UWSleepFellowship

Congratulations & a huge welcome to our 2025-2026 UW Sleep Medicine fellows: Dr. Allison Ikeda, Dr. Colin Sheffield, & Dr. Suha Mahi Eldin, MD! #UWSleep #SleepMedicineFellowship #ChooseSleep 💜💛

Great minds think alike!

It’s been a crap week but today my @SleepUW fellow and I showed up to Sleep clinic @harborviewmc in matching outfits. I thought we looked cute but might delete later. @uwpccm

Meet ABIM Governance, our very own Dr. Catherine McCall blog.abim.org/meet-abim-gove…

newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/… Scientists mix sky’s splendid hues to reset circadian clocks by @uwmnewsroom

Monica Fawthrop, division administrator for @uwpccm since 2003 and for Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine since 2016, will be retiring in March 2025 after 37 years of service @UW. Monica's many years of outstanding service have made a far-reaching impact. Thank you, Monica!👏

“Honestly, I get asked about that every single day in my clinical practice and by my colleagues,” says @UWMedicine's Dr. Cora Breuner. “Honestly, the data is not clear about melatonin, especially long term." bit.ly/4eHz55Q

The amount of sleep you get in your midlife can affect your dementia risk later in life. @uwsomwwami professor Jeffrey Iliff says good sleep allows the brain to clear out any waste products, which could affect your overall brain health in the long term. bit.ly/3xZIsOF

The high temps & sunshine came out for our sleep fellows' onboarding day at Seattle Childrens Hospital with Joanna Wrede! ☀️😎#UWSleep #SeattleSummers

One of these @uwpccm fellows looks rather familiar! 😁 Congrats to our recently graduated sleep fellow, Matt Haley and all the new PCCM fellows on their first days of orientation!

We are delighted to welcome Brian Wall, Lefulesele "Lyvoo" Kholoane, & Tameem Rezan, our 2024-2025 Sleep Fellows, to UW and to the Seattle area! #UWSleep 🏥💜💛

💜💛Congratulations to Ken He (Clin Assoc Prof), Justina Gamache (Clin Asst Prof), and Ankit Amin (Clin Asst Prof)! Not only are they part of our fantastic sleep faculty, all three are also graduates of our UW Sleep Fellowship!

Can Untreated Sleep Apnea Kill You? rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/rest/can-…

Congratulations to our graduating 2023-2024 UW Sleep Fellows; Matthew Haley, Tha Saw, and Sravani Gajjala! 🎓💜💛 #UWSleep

If you find yourself waking up multiple times a night, consider moving your dinnertime earlier, says @UWMedicine's Dr. Vishesh Kapur. #sleep bit.ly/3x48Kij

A wonderful spotlight on Leila Armas of @uwpccm! In addition to serving as the program administrator for our @SleepUW fellowship, she is a skilled program operations specialist and a @UWDeptMedicine Bias Navigator. mednews.uw.edu/news/staff-spo… @UWMedicine

Starting to #snore as you get older? Don’t panic, says @UWMedicine Dr. Vishesh Kapur “Things become looser as you age” and snoring “could just be a sign that you’ve lived a lot.” Read @inversedotcom: tinyurl.com/p336e4tw #sleep

Post VA clinic walks at the Kubota Gardens 🌺🌲 #UWSleep

Standard time advocate @UWNeurology Dr. Nathaniel Watson, co-director of the @UWMedicine Sleep Center, says locking us into daylight saving time is “akin to dosing the entire population with a permanent hour of jet lag.” Read @seattletimes: tinyurl.com/2ysmmtbn

“This leads to more accidents, but also has a far-ranging effect on the body and its physiologic activity,” Dr. Vishesh Kapur. @UWMedicine #DaylightSavingTime kiro7.com/news/local/hea…