Complex Sleep Breathing Disorders

Christine Won, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Yale University School of Medicine Medical Director, Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine New Haven, CT Dr. Won is the Director of the Women's Sleep Health Program at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a board certified sleep specialist who is also trained and certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. Her clinical and research interests include complex sleep related breathing disorders, and sex-differences in sleep disordered breathing and hypersomnias. Dr. Won is the Director of the Yale Centers for Sleep Medicine. She is active in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, having served on their Education committee and Chaired the Sleep-disordered breathing section committee. She has served on the Program committee for the international SLEEP meeting. She is a member of the national VA Sleep Network, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Sleep Society. She is currently the President-elect for the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Won received her medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Sleep, Pulmonary and Critical Care, and undergraduate training at Stanford University.

Chapter 1. Hypercapnic Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- Chapter 2. Central Sleep Apnea and Opioid Use.- Chapter 3. Sleep Apnea and Stroke.- Chapter 4. Obstructive and Central Sleep Apnea and Atrial Fibrillation.- Chapter 5. Cheyne Stokes Breathing and Heart Failure.- Chapter 6. Sleep Disordered Breathing and Pulmonary Hypertension.- Chapter 7. Primary Central Sleep Apnea.-Chapter 8. Treatment-Emergent Central Sleep Apnea.- Chapter 9. Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome.- Chapter 10. Sleep Breathing Disorders during Pregnancy.- Chapter 11. Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome.- Chapter 12. Sleep Breathing Disorders in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.- Chapter 13.  Alveolar Hypoventilation and COPD.- Chapter 14. Nocturnal Hypoventilation and Restrictive Thoracic Disease.-Chapter 15. Respiratory failure in the Post-operative Patient.-Chapter 16. Sleep Disordered Breathing at High Altitude.- Chapter 17: Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS).-Chapter 18. Sleep Breathing Disorders in Prader-Willi Syndrome.- Chapter 19. Rapid-Onset Obesity with Hypothalamic Dysfunction, Hypoventilation and Autonomic Dysregulation (ROHHAD).- Chapter 20. Sleep Disordered Breathing in Arnold Chiari Malformation.- Chapter 21. Sleep Breathing Disorders in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.