Boris A. Stuck - Practice of Sleep Medicine: Sleep Disorders in Children and Adults

Dr. Stuck has been working in the field of sleep medicine since 1999. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. degree in otorhinolaryngology for his thesis on sleep-related breathing disorders. Until 2014, he was executive senior physician of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University Hospital of Mannheim and vice-chairman of the Sleep Center. Since April 2017, he has been professor and chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg (UKGM), Campus Marburg. He has the additional qualification of sleep medicine and is qualified in somnology (DGSM) and is section editor of the scientific journal Somnology. He is the responsible author of the German guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Snoring in Adults and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Adults. Since 2018 he has been a board member and since 2020 the Executive President of the German Sleep Society.

A specialist in otorhinolaryngology, Dr. Maurer has been director of the Sleep Center at the University Hospital Mannheim since 1995 and of the Division for Sleep Medicine since 2019. He is qualified in sleep medicine and somnology (DGSM) and is a member of the Audit Committee, the Accreditation Commission for Sleep Centers, the Committee on Continuing Medical Education, and the Objection Committee in Sleep Medicine of the State Medical Chamber of Baden-Wrttemberg. He is honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim.

Since 1996, he has organized several courses on diagnostics and therapy as well as the surgical therapy of sleep apnea. He is section editor of the scientific journal Somnology, coeditor of Sleep and Breathing, and coauthor of the German guidelines Diagnosis and Therapy of Snoring in Adults and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Adults. Also, he is president of the Association of Somnologists of Baden-Wrttemberg.

Dr. Schlarb is a certified psychologist and psychological psychotherapist and has an additional qualification in psychotherapy of children and adolescents, group therapy with focus on behavioral therapy, and hypnotherapy. She received her Ph.D. degree with contributions about therapy of sleep disorders in adults, children, and adolescents and holds the professorship for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents of the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She is director of the University Outpatient Department for Children and Adolescents and of the Sleep Research Lab of the University of Bielefeld, member of the German Sleep Society (DGSM), and deputy speaker of the Research Team of Pediatrics. Furthermore, she is a member of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) and the International Pediatric Sleep Association (IPSA), editor of several scientific special issues on the topic of sleep medicine and therapy, and coeditor of the scientific journals Somnology and Journal of Sleep Research (JSR). She contributed to the German guideline Nonrestorative Sleep/Sleep Disorders: Insomnia and co-coordinated the revision of the German guideline on Insomnia in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients. Her scientific and clinical focus is on the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disorders in pediatric, adolescent, and adult patients; chronotype research; love, relationships, and sleep; chronic diseases and sleep; and sleep disorders associated with psychiatric diseases.

Dr. Schredl is a certified psychologist with a degree in electrical engineering, a somnologist (DGSM), and director of the Sleep Lab of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. Since 1990, he has performed research in sleep and dreaming with a focus on factors of dream recall, the impact of wakefulness on dream contents, nightmares, dreams and psychic disorders, memory consolidation during sleep, stress systems, and sleep disorders. He is associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim and leader of the working group Dreaming within the German Sleep Society (DGSM). Furthermore, he is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the European Sleep Research Society and editor of the open-access journal