Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program
The Medical College of Georgia Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Augusta University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Our fellowship is a one-year clinical fellowship, sponsored by Wellstar.
A diverse faculty from multiple specialties is actively engaged in training fellows. The curriculum covers a wide range of sleep medicine topics, including sleep pharmacology, psychology with an emphasis on CBT-I interventions, sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, narcolepsy, parasomnias, restless legs syndrome, neurodegenerative disorders, sleep surgery, normal sleep across the lifespan, and dental sleep medicine and orthodontics for both pediatric and adult populations.
Program Description
Welcome to the Sleep Fellowship Program at Wellstar- MCG. We are excited to have you consider us for fellowship training and be in this fascinating specialty.
Our mission is to train clinically astute, well rounded sleep physicians who are well equipped to practice in any setting. We believe in patient centered multi -disciplinary care that is shaped by evidence based best practices as well as collaboration and empathy among all professionals.
Our program welcomes two fellows a year with applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds including internal medicine, family medicine, neurology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and pulmonary/critical care. We are fortunate to have faculty members who represent these backgrounds, as well as a psychologist fully trained and practicing Behavioral Sleep Medicine. The diversity of our professional staff and well-rounded educational opportunities create a uniquely enriching interdisciplinary training environment that best prepares fellows to excel in a full-service sleep clinic.
We have a single clinical site at Wellstar- MCG Hospital and the Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia. The accredited sleep lab is housed in the latter and the clinics in the former. This provides opportunities to care for patients over the the entire age spectrum. We have the Dental College of Georgia a short walk away to provide some insight and exposure to Dental Sleep Medicine.
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We provide a learning environment that allows for excellent work-life balance as well as the opportunity to flourish and become a well-rounded sleep physician. Please let us know if you have any questions about our training program. We hope to hear from you soon!
Eligibility
Individuals who are Board eligible or certified in Internal Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, and Anesthesia through an ACGME-accredited program is a minimal requirement. Those who have additional Boards are also eligible (e.g., Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Neurophysiology). Practicing physicians wishing to specialize in Sleep Medicine are encouraged to apply.
Application
We participate in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). Application materials must be submitted via the Electronic Residency Application Service.
Faculty Contact
Varsha S. Taskar, MD, MPH
- Director, Sleep Medicine
- Professor of Medicine
Diana Bigler, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Otolaryngology
Amy Blanchard, MD
- Director, Sleep Disorders Center
- Professor of Medicine
Jessica Britt-Thomas, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior
John Comisi, DDS
- Interim Chair
- Professor
- Dental College of Georgia Department of General Dentistry
Michael Groves, MD
- Associate Professor
- Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education
- General Otolaryngology
William Healy, MD
- Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship
- Director, Sleep Quality Improvement
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Lisa Hilton, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Chief, MIDS
- Co-Director of the Digestive Health Center
- Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Heather Koehn, MD
- Associate Professor
- Medical Student Clerkship Director
- Pediatric Otolaryngology
Vaughn McCall, MD, MS
- Professor Emeritus
- Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Katie, McKie, MD
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
Gary Montgomery, MD
- Doctor of Medicine
- Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
- Sleep Medicine
Debra Moore-Hill, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Epilepsy
- Vice Chair of Education
Drew Prosser, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Pediatric Otolaryngology
Barbara Stancil, PA
- Pulmonology Physician Assistant
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