How Sleep Can Affect Your Health – Dr. Virend Somers.
Dr. Virend Somers, internationally recognized sleep researcher, cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, shares
Sleep health involves many disciplines and knowing where to turn is not always straightforward. The Sleep Society connects you with trusted professionals across dental, medical, behavioural, and technical fields, helping you to find the care that best fits your needs.
For sleep professionals, The Sleep Society is a global network designed to increase awareness, visibility, encourage communication and strengthen understanding toward increased collaboration, while connecting expertise from research across health disciplines.
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The Sleep Society is a global, multidisciplinary network connecting sleep professionals across dental, medical, behavioural, respiratory, technical, and research disciplines. Sleep disorders do not exist in isolation, and effective care requires the same integration.
By collaborating across specialties and with national and international sleep societies, we strengthen interdisciplinary learning, improve referral pathways, and enhance real world patient outcomes. Through our global directory and shared platform, members raise their visibility, expand professional connections, and become part of a coordinated movement to advance sleep health worldwide.
Quality sleep is a biological necessity essential to sustaining physical health, cognitive performance, and emotional regulation. Its impact extends beyond the individual to influence safety, productivity, and public systems. In modern high risk environments including transportation, emergency response, healthcare, and industry, impaired sleep contributes directly to preventable harm.
Despite this, sleep care remains fragmented across disciplines and regions. Advancing meaningful progress requires coordinated global collaboration, shared knowledge, and practical integration of evidence based solutions. The Sleep Society exists to support that collective effort.
The Sleep Society is designed to help you find the right sleep care for you, while also offering trusted resources, education, and professional connections. We all know sleep matters, but finding the right help is not always easy. Sleep care spans many different professionals, and this makes the search more confusing than it should be. Our directory is intended to simplify that process by helping you understand who does what, how different experts work together, and where to turn when looking for better sleep or the right provider.
The Sleep Society offers a unique blend of resources and opportunities designed to enhance professional growth, patient care, and interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration.
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A global resource for interdisciplinary sleep education, including continuing professional development programs, conferences, and training opportunities worldwide.
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Now more than ever, meaningful collaboration and shared expertise are building a truly global community committed to advancing sleep health.
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Dr. Virend Somers, internationally recognized sleep researcher, cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, shares
Dr. Charles Morin, one of the world’s leading experts on insomnia and behavioural sleep medicine and Professor of Psychology at
The Sleep Society (TSS) will be supporting a series of long term public awareness initiative, intended to highlight the importance