Curriculum

Breathing Easy: Strategies for Optimizing Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis and Management

This two-part Clinical Coffee Break curriculum is designed to enhance PCPs’ confidence in recognizing, diagnosing, and managing OSA. One session features a recommendation engine that allows learners to personalize their experience. Through interactive faculty discussion, learners will review evidence-based approaches for screening and diagnosis, examine current and emerging treatment modalities—including strategies to improve CPAP adherence and patient-centered care—and integrate weight loss into comprehensive management plans to reduce OSA severity and complications.

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CME Information

1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 1.25 ABIM MOC or 1.19 AANP, 0.63 AANP Pharm

Release Date: 8/29/2025

Available for credit until 8/29/2026

Topics

Faculty

Learning Objectives

  • Apply evidence-based strategies to screen for and diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients at high risk, utilizing validated screening tools and appropriate diagnostic modalities
  • Examine the currently available treatment modalities for OSA, with a focus on improving CPAP adherence, promoting patient-centered care, and leveraging recently approved pharmacotherapy and devices
  • Incorporate weight loss into comprehensive OSA management plans to reduce disease severity and associated complications

Courses

1.25 CME/CE CREDITS

2 Courses

Faculty

Vani Potluri, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

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Katherine Sharkey, MD, PhD, FAASM, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior

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Supported By

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly

Education Partner

Pri-Med Institute