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Article: Sleep medicine strives to unite multiple disciplines.(Psychosomatic Medicine)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- March 1, 2008
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The need to unite sleep specialists from multiple academic departments challenges the field of sleep medicine, Dr. Ronald D. Chervin said at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
"Because sleep is relevant to so many different departments, there is not always good integration across campus," said Dr. Chervin, a professor of sleep medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Chervin is also a professor of neurology and the director of the university's sleep disorders center.
For example, a sleep scientist may not rub elbows daily with a pulmonologist or ENT specialist, he said.
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