Call for Symposia Proposals
Calling All Innovators! Have a groundbreaking idea or a hot topic that’s shaping the future of sleep health and medicine?
Every year the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day conference brings together researchers, clinicians, and industry experts to explore important and cutting-edge topics in sleep health and medicine. This year, the theme will be “Sleep and Circadian Science: From Lab to Community.”
The Program Committee welcomes the submission of symposia proposals. We encourage submissions in line with our keynote speaker, Miranda Lim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Lim’s work examines how sleep is a fundamental biological process that supports brain development, maintenance, and recovery. Her research focuses on how sleep influences neural health—from early developmental stages through aging, in both normal and pathological conditions.
If you have expertise in complementary topics and you’d like the chance to share them with your peers, please let us know! We are particularly interested in symposia focused on translational research, AI and machine learning, population-specific sleep concerns, and novel epidemiologic methods—especially those that leverage causal inference, real-world data, or longitudinal designs. We also welcome community-engaged approaches that center equity and partnership in the study or promotion of sleep health. In addition to narrowly focused proposals within this year’s theme, broader thematic ideas will be considered. Other topics might include sleep apnea and the apnea-hypopnea index, circadian rhythms, effects of disease conditions on sleep, technological ideas and GLP1 inhibitors.
**We are especially interested in presentations or topics from researchers who have not previously presented.
If interest in submitting a symposia proposal, please submit the following information through the 'Submit Proposal' button below: 1) a summary of the symposium; 2) potential speakers’ information (if available); and 3) your name and contact information.
Deadline for submission: July 16th, 2025
Questions? Please contact Linda Willrich at willrichl@upmc.edu.
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