Sleep In Young Children: From Evaluation to Intervention 

In the morning, Lisa Meltzer, PhD, CBSM, will present a workshop which will (1) provide attendees with a broad overview of normal sleep in children ages 0 to 5 years, including sleep practices, sleep habits, and sleep disturbances; (2) explain how to take a sleep specific history; and (3) provide basic behavioral interventions for the most common sleep issues seen in this population.

In the afternoon, we will hear from Kathi Wagnor, licensing administrator, and Kay Mikus, licensing supervisor, from the Office of Early Childhood (OEC) to provide an overview of safe sleep from the perspective of the OEC.

Lisa Meltzer is an Associate Professor of pediatrics at National Jewish Health and Family Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Florida, and completed her clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She was selected as a Pickwick Postdoctoral Fellow in Sleep Research by the National Sleep Foundation, studying sleep patterns in parents of children with chronic illnesses. Dr. Meltzer is board certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and directs the Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Clinic and Actigraphy Clinic at National Jewish Health. She is also the Sleep Education Fellow for the National Sleep Foundation, developing programs to educate primary care providers about sleep health. Dr. Meltzer has a funded program of research examining sleep in children with chronic illnesses and their parents, the impac tof deficient sleep on health outcomes in adolescents with asthma, as well as the development and validation of objective and subjective measures of pediatric sleep.

 

August 28, 2015

8:30am-3:30pm; Registration and Light Breakfast beginning at 8:00am

University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

Education 2 South Building, 2nd floor, Room 2306

$65 for CoAIMH members, $75 for non-members

A light breakfast and lunch will be provided

Parking is $5 for the day and is NOT included in your registration cost.

If you need to cancel your registration for any reason, we will only be able to provide a full refund prior to 5pm on August 21, 2015

You may pay with Paypal or a credit card. You do not need a paypal account. If you want to pay with a credit card- do not enter your email address to log in with paypal and simply click "pay with card"

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED DUE TO BEING AT CAPACIT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST, PLEASE CONTACT michelle.roy@mhcd.org