Program Dates
Wednesday afternoon, November 5 – Saturday morning, November 8, 2025
The program at Pediatric Sleep Medicine 2025 includes courses, symposia, keynote, and abstracts.
Courses are scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, November 5 and all day on Thursday, November 6, 2025.
Keynote presentations, symposia, and abstracts will be scheduled for Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, 2025.
Find the latest schedule details below!
Schedule Table of Contents
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Keynotes
Keynotes will be scheduled for Friday, November 7 and the morning of Saturday, November 8.
Ariel Williamson, PhD, DBSM
Assistant Professor, The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and Department of Psychology, The University of Oregon
Title: Community engaged and health equity-focused pediatric sleep research
Chandra Jackson, PhD, MS
Senior Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Title: Exposomic approaches to advance pediatric sleep health and clinical care
Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator, Seattle Children’s Research Institute – Child Health, Behavior and Development
Title: Health equity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Wednesday Afternoon Courses
Last updated March 31, 2025. Schedule information subject to change.
Pediatric Polysomnography
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
1:00pm – 6:00pm
12:55pm – 1:00pm
Welcome and Logistics
Chris Cielo, Dominic Gault
1:00pm – 1:40pm
Infant Sleep-Disordered Breathing
Chris Cielo, DO, MS
1:40pm – 2:20pm
Cardiac Rhythms and Arrythmias in the Sleep Lab
Andrew Ligsay, MD
2:20pm – 2:30pm
Session 1 Q&A
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm – 3:25pm
The Caveats of Performing MSLTs and MWTs
Kiran Maski, MD, MPH
3:25pm – 4:05pm
Artificial Intelligence in Polysomnography
Anuja Bandyopadhyay, MD
4:05pm – 4:15pm
Session 2 Q&A
4:15pm – 4:30pm
Break
4:30pm – 5:10pm
Advanced Pediatric PAP Titration
Iris Perez, MD
5:10pm – 5:50pm
Mastering PAP Masks
Dominic Gault, MD
5:50pm – 6:00pm
Session 3 Q&A
Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Medicine
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
1:00pm – 6:00pm
1:00pm – 1:05pm
Welcome and Logistics
Part 1: Insomnia Across Development
1:05pm – 1:25pm
Infant and toddler sleep disturbances
Jodi Mindell, PhD, DBSM
1:25pm – 1:45pm
Preschool sleep disturbance
Graham Reid, PhD
1:45pm – 2:05pm
Adolescent insomnia
Valerie Crabtree, PhD, DBSM
2:05pm – 2:25pm
Group Q&A
2:25pm – 2:40pm
Break
Part 2: Clinical Topics
2:40pm – 3:00pm
Hypersomnia
Eric Zhou, PhD
3:00pm – 3:20pm
Objective/subjective assessment of pediatric sleep
Lisa J. Meltzer, PhD, DBSM
3:20pm – 3:40pm
PAP Adherence
Melissa S. Xanthopolous, PhD, MS
3:40pm – 4:00pm
Group Q&A
4:00pm – 4:15pm
Break
Part 3: DEI Issues
4:15pm – 4:35pm
Adapting behavioral interventions for socio-demographically diverse populations
Ariel Williamson, PhD, DBSM
4:35pm – 4:55pm
Sleep and foster care
Candice Alfano, PhD
4:55pm – 5:15pm
Sleep and trauma
Michal Kahn, PhD
5:15pm – 5:35pm
Group Q&A
Thursday Full-Day Course
Best Practices in Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Thursday, November 6, 2025
8:00am – 4:30pm
8:00am – 8:10am
Introduction
8:10am – 8:40am
Pediatric OSA
Chris Cielo
8:40am – 9:10am
Central Sleep Apnea
Olufunke Afolabi-Brown
9:10am – 9:30am
Coffee break
9:30am – 10:15am
Management of Narcolepsy & Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Kiran Maski
10:15am – 11:00am
RSD & RLS in Children
Roberta Leu
11:00am – 11:45am
Parasomnias and Nocturnal Seizures
Madeline Grigg-Damberger
11:45am – 12:45pm
Lunch (included with course ticket)
12:45pm – 1:15pm
Sleep in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Althea Robinson Shelton
1:15pm – 1:45pm
Updated Technology Mitigation Strategies
Lisa Meltzer
1:45pm – 2:15pm
Circadian Rhythm Disorders
Valerie Crabtree
2:15pm – 2:35pm
Coffee break
2:35pm – 3:20pm
Non-pharm management of insomnia
Ariel Williamson
3:20pm – 4:05pm
Medical Management of Insomnia (including melatonin)
Judy Owens
4:05pm – 4:30pm
Question and answer
Symposia and Abstracts
Schedule forthcoming for sessions on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8. Sign up for conference updates to be notified when the next schedule update is released.