Briefcase

Diagnostic Tools: A Process of Exclusion

Launch Date
06/30/2023 at 4:00 am EST
Credit Amount
0.5
Credit Expires
12/31/2025
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Faculty

Michael J. Thorpy, MD
Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director, Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, Department of Neurology
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
President, New York State Society of Sleep Medicine
Past President, Sleep Section of the Academy of Neurology
Michael J. Thorpy, MD

Dr. Thorpy is a Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center in the Department of Neurology at Montefiore Medical Center, both in New York. In addition to treating patients with sleep disorders, he conducts research in narcolepsy, insomnia, and sleep apnea. He is President of the New York State Society of Sleep Medicine, Past President of the Sleep Section of the Academy of Neurology, and Past Secretary of the National Sleep Foundation. In 1993 Dr. Thorpy received the Nathaniel Kleitman Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, one of the field’s highest honors, and in 2012 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Sleep Foundation.

Born in New Zealand, Dr. Thorpy earned his medical degree from the University of Otago Medical School. After receiving postgraduate training in Dunedin, New Zealand; Bombay, India; and London, England, he completed his residency in neurology at the State University of New York in Syracuse and a neuroendocrinology fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Thorpy is board certified in sleep medicine.

He has published extensively on narcolepsy, insomnia, and sleep disorders. He chaired the first International Classification of Sleep Disorders and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, including publications in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine. His numerous books include The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Parasomnias (2010), Sleepiness (2011), Neuroimaging of Sleep and Sleep Disorders (2012), Genetics of Sleep and Sleep Disorders (2013), Narcolepsy: a Clinical Guide (2016), and SleepMultiMedia, The Computerized Textbook of Sleep Medicine (v12).0 (2023).

Dr. Thorpy has given more than 100 television, radio, and print interviews on sleep disorders.

Anne Marie Morse, DO, FAASM
Associate Professor
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Director, Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center
Janet Weis Children’s Hospital
Danville, PA
Anne Marie Morse, DO, FAASM

Dr. Anne Marie Morse is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital. She has significant clinical and research experience and interest in children, adolescents, and adults with sleep wake disorders, particularly central disorders of hypersomnolence. In addition, her research interests extend more broadly to include investigating the relationship between sleep and neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr Morse’s commitment to sleep health extends into the community. She has developed a school-based sleep education and surveillance program called Wake Up and Learn.  This program was developed to provide education about sleep health and perform school-based sleep screening to improve recognition of pediatric sleep disorders in middle and high school students. It has now expanded to include learners in college, medical school, and medical residency programs with a clinical and health plan delivery, called Sleep to Be Well. Dr. Morse envisions a world where sleep can be acknowledged as the vital sign of health, wellness, and performance that it is designed to be.

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Statement of Need

Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) is a difficult disease state to identify, compounded by suboptimal clinician understanding. Data shows that clinicians lack the ability to identify IH based on clinical presentation and changes in quality of life (QoL), with correct diagnosis often taking a decade or more. Additionally, data shows that clinicians lack knowledge regarding diagnostic process for IH. This has a tremendous impact on patients’ abilities to function, and often prevents patients and their families from living a full life. Timely and accurate diagnosis must be achieved if patients are to improve, as the current timeline to diagnosis of up to 10-15 years is not reasonable for patients who are suffering.

In this CMEO BriefCase activity, join expert faculty Dr. Thorpy and Dr. Morse for a discussion on best practices to integrate appropriate assessments and tools to facilitate early diagnosis of IH.

Learning Objective

Integrate appropriate assessments and tools to facilitate early diagnosis of IH.

Financial Support

This program is supported by an independent medical education grant from Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

Target Audience

Sleep specialists, primary care physicians, pulmonologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, physician associates (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs), nurses, and pharmacists.

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Dr. Thorpy reports the following financial relationships:

Advisory Board/Consultant: Alkermes; Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.; Balance Therapeutics; Eisai Inc.; Flamel Technologies/Avadel; Harmony Biosciences; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; NLS Pharmaceutics; Suven Life Sciences Ltd.; Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.; and XWPharma Ltd.

Dr. Morse reports the following financial relationships:

Advisory Board: Alkermes; Avadel; Harmony Biosciences; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

Grants: Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and ResMed Foundation

Research Support: Geisinger Health Plan; Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and UCB, Inc.

Speakers Bureau: Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Employment: DAMM Good Sleep, LLC (CEO)

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  • Rebecca Vargas-Jackson, MD (peer reviewer)
  • Evan Luberger (planning committee)
  • John Jones, PharmD (planning committee)
  • Susan H. Yarbrough, CHCP (planning committee)
  • Sandra Caballero, PharmD (planning committee)
  • Sharon Tordoff (planning committee)

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Diagnostic Tools: A Process of Exclusion
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