ARMENIA

Foundation year

2011

Webpage

http://armsleep.org/en/

Number of members

14

Composition of members (degree, specialties, subspecialties, etc.)

Degrees: MDs, BAs, PhDs Specialties: neurology, child neurology, clinical neurophysiology, psychology, psychiatry, basic neuroscience, ENT, pulmonology, internal medicine, anesthesiology, cardiology, orthodontics, thoracic surgery, sleep technicians Subspecialties: sleep medicine, epileptology, arhythmology

Important sleep physicians / researchers in the history of the NSS

Nubar Aslanyan MD DMSc (biochemistry, chronobiology)
Vahagn Darbinyan MD DMSc (neurology, epileptology)
Samson Khachatryan MD CMSc (neurology, sleep medicine)
Arthur Shukuryan MD DMSc (otorhynolaryngology)
Marina Petrosyan MD CMSc (pulmonology)
Parunak Zelveian MD CMSc (cardiology)
Ada Tadevosyan MD DMSc (psychiatry)

Number of Sleep Medicine Centers (link to their titles and locations)

Somnus Sleep and Movement Disorders Clinic, Yerevan
Sleep laboratory, Surb Nerses Mets Medical Center, Yerevan
Sleep laboratory, Barekam Medical Center, Yerevan

Number of Sleep Research Centers (link to their titles and locations)

Somnus Sleep and Movement Disorders Clinic, Yerevan (affiliated with Yerevan State Medical University’s doctoral research program, clinical sleep research)

Present activities, working groups, task forces

Few collaborative projects are being discussed with other professional societies (Armenian Association of Neurologists, Armenian League against Epilepsy, Armenian Movement Disorders Group, etc.)
Task force on inclusion of sleep medicine topics into curricula of the main Armenian medical schools/universities
Working groups: Working group on neurological sleep disorders, Working group on insomnia, Working group on sleep-related breathing disorders
Task force on missing sleep medication introduction in Armenia