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SLEEP: Health & Disease


Total Credits: 1.00 including 1.00 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)

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State Associations:
OOA - Oklahoma
Faculty:
Bruce A. Benjamin, PhD
Duration:
55 Minutes
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Description

Learning Objectives:
  • Alternative model for Health and Disease (complex systems)
    • Describe the role of complexity in health and disease
  • Sleep Basics
    • Describe the functional and behavioral definitions of sleep
    • Characterize cycle/sleep architecture
    • Describe physiological changes associated with sleep
  • Diseases associated with poor sleep
    • Discuss the cost of sleep disturbance
    • Review common diseases closely associated with sleep
 
Grievance Policy
Program grievances will be presented to the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees and dealt with appropriately. If this action did not resolve the problem to satisfaction, the person with the grievance will be directed to the American Osteopathic Association’s Division of Continuing Medical Education.
 
Accreditation
The OOA is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.
 
Questions
For any questions, comments, or concerns for the CME content, please contact Audrey Hendricks, OOA Director of CME Programs, at audrey@okosteo.org

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Bruce A. Benjamin, PhD Related Seminars and Products

Interim VP of Research, Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, Associate Professor of Physiology, OSU-COM


Bruce Benjamin, PhD is the Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, Interim Vice President of Research and associate professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. As vice provost, Dr. Benjamin serves in a leadership role for the graduate programs in biomedical sciences, forensic sciences, healthcare administration and athletic training. Dr. Benjamin is also head of the OSU Center for Wearable Electronic Sensing Systems and Technologies, an interdisciplinary team working to develop wearable smart garments for use in health and wellness. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for TSET. Before joining the faculty at OSU-CHS in 1997, he was an assistant professor of cell biology at Duke University Medical Center, a research scientist at Texas A&M University and University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, and a National Research Council Research Associate at NASA/AMES Research Center. He received his bachelor’s degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. and his doctorate at OU. He is a member of the American Physiological Society and the Oklahoma Physiological Society.

Dr. Bruce has no financial or conflict of interests to disclose.


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