All About Hypersomnia Congress 2025

October 10, 2025 to October 11, 2025

Along with the congress chair, Dr Chad M. Ruoff, this congress features a faculty of 11 leading speakers who are specialists in hypersomnia. Each day there will be 3 presentations of 30-minute duration in the morning and 3 in the afternoon followed by a 30-minute discussion providing the opportunity for the audience to ask questions and reinforce learning. The morning and afternoon presentations will be followed by 2 case studies/special topics that will highlight the speaker’s clinical experiences or areas of special interest.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for an audience of physicians including sleep specialists/ sleep medicine doctors, neurologists, sleep technologists, respiratory therapist, nurse practitioners, physician associates and other healthcare providers.

Learning Objectives

  • Apply current diagnostic criteria to differentiate narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia in adults and children.
    Utilize actigraphy, wearables, and biomarkers (e.g., CSF orexin) to enhance hypersomnia diagnosis.
  • Describe recent advances in the understanding of sleep-wake circuits, autonomics, and REM dysfunction.
  • Develop personalized treatment plans for patients with narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia.
  • Use wearable data, patient reports, and clinical measures to monitor and optimize treatment outcomes.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported by independent medical education grants from Alkermes, Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Axsome Therapeutics, Inc., Harmony Biosciences Management, Inc., Jazz Pharamaceuticals, Inc. and Takeda.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 10.75 AANP
    • 5.00 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 10.75 AAPA Category 1 CME
  • 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 10.75 ANCC
  • 10.75 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/02/2025
Course expires: 
11/15/2025
Event starts: 
10/10/2025 - 11:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/11/2025 - 11:59pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0
October 10 - 11, 2025 Nashville, TN
United States

Akin Ajayi, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Advisor - Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Pharmaceuticals; Consultant - Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Pharmaceuticals; Independent contractor - Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Takeda; Speaker - Avadel Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Harmony Pharmaceuticals
Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, discloses the following financial relationships: Consultant - Jazz; Researcher - Jazz, Takeda, Suven, Alkermes, Avadel, Harmony Biosciences, Vanda
Lois Krahn, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Advisor - Avadel; Researcher - Takeda, Alkermes
Joyce Lee-Iannotti, MD, has disclosed no financial relationships.
Mitchell G. Miglis, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Consultant – Jazz Pharmaceuticals 
David T. Plante, MD, PhD, discloses the following financial relationships: Advisor - Jazz Pharmaceuticals , Alkermes, Harmony Biosciences, Apnimed, Centessa, Takeda; Consultant - Jazz, Alkermes, Harmony Biosciences, Centessa, Takeda; Researcher - Harmony Biosciences, Alkermes
Chad M. Ruoff, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Jazz Pharmaceuticals - investigator initiated trial, DUET IH advisory board, narcolepsy steering committee , expert working group meeting (all money to Mayo); Alkermes Orexin Global - Advisory Meeting
Logan D. Schneider, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Advisor - Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Axsome, SleepDev; Consultant - Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Avadel, Axsome
Virend K. Somers, MD, PhD, discloses the following financial relationships: Advisory Board to Sleep Number Corp; Consultant - Jazz Pharmaceutical, Lilly, Axome, ApniMed, iRhythm, Mineralis; Researcher - Funding paid to Mayo Clinic from National Institutes of Health.
Funding paid to Mayo Clinic from Sleep Number Corp, Research equipment gifted to Mayo Clinic from Zoll and Medtronic
Robert Thomas, MD, discloses the following financial relationships:  Researcher - Jazz Pharmaceuticals; Royalties or patent beneficiary - Licensed patent for ECG/PPG spectrogram: sleep quality and sleep apnea. Licensed by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to MyCardio, LLC
Michael J. Thorpy, MD, discloses the following financial relationships: Consultant - Axsome, Balance Therapeutics, Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Flamel/Avadel, Harmony Biosciences, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, NLS Pharmaceuticals, Suven Life Sciences, Takeda Pharmaceutical, and XWPharma

Staff Disclosures
Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, AKH Lead Nurse Planner/Reviewer: has disclosed no financial relationships.
Michele Bielarski, RN, Nurse Reviewer: has disclosed no financial relationships.
Bernadette Makar, MSN, APRN-BC, NP-C (planner/reviewer): has disclosed no financial relationships.
Patricia Brignoni, AKH Director of Operations/Reviewer: has disclosed no financial relationships.
AKH and Clinical CME Group, LLC, Staff and Planners have no financial relationships to disclose.
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

Disclosures
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

It is the policy of AKH Inc. to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all of its continuing education activities. The author must disclose to the participants any significant relationships with ineligible companies whose products or devices may be mentioned in the activity or with the commercial supporter of this continuing education activity. Identified conflicts of interest are mitigated by AKH prior to accreditation of the activity. AKH planners and reviewers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use and Investigational Product 
This educational activity may include discussion of uses of agents that are investigational and/or unapproved by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer 
This course is designed solely to provide the healthcare professional with information to assist in his/her practice and professional development and is not to be considered a diagnostic tool to replace professional advice or treatment. The course serves as a general guide to the healthcare professional, and therefore, cannot be considered as giving legal, nursing, medical, or other professional advice in specific cases. AKH Inc. specifically disclaim responsibility for any adverse consequences resulting directly or indirectly from information in the course, for undetected error, or through participants misunderstanding of the content. If you would like to opt out from future communications from AKH please send an email to [email protected] with your information with "Opt Out" in the subject line.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and  Clinical CME Group, LLC. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 10.75 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

 

Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
Credit being awarded: 10.75 ANCC contact hours

Physician Associates
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 10.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

 

Nurse Practitioners
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Clinical CME Group, LLC.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030803. This activity is approved for 10.75 contact hour(s) (which includes 5 hour(s) of pharmacology).

Available Credit

  • 10.75 AANP
    • 5.00 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 10.75 AAPA Category 1 CME
  • 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
  • 10.75 ANCC
  • 10.75 Attendance

Price

Cost:
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