SLEEPCON 2026
Under the Aegis of Indian Sleep Disorders Association
Workshop :- June 27, 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 | Speakers |
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| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | REGISTRATION | - |
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN OSA Chairperson: Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Dr. Shiba Kalyan Biswal, Dr. Sobha Subramaniam |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Bringing the Patient Voice into OSA Care: Role of Patient-Reported Outcomes | Dr. Arup Halder |
| 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM | Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Obesity - Can we Kill Two Birds with One Stone? | Dr. Uma Maheshwari |
| 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM | OSA Endotypes: From Mechanistic Insights to Clinical Application | Dr. Kavitha V |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | The Role of Nasal Surgery in OSA: Evidence, Indications, and Clinical Outcomes | Dr Hitesh Verma |
| 10:20 AM - 10:30 AM | Audience Questio | - |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Tea Break | - |
| 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON SLEEP HEALTH Chairperson: Dr Rakesh N Desai, Dr Deependra Kr Rai |
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| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Sleepiness as a Clinical Biomarker: Reappraising Its Significance and Utility | Dr. Rohit Kumar |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Sleep in a Changing Environment: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Public Health Implications | Dr. GC Khilnani |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Sleep Health as a Multidimensional Construct: Relevance to Cardiometabolic Disease | Dr. Tejas Suri |
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Audience Questions | - |
| 12:00 PM - 01:20 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON INSOMNIA Chairperson: Dr. PC Kaushik, Dr. S Ramanathan Iyer , Dr Sanchit Mohan |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Etiopathogenesis of Insomnia: Current Concepts and Emerging Insights | Dr. JC Suri |
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | CBT-I in Clinical Practice: Efficacy, Scalability, and Challenges in the Indian Context | Dr. Nalini Nagalla |
| 12:40 PM - 01:00 PM | Insomnia Medications: Friend, Foe, or Necessary Partner? | Dr. Sapna Erat Sreedharan |
| 01:00 PM – 01:20 PM | Audience Questions | - |
| 01:20 PM - 02:20 PM | Lunch Break | - |
| 02:20 PM – 03:20 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE OF SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING Chairperson: Dr. Jas Simran Singh Bhatia, Dr. Reena Kumar |
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| 02:00 PM – 02:40 PM | Multilevel Surgical Approaches in the Era of Personalized OSA Care | Dr. Vijaya Krishnan |
| 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM | Role of Oral Appliances in Adult OSA | Surg Cdr. Akshay Kannan |
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Where Does DISE Fit in Modern Sleep Medicine Practice? | Dr. Sandeep Bansal |
| 03:20 PM - 03:30 PM | Audience question | - |
| 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCES IN SLEEP TECHNOLOGY Chairperson: Dr. Rajnish Gupta, Dr. Abhishek Chauhan, Dr. Manu Madan, Dr. Dilbag Singh Randhawa |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Enhancing HSAT with PAT Technology: Evidence, Validation, and Clinical Utility | Dr. Saurabh Mittal |
| 03:50 PM - 04:10 PM | Beyond the Hype: Do Consumer Sleep Trackers Deliver Clinically Meaningful Data? | Dr. Vikram Sarbhai |
| 04:10 PM - 04:30 PM | The Future of Sleep Medicine: AI-Enabled, Patient-Centric, and Digitally Connected Care | Dr. N. Ramakrishnan |
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Pediatric Sleep Monitoring with Wearables: Accuracy, Limitations, and Future Directions | Dr. Bharath Reddy |
| 04:50 PM - 05:00 PM | Audience Questions | - |
| 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM | E POSTER ORAL PRESENTATION, ISDA GENERAL BODY MEETING | - |
| 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | DINNER SYMPOSIUM Chairperson: Dr. Dipak Bhattacharya, Dr. Vikram Sarbhai, Dr UC Ojha, Dr Anant Mohan, Dr. Shibdas Chakrabarti, |
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| 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM | ISDA Oration: OSA Care Beyond CPAP: Options for the Future | Dr M K Sen |
| 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM | Pro-Con Debate: Polysomnography should be performed before initiating NIV for COPD with chronic respiratory failure | Dr. Abhishek Goyal (PRO), Dr. Pawan Tiwari (CON) |
| 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM | PG QUIZ FOLLOWED BY DINNER | - |
Day 3 : 28th June 2026 : 09.00 am -04.00 pm
| Time | Topics | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | Oral Paper Session | - |
| 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | SYMPOSIUM ON SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING WITH COMORBIDITIES Chairperson: Dr Rahul Sharma, Dr. Arunachalam, Dr. Kanishk Sinha, Dr. K Kovan |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Comorbid Insomnia and Sleep Apnea (COMISA) - Tackling Intricacies | Dr. Mir Elias |
| 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM | Chronic Hypercapnic COPD: Evidence-Based Approaches from Inhaled Therapy to NIV | Dr. Kashmira Jhala |
| 09:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Integrating Sleep Assessment in Severe Asthma Care: Relevance in the Age of Biologic Therapies | Dr. Uma Devaraj |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Newer Horizon in Sleep Medicine- Obstructive sleep apnea and Ophthalmic disorders | Dr. S Ramanathan Iyer |
| 10:20 AM - 10:30 AM | Audience Questions | - |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Tea Break | - |
| 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM | SYMPOSIUM ON SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS Chairperson: Dr. Reena Kumar, Dr Mir Elias, Dr Sushant Meshram |
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| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Why OSA Is Different in Women: Practical Implications for Clinicians | Dr. Mahismita Patro |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Revisiting Pediatric OSA: Toward Personalized Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies | Dr. Ankit Parakh |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Role of oral appliances in growing children | Dr. Roshan Rayen |
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Audience Questions | - |
| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON SLEEP AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Chairperson: Dr. Arpita Priyadarshini, Dr Amit Murar, Dr. Laxmi Khanna |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Contemporary Management of Restless Legs Syndrome: Global Guidelines and Indian Perspectives | Dr. Ravi Gupta |
| 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM | Improving Narcolepsy Care in India: Diagnostic Pathways, Therapeutic Strategies, and Unmet Needs | Dr. Manjari Tripathi |
| 12:40 PM - 01:00 PM | Sleep and Alzheimer’s Disease: From Mechanisms to Prevention and Intervention | Dr. Ravi Yadav |
| 01:00 PM - 01:10 PM | Panel Discussion/ Audience Questions | - |
| 01:10 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch Break | - |
| 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM | SYMPOSIUM ON LATEST ADVANCES IN SLEEP MEDICINE Chairperson: Dr. Rajnish Kaushik, Dr. Siddharth Raj Yadav |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Central Sleep Apnea: Pathophysiology-Driven Management and Recent Updates | Dr. Animesh Ray |
| 02:20 PM - 02:40 PM | OSA in Hospitalized Patients: Evidence-Based Management and Unmet Needs | Dr. Nitesh Gupta |
| 02:40 PM - 03:00 PM | Pharmacological Approaches to OSA: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Trials | Dr. Sharada |
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Towards personalized OSA assessment: Moving beyond the apnea hypopnea index | Dr. Debasis Behera |
| 03:20 PM - 03:40 PM | The 3 Cs of OSA care - communication, counselling and compliance | Dr Rajesh Bhardwaj |
| 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM | ANNOUNCEMENT OF ABSTRACT WINNER DISTRIBUTION OF FSM-ISDA EXAM CERTIFICATES TO THE PASS CANDIDATES FOLLOWED BY 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