The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Neurodiagnostics and Sleep Science (NDSS) program hosted its third annual symposium titled “A Day of Sleep,” on Thursday, December 3, 2015. Tempur Sealy International sponsored the symposium, which focused on the topic of sleep monitoring at home. Keynote speakers included Brad Vaughn, MD, and Heidi Roth, MD, both with the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology.
Presentation topics included the following:
- Fitbits, actigraphs, and sleep-related phone apps
- Evidence-based mattress sensor development
- Pillows for sleep and head position
- Snoring vs. apnea
- Home sleep monitoring and lessons learned from research
The symposium was offered as a free continuing education course for UNC-CH NDSS students, faculty, UNC Health Care polysomnographic technologists, and other UNC health professionals.
Student Scholarships
Tempur Sealy International has been a generous Platinum Partner of the UNC NDSS Corporate Partners Program since 2012, and the company has funded seven scholarships for students from across the country over the past two years.
The program is part of a partnership between the bedding producer and the country’s only bachelor degree program for sleep clinicians to drive insight, innovation, and treatments for sleep.
The four 2015-2016 Tempur-Sealy UNC NDSS scholarship recipients are:
- Tabitha Althoff from Brookfield, Wisconsin
- Amy Carlson from Houston, Texas
- Charlene Layer from Sound Beach, New York
- Leko Morris-Myers from Statesville, North Carolina
“We are grateful to our corporate sponsors, such as Tempur Sealy, for providing our students with this excellent opportunity to engage in real-world teaching activities beyond the classroom,” said Dr. Mary Ellen Wells, NDSS program director.
The UNC NDSS bachelor degree, the first of its kind in the world, is offered by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with collaborative coursework offered by UNC-CH. Graduates of the UNC NDSS program benefit from the unique curricula which reflect the ever-changing nature of clinical practice and patient care. This innovative, online degree program is designed to help meet the rapidly expanding need for neurodiagnostics and sleep technology professionals.
Student presenters:
- Cheree Scholl
- Sherrita Barnes
- Deborah Panza
- Leko Morris-Myers
- Ryan Spruill
- Nisha Burleson
- Amy Carlson
- Eric D’Amico
- Amber Fleming
- Ashley Hastings
- Kristy Mackell
- Tabitha Althoff
- Regina Arocha