LWWW Well Talk – Ingredients for a Good Night’s Sleep

Friday, June 4, 2021, 8:00 AM - Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 9:00 AM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours), General Attendance (1.00 hours)

Join Adam Sorscher, MD for an informative discussion of how the consequences of poor sleep affect public health and individual health and well-being. Dr. Sorscher will focus on the diagnosis and treatment of three common sleep disorders: obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, and shift work sleep disorder. If you or someone close to you is “tired of being tired” because of poor sleep, we encourage you to attend this lunchtime event.

Activity Details
You may claim CME credit/CNE contact hours for successful completion of this online course. In order to claim credit/contact hours, you must follow these steps:

1. Register for the learning activity by creating an account or logging in to your account.
2. Click Tests and then View Content to view the recording. View the entire presentation.
3. Complete the Post-Test attestation.
4. Click My Account in the menu bar; then click Evaluation,
5. Complete and Submit the Evaluation.

When the evaluation is submitted, you will be awarded credits/contact hours. You may access your transcript for verification of participation at any time via your Account. Need help? Visit the Support Page, send an Email, or call the Center for Learning and Professional Development at (603) 653-1234, Option 1.

Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of this presentation, (at least 75% of) participants will be able to discuss key issues related to sleep including consequences of and treatments available for inadequate sleep and sleep disorders.

Presenter
Adam J. Sorscher, MD
Dr. Adam Sorscher is the Medical Director of The Sleep Health Center at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth. His areas of focus include circadian rhythm disorders and parasomnia. He is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine, and completed a Fellowship in 2003 in Sleep Disorders Medicine at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Requirements for Successful Completion
In order to receive credit for this Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Nursing Education (CME/CNE) activity, you must:
View the entire presentation
Complete the online Attestation of Attendance & Evaluation Form (you must register to access).

Disclosure
The following activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported the following financial interest or relationship with various companies/organizations.  The Speaker role was resolved by altering the financial relationship(s) with the commercial interest (relationship ended) and his presentation was reviewed by the Activity Director and determined to be free of commercial bias. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.

Adam Sorscher, MD ~ was a consultant to Eisai Co.

Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content  for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations. There were no individuals in a position to control the content who refused to disclose.

*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.

Bibliographic Resources
American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research. Edited by Edited by Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006.

The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health. 
Provider contact information

Provider Contact Information
Provider contact information for questions regarding accreditation of the activity:

Center for Learning and Professional Development
Dartmouth Health
[email protected]

Dartmouth Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Dartmouth Health designated this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Dartmouth Health Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity carries 1.00 contact hours.