Poznań University of Medical Sciences and the City of Poznań would like to invite you to the open lecture that will be given by Prof. Robert P. Skomro, MD, PhD: Obstructive Sleep Apnea - an Underestimated Health Problem. The lecture will be held on 11 March 2020 at 02:00 p.m. in Prof. Wincenty Jezierski Hall (entry D, floor III) at the Teaching Hospital of the Transfiguration of Jesus in Poznań, ul. Długa 1/2.
Prof. Robert Skomro, MD, PhD is a pulmonologist and sleep disorder specialist, Professor and Head of the Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Department at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and Vice-President of the Canadian Sleep Society.
Prof. Skomro obtained his title of the Doctor of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and then PhD at Wroclaw Medical University. After obtaining his medical degree, he completed a residency in internal medicine and pulmonology in Canada and fellowship in sleep medicine research under the direction of Prof. Meir Kryger and M. Younes at the University of Manitoba.
He has Canadian (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada) and American (ABIM, ABSM) qualifications in internal medicine, pulmonology and sleep disorders. He is an author of more than 50 scientific publications on pulmonology and sleep medicine and sits on the Supervisory Board of the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network.