Who created World Sleep Day?

The annual awareness event was started by a group of dedicated health care providers

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members of the medical community working and studying in the area of sleep medicine and research.

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The goal of the first World Sleep Day was to bring together sleep healthcare providers to discuss and

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distribute sleep information around the world.

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The first co-chairs of World Sleep Day were Liborio Parrino, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Parma University,

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Italy and Antonio Culebras, MD, Professor of Neurology, Upstate Medical University,

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Consultant, The Sleep Center, Community General Hospital, Syracuse, New York, USA.

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