The Home Testing
Podcast Series

A study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine finds home testing for sleep apnea is as effective as in-laboratory polysomnography in terms of patient outcomes. We asked leading sleep medicine physicians involved in research and sleep center management about the study and what they saw as the role of home testing in sleep apnea diagnosis. Opinions ranged the gamut from support for home testing to home testing being "a tempest in a teapot" and unnecessary.

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Roundtable Discussion
Featuring:
William Dement, MD, PhD
Kin Yuen, MD
Dominic A. Munafo, MD
Ed Grandi, ASAA Executive Director

Part 6 (11 min 25 sec)
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On March 14, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reopened the issue of whether its diagnostic coverage criteria for CPAP should allow other forms of testing besides just in-laboratory polysomnography. William Dement, MD, PhD, chief of the division of sleep medicine at Stanford University; Kin Yuen, MD, research director for the home testing company SleepQuest, Redwood City, Calif; Dominic A. Munafo, MD, medical director for the home testing company Sleep Data, San Diego, Calif; and Ed Grandi, executive director of the American Sleep Apnea Association, Washington, DC, discuss the implications of what CMS is considering.


February 26, 2007



William C. Dement, MD, PhD
Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine

Part 1 (6 min 30 sec)
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William C. Dement, MD, PhD, is the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Division Chief of the Stanford University Division of Sleep Medicine. In 1970, Dement started the world's first sleep disorders clinic. He was co-founder of the Sleep Research Society and founding President of the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA, now the American Academy of Sleep Medicine). He is the author or co-author of approximately 500 scientific publications, including the authoritative textbook for medical professionals, Principles and Practices of Sleep Medicine.


February 27, 2007



Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH
Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Kentucky

Part 2 (6 min 13 sec)
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Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH, is Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Kentucky. She directs the Sleep Disorders Center at Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Ky. She is Chair of the Board of the National Sleep Foundation and serves on the Steering Committee of the Sleep Institute of the American College of Chest Physicians. She has served on the board of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Lung Association, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation, and the American Board of Sleep Medicine. She is a past recipient of a Sleep Academic Award from the NIH.


February 28, 2007



Michael J. Breus, PhD, DABSM
Founder and Senior Partner
The Sleep Center Management Institute (SCMI)

http://www.soundsleepsolutions.com

Part 3 (5 min 30 sec)
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Michael J. Breus, PhD, DABSM, is founder and senior partner of The Sleep Center Management Institute (SCMI), the sleep medicine expert for WebMD, and a member of the Sleep Review editorial advisory board. Dr. Breus is board-certified in both clinical psychology and clinical sleep disorders. He is senior vice president of clinical operations for the Aret� Sleep Health sleep laboratories and founded the patient education Web site www.soundsleepsolutions.com. His new book is "Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health."


March 1, 2007



Dominic A. Munafo, MD, DABSM
Medical Director
Sleep Data

Part 4 (5 min 42 sec)
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Dominic A. Munafo, MD, DABSM, is the medical director for Sleep Data www.sleepdata.com , a San Diego-based home sleep test provider, and an assistant clinical professor (voluntary) at the University of California San Diego. He received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Tex, and completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is board certified in Sleep Medicine and Internal Medicine.


March 2, 2007



David P. White, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Part 5 (5 min 39 sec)
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David P. White, MD, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the is the director of the clinical sleep program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the medical director of Sleep Health Centers, LLC in Newton, Mass. He currently serves on the board of directors for the American Board of Sleep Medicine is a former editor in chief of the journal Sleep.


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