Empowered Sleep Apnea A Handbook For Patients and the People Who Care About Them

Unlike standard textbooks, this book uses humor, cartooning, storytelling, fantasy, and poetry to take the reader on a rollicking educational journey. "Empowered Sleep Apnea" creates a safe, welcoming, and patient-centered space that will delight patients and their providers alike. The teaching curriculum is designed by a Sleep Medicine master-clinician to help patients understand their condition, find agency and feel empowered to make decisions on their treatment.

David E. McCarty, MD, FAASM attended medical school at Duke University School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. After a handful of years of practicing primary care, he studied Sleep Medicine with Dr. Andrew Chesson at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, joining the faculty and taking over as program director upon Dr. Chesson's retirement. In 2015, he left academics to join a new comprehensive Sleep Medicine practice, Colorado Sleep Institute, in Boulder, as its first Medical Director. In 2021, he left clinical practice for broader educational efforts to provide patients with a sense of agency and empowerment. Ellen Stothard, PhD earned her doctorate in Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience from University of Colorado Boulder. Working in the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory with her mentor, Dr. Kenneth P Wright, Jr., Dr. Stothard worked on the now-famous "Camping Studies" project. This important work on circadian biology has the unusual yet glorious distinction of garnering mention on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update!" Due to the Camping Studies publicity, Dr. Stothard communicated extensively with news organizations, local and worldwide, experience which sparked an ongoing interest in science communication. Passionate about bringing research out of the laboratory and into the real world, Dr. Stothard is an engaging and prolific public speaker, speaking regularly in the community on issues pertinent to Sleep Health. Dr. Stothard is currently the Research and Development Director at Colorado Sleep Institute.