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Dear Chairs, OSA is affecting one in four males and one in ten females in North America. With the aging of the population and the obesity epidemic in USA, the prevalence of OSA will increase. We consider ourselves as perioperative physicians. We are the airway experts. This is a golden opportunity for us to play a larger role in sleep medicine. As a specialty, we can cross link with sleep medicine. OSA has great health implications with the autoimmune responses, inflammation, and its close relation with cardiorespiratory diseases, stroke, DM, RA, and metabolic syndromes. We can help in identifying OSA early. University of Toronto and University of San Diego are organizing a satellite symposium on "Challenges in the perioperative management of OSA patients" on Oct 15, Friday before the ASA meeting. I hope that you can let anesthesiologists in your department know about the meeting. The website is: http://cme.ucsd.edu/osa/ In addition, we are organizing a small group of 20 anesthesiologists internationally with a research interest in sleep disorders and anesthesia to meet after the satellite symposium to discuss issues of common interest. If you have a member of your department who is currently doing research in OSA area, please kindly let me know his/her name, contact information and email address. Thank you for your help Frances Chung |
