january 6, 2026

Cleveland Clinic Featured Podcast: Sleep self-screening is just an app away

Cleveland Clinic
On the latest episode of the Neuro Pathways Podcast, Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, MS, a specialist in Cleveland Clinic’s Sleep Disorders and Epilepsy centers,  discusses how Sleep by Cleveland Clinic, a mobile app, leverages validated screening tools and digital innovation to make sleep disorder assessment more accessible for patients and providers. Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer also provides insight about how the app lets users screen themselves for common sleep disorders and alerts them to factors that might warrant follow-up with their doctors, and explains the purpose of the app, which is not a diagnostic tool but can facilitate conversations between clinicians and patients. 

Dr. Fodvary-Schaefer also details the verified screening instruments embedded in the app:

• The Cleveland Clinic Sleep Apnea Probability Score

• The Insomnia Severity Index

• The Shift Work Disorder Screening questionnaire

• A variety of questions to estimate total sleep time

Listen to the Neuro Pathways Podcast featuring Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer and the Sleep by Cleveland Clinic app here