Research
Importance of Research
In the words of Robert K Jackler, “it is the surgeon’s privilege to improve the lives of many, however we have the opportunity to impact thousands if not millions of lives through well designed clinical translational research targeting the correct questions.”
There is a critical need to shed light in many questions related to our field: from optimal patient selection, the need to identify clinically relevant outcomes which portray the goals of sleep surgery better than the surrogate but well studied apnea hypopnea index, designing better surgical tools and techniques, and most importantly, how to improve access to our expertise, for patients and trainees alike, allowing surgical care for OSA more equitable.