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Zhaoming Chen, MD, PhD
(Vice Chair)
Dr. Chen attended Shanghai
Jiaotong University School of
Medicine. He then went to Drexel
University for his neuroscience
PhD and the University of
Pennsylvania for his post-doctor-
al fellowship. He completed his
neurology residency and clinical
neurophysiology fellowship
including sleep medicine training
in Georgetown University. He
is a board certified neurologist,
neurophysiologist, and sleep
medicine specialist. He is
currently working as co-director
of integrative neurology in St.
Agnes Hospital.
Beverly Fang, MD
Dr. Fang completed her under-
graduate degree from Stanford
University, her medical training
at Albany Medical College, and
her general psychiatry residency
at University of Maryland/Shep-
pard Pratt program. She currently
works as a staff physician in sleep
medicine at UC Davis Medical
Center in Sacramento, CA.
Fahd A. Zarrouf, MD
Dr. Zarrouf completed his
medical training and psychiatry
residency at Damascus Univer-
sity/ Medical School Hospitals
in Damascus, Syria. He then
completed a combined internal
medicine and psychiatry residen-
cy at West Virginia University/
Charleston Area Medical Center-
Charleston, WV. He completed
a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at
the Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, OH. He is currently
working as an Assistant Professor
of Medicine-MUSC, at AnMed
Health, Anderson, SC. He is
Chief of Psychiatric Service and
Medical Director of Transcra-
AASM Membership Sections Newsletter
Issue # 4
American Academy
of Sleep Medicine
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complaints. Articles are available
through subscription and free
to members of the Society for
Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
SLEEP
is a monthly peer-re-
viewed scientific and medical
journal featuring a wide spec-
trum of sleep-related research.
SLEEP
publishes 12 regular issues
annually. All articles are available
to the public free of charge six
months after publication.
The
Journal of Clinical Sleep
Medicine
(JCSM) is published
by AASM and is distributed to
more than 9,600 subscribers. The
JCSM focuses on the publication
of papers with direct applicability
and/or relevance to the practice
of clinical sleep medicine. In
addition, JCSM will publish
proceedings from conferences,
workshops and symposia on
topics related to the practice of
clinical sleep medicine.
Guidelines and practice
parameters
You will find most of them on
the AASM webpage(
aasmnet.org/practiceparameters.
aspx?cid=109). These include:
Standards of Practice Parameters,
Systematic Reviews and Clinical
Guidelines. The widely cited
the “NIH State-of-the-Science
Conference on Manifestations
and Management of Chronic
Insomnia in Adults, 2005
Bethesda, Maryland” is one
of the most cited resource for
insomnia and providers will find
it very helpful to read during
their training. This resource
is included in consensus NIH
web page (
gov/2005/insomnia.htm). For
more current information on
this, you may visit MedlinePlus,
a service of the U.S. National
Library of Medicine, National
Institutes of Health.
nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
A Structured Treatment
Approach To A
Complex Disorder
Mary Rose, PsyD, CBSM
and Deirdre A. Conroy,
Ph.D., CBSM, D, ABSM
One of the goals of our insom-
nia section is to encourage the
expansion of the interdisciplinary
growth of the clinical treatment
of insomnia and the research
that promotes comprehensive
and evidence based care of
patients with insomnia. Clini-
cians working with insomnia
patients may agree that cases
are rarely straightforward. They
are complicated, comorbid, and
challenging. Perhaps we need to
keep in mind that the standard of
care for insomnia is complex but
structured. Over the past twenty
years, numerous studies have
supported the effectiveness of
Cognitive Behavioral therapy for
insomnia (CBTi). Despite this,
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