"Promoting Excellence in Sleep Health"

Sleep Apnea Educator Course - August 15, 2009 This 1-day course is designed to empower nonphysician health-care professionals with the skills, expertise, and tools needed to educate, coach, and serve as a resource for patients with sleep-disordered breathing. The course will focus specifically on identifying skills required to help patients understand their disease and promoting awareness of the true health benefits of the prescribed therapy. Space is limited to 36 participants, so register today! CMS NCD Home Portable Monitoring Learn more > Educational Sleep Slide Kit Learn more >

The ACCP-SI will serve as a center of excellence, merging all programs and resources into a central organizational unit and provide the ACCP an opportunity to become a strong voice in the future of sleep medicine.

Vision

The ACCP-Sleep Institute is a premier resource for excellence in sleep health.

Mission

To promote sleep health and the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders through leadership, education, research, and communication

The initial goals of the SI include the following:

• Increase awareness of sleep medicine issues within the ACCP membership through internal needs assessment
• Develop new sleep-related educational offerings
• Partner with other societies and patient advocacy groups to raise public awareness about sleep disorders
• Align Sleep Institute projects and products with the overall mission of the ACCP

Moving Forward

The ACCP- SI portfolio of activities is growing rapidly. The development of special projects will highlight the sometimes neglected areas in the specialty, such as consensus conferences, educational awarness campaign for the primary care community, clinical guideline development and other ways of working with commercial organizations to ensure appropriate follow-up care for the patient. One final point: we have started the Sleep Institute, not the Sleep Apnea Institute. We view the entire field of sleep medicine as appropriate for our attention, not just the issues traditionally related to respiratory disease.

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