Managing Sleep to Sustain Performance
Gregory Belenky, MD
Presented Thursday, February 7, 2008
Disclosure: This course has been planned and implemented in accordance with ACOEM. This speaker has no significant financial interest or other relationship with any commercial products mentioned in this presentation.
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This presentation has been approved by the ACOEM for CME credit until December 31, 2009.
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Learning Objectives:
- Understand the components of fatigue
- Time Awake / Sleep-Wake History
- Time of Day / Circadian Rhythm
- Time on Task / Task Duration and Complexity
- Understand the effects of sleep loss (total sleep deprivation and mild, moderate, and severe sleep restriction) on performance
- Understand what brain imaging studies tell us about sleep and sleep loss
- Understand the theory that sleep is a use-dependent, local phenomenon
- Understand the principles of fatigue risk management
- The Harvard studies
- Union Pacific
Gregory Belenky, MD
Research Professor and Director
Sleep and Performance Research Center
Washington State University
Spokane, WA
Gregory Belenky, MD received a BA in Psychology from Yale University and an MD from Stanford University. He completed a year of internal medicine at the University of Utah and 3 years of psychiatry training at Yale. He spent 29 years on active duty with the U.S. Army in the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Materiel Command, leading the Army’s research effort in sleep and performance from 1984 through 2004. He retired from the Army in 2004. He is currently Research Professor and Director of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University. |
