Schedules, Stress and the Snooze Button: Common Sleep Issues and How to Troubleshoot

Dr. Innessa Donskoy, a pediatric sleep medicine physician at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Illinois, will talk about sleep and the ways to improve your sleep habits and those of your children. She will discuss what drives sleep, the culprits of sleep deprivation and the complex interaction between stress and sleep.

Dr. Donskoy completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Sleep Medicine fellowship at the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. She sees patients from early infancy to late adolescence and treats a range of sleep disorders. She prefers to use a collaborative family centered approach to patient care, empowering patients and their caregivers to understand and optimize their own sleep health.