Stanford Sleep Disorders Research Center

Everyone here was so nice! I had such a supportive experience with the Sleep Clinic. Thank you for tolerating my many issues :)

I agree with Glenn P. There is no follow-​up. My polysomnogram experience was superb, but the much-​awaited treatment, insight, care, diagnosis… was non-​existent. I have three serious sleep disorders. I wanted, for one thing, to understand the chemical imbalance in my brain, or to learn how to go about phototherapy. (How can I determine my sleep nadir for example.) The doctor (actually two doctors and two residents) offered nothing. I was told to get CBT-​i. Then come back six months after that. My messed up circadian rhythm has nothing to therapy. So disappointed.
IF YOU HAVE DELAYED SLEEP PHASE SYNDROME, don’t bother going to Stanford. They are useless.

No follow up. I suppose the tests are good (how would I know?). But they write up a report and introduce you to someone else to get a CPAP if needed. That person, or their organization calls within 24 hours to say the’ve received your application (a meaningless call — they could have texted that if they were going to communicate that at all), and you never hear from them again!
Like when you’re approved, the insurance company tells you. Not the Stanford Sleep Clinic. What to do next? They don’t say. They don’t contact you. It’s up to you to initiate the voice mail process.
You don’t really know who your doctor is, or if you have one. Maybe the Sleep Center is your doctor. You’re very much a cog in the wheel, and the wheel isn’t rolling unless YOU keep pushing it along.
The technology of the new CPAPs are amazing, they say. The technology can let the doctors know if the air pressure on the mask is right, or needs to be adjusted, and your apnea hypopnea index (AHI) is recorded remotely — BUT — the doctors at Stanford will never check this proactively (or automatically with their vaunted technology). YOU need to call in or come in and ask. THEN they’ll check your records. I guess they need to do that to trigger the co-​pay and insurer payment.

You could be dead before you get to see these people. 3 months for an appointment?

I go to the Stanford Sleep Clinic that is located in the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center. I am very happy with the treatment that I have received from the health care professionals that I have i dealt with at this practice both attending, residents fellows nurses, sleep technologists, front desk staff as well as Human Subject Sleep Reasearch staff. I was lucky enough to be picked to take part in a sleep research study at Stanford.
I have seen Dr. Crete Kushida MD, PhD when Stanford had a Sleep Clinic at California Pacific Medical Center. I also have been treated by Dr. Michelle Cao DO.