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Written by Allan O'Bryan   
Monday, 03 March 2008 16:04

Please share your World Sleep Day (WSD) 2010 stories and activities with us.  We encourage you to take action by contacting your local and national media to promote sleep health worldwide on March 19, 2010.  By sending us an email, we will post your WSD 2010 activities and report to others.  We hope this will lead to advancing World Sleep Day 2010 and future dates.  Please send the below information to Allan O'Bryan at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .    

World Sleep Day 2010 Activities:

 

 

DATE:                            May 31, 2010  

SUBMITTED BY:       Helena Rebelo Pinto

ACTIVITY:  Mysteries of Sleep Report


DATE:                           May 28, 2010       

 

SUBMITTED BY:       Evan Owens

ACTIVITY: Brown/Hasbro Hospital


DATE:                       May 18, 2010    
SUBMITTED BY:   Dr. Garima Shukla, New Delhi   
ACTIVITY:
               Created video displaying the WSD efforts in New Delhi which included handing out informational flyers regarding sleep disorders and how to contact a sleep specialist for help.

VIDEO:   

 

 


DATE:                           March 24, 2010

SUBMITTED BY:       Rachel Nash - Rhode Island
ACTIVITY:
                   Display casebat Rhode Island Hospital featuring information and literature on sleep health.  Also, a "Patient Safety and Sleepiness in Medical Residents" talk at Grand Rounds.

     
     


 

DATE:                           March 19, 2010 
SUBMITTED BY:       ABC News WLS-TV Chiago, IL
           
LINK:                          Friday marks World Sleep Day 

 


 

DATE:                          March 17, 2010 
SUBMITTED BY:       Lilo Habersack
ACTIVITY:                  Photos of Australian road signs addressing Sleep and Alertness 
             

  
 


DATE:                           March 2010
SUBMITTED BY:        Manvir Bhatia

ACTIVITY:
               
    CME for doctors on March 10, 2010 in Delhi, India.  Free sleep consultation camps March 13, 14, and 28, 2010.


 

DATE:                           March 15, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:       Ed Grandi
ACTIVITY:
                   Postd a blog about Sleep Apnea awareness and World Sleep Day 2010
LINK:                            
http://sleepapneaed.blogspot.com/2010/03/sleep-apnea-on-world-sleep-day-march.html 


 

DATE:                           March 16-19, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:        Marta Gonalves
ACTIVITY:
                   Portugal - "The APS Sleep Week" - Publication and distribution of eduational brochures by way of shopping mall interventions, complete with the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Online Test.  Media program including testimonies of Osas, RLS, and Narcolepsy patients through television, newspapers, etc.


 

DATE:                           March 15, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:        Julia Santin
ACTIVITY:                   Submitted press release and communicated WSD 2010 through the Chilean Sleep Society members and media.                 
 


 

DATE:                           March 19-20, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:       Garima Shukla
ACTIVITY:
                   Public awareness activity in New Delhi
 


 

DATE:                          March 19, 2010 
SUBMITTED BY:      Alex Iranzo

ACTIVITY:
                  Presented a course on sleep to senior residents of Neurology in Spain.

 


 

DATE:                           March 7, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:       Hrayr Attariam
ACTIVITY:
                   Created a short video describing the impact of sleep.


 

DATE:                          February 25, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:       Monica Ferrarri
ACTIVITY:
                  Wrote a short story that describes the bad sleep quality of a young women.


DATE:                          March 2010
SUBMITTED BY:      Teresa Paiva
ACTIVITY:
                  Creation of book titled "The Mysteries of Sleep" with education to the general population and professionals with the idea to Sleep Well, Stay Healthy. Books will be included in the National Reading Program and Science Alive within Portugal.

 


 

DATE:                           November 2009
SUBMITTED BY:       Ana Paula Rivera
ORGANIZATION:     Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz National Psychiatry Institute in Mexico City
ACTIVITY:
                   Organizing a symposium on World Sleep Day 2010


 

DATE:                          March 2010
SUBMITTED BY:      Antonio Culebras
ORGANIZATION:    Upstate Medical University
ACTIVITY:
                  Local news activity sharing 10 Commandments of Sleep


DATE:                          February 4, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:      Avery Schott
ORGANIZATION:    The Sleep Medicine Network in Portland, Oregon USA
ACTIVITY:
                  Host a local news event


DATE:                          December  2009
SUBMITTED BY:      Thyson Lau
ORGANIZATION:    WOW PR Group Malaysia
ACTIVITY:
                  Promote sleep-well lifestyle in Malaysia by haivng an exhibition and expo on World Sleep Day 2010 in the major shopping mall concouse on 2010, March 19-21.


DATE:                            March 10, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:        Juliana Cervo, Secretary of AGSono
ORGANIZATION:      Sleep Association of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
ACTIVITY:
                    Participation in local awareness
LINK:                              http://www.agsono.com.br/site/


DATE:                            February 25, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:        Manon Pacyna
ORGANIZATION:      Signum PR
ACTIVITY:
                    Write and publish text about world sleep day with regards to narcolepsy.
LINK:                             http://www.hellwach-narkolepsie-erkennen.de/


DATE:                           March 4, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:       Eleftherios Papathanasiou, PhD  
ORGANIZATION:     The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Cyprus
ACTIVITY:
                   Local media press release distribution.


 

DATE:                          March 19, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:      Gregory G. Nemeth
ORGANIZATION:    All Hungarian Media
ACTIVITY:
                  National Press Conference
LINK:                           http://orvosikozpont.hu/wsd.html 
         

 


 

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