The Island Hospital Sleep Wellness Center is available to help patients get the sleep they need to improve their lives and health.The Sleep Center strictly adheres to the standards established by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Eye-Opening Facts About Sleep:

• More than 75% of our population complains about sleep problems, yet only about 10% receive treatment. We are learning of the severe consequences in terms of accidents, lost productivity, quality of life, cardiovascular disease and economic costs.
  
• Studies reveal that in the U.S. 800,000 motor-vehicle accidents each year are related to poor sleep, with 1,400 lives lost. For example, individuals with untreated sleep apnea perform as poorly on simulated steering and psychomotor reaction time tests as legally intoxicated individuals. In term of economic cost, Americans spend $900 million per year on sleep-related medications, additionally risking heart attacks, strokes and diabetes related to certain sleep disorders.

Those with sleep disorders may suffer in various ways: snoring, general fatigue, daytime sleepiness, breathing discomfort, morning headaches, depression or memory problems. Using the latest in sleep-study technology, our Board-Certified Sleep Disorders Physician (see professional profile below) will evaluate your sleeping heart rate, brain waves, muscle and eye movement, airflow from the nose and mouth, oxygen saturation and more.

Common sleep disorders include obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), restless-legs syndrome (RLS), narcolepsy, insomnia, sleep-disordered breathing and more.

We can help you overcome your sleep problems. First, discuss with your personal (primary) physician. If a referral is issued, we will have you meet with our Medical Director, Gandis G. Mazeika MD. If, after consultation, it is determined that a sleep study is warranted, here's what will happen:

You will be asked to arrive at 7 or 8 p.m. for an overnight sleep study utilizing polysomnograph. Small sensors are attached to various sites on the body and send signals to register factors such as heart rates/rhythm, brain waves, muscle and eye movement, abdominal/chest movement, oxygen saturation and airflow from the nose and mouth. These readings are recorded throughout the night by a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), who additionally monitors movements and behaviors during sleep. The patient is awakened at 5 or 6 a.m., so the study rarely interferes with work or other daytime commitments.

Gandis G. Mazeika MD

Island Hospital Sleep Wellness Center Medical Director Gandis G. Mazeika MD received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. After completing his pre-medical studies at California State University, San Francisco, he earned his Doctorate of Medicine at the University of California at Davis.

Dr. Mazeika's post-graduate training includes internship in Transitional Medicine at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA; residency in Neurology and Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, respectively; and senior residency/fellowship in Cognitive Neurology at the Bryan Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Duke University Medical Center, with additional clinical experience in sleep disorders, EEG, evoked potentials and ECT (electroconvulsive therapy).

Along with experience in Sleep Disorders and EEG, gained at the sleep and EEG laboratories of Duke University and at the Pacific Sleep Center, Edmonds, WA, Dr. Mazeika brings additional research experience as Associate Clinical Investigator in two separate studies involving treatment potentials to delay clinical progression in persons with mild cognitive impairment (Pfizer/Eisai) and reduce agitation in nursing-home residents (Eli Lilly). He additionally spent two years as a Research Fellow at the AIDS Immunobiology Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Mazeika comes to IHSWC from Sound Sleep Health, Seattle and Kirkland, WA, where he serves jointly as Medical Director. Prior experience includes work as Medical Director, Northwest Hospital Geropsychiatric Center, Seattle; Staff Physician, Pacific Sleep Center, Edmonds; and Consulting Neuropsychiatrist to nursing homes and as Clinician for Tri-City Mental Health Services, a community psychiatry clinic in Lowell, MA.

Dr. Mazeika is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine, additionally Board Certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and a member of the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Neurology.

Stanley Jian Chen MD

Stanley Jian Chen MD earned his MD from Shanghai Second Medical University, China, where he was Class President, Chairman of the Student Body and named the university’s “Outstanding Student.”

Dr. Chen’s extensive academic and patient care experience includes residencies with the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Medicine, Union Hospital, Fujian, China.

Following nine years as Visiting Physician, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Dr. Chen engaged in two successive externships, first in the Department of Psychiatry, Roanoke-Salem Program, University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then in Family Practice at Carilion Healthy System, Roanoke, VA. He then undertook two more residencies, first in the Department of Psychiatry, Roanoke-Salem Program, and then in the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Dakota.

Dr. Chen was Psychiatrist at the VA Medical Center, Fargo, ND, before joining the Southeast Human Services Center, Fargo, as Psychiatrist. In Fargo, he was also Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota. His interest in caring for individuals having sleep disorders led him to the University of Nebraska, where he recently completed his fellowship in Sleep Medicine.

Directions to Island Hospital Sleep Wellness Center

- Take State Hwy 20 west to Anacortes

- Turn right at junction with Commercial Ave.

- Left at 22th St.

- Right into parking lot at 1110 22nd St. (between O and N avenues).

Island Hospital Sleep Wellness Center

1110 22nd St.

Anacortes, WA 98221

(360) 299-8676