Explore all 25 courses offered at World Sleep 2025 in Singapore.
Courses will be in person in Singapore on Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7, 2025.
View course topics, co-chairs, and more details below in the schedule overview.

How to Register for Courses
Each course requires a separate ticket.
You can purchase tickets by adding them within your congress registration form when registering for the main program.
You also have the option to attend only the courses and not the main scientific program. You can make this selection in the congress registration form.
Already registered for World Sleep 2025? You can return to your registration form to add course tickets. Find instructions to modify your existing registration here: Modify Your Registration
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Ticket Rates
All course tickets include lunch for the day of the course.

Course Committee
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
United States
Meir Kryger
United States
Naricha Chirakalwasan
Thailand
Clete Kushida
United States
Karen Spruyt
France
Schedule Overview
Find the course program overview below.
Want the latest details on presentations and speakers? Check the online schedule for World Sleep 2025.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
C-01: Circadian dysfunction in health and disease
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Joshua Gooley (Singapore), Phyllis C. Zee (United States)
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C-02: Year in review
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Sean Drummond (Australia)
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C-03: AI’s potential to improve sleep research and sleep medicine
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Amir Sharafkhaneh (United States), Thomas Penzel (Germany)
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C-04: Sleep apnea diagnosis and management: Current treatments
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand), Atul Malhotra (United States)
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C-05: Insomnia: Behavioral treatments
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: CM Yang (Taiwan), Bei Bei (Australia)
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C-06: Pediatric sleep medicine
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Rosemary Horne (Australia), Michal Kahn (Israel)
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C-07: The future of diagnosis and management of OSA
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Danny Eckert (Australia), Robert Thomas (United States)
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C-08: Insomnia: Pharmacological treatments
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: David Neubauer (United States), YK Wing (Hong Kong)
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C-09: Adolescent sleep medicine
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Perran Boran (Turkey), Judith Owens (United Sates)
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C-24: Understanding narcolepsy: A comprehensive clinical update
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Raffaele Ferri (Italy), Phyllis C. Zee (United States)
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C-25: Cadaveric hands-on workshop at Changi General Hospital
9:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Stanley Liu (United States), Jern-Lin Leong (Singapore), Maria Suurna (United States)
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Sunday, September 7, 2025
C-10: Narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin: From mechanism to management
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Fang Han (China), Morenikeji Komolafe (Nigeria)
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C-11: Sleep, aging, and neurodegeneration
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: Aleks Videnovic (United States), Mei Sian Chong (Singapore)
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C-12: Sleep-related movement disorders
8:00am – 5:00pm
Chairs: John Winkelman (United States), Yuichi Inoue (Japan), Raffaele Ferri (Italy)
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C-13: Comorbid insomnia and sleep apnea (COMISA): When common conditions co-occur
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Melinda Jackson (Australia), Leon Lack (Australia)
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C-14: Dental sleep medicine
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Mimi Yow (Singapore), Stephen Carstensen (United States)
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C-15: Wearables and sleep trackers
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Michael Chee (Singapore), Cathy Goldstein (United States)
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C-16: Sleep, psychiatry, and mental health
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Ahmed BaHammam (Saudi Arabia), Charles Morin (Canada)
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C-17: Cardiovascular consequences of sleep apnea: What is new?
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Virend Somers (United States), Kate Chan (Hong Kong)
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C-18: Essentials of sleep surgery: Tools, techniques, and tactics
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Stanley Liu (United States), Shaun Loh (Singapore), Maria Suurna (United States)
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C-19: Parasomnias
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Carlos Schenck (United States), Federica Provini (Italy)
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C-20: Sleep health
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Daniel Buysse (United States), Rebecca Robillard (Canada)
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C-21: Genetics and sleep disorders
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Juliane Winkelmann (Germany), Sutapa Mukherjee (Australia)
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C-22: Occupational Health and shift work
8:00am – 12:00pm
Chairs: Mark Howard (Australia), Sveta Postnova (Australia)
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C-23: Navigating your research career: Skill development and career advice for early and mid-career researchers
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Chairs: Christina Bini (Sweden), Nicole Grivell (Australia)
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