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Dr. Yvette Nguyen
MD, DABSM · Sleep Specialist
San Diego, California · 15 years in practice
About
Sleep apnea as a modifiable dementia risk
Dr. Yvette Nguyen is board certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine following pulmonary training at UC San Diego. She directs a sleep practice oriented around cognitive outcomes rather than daytime sleepiness alone.
She sees a large population of adults whose memory complaints resolve substantially once untreated apnea is corrected, and she pursues PAP adherence aggressively — trialing masks, pressures, and alternatives rather than accepting failure.
Her practice also delivers digital CBT-I with clinician oversight for chronic insomnia, which she considers underused relative to sedative prescribing.
Specialties
Approach
A three-phase model, so you know what happens at each stage and what you leave with.
01
Assessment
Home sleep apnea testing or in-lab polysomnography, actigraphy, and a two-week sleep diary with cognitive symptom tracking.
02
Strategy
Treatment matched to phenotype: PAP, oral appliance, positional therapy, or CBT-I, with an explicit adherence target.
03
Execution
Thirty-day download review, mask and pressure iteration until adherence exceeds 85 percent, and repeat cognitive screening at six months.
What clients say
I had a 32 AHI and no idea. Six months on PAP and my word-finding problems are basically gone.
She went through four masks with me instead of writing me off as non-compliant.
Credentials & Affiliations
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
American Thoracic Society
American Board of Sleep Medicine