AAST 32nd Annual Meeting - Postgraduate Courses
Below please find detailed agendas of the AAST 32nd Annual Meeting Postgraduate Courses. Please note that postgraduate courses are not included in the general registration fee. In order to register for postgraduate courses, you must be registered for the general session. Please review the registration information for details.
A01: Scoring of Sleep Postgraduate Course
Sunday, June 6, 2010 • 8:00am – 5:00pm
Course Chair and Speaker: Richard Rosenberg, PhD
Target Audience: This course is for sleep technicians and technologists seeking an overview of sleep scoring.
Objectives:
1. Recognize the key waveforms for sleep scoring.
2. Differentiate sleep stages.
3. Detect arousals from sleep.
4. Analyze sleep related breathing events.
5. Identify common ECG abnormalities.
6. Distinguish abnormal EEG events.
8:00am
Welcome and Announcements
8:00am – 8:30am
Introduction and Pre-test
8:30am – 9:15am
Technology Sleep Studies
9:15am – 10:15am
Waveform Recognition
10:15am – 10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am – 12:00pm
Sleep Stage Scoring
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Arousals and EEG Abnormalities
1:45pm – 3:15pm
Respiratory Event Scoring
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Movements and Cardiac Event Scoring
4:15pm – 5:00pm
Post-test and Review
A02: Pediatric Sleep Postgraduate Course
Sunday, June 6, 2010 • 8:00am – 5:00pm
Course Co-Chairs: Timothy Ruse, MEd, RPSGT; and Harry Whitmore, RPSGT
Target Audience: This course is for sleep technicians and technologists with an interest in pediatric sleep medicine.
Objectives:
1. Review the best practices in pediatric sleep medicine.
2. Discuss current research in pediatric sleep medicine.
8:00am – 8:15am
Welcome and Announcements
Timothy Ruse, MEd, RPSGT; and Harry Whitmore, RPSGT
8:15am – 10:15am
Not Just Short Adults: What RPSGT's Need to Know about Children
Judith Owens, MD
10:15am – 10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am – 12:00pm
Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Medicine
Daniel Lewin, PhD
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm – 2:10pm
Pediatric Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
Hari Bandla, MD
2:10pm – 3:15pm
Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Anoop Karippot, MD
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Indications for PSG in Children
Merrill Wise, MD
4:15pm – 5:00pm
Pediatric Sleep Pearls
Vicki Long
A03: Making the Management Transition Postgraduate Course
Sunday, June 6, 2010 • 8:00am – 5:00pm
Course Co-Chairs: Joyce Black, RPSGT, CRT; Jeffrey Dill, RPSGT, RRT; and Henry Johns, RPSGT, CRT
Target Audience: This course is for managers and supervisors of sleep labs and centers.
Objectives:
1. Identify target audiences for marketing to increase referrals.
2. Discuss techniques to keep employees current and motivated.
3. Discuss the importance of marketing techniques.
8:00am – 8:05am
Welcome and Announcements/Overview of Objectives
Joyce Black, RPSGT, CRT; Jeffrey Dill, RPSGT, RRT; and Henry Johns, RPSGT, CRT
8:05am – 8:45am
Developing Educational Opportunities to Keep Your Employees Current
Mike Garrison, RPSGT
8:45am – 9:30am
Staff Motivation and Failures
To Be Announced
9:30am – 10:15am
How to Handle the Difficult Employee and Disciplining
Connstance Shivers-Smith, RPSGT
10:15am – 10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am – 11:15am
Time Management – Getting It All Done in 8 Hours
Joyce Black, RPSGT, CRT
11:15am – 12:00pm
Getting the Numbers to Add Up – Budgeting
Henry Johns, RPSGT, CRT
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Marketing Your Sleep Center – Advertising Using Local Media
To Be Announced
1:45pm – 2:30pm
Increasing Awareness of Sleep Disorders in Local Companies and Industries Resulting in Increased Referrals
Pamela Minkley, RPSGT, RRT
2:30pm – 3:15pm
Presentation Skills – Engaging Your Audience and Keeping them Awake and Attentive during the Afternoon Dip
Henry Johns, RPSGT, CRT
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Expanding Opportunities for Sleep Disorders Center – Going Outside Your Comfort Zone
Robert Hendrickson, RPSGT
4:15pm – 5:00pm
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Program
Mark Reed
A04: Topics for the Advanced Practitioner Postgraduate Course
Sunday, June 6, 2010 • 8:00am – 5:00pm
Course Co-Chairs: Allen Boone, RPSGT; and Kimberly Trotter, MA, RPSGT
Target Audience: This course is for advanced technologists and allied health care professionals.
Objectives:
1. Discuss how to expand your practice to include clinical research.
2. Discuss complex sleep related pathologies.
3. Review the medical-legal relationship in clinical sleep disorders practice.
8:00am
Welcome and Announcements
Allen Boone, RPSGT; and Kimberly Trotter, MA, RPSGT
8:00am – 10:15am
Research I: Ethics and Good Clinical Practices
Robyn Woidtke, RN, RPSGT
10:15am – 10:30am
Morning Break
10:30am – 12:00pm
Research II: Informed Consent, Drug and Device Development, Integrated Development Environment/Investigational New Drug
Robyn Woidtke, RN, RPSGT
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Vagal Nerve Stimulator: A Sleep Center Case Study
Carolyn Campos, MA, RPSGT, RRT
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Sleep and the Dialysis Patient
Shari Angel Newman, RPSGT
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Legal Update: New Regulations that Impact Sleep Labs
Jayme Matchinski, JD