The Importance of Recognizing an Association Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Affiliations

• ¹ Associate Chief of Staff/Graduate Medical Education, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Director, Quality Assurance Hospital Dental Service, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; and Professor-in-Residence of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: arthur.friedlander@va.gov.
• ² Deputy Associate Chief of Staff, Education, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Los Angeles; and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
• ³ Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery VA Special Fellow, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁴ Director of Research Fellowship and Inpatient Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; and Instructor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁵ Associate Chief of Staff/Mental Health, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁶ Director, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Sleep Disorders Center; and Clinical Professor, Medicine-Pulmonary Critical Care, and Program Director of UCLA Sleep Fellowship, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.