Respiratory Disorders

National Sleep Awareness Week
March 28-April 3, 2005

Community Health Talk: March 28, 2005

Shift Work and Sleep Disorders
Speaker:  Steven Koenig, MD, FCCP

When:  March 28, 2005

Light refreshments:
  5 pm-6 pm (courtesy of Cephalon, Inc.  Please email Lori Borish (
LB8SA@virginia.edu
) if you will be able to join us for refreshments.

Health Talk:  6pm-7pm, Camp Heart Auditorium, UVa Hospital


Sponsored by UVa Sleep Disorders Center and Human Resources Center for Organizational Development

Are you a shift worker who finds it hard to stay awake at night and just as hard to get to sleep and stay asleep during the day?  Do you know a shift worker who just doesn’t sleep well?  More than 22 million Americans are shift workers, and that number is growing by 3% each year! Unfortunately, when it comes to sleep, most shift workers don't get enough. Night workers get less sleep than daytime workers do, and the sleep is less restful. Chronic lack of sleep harms a person's health, on-the-job safety, task performance, memory and mood

Come learn about the impact of shift work on sleep and hear how excessive sleepiness may be diagnosed and treated.

This program has been approved for 1.0 contact hours Continuing Respiratory Care Education

(CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care, 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 100 Irving TX 75063

Course # 250797000

1.2 Continuing Nursing Education Contact hours will be provided

The Human Resources Center for Organizational Development, University of Virginia Health System, is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Virginia Nurses’ Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (03-11-01 ).