Management of Sleep Disorders in Psychiatry

Amit Chopra, MD is a practicing psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist at Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chopra has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and has won numerous awards in his clinical and research career. Dr. Chopra currently serves as a principal investigator in multiple research projects that integrate the areas of his special interests including sleep disorders, mood disorders and neuromodulation. Dr. Chopra is deeply invested in improving identification and treatment of common sleep disorders in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings to improve clinical care outcomes. Piyush Das, MD is a sleep medicine physician and adult inpatient/consultation-liaison psychiatrist with Centracare Health system. Dr. Das is also a clinical fellow in Integrative Psychiatry with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute at the University of Colorado. Dr. Das is motivated to improve patient outcomes by figuring out and addressing root cause(s) of mental illness in a given individual. Dr. Das has authored and collaborated on multiple PubMed Indexed publications. He was awarded the Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Foundation Resident Research Award for one of the best research articles. Karl Doghramji, MD is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Medical Director of the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Doghramji works as a clinician, researcher, educator, and physician leader, and has a national clinical and academic reputation in sleep medicine and biological psychiatry. He is actively engaged in interdisciplinary care with academic contributions in the fields of psychiatry, sleep medicine, otolaryngology, neurology, and pulmonary medicine.

Introduction to Sleep Medicine
1) Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry: The Inseparable Two
2) Sleep Architecture and Physiology
3) Neurobiology of Sleep and Wakefulness
4) Circadian rhythms
5) Sleep and Cognition
6) Office based Evaluation of Sleep Disordered Patients
7) Clinical Applications of Technical Procedures in Sleep Medicine

Sleep-Wake Disorders
8) Insomnia disorder-Pathophysiology
9) Insomnia disorder- Pharmacological treatments
10) Insomnia disorder- Behavioral Treatments
11) Hypersomnolence disorders
12) Parasomnias
13) Circadian rhythm Sleep-Wake disorders
14) Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
15) Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders
16) Pediatric sleep-wake disorders

Sleep and Psychiatric disorders
17) Depressive Disorders
18) Bipolar and Related Disorders
19) Anxiety Disorders
20) Trauma and Stressor-Related disorders:
21) Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic disorders
22) Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
23) Neurodevelopmental disorders
24) Delirium
25) Neurocognitive Disorders
26) Neuropsychiatric disorders
27) Pain Disorders
28) Psychotropic medications and Sleep
29) Forensic Sleep Medicine
30) Eating Disorders
31) Future of Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry