Good Sleep Health was created by the Medical Director of the Kelowna Sleep Clinic, Dr. Ron Cridland, MD, for the purpose of educating his patients and the public about Sleep Health and Sleep Disorders. Dr. Cridland was a Family Physician practicing Health Promotion when he realized that many patients following healthy lifestyles were not feeling as well as they thought they should for all the effort they were making. It turned out that sleep was the missing link. He began to incorporate sleep medicine into his family practice in 1988. He trained with neurologist, Dr. Jon Sassin In California and then psychiatrist, Dr. Adam Moscovitch at the Canadian Sleep Institute in Calgary Alberta. He was board certified with the American Board of Sleep Medicine in 1999 and has been practicing sleep medicine full time since then.
He established the Kelowna Sleep Clinic in 2001, the Nanaimo Sleep Clinic in 2007 and the Vernon Sleep Clinic in 2018. He has trained numerous physicians, technicians and staff in sleep disorder medicine and lectures extensively on sleep health.
After 30 years of interest in sleep health and sleep disorders he has distilled his cumulative knowledge and experience into a comprehensive and integrated website. He researched and created a Sleep Disorders Questionnaire that he has refined over the years to help him effectively identify the many sleep disorders and associated psychiatric conditions that he sees in a comprehensive sleep disorders practice. From this questionnaire he has developed an Online Sleep Disorder Questionnaire that produces a customized report to help you and your physician identify and manage the sleep disorders you may have. The report also links you to detailed articles on each of the sleep disorders that have been identified in your report. They include information about the disorder, how it is diagnosed and how it is treated including treatment algorithms that can be used by your physician.
Dr. Cridland has always preferred to manage health disorders by addressing their cause while avoiding medications as much as possible. Consequently, he developed a particular interest in the non-pharmacological strategies found in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for insomnia (CBTi). After 20 years of teaching patients how to resolve their insomnia he has consolidated his approach into an Interactive Online Insomnia Program.
