Conference Programme

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Pre-conference · April 14, 2026
12:00–12:30

Registration and Lunch

12:30–15:00

Track A

Drug-induced sedation endoscopy (DISE) and treatment options

Track B

CBT-I and BBTI – Practical Tools for Managing Insomnia in Clinical Practice

Track C

Clinical practice in evaluation of partial polygraphy, polysomnography and testing for sleep-wake measures

15:00–15:30

Break

Break

Break

15:30–18:00

Track A

Decision-Aid Tool in OSA Treatment

Track B

Paediatric and adolescent sleep

Track C

Day 1 · April 15, 2026
09:00 - 09:10

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:55

Keynote 1: Erna Sif Arnardóttir

“Sleep Revolution: reshaping diagnosis and management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Europe”

10:00 - 10:45 (Short talks selected from abstracts)

Oral presentations

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Track C

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break + Sponsors

11:15 - 12:45 (Thematic symposium 1)

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

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch and Sponsor Exhibitions

13:45 - 14:30 (Short talks selected from abstracts)

Young investigators oral presentations

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No program in track B

Track C

14:30 - 15:00

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)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break + Sponsors

15:30 - 17:00 (Thematic symposium 2)

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?

Contributed Symposium Y

17:00 - 17:45

Keynote 2: Professor Alison Harvey

Sleep as a Pathway to Mental Health: Transdiagnostic Treatments and Implementation Innovation

18:00 - 19:00

Networking event in Exhibition Area

Day 2 · April 16, 2026
08:30 - 09:15

Keynote 3: Professor Per Borghammer

The importance of REM sleep behaviour disorder for defining subtypes of Parkinson's disease

09:20 - 10:00 (Short talks selected from abstracts)

Oral

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Oral

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10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break + Sponsors

10:30 - 12:00 (Thematic symposia)

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, Cognitive-behavioural Therapy for Insomnia
  • 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
12:00 - 12:45

Lunch and Sponsor Exhibitions

12:45 - 13:15

Sponsor symposium (NOX)

13:15 - 14:45 (Thematic symposia)

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 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
14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break + Sponsors

15:15 - 16:45 (Thematic symposia)

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
16:45 - 17:30

Keynote 4: Professor Christian Cajochen

Circadian Regulation of Sleep & Wakefulness

17:45

General assembly, Dansk Selskab for Søvnmedicin

19:00 onward

Conference dinner

Day 3 · April 17, 2026
08:30 - 10:00 (Thematic symposia 5)

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 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”
10:00 - 10:30

Sponsor symposium

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break + Sponsors

11:00 - 11:45

Keynote 5: Professor Paul Gringas

Use of melatonin in pediatric populations

11:45 - 12:00

Closing Remarks