Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School
Division of Sleep Medicine Faculty
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael Peter Biber, MD
Clinical Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Clinical trials research, Devices for diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders
Nancy L. Chamberlin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Neural control of sleep, respiration and upper airway muscles
Patrick M. Fuller, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Behavioral state control, circadian rhythms, sleep-wake neurobiology
Geoffrey S. Gilmartin, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Effects of hypoxia on vascular, sympathetic and metabolic responses in human and rodent models
Heinrich S. Gompf, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Sleep and circadian rhythms
Monika Haack, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Analgesic, immune, and autonomic responses to sleep deprivation and sleep extension
J. Allan Hobson, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sleep and dreaming
Bernat Kocsis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brainstem control of forebrain activity, and autonomic regulation during sleep
Jun Lu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Neural circuitry of sleep-wake control
Janet Mullington, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The effects of sleep loss on inflammation
Edward Pace-Schott, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Addiction; dreams; sleep deprivation; memory; executive; psychopathology; emotion
Clifford B. Saper, MD, PhD
James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brain circuitry controlling sleep and circadian rhythms
Thomas E. Scammell, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Neurobiology of narcolepsy and sleep
Robert Stickgold, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cognitive neuroscience of sleep, memory, emotions, and dreaming
Robert J. Thomas, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cognitive neuroscience, complex sleep-breathing, integrated systems biology of sleep
Richard Leonard Verrier, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Impact of neural activity on cardiac electrophysiology; mechanisms and clinical utility of T-wave alternans to stratify risk for lethal ventricular arrhythmias
J. Woodrow Weiss, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Hemodynamic consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea with emphasis on acute & long-term consequences of intermittent hypoxia
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Daniel Aeschbach, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neurobiology of sleep-wake regulation in humans
Stephen Alan Amira, PhD
Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Psychosocial effects of sleep disorders; Temporal isolation: psychological impact and management in laboratory subjects; Behavioral treatment of insomnia; Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Janis Louise Anderson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Seasonal Affective Disorder; chronobiology of mood disorders; test-enhanced learning
Clare Anderson, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Impact of sleep and sleep loss on performance; drowsy driving and distraction
Stanley W. Ashley, MD
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Characterizing the cellular mechansims that mediate diurnal transporter expression in rat intestine, identifing responsible signaling pathways and examining the diurnal rhythm of intestinal adaptation in man
Laura K. Barger, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Work hours and their impact on health and safety in medical residents and police officers; astronaut sleep
In memoriam: Edward Barry Bromfield, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sleep and epilepsy; intracranial EEG during state changes and cognitive tasks
Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Impact of sleep and sleep loss on health; metabolism; insomnia; aging; health disparities; exercise
Charles A. Czeisler, PhD, MD, FRCP
Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Human circadian pacemaker and sleep homeostat; public safety; occupational health
Ina E. Djonlagic, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
The cognitive neuroscience of sleep-dependent memory consolidation
Jeanne F. Duffy, MBA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Human circadian physiology; sleep and aging; individual differences in sleep timing
Lawrence J. Epstein, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing
Todd S. Horowitz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Circadian and sleep effects on cognition, particularly attention
Sandra Horowitz MDCM FRCP(C)
Clinical Instructor Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director of Sleep HealthCenters site in Framingham, Regional Director Sleep HealthCenters, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
CPAP compliance, Parasomnias, Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, sleep disturbance of menopause, and sleep in stroke
Amy S. Jordan, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathophysiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Behavioral treatment of insomnia, basic and clinical research on yoga and meditation
Douglas Kirsch, MD
Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Affiliate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Portable monitors for Obstructive Sleep Apnea, links between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and other medical conditions
Elizabeth B. Klerman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Circadian rhythms, sleep, hormones, neurobehavioral performance and alertness, and related mathematical analyses and modeling
Christopher Paul Landrigan, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Effect of health care provider sleep deprivation on patient and provider safety; pediatric patient safety; drowsy driving
Liming Ling, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neurophysiology of respiratory control and mechanisms of neural plasticity
Steven W. Lockley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Basic and applied human circadian biology; circadian rhythm sleep disorders
Atul Malhotra, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of sleep apnea and its complications
Milena Pavlova, MD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sleep, epilepsy, circadian rhythms and their interactions; cognitive effects of antiepileptic medications and how they are modified by sleep
Stuart F. Quan, MD
Visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Epidemiology of sleep disorders, particularly sleep disordered breathing
Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, PhD
Lecturer in Medicine (Academic, Part-time), Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Circadian regulation of sleep, sleep loss and performance, legal issues in sleep medicine
Quentin R. Regestein, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Trajectory of arousal change through time; effects of exogenous ovarian steroids on mood, arousal and sleep; disorders related to hyperarousal
Joseph M. Ronda, MSc
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate in Computer Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bioinformatics in clinical research
Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Medical Chronobiology; fundamental properties of the circadian timing system
Eva Schernhammer, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Circadian disruption and the risk of chronic diseases
Steven A. Shea, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathophysiology of sleep disorders; pathophysiology of disorders affected by the internal body clock
Priyattam J. Shiromani, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neural circuitry and genes underlying sleep and wake
Roger S. Smith, DO
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Clincial Instructor in Medic ine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Optimizing performance (especially athletic) relative to sleep. Pharmaceutical research on RLS and sleep promoting agents.
Peter V. Tishler, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician to the Active Staff, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Genetics of diseases of aging, including sleep disturbed breathing, heart valve defects, cancer, vascular disease; the porphyrias; twins
Wei Wang, PhD
Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Mathematician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Biostatistics
David Andrew Wellman, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathophysiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea; control of ventilation
David P. White, MD
Clinical Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathophysiology of disorders of breathing during sleep, upper airway motor control, and the control of breathing
John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sleep-related movement disorders, parasomnias, insomnia; effects of psychiatric disorders and medications on sleep
Jeremy M. Wolfe, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Visual attention and visual perception
Cambridge Health Alliance
Stefanos N. Kales MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Employee & Industrial Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance
Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular and Sleep Health Epidemiology in relation to occupation and the environment; particularly, the interaction and interrelation of these with one another
Jo M. Solet, MS, EdM, PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance
Acoustic disruption of sleeping subjects; impact of changing inpatient night care protocols
Children's Hospital Boston
Ronald E. Becker, MD
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Pediatric sleep disorders
Richard A. Ferber, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston
Pediatric sleep disorders
Sanjeev V. Kothare, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Attending Pediatric Neurologist & Sleep Specialist, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston
Neurological disorders including epilepsy: clinical-interaction with sleep in children
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston
Sleep and circadian rhythms in neurodevelopment
Dennis Rosen, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Sleep disordered breathing, Down syndrome
Paul A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston
Molecular and biochemical basis of homeostatic sleep regulation
Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston
Epidemiologic and health services research aspects of obesity in children and adolescents and developing interventions to prevent obesity in young children, especially in underserved populations
Harvard Medical School
James Timothy McKenna, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Neural systems that control the sleep/wake cycle
Van Maurice Savage, Jr., PhD
Instructor in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Effects of body size and temperature on sleep times through phylogeny and ontogeny
Charles J. Weitz, MD, PhD
Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Molecular biology and genetics of circadian clocks
Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
J. Woodland Hastings, PhD
Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of cellular circadian rhythms
James J. Quattrochi, MS, PhD
Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Phasic controls of sleep network pathways, nanoscale RNAi targeted drug delivery
Alexander F. Schier, PhD
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Molecular, genetic and cellular analysis of sleep in zebrafish
Massachusetts General Hospital
Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Anesthetist, Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital
Signal processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis; functional neural imaging studies of humans under general anesthesia
Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, MD, MMSc
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sleep and cognition; neurology and sleep
Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mechanisms, relationships between, and treatment of menopause-related hot flashes, sleep
disruption, depression and cognitive dysfunction
Yuka Sasaki, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Neuroscientist, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Neuroimaging study of learning and sleep
McLean Hospital
Cynthia M. Dorsey, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Behavioral sleep medicine, non-pharmacologic treatment interventions for insomnia and other sleep disorders, sleep deprivation, aging, clinical trials research
David G. Harper, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Anatomy and physiology of human circadian/sleep system. Neurodegenerative Illness
William D. S. Killgore, PhD
Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Research Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
Neuro-cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of sleep deprivation
VA Boston Healthcare System
Radhika Basheer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Molecular mechanism underlying long-term effects of sleep deprivation
Carlos Blanco-Centurion, PhD
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Neurology, VA Boston Healthcare System
Neurophysiology of sleep and wake
Ritchie Edward Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Cellular mechanisms controlling the sleep-wake cycle; narcolepsy
Lichao Chen, MD, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Neurophysiology of sleep; in vivo application of siRMA (RNA interference)
Michael A. Christie, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Behavioral models of sleep disorders
Robert W. McCarley, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
Neuroscience of sleep and wakefulness; neuroimaging in schizophrenia
Robert E. Strecker, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System
1. Neural regulation of sleep & wakefulness.
2. Behavioral and neurobiological consequences of sleep loss.
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