Sleep Talking with David Walton, A Whole You™ Podcast

Have you ever heard the age-old question, “Which came first, insomnia or sleep apnea?” This episode, clinical psychologist and board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist, Dr. Anne Bartolucci, unpacks the difference between insomnia and sleep apnea, discusses her approach to improving sleep health through cognitive behavioral psychology, and explores the challenges she believes patients and sleep health experts are facing today.

What does it mean to go “beyond the referral?” On part two of our conversation with ENT doctor, Dr. Ryan Soose, and dentist, Dr. Nicole Chenet, we explore how working together to create a personalized treatment for each patient, as well as an understanding of each other’s specialties, helps them provide better care overall.

Now that sleep health specialists are treating their patients online, telehealth has become a growing pillar in the industry. In this episode, we welcome Dr. Jagdeep Bijwadia, an expert pulmonologist with over 20 years of experience, to walk us through how going digital can improve patient access, increase efficiencies, and give patients and specialists a new way to connect.

Globally, the CPAP machine is regarded as the “gold standard” of treatment for sleep apnea patients, yet users are not consistently compliant with the device. Thus, one treatment does not fit all. On this episode, we chat with celebrated ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeon, Dr. Olivier Vanderveken, to discuss his extensive research on OSA treatments as part of the world-renowned Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium, his advice on how to build important relationships across disciplines, and the future of sleep medicine.

In the United States, fewer than 200,000 cases per year are diagnosed with narcolepsy, yet this chronic sleep disorder is commonly mistaken with sleep apnea. On this episode, we chat with Dr. Brijesh Malkani, a sleep medicine specialist and neurologist on what makes sleep apnea different from narcolepsy, additional symptoms of sleep apnea that some patients face or are unaware of, and what he’d like others to know about neurology.