119 - Dr. Sahil Chopra - 'Empower Sleep' - Changing Sleep Medicine for Patients

Sleep Apnea Stories

Emma is joined by Dr. Sahil Chopra, co-founder and CEO at Empower Sleep, a virtual care platform allowing people to get personalized sleep care in the comfort of their homes.

In this episode:

* Emma's experience trying out the Empower Sleep platform.

* Dr. Chopra's background from medical training in India to continuing his training in California and completing a fellowship at Harvard.

* Sahil's discovery of sleep as a specialty and experiencing how broken the medical system was for patients.

* Starting 'Empower Sleep' to change the patient experience.

* Sleep Apnea as a chronic illness that needs remote patient management over the long term.

* Dr. Chopra seeing patients with well-controlled sleep apnea but poor sleep quality.

* How Dr. Chopra approaches complex cases to improve patients' sleep.

* Looking at data from a Sleep Image ring over time to allow patients and their doctor to see what works and what doesn't with their sleep.

* The importance of using FDA-approved medical-grade sleep diagnostic tools.

* How patients pay for care under the Empower Sleep model.

* Dr. Chopra's experience looking at more complicated cases and how they try different options and monitor the outcomes.

Connect with Dr. Chopra:

https://www.empowersleep.com/

https://www.instagram.com/empowersleep/

Information Dr. Chopra mentioned on nonvented mask / diamox in treatment for CSA:

⁠https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014237/⁠⁠

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3998090/

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