Prioritizing the Patient Voice with Dr. Anne Marie Morse
Channel: Hypersomnia Foundation
Date: 2023-04-14

Welcome to Living With… a new YouTube series presented by Hypersomnia Foundation. For our second episode Claire Wylds-Wright, CEO of Hypersomnia Foundation, sits down with Dr. Anne Marie Morse. 

Dr. Morse is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric neurologist. She is the Director of Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center. She is also an associate professor at the Geisinger School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include sleep-wake disorders in neurologic disease, narcolepsy and hypersomnia disorders and neuroimmunology. Her research interests include sleep-wake disorders in neurologic disease, hypersomnia disorders and sleep-wake disorder phenotyping. Dr. Morse created the ‘Wake Up and Learn’ clinical program. It is a school based sleep education and screening program to help improve sleep culture and optimize daytime performance. This program is designed for elementary through college students. She was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Sleep Research Society Foundation. 

In this episode, Claire and Dr. Morse discuss why beyond being a pediatric sleep clinician, she is also an advocate for sleep awareness, sleep health, sleep medicine, and hypersomnia disorders. She details how she utilizes the power of social media to educate, spread awareness, but also challenge the current sleep industry and medicine in areas they could grow in patient advocacy. She is known as @dammgoodsleep on social media channels.

Claire also seeks insight from Dr. Morse on current medicines and clinical treatments for people living with IH.

Dr. Morse also addresses how the US has a public health crisis due to sleep disorders and the “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” mentality is not a solution. Sleep health trickles down to all areas of life, and as a pediatric neurologist, she is researching how can we create better sleep habits for children in school. Dr. Morse details her research finding from the ‘Wake Up and Learn’ school-based sleep education and screening program that is now being implemented in elementary schools all the way up to college. 

It’s clear that Dr. Morse is working to create healthier living standards through sleep education, advocacy, and treatment. She truly is prioritizing the patient’s voice. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to Hypersomnia Foundation’s YouTube Channel and leave us a comment.

To learn more about Dr. Morse's work, research, and advocacy, please follow her on social media @dammgoodsleep on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You can also find her provider profile here.

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