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November 2025Excellent job market and lifestyle— The survey results speak for themselves! More specifically, sleep fellowship training opens the door to diverse career opportunities in academic medicine, private practice, and sleep centers, while offering the ability to diversify your practice with non-operative work and providing an excellent lifestyle.
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Dr. Triantafillou
Dr. Triantafillou completed her sleep medicine/sleep surgery fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2025. She is currently a laryngology fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Dr. Rodin
Dr. Rodin is an assistant professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, co-director of the CPAP Alternatives Clinic, and assistant director of the otolaryngology residency program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
With more and more exposure in residency to the surgical techniques we need to look at options that don’t involve a year of lost revenue learning about sleep disorders and sleep studies. The majority of surgeons that do a sleep fellowship are not treating a bulk of sleep medicine diseases, they’re still focused on strictly obstructive sleep apnea.
The academy and ISSS should be focused on offering a fellowship in the ISSS that teaches those who are interested during a series of courses over a two year time span only involving 4 weekends over that time. A basic, advanced and sleep study deep dives into what we need to know out in practice. À la the FAAOA does for otolaryngologic allergy. Otherwise I’m concerned that in the future as everyone that was grandfathered will have a serious lack of availability of doctors in the next few years.