The Canadian Sleep Society (CSS) / Société Canadienne du Sommeil (SCS) is a professional organization who's membership is made up primarily of sleep medicine

Sleep medicine

Sleep medicine is a medical specialty or subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge and answered many questions about sleep-wake functioning. The rapidly evolving field has...

 practitioners, sleep researchers, polysomnographic technicians and students.

Description

The CSS was formed in 1986. The mandate of the CSS is to: The CSS also aims to promote and provide opportunities for continuing medical education

Continuing medical education

Continuing medical education refers to a specific form of continuing education that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or...

, educational opportunities for young sleep researchers and information to the public about sleep and sleep disorders.

In 2010, to represent the needs and importance of certain specialties that are relevant to sleep research and sleep medicine, two special interest groups, the Pediatric Sleep Interest Group and the Canadian Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine were formed.

Publications

The official newsletter of the CSS, Vigilance provides information to it's membership and to the public about the activities of the society. Vigilance is typically published in electronic format biannually.

A number of educational brochures are also freely available in English and French from the CSS

Recently, the CSS partnered with the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) to publish a position paper on portable monitoring for sleep apnea in the Canadian Respiratory Journal.

Meeting

The Canadian Sleep Society Congress gathers biannually to present information on sleep research and sleep medicine. Approximately 500 to 800 people attend the meeting, and is the largest of it's kind in Canada entirely devoted to sleep. The meeting is composed of scientific presentations, an exhibition hall, public lectures, education courses, a technologists program and a student day.

External links

• The Official Site of the Canadian Sleep Society
• The 2011 joint congress of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and the CSS in Quebec City, Canada, September 10-15, 2011
• The Official Site of the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM)
• The Official Site of The World Federation of Sleep Research & Sleep Medicine Societies (WFSRSMS)