The Excellence Center for Sleep Disorders (Nidra Vej Center) was founded in 2003 after Somdet Phra Yanna Sangworn, the Buddhist Supreme Patriarch, donated two sleep analyzers and the necessary medical equipment for sleep diagnosis and treatment. In 2004, a “Sleep Diagnosis Center” was officially established for the examination and diagnosis of patients with sleep disorders. With these donated medical equipment, the Center has been able to provide efficient care and instruction on sleep disorders to medical students, physicians, and related personnel

In 2010, it was King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital’s policy to employ the Excellence Center in Sleep Disorders as part of its mechanism to promote a comprehensive and excellent medical service system, to improve its international competitiveness and to keep up with the public’s increasingly more complex health care demand. It is an autonomous center under the administration of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.  

In 2013, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital launched a new medical service on the 5^th Floor of Nawatboribarn Building. As a blessing to the new Center and morale support to its medical personnel and patients, Somdet Phra Yanna Sangworn, the Buddhist Supreme Patriarch, kindly bestowed the name of “Nidra Vej Center” (the Excellence Center for Sleep Disorders) to the new center on 11 February 2013. The name ‘Nidra Vej Center’ means the center for the treatment of sleep disorders.

Proud achievements of the Center

• It is the first center in Thailand to offer fellowship training programs in sleep disorder treatment from 2010 onward.
• It is the first and the only center in Thailand to offer international fellowship training programs in sleep disorder treatment from 2010 onward.
• The Center has collaborated with the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Pulmonary Critical Care of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, the Royal College of Internal Medicine of Thailand and the Sleep Disorders Association in providing fellowship training program in Sleep Medicine. This 2-year training program, which has been offered since 2019, is the first of its kind in Thailand.
• Nidra Vej Center received quality accreditation by the Sleep Syndrome Association of Thailand in 2015 and 2023.
• It has successfully campaigned to include positive pressure air compressors and their accessories in the Hospital’s medical supplies system since 2016. These types of equipment allow patients to have quicker access to positive pressure air compressors treatment and reduced medical expenses to patients and to be able to buy them for personal use at lower costs.
• The Department has been organizing the CU World Sleep Day events and “Sleep Disorders” seminars to educate the public about these disorders since 2014.   

Obligation

Provide consultation, analysis, diagnosis and comprehensive treatment of patients with sleep disorders.

Vision

Promote service quality, research, knowledge and innovation of sleep disorders for international recognition.

Mission

1. To become a center of excellent service and research capacity for the creation of new knowledge and innovations that can be used as a national and international reference source.
2. To enhance its capacity to produce expert personnel in sleep disorders to meet the national and international demand.
3. To establish an efficient management system that can achieve the Hospital’s strategic goals.

Structures and Sub-units

1. Sleep Disorders Clinic. Patients can consult sleep disorder specialists about their sleep problems, undergo medical examination and diagnosis and receive post treatment follow-ups.
2. Polysomnography or Sleep test. Provide sleep examination services following a doctor’s recommendation.
3. PAP Clinic. Download data from PAP machine upon a doctor’s recommendation. Give advice on the machine’s basic operations. Conduct machine testing and process machine purchase requests.
4. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic for sleep disorder (CBT-I Clinic). Provide consultation, diagnostic examination and use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to treat sleep-related diseases.