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9.12.2018

Washington State Sleep Conference is now one month away! Are you registered?



 Presented by the WASHINGTON STATE SLEEP SOCIETY 

This year’s event features the ever-popular tag team of
Teofilo Lee-Chiong MD and Nic Butkov RPSGT
in presentations that cover a wide range of
current PAP and sleep apnea interests among sleep technologists
 

Topics* at this year’s conference include: 

• Advanced Bi-level Modalities Prazosin and PTSD • Pediatric PAP Titrations • Common Artifacts Associated with ECGCBT-i in the Sleep Lab • Optimizing Patient Response to Positive Airway Pressure TherapyRestless Legs Syndrome • Obstructive Sleep Apnea: State of the Art CareNovel Technology in Personalized Care • The New "Restless Sleeper" Sleep Disorder Designation •
Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation •  Diagnostic Aspects of Sleep Disordered Breathing
New Rules on Electrode Placement Neuromuscular Disease and Sleep Breathing  

 Conference FAQs 


Date: Friday October 12 to Saturday October 13, 2018  

Time: 745am to 6pm both days 

Fee: $200. Registration ends October 10. Registration on the day of the conference increases to $225. *Fee includes lunch, coffee and two full days of educational programming which culminate in 14 AAST CECs and a certificate at the end of the conference. 

NEW THIS YEAR! Single-day registration available for $112.50 either day.  

Location: Embassy Suites Seattle Tacoma InternationalAirport, Seattle WA (PLEASE SIGN UP BY SEPTEMBER 22 to receive WSSS room discount!) 

Who is invited: Sleep technologists, sleep physicians, sleep health educators, respiratory therapists, nurses interested in sleep medicine, dental sleep medicine professionals
We look forward to seeing you at this year's conference!  

Questions?    


*Topics, speakers, and schedules subject to change.






9.10.2018

Welcome to the conference: Dr. Teofilo Lee-Chiong

DON'T MISS OUT! REGISTER NOW!

Two lectures on Friday, October 12:
"Advanced Bi-Level Modalities"
"Novel Technology in Personalized Care"

Dr. Teofilo Lee-Chiong is a popular returning speaker for this year's Washington State Sleep Conference. A well-known sleep medicine educator and frequent speaker at sleep medicine conferences, he is a board certified internist in Denver, Colorado affiliated with National Jewish Health. 

He is also a professor and the author of many references familiar to sleep technologists of sleep medicine professionals: 
  • Sleep Medicine: Essentials and Review (Oxford University Press, USA) 
  • Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley-Liss)
  • Fundamentals of Sleep Technology (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
  • Sleep Medicine (Hanley & Belfus)
  • Sleep Medicine Essentials (Wiley Blackwell)
  • Focus on Sleep Medicine: A Self-Assessment (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
Don't miss this exciting opportunity interact with Dr. Lee-Chiong at the upcoming WSSS conference. 



7.07.2018

Two favorite headliners return to our fall sleep meeting!

Two favorite speakers will be returning to the WSSS stage this coming fall!

Teofilo Lee-Chiong, MD (aka "Dr. Lee") is a well-known sleep medicine educator and frequent speaker at sleep medicine conferences. He is a board certified internist in Denver, Colorado affiliated with National Jewish Health. 

Dr. Lee is also a professor and the author of many references familiar to sleep technologists of sleep medicine professionals: 
  • Sleep Medicine: Essentials and Review (Oxford University Press, USA) 
  • Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley-Liss)
  • Fundamentals of Sleep Technology (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
  • Sleep Medicine (Hanley & Belfus)
  • Sleep Medicine Essentials (Wiley Blackwell)
  • Focus on Sleep Medicine: A Self-Assessment (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)

Nic Butkov, RPSGT is an internationally recognized educator in sleep medicine and technology. He is Director of the School of Clinical Polysomnography (Medford, OR) and a longstanding faculty member of the School of Sleep Medicine (Palo Alto, CA). He currently serves as education coordinator at the Rogue Valley Sleep Center in Medford.

Butkov is also CEO of Synapse Media and a major contributor to two critical sleep technology texts:
  • Atlas of Clinical Polysomnography (Synapse Media, author)
  • Fundamentals of Sleep Technology (AAST, co-editor) 
A native Russian speaker, he assisted in launching the first clinical sleep facility in Russia in the 1990s. He is a recipient of both the Sharon Keenan PhD Award for Excellence in Education and the Elliot D. Weitzman MD Service Award for contribution to the growth and development of the sleep technology profession.

DON'T MISS OUT!
SAVE THE DATE! October 12-13, 2018
Registration portal coming soon