Conference Programme
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Pre-conference · April 14, 2026
Registration and Lunch
Track A
Drug-induced sedation endoscopy (DISE) and treatment options
The standard treatment of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). However, almost fifty percent of patients do not comply with this treatment. Other treatment options include non-invasive treatment with e.g., mandibular advancement devices (MAD), or surgical treatment. To help select between these treatment options we recommend a DISE examination to clarify which soft tissues cause the upper airway collapse during apneas. This allows us to offer targeted treatment suited for the individual patient.
Learning goals
- During this workshop you will be introduced to DISE-examinations
- Learn how to score them
- Learn how to draw conclusions for potential treatment options
Primary contact
Eva Kirkegaard Kiaer
Senior Consultant, PhD, Head of the Danish Center for Sleep Surgery, Department of Oto-rhino-laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Audiology,
Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
eva.kirkegaard.kiaer.01@regionh.dk
Track B
CBT-I and BBTI – Practical Tools for Managing Insomnia in Clinical Practice
This Training Course provides an applied introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia (BBTI). Participants will gain insight into the theoretical foundations and practical components of these evidence-based approaches and learn how to integrate simple behavioral and cognitive tools for insomnia management into everyday clinical practice. The session combines lectures, case discussions, and interactive exercises to enhance learning and practical application.
Learning goals
- Understand the key principles and components of CBT-I and BBTI.
- Identify common behavioral and cognitive factors that maintain insomnia.
- Apply core CBT-I and BBTI strategies (e.g., sleep restriction, stimulus control, relaxation, cognitive restructuring) in clinical encounters.
- Adapt insomnia management strategies for patients with comorbid conditions.
- Increase confidence in addressing sleep difficulties within general healthcare settings.
Primary contact
Henny Dyrberg
Clinical psychologist, Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital Psychiatry, Aarhus, Denmark
henndyrb@rm.dk
Track C
Clinical practice in evaluation of polysomnography, partial polygraphy (including cardiorespiratory monitoring, CRM) and selected sleep–wake measures
In this course, we will review both basic and more advanced requirements for indication, use, execution, interpretation and reporting of examinations used in clinical sleep diagnostics.
The course covers:
- Polysomnography (PSG), including sleep stage scoring and interpretation
- Partial polygraphy, including cardiorespiratory monitoring (CRM), in the evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing and hypoxic burden
- Selected sleep–wake (SW) measures, such as actigraphy, wearable devices and long-term recordings
The course is aimed at healthcare professionals who wish to understand both fundamental principles and more advanced use of sleep diagnostic methods. Teaching is auditorium-based and interactive, with illustrative examples. Due to time constraints, there will be no possibility for practical exercises.
Sleep across the lifespan will be discussed, but the main focus is on adult sleep diagnostics.
Learning goals
- Evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing and implications of hypoxic burden.
- Polysomnography: sleep stage scoring; principles, strengths and limitations; and interpretation.
- PSG evaluation of complex disorders: indications, pitfalls and relevant PSG variables.
- Evaluation of sleep–wake disturbances using actigraphy, wearable devices and long-term recordings – use and limitations.
Primary contact
Poul Jørgen Jennum
Professor, Chief physician, DMSc. Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
poul.joergen.jennum@regionh.dk
Coffee Break
Track A
Paediatric and adolescent sleep
Sleep problems in children and adolescents are highly prevalent yet frequently underrecognized. This interactive workshop provides an overview of normal sleep development, key principles in approaching young patients with sleep complaints, and practical strategies for clinical evaluation and management. Common presentations such as insomnia, restless sleep, and excessive daytime sleepiness will be explored through clinical case discussions. The session is designed for clinicians seeking to strengthen their foundational understanding of paediatric sleep medicine and to apply evidence-based approaches in daily practice.
Learning goals
- Describe normal sleep patterns and developmental changes from infancy through adolescence.
- Systematically approach history taking and assessment in paediatric and adolescent sleep consultations.
- Recognize and differentiate the most frequent sleep complaints — insomnia, restless sleep, and excessive daytime sleepiness.
- Apply clinical reasoning to real-world cases and develop practical management plans.
Primary contact
Marta Celmina
MD, Sleep Specialist – Paediatrician, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine Centre, Children’s Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
President of Latvian Sleep Medicine Society.
marta.celmina@gmail.com
Track B
Decision-Aid Tool in OSA Treatment
Shared decision-making is a collaborative process in which patients and clinicians work together to make healthcare decisions informed by evidence, the healthcare professionals’ knowledge and experience, and the patient's values, goals, preferences, and circumstances. The current gold standard treatment for OSA is CPAP. However, many patients struggle with adherence to CPAP, so there is a need to discuss alternative treatment options. A patient decision aid tool for OSA can support this dialogue.
Learning goals
- Knowledge about Shared decision-making (including the evidence), and decision aids to support the dialogue.
- Insight into the development process of a Shared decision-making tool for OSA.
- Training experience in the practical use of a tool for OSA.
Primary contact
Pia Keinicke Fabricius
Clinical nurse specialist, MSn (in Nursing), Ph.d. Department of Infectious Diseases, Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pia.Keinicke.Fabricius@regionh.dk
Day 1 · April 15, 2026
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keynote 1: Erna Sif Arnardóttir
“Sleep Revolution: reshaping diagnosis and management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Europe”
Track A · Oral presenations
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Track B · Oral presenations
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Track C
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Coffee Break + Sponsors
Invited symposium: Circadian Rhythms, Light, and Health
- 1) Frederic Gachon, Molecular Clock Disruption and Disease
- 2) Etienne Challet, Metabolism, Sleep and Circadian rhythms
- 3) Lisa M. Wu, Targeting Circadian Rhythms to Improve Fatigue and Sleep in Cancer Rehabilitation
- 4) Tone Henriksen, Dark therapy, Light, Circadian rhythms, and Psychiatry
- 5) Arne Lowden, Shift-work Health
Contributed Symposium 1: Perspectives on positive airway pressure treatment
- 1) Sleep apnea humanististic and societal burden: Cost effectiveness of CPAP treatment (15 minutes) Prof. Poul Jennum, Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Danmark
- 2) How to increase treatment adherence in sleep apnea? – endophenotyping, listening to the patient’s perspective or both? (15 minutes) Dr. Harald Hrubos-Strøm, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Akershus University Hospital, Norway
- 3) Clinical and social determinants of CPAP adherence trajectories and outcomes (15 minutes) Dr. Sebastien Bailly, Grenoble Alpes University, Inserm U1300 HP2, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- 4) Resmed's Insight Reports' data from Turku, Gothenburg and Grenoble, what can we learn from this? (15 minutes) Prof. Ulla Anttalainen, Division of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases and Sleep and Breathing Centre, Turku University Hospital Turku, Finland
- 5) Redefining telemedicine in OSA management through AI (15 minutes) Dr. Ding Zou, Center for Sleep and Vigilance Disorders, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Track C
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Lunch and Sponsor Exhibitions
Young investigators oral presentations
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No program in track B
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Track C
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Sponsor symposium by Idorsia
“Orexin receptor antagonism a novel treatment of long-term insomnia disorder – from clinical trials to real-world evidence”
Speaker: Prof. Laura Palagini (IT)
Coffee Break + Sponsors
Invited symposium: Neurodegenerative diseases, aging and sleep
- 1) Tim Lyckenvik, Sleep and Brain Health: Insights from Biomarker Research
- 2) Iben Lundgaard, The glymphatic system and neurodegenerative diseases
- 3) Celia Kjærby, Sleep pressure–driven brainstem hyperactivity disrupts sleep-dependent memory in aging
- 4) Poul Jennum, Sleep disturbances as early markers of neurodegenerative disease
- 5) Anders M. Fjell, Individual sleep need, brain health and cognitive function
Invited symposium: Respiratory Sleep Disorders
- 1) Timo Leppänen, Future diagnostics: lessons from Sleep Revolution
- 2) Jenny Theorell-Höglöv, OSA in women
- 3) Turkka Kirjavainen, Paediatric OSA: mechanisms, phenotypes, and long-term outcomes
- 4) Harald Hrubos-Strøm, What to do when CPAP fails? – passive opening, muscle modulation or both?
Track C
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Keynote 2: Professor Alison Harvey
Sleep as a Pathway to Mental Health: Transdiagnostic Treatments and Implementation Innovation
Networking event in Exhibition Area
Day 2 · April 16, 2026
Keynote 3: Professor Per Borghammer
The importance of REM sleep behaviour disorder for defining subtypes of Parkinson's disease
Track A · Oral
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Track B · Oral
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Coffee Break + Sponsors
Invited symposium: Insomnia and co-morbid conditions
- 1) Bjørn Bjorvatn, “Insomnia, adolescents and mental health”
- 2) Christian Benedict, “Sleep to stay slim”
- 3) Susanne Jernelöv, "When Insomnia doesn’t come alone: can digital CBT-I keep up”
- 4) Mats Lekander, “Sleep, inflammation, and Immunity”
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Contributed Symposium 2: Mechanisms and functions of infraslow rhythms in sleep
- 1) Rebeka Kovács (Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen) Coordinated infraslow cortical oscillations of neuromodulators during NREM Sleep
- 2) Vesa Kiviniemi (Medical Research Center, University of Oulu) Changes in neurovascular coupling dynamics and pulsatile flow velocities in human brain during NREM sleep.
- 3) Natalie Hauglund (University of Oxford / Danish Center for Sleep Medicine) The heterogenic nature of micro-arousals in healthy sleep: insights from multi-unit activity recordings in mice
- 4) Katia Soud (Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen) The role of sleep architecture in cognitive dysfunction during early stages Parkinson’s disease
- 5) Andreas Brink-Kjær and Poul Jørgen Jennum (Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Rigshospitalet) Microsleep and arousals: biomarker for disease and mortality
Lunch and Sponsor Exhibitions
Sponsor symposium (NOX)
Title: Seeing What We’ve Been Missing: Nox Flow and the Future of Sleep Endotyping
Speaker:Jón Ágústsson
Chair: Ding Zou
Invited symposium: Pediatric sleep disorders
- 1) Marta Celmina, Parental perception vs. real symptoms
- 2) Cecilie Paulsrud, How to measure sleep in children and adolescents?
- 3) Juulia Paavonen, Dimensions in pediatric sleep
- 4) Umaer Rashid Hanif, AI in measurement of sleep in pediatic populations
Contributed Symposium 5: Digital Delivery of CBT-I – Efficacy, Implementation, and Innovation Across the Nordic Region
- 1) Prof. Robert Zachariae, Denmark, Unit for Psychooncology & Health Psychology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark: “Digital- versus Face-to-face delivered CBT-I”
- 2) Dr. Børge Sivertsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway: “CBT-I in Norway: Long-Term Outcomes from Population-Based Trials”
- 3) Dr. Susanna Jernelöv, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden:“Implementing Digital CBT-I in Regular Care: Opportunities and Challenges"
- 4) Dr. Ali Amidi, Sleep & Circadian Psychology Research Unit, Aarhus University, Denmark:“HVIL - the development and testing of a flexible, Danish CBT-I app”
- 5) Sofie Møgelberg Knutzen, MSc., Department of Psychology & Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark: “Using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework to optimize digital CBT-I”
Coffee Break + Sponsors
Contributed Symposium 6: AI in sleep medicine and research
- 1) Javier Garcia Ciudad: Exploring joint modelling of human and mouse sleep EEG using deep learning
- 2) Umaer Hanif, Rigshospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. AI in identification of insomnia?
- 3) Andreas Brink-Kjær, Technical University of Denmark: Use of AI identifying sleep-wake pattern in health and neurodegeneration.
- 4) Kaare Mikkelsen, Aarhus University Denmark: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Sleep: Can a model detect when something is wrong?
- 5) Louise Frøstrup Follin, Nevsom, Oslo, Norway: Mini epochs staging of narcolepsy.
Contributed Symposium 4: Neuroimaging Insights into Sleep Disorders and Brain Function
- 1) Hilde Juvodden - Structural neuroimaging insights into narcolepsy
- 2) Laura Stankeviciute - The role of sleep in ageing and preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease: Insights from Multimodal Biomarker Studies
- 3) Nathalia Zak - Neural Consequences of Sleep Loss: Imaging the Tired Brain
- 4) Rune Frandsen - Dopamine Integrity Imaging in RBD and early neurodegeneration
- 5) Eva van Heese - Collaborative Neuroimaging in Central Hypersomnolence: Insights from multi-centre MRI studies
Keynote 4: Professor Christian Cajochen
Circadian Regulation of Sleep & Wakefulness
General assembly, Dansk Selskab for Søvnmedicin
Canal Tour from Amaliehaven (15 min. walk from the venue) followed by conference dinner in the iconic Tivoli Gardens. Sign up through the registration site.
Day 3 · April 17, 2026
Contributed Symposium 7: Unravelling the mechanisms behind brain clearance during sleep
- 1) Natalie Hauglund (University of Oxford / Danish Center for Sleep Medicine) A brief introduction to the glymphatic system
- 2) Erik Kroesbergen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Measuring waste clearance of the brain during sleep
- 3) Kent Andre Mardal (Simula Research Laboratories / University of Oslo, Norway) Computational modeling of brain clearance during sleep
- 4) Fabian Heimel (University of Oslo, Norway) Vasodynamics captured with Mini2P in Naturally Sleeping Mice
- 5) Janne Kananen (University of Oulu, Finland) Physiological Brain Pulsations: a Clinical Perspective
Contributed Symposium 3: Central Disorders of Hypersomnias
- 1) Birgitte Rahbek Kornum, professor, PhD. Molecular Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmar- Pathophysiology and Mechanism in central disorders of hypersomnias (CDH)
- 2) Poul Jørgen Jennum, professor, chief physician, DMSc, Danish Center for Sleep Medicine, Department of Clinical neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark. Electrophysiological findings and diagnostic procedures for CDH
- 3) Eemil Partinen, Neurologist, Senior physician, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland. Quality of life, Comorbidities, and consequences of CDH
- 4) Stine Knudsen, associated professor, PhD. Nevsom, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Treatment and management of CDH. Status and future directions
Track C
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Sponsor symposium
Coffee Break + Sponsors
Keynote 5: Professor Paul Gringas
Use of melatonin in pediatric populations