Advanced Surgical Techniques in Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Dr. Kenny Panggraduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He attained his Fellowship exams from both the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Ireland in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He also passed his Masters of Medicine (Otorhinolaryngology) in 2001. Dr. Pang completed 6 years of ear, nose and throat surgical training, and was accredited as an ENT surgeon/specialist in 2004. Dr. Pang completed a year of sleep surgery and sleep medicine fellowship (with Prof David Terris) in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Georgia Sleep Centre, Medical College of Georgia, United States of America. He is well trained in treating all forms of sleep disorders, including snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep walking, night terrors, bed wetting, and parasomnias. Dr. Pang is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He has published over 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and written over 10 chapters in the various American textbooks. He has also been invited as a speaker in the various sleep surgery courses both regionally and in America.Dr. Tucker Woodsonis Professor and Chief, Division of Sleep Medicine Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, and Co-Director of the Froedtert Center for Sleep at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Trained in Otolaryngology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and dual Board Certified in Sleep Medicine, Dr. Woodson joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1988. Dr. Woodson is nationally and internationally recognized as an expert in the surgical treatment of sleep apnea and disorders of the upper airway. He is a founding member and President or the International Surgical Sleep Society. As a national and international leader in sleep, he has served on the Standards of Practice, Sleep-related Breathing Section, and National Sleep Medicine Course Committees of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Disorders Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Sleep Apnea, and Question Writing Committee of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Woodson s research interests in sleep include understanding and measuring mechanisms of upper airway collapse as well as developing and assessing new surgical therapies and procedures. He is the principal investigator in multiple studies including the first randomized controlled trial of a surgical treatment for sleep apnea. He has published over 80 articles and book chapters predominantly on sleep disorders.Brian Rotenberg, MD, MPH, FRCSC,is an associate professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Western University (London, Canada) and director of the Sleep Surgery Program at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is dual fellowship trained in sinonasal surgery and pediatric surgery, and joined the faculty at Western University in 2007. He is a founding member and co-chief editor of the International Surgical Sleep Society. Dr. Rotenberg is the chair of the Sleep Apnea Interest Group at the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology, and is also involved in panel work on sleep apnea with the American Rhinological Society. He has been an invited speaker internationally on topics relating to sleep apnea and rhinology, and has more than 40 peer reviewed publications as well as funded research grants to study sleep and sinonasal research. He is a medical consultant for guideline publications relating to perioperative management of apneic patients, and is also a consultant for various industry partners working on innovative surgical devices for treatment of apnea and snoring. His research includes establishing evidence-based perioperative outcomes assessments for sleep apnea and diagnosing sleep disorders via computer modeling.