Center for Interdisciplinary Sleep Research and Education (CISRE)

Overview of Services

Mission
The Johns Hopkins Center for Interdisciplinary Sleep Research and Education (CISRE), is committed to education, training, coordination, and data management for research in sleep medicine. The CISRE serves the entire Hopkins community, as well as private and industry-based, national and international sleep research projects outside of Johns Hopkins.

CISRE Core Expertise
The CISRE has over 30 years of clinical sleep research experience. It facilitates the acquisition and analysis of sleep-related data including polysomnography, home sleep studies and actigraphy. It leverages the expertise and resources of sleep specialists across a range of medical disciplines, including pulmonary, neurology, psychiatry, endocrinology, pediatrics, otorhinolaryngology, and anesthesia. Investigators utilize the CISRE to address fundamental questions related to sleep. With the support from the CISRE, results of these studies are published in peer-reviewed papers.

CISRE Services
Sleep study acquisition:
CISRE is equipped with a 10-bed sleep research center and chronobiology suite. We can provide monitoring and interventions that are not included in standard clinical polysomnography, including sleep restriction/deprivation, fragmentation and collection of customized data channels.
Sleep scoring:
CISRE maintains an American Academy of Sleep Medicine-accredited scoring hub. The hub conducts regular Q/A feedback with inter-scorer reliability exercises. CISRE provides immediate access to sleep recordings and prompt study reports. A versatile information technology backbone accommodates both “in-lab” and mobile “home” sleep testing.
Sleep questionnaires:
CISRE has a repository of standardized sleep questionnaires integrated into REDCap.
Sleep data management:
CISRE provides comprehensive sleep data management services and is experienced in:
Coordinating single and multicenter sleep-related clinical trials
Generating sleep study reports, data queries, signal processing and breath-by-breath analysis
Developing and maintaining REDCap databases, specialized software, and reporting systems
Providing secure web-based data-transfer
Archiving recordings in a HIPAA-compliant network with back-up and version control

Leadership

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

1. Center for Sleep Research and Education
2. Calendars

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