Fellowship

Welcome to the University of Michigan Sleep Medicine Fellowship page! Contained on this site, you will be able to find the specifics on the application process, a description of the current fellowship, information about our faculty and their ongoing research. We believe that the training you receive here is amongst the best in the country with a multidisciplinary clinical experience, a broad diversity of patients, a large number of sleep studies, and a large variety of research opportunities.

Originating from the idea of Michael S. Aldrich, MD, a pioneer in the field of sleep medicine, this neurology department-based fellowship has blossomed into a one-year clinical track with six full-time sleep medicine fellows, who are drawn from the fields of internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry and pediatrics. This track has trained physicians who have gone on to academic positions at many universities and those who have gone on to private practice positions. [See link for locations of trained fellows]We also have an academic track fellowship which encompasses one year of clinic work followed by 2 to 4 years of research time. [Link] Information on both of these tracks is provided on this site.

The faculty for this fellowship is also drawn from several fields including neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, anesthesia, dentistry, otolaryngology, and oro-maxillary surgery. We are particularly proud of our three multi-disciplinary clinics including Alternatives to CPAP, Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and Pediatrics. These clinics improve patient care, enabling interaction of faculty and fellows in several departments to discuss cases and treatment options.

The University of Michigan Health System encompasses a network of hospitals and physicians through much of south-eastern Michigan. The University of Michigan Hospital is a tertiary care center with a high volume of outpatient services. We currently have 18 beds dedicated to clinical sleep medicine services, nine at the Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Laboratory and another nine at a site near the hospital, which run 7 nights per week. There are also two other sleep rooms designed only for research purposes located at the GCRC (General Clinical Research Center).

A wide diversity of polysomnograms are performed on a nightly basis, including video evaluation, end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring, 16-lead EEG montages, and Multiple Sleep Latency Testing. Specialized skills such as interpreting esophageal manometry and evaluating pediatric polysomnograms will be taught.

We anticipate that you will find your time at the University of Michigan as rewarding as some of our prior fellows [link to letters of support from prior fellows]. We believe that you will graduate from this fellowship well-trained in all aspects of sleep medicine, allowing you to proceed along your diverse paths of interest. All of our sleep medicine fellows who have taken the American Board of Sleep Medicine in last several years have passed it. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions. We hope to hear from you soon.

Regards,

Flavia Consens, MD