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Course: The Importance of Sleep in MTSAD
The Importance of Sleep in MTSAD
Jonathan Silverberg, MD PhD MPH

Sleep disturbances are common in patients with atopic dermatitis and pose management challenges due to several factors. This course reviews the impact, epidemiology, causes, and management of sleep disturbances in patients with atopic dermatitis. Management pearls will be discussed, including lifestyle and behavioral modifications along with systemic therapies.

Learning Objectives  

  • Recognize the impacts of sleep disturbance on patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis
  • Describe the complex mechanisms of sleep disturbance in atopic dermatitis
  • Identify appropriate therapeutic strategies for sleep disturbance in atopic dermatitis

Faculty

User: jonathanisilverberg@gmail.com
Jonathan Silverberg
MD PhD MPH

Jonathan Silverberg is a Professor of Dermatology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He is the Director of Clinical Research and Contact Dermatitis. Dr. Silverberg’s area of clinical subspecialty is inflammatory skin disease, particularly atopic and contact dermatitis. He has extensive experience in the advanced management of atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, hand eczema, chronic itch, psoriasis, hidradenitis and many other chronic inflammatory skin disorders. He is also a national expert in allergy patch testing, phototesting and photopatch testing.

 

Dr. Silverberg’s research interests include the epidemiology of chronic and infectious diseases. He has published extensively on the epidemiology of chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema, psoriasis and utoimmune blistering disorders as well infections such as COVID-19, measles, shingles, cellulitis and other skin and serious infections. Dr. Silverberg has also made major contributions to health services research, patient-reported outcome development, understanding comorbidities and burden of itch and inflammatory skin disease, advancing evidence-based dermatology, drug development, and clinical trial design. His publications include more than 1000 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters. He is also the author of the Clinical Management of Atopic Dermatitis handbook (second edition published 2022). Dr. Silverberg is also the chair of the annual Revolutionizing Atopic Dermatitis global multidisciplinary conferences, Revolutionizing Vitiligo global conference, and Director of the Foundation for Dermatology Education. 

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