Upcoming:
June 19, 2024
“REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - Discovery and Early History”,
presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, June 19, 2024.
September 26, 2024
“New Clinical Frontiers and Promising Future Research Areas for Achieving a Deeper
Understanding of Disorders of Arousal”, presented at the symposium “New Findings For Future Perspectives in Disorders of Arousal (From Non-REM Sleep), 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (“SLEEP EUROPE 2024”), Sevilla, Spain, September 26, 2024.
Past:
2024
1. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Past, Present, and Future”, keynote talk at the Academic Committee Symposium, 34th annual American Neuropsychiatric Association meeting, Houston, Texas, March 6, 2024.
2. “The Spectrum of Sleep-Related Injury and Violence” keynote presentation at the 45th Annual Southern Sleep Society meeting (“Igniting Innovation in the Changing Landscape of Sleep Technology”), Alpharetta, Georgia, April 6, 2024.
3. Moderator and Opening Remarks at the Symposium: “Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Sleep Medicine”, 45th Annual Southern Sleep Society meeting (“Igniting Innovation in the Changing Landscape of Sleep Technology”), Alpharetta, Georgia, April 6, 2024.
4. Chair and Introduction for the symposium: “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Sleep Medicine”. SLEEP 2024 (38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies [APSS]), June 3, 2024, Houston, Texas.
2023
1. “Parasomnias”, presented virtually at the 15th Annual UCLA Sleep CME Course, March 18, 2023.
2. “Parasomnia Overlap Disorder and Sleep-Related Psychogenic Dissociative Disorders”, presented at the Postgraduate Course “The Lesser Known ‘Friends’ of RBD and Parasomnia Boundaries”, SLEEP 2023 (37th Annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC, a joint meeting of the Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society), Indianapolis, Indiana, June 3, 2023.
3. “REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD): Understanding the Clinician and Patient Perspectives. Clinical Workshop, SLEEP 2023 (Associated Professional Sleep Societies congress), Indianapolis, Indiana, June 6, 2023. Session W-02
4. “Overview of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (Definition, Diagnosis, Treatment)”, Opening talk, 17th Annual International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder-Study Group meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 8, 2023.
5. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder”, presented at the virtual symposium “The Manifolds of REM Sleep (Celebrating 70 Years of REM Studies and Research)”, King’s College, London, England, September 4, 2023.P
2022
1. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Past, Present, and Future”, presented virtually at the Yale Sleep Medicine Seminar, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, March 2, 2022.
2. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and its close link with alpha-synuclein neurodegenerative disorders”, presented virtually at Grand Rounds, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, March 8, 2022.
3. “Causes of Sleep Violence and Update on RBD and Parasomnia Overlap Disorder”, presented virtually at the “Parasomnias” course, World Sleep 2022 congress, Rome, Italy, March 12, 2022.
4. “Sleep Insufficiency and Increased Risk of Dementia: Focus on the Glymphatic System”, presented at the Southern Sleep Society 44th Annual Meeting (“Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Future of Sleep Medicine”), Birmingham, Alabama, April 23, 2022.
5. “Parasomnias Triggered by Antidepressant Medications: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and Restless Legs Syndrome”, recorded CME lecture for the Psychopharmacology Institute, May 5, 2022.
6. “Parasomnias Triggered by Sedative-Hypnotics: Sleepwalking and Sleep Related Eating Disorder”, recorded CME lecture for the Psychopharmacology Institute, May 12, 2022.
7. Faculty Discussant, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sleep Medicine Fellows Webinar, “Extreme Nocturnal Manifestation of Trauma”, May 11, 2022.
8. “Sleep Insufficiency and Increased Risk of Dementia: Focus on the Glymphatic System”, presented virtually at the XIX Congresso Paulista de Medicina de Sono (19th Sao Paulo Sleep Medicine Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil), May 28, 2022.
9. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Its Discovery and Its Strong Association With Parkinsonian Disorders”, presented at Neuroscience Grand Rounds, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, September 28, 2022.
10. “Welcome Greeting to the Students (from 24 countries and 5 continents) of the World Sleep Academy” (created by the World Sleep Society), recorded on October 16, 2022.
11. “Behavioral Disorders During Sleep”, presented virtually at the International Master in Sleep Medicine course, European University in Madrid, October 26, 2022.
12. “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Current Insights and Research Directions”, keynote speech presented at the “IRC Decoding Sleep Symposium”, 26th Bernese Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Days, Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Switzerland, November 2, 2022.
13. “The Spectrum of Sleep-Related Violence”, presented at the 26th Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Symposium, Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Switzerland, November 3, 2022.
14. “Factors Determining the Phenoconversion of RBD to Neurodegenerative Diseases”, virtual Keynote Lecture presented at the Symposium, “RBD: From Experimental Lab to the Clinical Grounds”, XIX Congresso Brasileiro Do Sono (XIX Brazilian Sleep Congress—SONO 2022). The Brazilian Sleep Association, The Brazilian Sleep Medicine Association, and the Brazilian Sleep Dentistry Association), Goiânia - GO, Brazil, December 1, 2022.