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AASM Membership Sections Newsletter
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Issue #7
American Academy of
Sleep Medicine
KIRAN MASKI, MD
Dr. Kiran Maski, MD, is an Instructor in the Departments of
Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical
School in Boston, MA. She trained in pediatrics at Tufts-New
England Medical Center and completed a child neurology
residency and sleep fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her
research interests include central hypersomnia conditions, as
well as the effects of sleep disorders on cognition and daytime
behavior in children.
ALTHEA ROBINSON-SHELTON, MD
Dr. Althea Robinson-Shelton, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
TN. She completed a Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship with
an emphasis in epilepsy in 2009 and then continued further
training in sleep medicine with an emphasis in pediatrics at
Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include studying the
mechanisms of sleep and epilepsy in children, especially children
in underserved populations and with early onset narcolepsy. She
is currently conducting research on neuro-psychiatric and neuro-
behavioral disorders associated with childhood onset narcolepsy.
NANCI YUAN, MD
Dr. Nanci Yuan, MD, is also starting her second year as a member
of the Childhood Sleep Disorders and Development Section. She
is an Associate Professor at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
at Stanford where she is the Medical Director for their Pediatric
Sleep Center. Her research interests are concentrated on the
pulmonary complications due to neuromuscular disease, cerebral
palsy/hypertonicity, scoliosis and sleep disorders in the pediatric
population.
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AGE
RECOMMENDED
MAY BE APPROPRIATE NOT RECOMMENDED
Newborns, 0-3 months
14 to 17 hours
11 to 13 hours
18 to 19 hours
Less than 11 hours
More than 19 hours
Infants, 4-11 months
12 to 15 hours
10 to 11 hours
16 to 18 hours
Less than 10 hours
More than 18 hours
Toddlers, 1-2 years
11 to 14 hours
9 to 10 hours
15 to 16 hours
Less than 9 hours
More than 16 hours
Preschoolers, 3-5 years
10 to 13 hours
8 to 9 hours
14 hours
Less than 8 hours
More than 14 hours
School-aged children,
6 to 13 years
9 to 11 hours
7 to 8 hours
12 hours
Less than 7 hours
More than 12 hours
Teenagers, 14-17 years
8 to 10 hours
7 hours
11 hours
Less than 7 hours
More than 11 hours
Young adults,
18-15 years
7 to 9 hours
6 hours
10 to 11 hours
Less than 6 hours
More than 11 hours
Adults, 26-64 years
7 to 9 hours
6 hours
10 hours
Less than 6 hours
More than 10 hours
Older adults, >65 years
7 to 8 hours
5 to 6 hours
9 hours
Less than 5 hours
More than 9 hours
