SOUTH AFRICAN SLEEP HEALTH SYMPOSIUM 2018
Date Published: 26 Feb 2018
Categories: News
SOUTH AFRICAN SLEEP HEALTH SYMPOSIUM 2018
Bringing together sleep researchers to improve the sleep of South Africans
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The South African Sleep Health Symposium 2018 was hosted by the University of Cape Town and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa in Newlands, Cape Town on Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 September 2018. The purpose of the Symposium was to bring together researchers and practitioners with a common interest in sleep and its association with mental and physical health. We at the University of Cape Town and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA) would like to thank you all attending delegates for their invaluable contribution to the event. Without your support this event would not be possible. We hope you left the event enriched with knowledge, inspired to make a difference and motivated to succeed!
One of our core values is our desire to be world class, and we hope that this event met and exceeded your expectations. An event of this magnitude is impossible to host without the support of our partners, therefore we would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of everyone, to also thank our sponsors Granny Goose, 7hrSleep and Mysleep who contributed to this wonderful event.
For more info contact ssisaevents@ssisa.com
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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| MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER |
| 08:00-08:45 |
Registration, tea and coffee |
| 08:45-09:00 |
Welcome |
| 09:00-09:30 |
International keynote address: Assistant Prof Ihori Kobayashi – 1 Sleep, stress, and cardiovascular health in urban-residing African Americans in the United States |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Keynote: 2 Sleep in rural and urban South African settings and impact of HIV |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Oral: Dr Xavier Gomez-Olive – 3 Associations between sleep parameters, non-communicable diseases, HIV status and medications in older, rural South Africans |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Oral: A/Prof Laura Roden – 4 Industrialisation and sleep |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Tea and coffee |
| 10:50-11:20 |
International keynote address: Prof Malcolm von Schantz – 5 Detailed phenotyping of sleep and circadian rhythms in a Brazilian community |
| 11:20-11:50 |
Keynote: Dr Dale Rae – 6 Long-sleeping South Africans and their risk for cardiometabolic diseases |
| 11:50-12:05 |
Oral: Paula Pienaar – 7 Associations between self-reported sleep and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in executive employees |
| 12:05-12:20 |
Oral: Natasha Madondo – 8 Understanding sleep patterns and exploring the individual factors that mediate the reported sleep quality in a sample of Rhodes University students |
| 12:20-12:35 |
Oral: Dr Simone Tomaz – 9 Sleep, activity behaviours and adiposity in South African preschool-aged children |
| 12:35-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 |
Keynote: Dr Gosia Lipinska – 10 The implication of chronic sleep for cognitive-affective functioning in PTSD-diagnosed women in South Africa |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Oral: Michelle Henry – Relationship between sleep, memory, and cortisol in patients with Addisons’s disease |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Oral:Dr Mariza van Wyk – 10 The implication of chronic sleep for cognitive-affective functioning in PTSD-diagnosed women in South Africa 12 The distinct roles of OSA severity and levels of depression in day- and night-time symptomatology in OSA patients |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Oral: Dr Alison Bentley – Atopic dermatitis in children and sleep disturbances |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Big group discussion, Q&A |
| 15:15-16:45 |
Tea and small group workshops |
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