lecture in 2002 and 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. He has also received two honorary doctorates from the University of Barcelona and University of Lleida in Spain. His research work has been continuously supported by grants from the NIH since 1992, and he has published over 850 peer-reviewed original articles carrying a H index of 137 and >80,000 citations along with nearly 200 book chapters and reviews, edited 7 books, presented more than 1,000 scientific abstracts, and has extensively lectured all over the world.
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