Invitation to Attend A Meeting On Dental Sleep Medicine
Location: Large Lecture Theatre, Dublin Dental University Hospital
Date: Saturday Morning 8th October 2022
Cost: This meeting is free of charge
Morning Schedule:
9.00 Registration in Common Room
9.30 Speaker: Prof Marc Braem
Title: What is sleep medicine, basics and treatment approaches?
10.15 Speaker: Dr Brian Kent
Title: Clinical Impact and Diagnosis of OSA
11.00 Coffee Break and Trade Exhibition 11.30 Speaker: Prof Marc Braem
Title: About titration, a means to get there or a goal? 12.15 Speaker: Dr Paul Reaney
Title: Wake up to accuracy in dental sleep medicine 1.00 End of lectures/Interaction with sponsors
Speaker Biographies: Prof Marc Braem
Prof Braem is the Honorary President of the European Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and was responsible for the development of the dental sleep medicine accreditation program that works in liaison with national dental sleep medicine societies in Europe. He qualified as a dentist in 1975 and he defended his PhD in 1980. He is currently a full professor in the University of Antwerp.
He is recognised internationally as a leading expert on dental sleep medicine, and he has published extensively in peer reviewed journals on this subject.
In 2017 Prof Braem received the “Pierre Robin Award” from the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.
Dr Paul Reaney
Paul is a dentist with a special interest in orthodontics and has successfully incorporated a Dental Sleep Medicine Clinic, Snoring SolutionsNI, within his general practice. He gained accreditation by examination with the European Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and is currently a committee member of the Irish Society of Dental Sleep Medicine.
His implementation of digital technology in Dental Sleep Medicine has been recognised by winning:
Best Digital Practice 2019 International Digital Dentistry Awards
Best High Technology Practice category in the 2020 and 2022 Irish Dental Awards.
Practice of the Year and Best Patient Care in the UK Private Dentistry Awards 2020
Dr Brian Kent
Dr Kent is a consultant respiratory and sleep physician. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he completed specialist training in respiratory medicine in Dublin, before undertaking a three-year Health Research Board-funded Research Training Fellowship in Sleep Medicine.
Following this, he was appointed as a consultant in respiratory and sleep medicine in Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London in 2013. Over the
following six years, he helped build one of Europe’s largest multidisciplinary sleep services, and also established one of the largest severe asthma services in the UK, before returning to St James’s Hospital in 2019.
Dr Kent’s clinical practice encompasses the full range of physical sleep disorders, from obstructive sleep apnoea to parasomnia to narcolepsy, and the care of people with difficult and severe asthma, alongside other respiratory diseases.
Sponsors
We are extremely grateful to the following sponsors:
• OrthoApnea
Prosomnus
SomnoMed
Panthera
Zoll Intamar
DMI
ExciteOSA