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Welcome back to the curbsiders. Hello Matthew. Hi Stuart how are you doing good. Don't okay.

So tonight on the curbsiders we will be talking with the great doctor Anisa Doss about obesity, hypolventilation syndrome which I definitely did not understand very well.

And we really needed this episode. A reminder that this and most of our episodes are available for free CME credit for all healthcare professionals.

Through our partnership with VCU Health Continuing Education you can go to curbsiders.vcuhealth.org to check those out. Paul before we tell them about our co-host and our wonderful guest.

Can you tell people what is it that we generally do on the curbsiders.

Thanks for asking Matt. Generally we we are the internal medicine podcast views expert interviews from your clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge.

As you mentioned we have the great doctor Cyrus asking with us tonight who's going to tell us about who we talk to and what we talked about.

Thank you Paul and you know flattery will get you everywhere as they say.

So you know tonight we've had a great conversation with doctor Anisa Doss. Dr. Doss is an associate professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care as well as sleep medicine at the Ohio State University where she's the director of the home sleep testing program.

She's a past chair of the sleep network for chest and is a current chair of the board of view course in sleep medicine for chest clinically she works with the bariatric surgeons at Ohio State to help treat perioperative sleep disorders and their patients.

And so during our discussion we had some great pearls curbs of Dr. Doss in regards to OHS specifically discussing diagnostic tools and management options.

Tons of great content. Let's get to it.

Anisa thank you for joining us can you tell the audience a one liner about yourself and throwing some hobby or interest outside of medicine.

Absolutely I am a 47 year old eternal optimist who absolutely believes it smiles our contagious who is considered very active as a cyclist and hiker but not very athletic but thankfully the mother of two very athletic teenage boys.

Can I just mention that my wife and I have this joke because she like you as an eternal optimist and that I'm my best self on air I'm very happy on air but I'm not I can be a little bit of a grump at home sometimes.

And so I was she's like you should we should get you a shirt that says smiles are contagious because it will just be the most ironic and my wife is always just smiling so much and I'm just like walking around grumpy so you're well balanced.

Exactly exactly all right but I digress Paul.

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