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Fellow Focus in Four - Hayley Israel, MD, fellow, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Dr. Margaret Pisani talks about “The challenges to getting gender equality”

If your child is finding it difficult to slip back into the school sleep schedule, Dr. Lynelle Schneeberg, a behavioral sleep psychologist, is helping you beat the restless nights.

If anxious thoughts keep you awake at night, these apps and podcasts for adults—which feature bedtime tales read by soothing voices—might help you slumber like a kid again.

People with genetic risk of having heart disease can protect themselves by getting the right amount of sleep. But having too much or too little sleep can put people at risk for heart attack. A third of adults in the United States don’t get the right amount of sleep.

Though it’s not easy to change poor sleep habits, it’s not impossible—particularly for children in preschool and elementary school, says Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, a Yale Medicine psychologist and author of “Become Your Child’s Sleep Coach: The Bedtime Doctor’s 5-Step Guide, Ages 3-10” (Lifelong Books).

As part of our “Meet Yale Internal Medicine” series, today’s feature is on Inderjit Singh, MBChB, BMedSci, MRCP, assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine) and director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program.

The unique attributes of the fellowship program of the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine’s (Yale-PCCSM) are highlighted by current and former fellows of Yale-PCCSM in a new video just released and produced by Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Office of Communications.

In their paper, “Should Physicians New to a Case Counsel Patients and Their Families to Change Course at the End of Life?” Shyoko Honiden, MD, MS, and Jennifer Possick, MD, describe a case where two physicians disagree on a treatment plan for a critically ill patient with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.