SLEEPCON 2026
Under the Aegis of Indian Sleep Disorders Association
Workshop :- June 26, 2026
Conference :- June 27 & 28, 2026
Venue:- Hotel Ashoka Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
Organized by:- Indian Sleep Disorders Association &
Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Day 2 : June 27, 2026 : : 09.00 am – 07.30 pm
| Time | Topics | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | |||
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Bringing the Patient Voice into OSA Care: Role of Patient-Reported Outcomes | ||
| 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM | Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Obesity - Can we Kill Two Birds with One Stone? | ||
| 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM | OSA Endotypes: From Mechanistic Insights to Clinical Application | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | Audience Questions | ||
| 10:10 AM - 10: 30 AM | |||
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Sleepiness as a Clinical Biomarker: Reappraising Its Significance and Utility | ||
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Sleep Health as a Multidimensional Construct: Relevance to Cardiometabolic Disease | ||
| 11:10 AM - 11: 30 AM | Sleep in a Changing Environment: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Public Health Implications | ||
| 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM | Audience Questions | ||
| 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Etiopathogenesis of Insomnia: Current Concepts and Emerging Insights | ||
| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | CBT-I in Clinical Practice: Efficacy, Scalability, and Challenges in the Indian Context | ||
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Choosing the Right Drug for the Right Patient: Personalizing Insomnia Treatment | ||
| 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Audience Questions | ||
| 01:10 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Multilevel Surgical Approaches in the Era of Personalized OSA Care | ||
| 02:20 PM - 02:40 PM | The Role of Nasal Surgery in OSA: Evidence, Indications, and Clinical Outcomes | ||
| 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM | Role of Oral Appliances in Adult OSA | ||
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Audience Questions | ||
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Enhancing HSAT with PAT Technology: Evidence, Validation, and Clinical Utility | ||
| 03:50 PM - 04:10 PM | Beyond the Hype: Do Consumer Sleep Trackers Deliver Clinically Meaningful Data? | ||
| 04:10 PM - 04:30 PM | The Future of Sleep Medicine: AI-Enabled, Patient-Centric, and Digitally Connected Care | ||
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Pediatric Sleep Monitoring with Wearables: Accuracy, Limitations, and Future Directions | ||
| 04:50 PM - 05:00 PM | Audience Questions | ||
| 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | |||
| 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM | ISDA Oration | ||
| 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM | Pro-Con Debate #1: Polysomnography should be performed before initiating NIV for COPD with chronic respiratory failure | ||
| 04:10 PM - 04:30 PM | Pro-Con Debate #2: Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy is Essential for Personalized OSA Therapy | ||
Day 3 : 28th June 2026 : 09.00 am -04.00 pm
| Time | Topics | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | Oral Paper Session | ||
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Comorbid Insomnia and Sleep Apnea (COMISA) - Tackling Intricacies | ||
| 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM | Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Obesity - Can we Kill Two Birds with One Stone? | ||
| 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Chronic Hypercapnic COPD: Evidence-Based Approaches from Inhaled Therapy to NIV | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | Audience Questions | ||
| 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Integrating Sleep Assessment in Severe Asthma Care: Relevance in the Age of Biologic Therapies | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Newer Horizon in Sleep Medicine- Obstructive sleep apnea and Ophthalmic disorders | ||
| 10:20 AM - 10:30 AM | Audience Questions | ||
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | |||
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Why OSA Is Different in Women: Practical Implications for Clinicians | ||
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Revisiting Pediatric OSA: Toward Personalized Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies | ||
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Role of oral appliances in growing children | ||
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Audience Questions | ||
| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Contemporary Management of Restless Legs Syndrome: Global Guidelines and Indian Perspectives | ||
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Improving Narcolepsy Care in India: Diagnostic Pathways, Therapeutic Strategies, and Unmet Needs | ||
| 12:40 PM - 01:00 PM | Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease: From Mechanisms to Prevention and Intervention | ||
| 01:00 PM - 01:10 PM | Panel Discussion/Audience Questions | ||
| 01:10 PM - 02:00 PM | |||
| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Central Sleep Apnea: Pathophysiology-Driven Management and Recent Updates | ||
| 02:20 PM - 02:40 PM | OSA in Hospitalized Patients: Evidence-Based Management and Unmet Needs | ||
| 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM | Pharmacological Approaches to OSA: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Trials | ||
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Towards personalized OSA assessment: Moving beyond the apnea hypopnea index |
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| 03:20 PM - 04:00 PM | Valedictory Program | ||
Dr Vikram Sarabhai
Organizing Chairman & President - ISDA
Dr Rohit Kumar
Organizing Secretary
& Head Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi