Quarterly Newsletter - Q4 2024

Thrive with California Sleep Society membership collaboration or simply Survive

17th Annual Educational Symposium

 Thank you to all the speakers, attendees and sponsors who made this event hugely successful!

18th Annual Educational Symposium

 The 18th Annual Educational Symposium will be held on October 3-4, 2025, at the Courtyard by Marriott Liberty Station, which is located in San Diego, CA. The registration website will be available soon! 

Membership Benefits include:

  • Education events in sleep medicine
  • Contact listings with other sleep professionals
  • Local networking opportunities
  • Shared insights into sleep legislation and legislative advocacy
  • CSS Newsletter and opinion pieces
  • Discount on CSS annual meeting
  • Ability to place ads or publish articles in Newsletter
  • Listing in California membership directory

Newsletter Contributions

If you would like to contribute a sleep-based feature article, we would love to hear from you.  Email us at [email protected].

A New Look in the Sleep World

By: Mustapha Khemar Ballaho, MBA, RPSGT

For more than five decades, sleep has progressed into the mainstream world such as other things that two to three decades ago would only be deemed as fiction. We have UFC, ubiquitous semi-pro self-made videos, 24/7 news, and robot pets.

Photo credit: Sam K.

Departing Words

By: Rafael Pelayo, MD

Rightly so, term limits call for new blood. This is the end of my time serving on the Board of the California Sleep Society (“CSS”). It has been a memorable and professionally rewarding eight years. I was first elected in January 2016.