Invited Lectures

Half a Century of sleep research history: Does the Past Guide the Future?
Peretz Lavie (Israel)

Sleep Medicine in the 21st Century
Charles Czeisler (USA)
Supported by Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and NSW Clinical Excellence Commission

Sleep Heart Health - Study what we have learnt
Naresh Punjabi (USA)

Symposium

Quality and Reliability in PSG Scoring

Robert Pierce (Australia)
Peter Rochford (Australia)
Stuart Quan (USA)
Andrew Thornton (Australia)
Conrad Iber (USA)
David Rapaport (USA)

Symposium

Acute stimulating effects of short-wavelength light exposure: Alertness, Performance, EEG and fMRI

Christian Cajochen (Switzerland)
Joshua Gooley (USA)
Gilles Vanderwalle (Belgium)
Shantha Rajaratnam (Australia)

Symposium

Sleep disturbances in Parkinson's Disease

Sebastiaan Overeem (Netherlands)
Isabelle Arnulf (France)
Jacques Montplaisir (Canada)
Rolf Fronczek (Netherlands)

Symposium

Orexin/Hypocretin Actions: The Cellular Basis for Arousal

Barbara Jones (Canada)
Michel Muhlethaler (Switzerland)
Christopher Leonard (USA)
Ritchie Brown (USA)

Symposium

Genetic, developmental and neurochemical mechanisms underlying state-dependent breathing dysfunction in human disease

George Richerson (USA)
Jan Marino Ramirez (USA)
Leszek Kubin (USA)
Ronald Harper (USA)

Symposium

Insomnia and mood disorders: Recent advances and clinical implications

Allison Harvey (USA)
Rachel Manber (USA)
Michael Perlis (USA)

Special Lecture

Quantitative modelling of sleep dynamics
Peter Robinson (Australia)

Symposium

Brain dynamics during sleep

Marcello Massimini (USA)
Peter Achermann (Switzerland)
Marcus Wilson (New Zealand)
Steve Esser (USA)

Symposium / Special Invited Lecture

Helen Bearpark Memorial Lecture:
Selling Sleep

William Dement (USA)

Symposium

Research Translation in Sleep Medicine

Kevin Morgan (United Kingdom)
Peretz Lavie (Israel)
Victor Spoormaker (United Kingdom)

Panel Discussion to follow

Trainee Program
Oral Presentations

Free Communications

Shaun Williams (Australia)
Kerstin Hoedlmoser (Austria)
Keith Wong (Australia)
Sara Dawson (Australia)
Henry Orff (USA)

Symposium

When Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Homeostasis Interfere:from genes
to disease risk

Paul Franken (Switzerland)
Malcolm von Schantz (United Kingdom)
Rachel Leproult (USA)
Hitoshi Okamura (Japan)

Symposium / Panel Discussion

Recognition and management of complex sleep disordered breathing

Timothy Morganthaler (USA)
Robert Thomas (USA)
David Rapoport (USA)

Symposium

New neurons in the adult brain: the role of sleep and the consequences of sleep loss

Peter Meerlo (Netherlands)
Craig Heller (USA)
Dennis McGinty (USA)
Ralph Mistleberger (Canada)
Barry L. Jacobs (USA)

Symposium

Genetic Studies of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Richard Schwab (USA)
Thorarin Gilason (Iceland)
Walter McNicholas (Ireland)
Allan Pack (USA)

Symposium / Special Invited Lecture

Sleep disorders in patients with Cancer

Ian Hickie (Australia)
Sonia Ancoli-Israel (USA)
Josee Savard (Canada)
Gerald Rosen (USA)
Kathy Parker (USA)
Colin Espie (United Kingdom)

Symposium

Individual vulnerability to sleep deprivation: Insights into sleep-wake mechanisms in health and disease

Michael Czisch (Germany)
Sean Drummond (USA)
Hans-Peter Landolt (Switzerland)
Ulrich Hemmeter (Germany)