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Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD	Holly Atkinson, MD
Najib Ayas, MD, MPH	Donald L. Bliwise, PhD
Dedra Buchwald, MD	Daniel Buysse, MD
Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD	Roger J. Cadieux, MD
Karl Doghramji, MD	Christopher Earley, MBBCh, PhD
Milton Erman, MD	J. Christian Gillin, MD
Christian Guilleminault, MD	Andrew O. Jamieson, MD
Barry Krakow, MD	Andrew Krystal, MD, MS
Kasey Li, MD	Joseph Lieberman, MD
Thomas A. Mellman, M.D.	Emmanuel Mignot, MD
Ellen Hirschman Miller, MD	Jodi Mindell, PhD
David N. Neubauer, MD	Thomas C. Neylan, MD
Rafael Pelayo, MD	Joe Newsom Rawlings, M.D.
Saul A. Rothenberg, PhD	Richard Simon, MD
Carlyle T. Smith, PhD	Michael Thorpy, MD
James K. Walsh, PhD	John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Kin Yuen, MD	Gary Zammit, PhD
Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, director of the sleep disorders clinic at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, codirector of the laboratory for sleep and chronobiology at the UCSD General Clinical Research Center and codirector of the education and dissemination unit of the VA VISN-22 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC).

Dr. Ancoli-Israel received her bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, her master's degree from California State University in Long Beach and her doctorate in psychology from the University of California, San Francisco. She is board-certified in sleep medicine and is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and of the Gerontological Society of America.

Holly Atkinson, MD
Holly Atkinson, MD has over 20 years experience in medical education, including both CME and consumer education. Dr. Atkinson is editor of HealthNews, the consumer newsletter of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is also Chairwoman, iVillage Health Initiatives and the resident physician on iVillageHealth.com, one of the leading consumer health sites on the Internet. In addition, she is Assistant Professor of Public Health (courtesy), Department of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Dr. Atkinson is an award-winning medical journalist. Her many awards include the 1986 National Council of Women's Young Achievers Award and the 1995 Communication Achievement Award in Women's Health, awarded by the Society for Advancement of Women's Health Research. She is a noted public speaker, especially in the area of women's health, and has extensive experience as a broadcast medical correspondent, including assignments with NBC and CBS News, Lifetime Medical Television, and the PBS health show Bodywatch. Dr. Atkinson devotes a considerable amount of time volunteering on behalf of non-profit organizations. She is currently President of Physicians for Human Rights, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its work on landmines.

Dr. Atkinson holds both an MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and an MS in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Najib Ayas, MD, MPH
Najib Ayas, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine in the respiratory division at Vancouver General Hospital. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in 1996, post-graduate training in respiratory/critical care and sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2000, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002.

Dr. Ayas's major research interest is focused on the clinical epidemiology of fatigue and sleep related breathing disorders. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including: The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Sleep, Sleep Medicine, Thorax, and The Archives of Internal Medicine.

Donald L. Bliwise, PhD
Donald L. Bliwise, PhD, is a professor of neurology at Emory University Medical School, where he is director of the program in sleep, aging and chronobiology in the department of neurology. Dr. Bliwise received his PhD from the University of Chicago, where he trained with Dr. Allan Rechtschaffen, and subsequently moved to Stanford University, where he worked with Drs. William Dement and Christian Guilleminault. In 1992 he relocated from Stanford to Emory University Medical School, where he joined the faculty in the department of neurology, first as associate professor and then as full professor.

Dr. Bliwise has been active in the field of sleep for 30 years and has published over 125 peer-reviewed papers, 40 book chapters and 175 abstracts. He has served on and chaired numerous NIH/Center for Scientific Review panels and has been principal investigator and/or co-principal investigator on NIH grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, as well as grants from the Alzheimer's Association and the Georgia Research Alliance. His specific area of interest has been the description, elucidation of pathophysiology, and treatment of sleep disorders in the aged, with special interest in sleep in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. He presently serves on the editorial boards for Sleep, Sleep Medicine, and Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dedra Buchwald, MD
Dedra Buchwald, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the director of the Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research. She received her MD from the University of California, San Diego, and trained at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Duke University, and Harvard Medical School. Her interests lie in the interface between the psychosocial and biological aspects of illness. She has also had a longstanding interest in refugee health care and cross-cultural care.

In close collaboration with the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Buchwald has developed a program of culturally appropriate research that spans a wide range of topics, including physical and mental health, career development and training, and health care services and use. She is involved in several R01s and four program projects that address medical issues in Native communities. Dr. Buchwald is the director of the NIA-funded Native Investigator Development Program, a two-year career training program for American Indian and Alaska Native postdoctoral fellows designed to increase the number of independent Native researchers.

Daniel J. Buysse, MD
Dr. Buysse received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, and completed residency training in psychiatry and a post-doctoral fellowship in sleep medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He has received board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Buysse has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988, where he holds the title of Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He is Program Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center, a satellite of the University of Pittsburgh General Clinical Research Center. Dr. Buysse is the Medical Director of the Sleep Evaluation Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Co-director of a sleep medicine fellowship training program. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 40 invited publications on clinical sleep research topics, and is a frequent lecturer on topics pertaining to insomnia and sleep in depression.

Dr. Buysse's research interests focus on insomnia, sleep in aging, and sleep in psychiatric disorders, particularly sleep in depression. This work includes publications relating to the assessment, diagnostic reliability, and pharmacologic treatment of insomnia; circadian aspects of age-related sleep changes; and sleep correlates of treatment outcome in depression. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the MacArthur Foundation.

Dr. Buysse is Past President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the largest professional organization representing sleep medicine clinicians and researchers.

Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD
After receiving a BS in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and a stint as a small business owner, Orfeu M. Buxton began his graduate work in neuroscience at Northwestern University with Professor Fred Turek primarily examining the interaction of circadian rhythms and sleep in rodents. For his thesis work, through a collaboration with Professor Eve Van Cauter at the University of Chicago, he studied the effects of exercise, sleep, darkness on the human circadian system. Dr. Buxton also examined the acute effects of high-intensity exercise on glucose metabolism and neuroendocrine secretion.

As a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Van Cauter, Dr. Buxton studied diabetic and impaired glucose tolerance patients who chronically restrict their sleep tests the hypothesis that "paying the sleep debt" by sleep extension, a novel behavioral intervention, will improve glucose metabolism. Dr. Buxton was awarded the Pickwick Fellowship from the National Sleep Foundation for this project.

Currently, Dr. Buxton is an instructor in medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Principal research interests include the health impact of sleep loss, including the effects of sleep restriction on performance and metabolism.

Roger J. Cadieux, MD Roger J. Cadieux, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at Hershey and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Cadieux is also the physician consultant to the Pennsylvania Department of Aging.

Dr. Cadieux has participated on the National HCFA Advisory Committee for applying drug use review to the Medicare/Medicaid population, and he is an active member of the therapeutic advisory committee of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly. He also serves as an editor, writer and reviewer of geriatric and psychiatric publications.

Dr. Cadieux is a practicing geriatric psychiatrist whose professional focus is the development of consultative and educational programs that enhance the care of the elderly by the many professionals that interact with this age group.

Karl Doghramji, MD
Karl Doghramji, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He is also Director of the Programs in Human Sexuality and Chair of the Albert M. Biele, MD Memorial Lectureship in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College. Additionally, Dr. Doghramji is a senior candidate in psychoanalysis at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute.

In 1994, he was elected to the American College of Psychiatrists and has been Director and Lecturer for courses pertaining to sleep disorders at American Psychiatric Association annual meetings for the past 12 years. Dr. Doghramji has served as a grant reviewer for the Advanced Technology Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania and as an examiner for the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Doghramji has been Chief Editor for the Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry and currently serves as a reviewer for numerous national and international journals. His many articles and other published works focus on the management of various sleep disorders, excessive daytime somnolence, insomnia, seasonal affective disorder, and other depressive states.

Christopher Earley, MBBCh, PhD
Christopher Earley, MBBCh, PhD, is an associate professor of neurology has been a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute since 1991. His research and clinical interests are devoted to sleep medicine with a special interest in restless legs syndrome. His current research is focused on understanding the pathophysiology of restless legs syndrome and further elucidating the value of various treatments in this syndrome. Dr. Earley is an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Dr. Earley earned his BS at Villanova University and his BA in psychology at Arizona State University. He then earned a PhD in pharmacology, as well as MB and BCh degrees at the University College in Galway, Ireland. After an internship at the University Hospital in Galway, he conducted his residency in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, neurology residency at the University of Virginia, and served as senior staff fellow in the neurobiology unit for the NIH/NIA.

Milton Erman, MD
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J. Christian Gillin, MD
J. Christian Gillin, MD is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Ph.D. Program in Psychology. He is the Co-Director of the Research Fellowship in Psychopharmacology and Clinical Psychobiology at UCSD and was Director of the UCSD Mental Health Clinical Research Center from 1982-2001. His major interests are in neuropsychopharmacology and clinical psychopharmacology, sleep and sleep disorders, chronobiology, mood disorders, and research training.

Dr. Gillin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He earned his medical degree at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and his psychiatric residency training at Stanford University.

For 13 years Dr. Gillin conducted research in the Intramural Program of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He served in the US Public Health Service and was Deputy Director of the Adult Psychiatry Laboratory and Chief of the Unit on Sleep Studies. Dr. Gillin served for 12 years in the US Navy Reserve Medical Core, and is now a Captain, retired.

Dr. Gillin was the founding Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology, the official Journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). He is a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American Psychiatry Association. He has served on the editorial boards of Sleep, Journal of Sleep Research, Psychiatric Research, and Depression. He is the past President of the Sleep Research Society, the Society of Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, and the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry, and has served on numerous boards, committees and panels.

Dr. Gillin is co-author of Human Sleep and Its Disorders (with W.B. Mendelson and R.J. Wyatt, Plenum Press, 1977). He has over 530 publications in medical and scientific journals and books.

Christian Guilleminault, MD
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Andrew O. Jamieson, MD
Andrew O. Jamieson, MD is chairman of the board and founding partner of Sleep Medicine Associates of Texas, P.A. Since 1988, he has been the clinical director for the Sleep Medicine Institute at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and is a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. His primary specialty is internal medicine as it relates to sleep disorders and research.

Active in sleep disorders medicine since 1985, Dr. Jamieson has served as a member of the Board of the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA). He is currently the ASDA's alternate delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates. Other professional memberships include the Sleep Research Society and the American College of Physicians.

Barry Krakow, MD
Barry Krakow, MD, is the founder of the Nightmare Treatment Center. Dr. Krakow is a board-certified sleep disorders specialist who has conducted more than a decade of research in the treatment of chronic nightmares and disturbing dreams at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. His worked has focused on the use of cognitive-behavioral methods for the treatment of chronic nightmares and disturbing dreams.

Dr. Krakow is currently the medical director of the Sleep & Human Health Institute and the Eastern New Mexico Sleep Disorders Center. He maintains a position as a volunteer faculty, associate research professor of emergency medicine and psychiatry, at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and has published several scientific articles on nightmares, nightmare therapy and the impact of sleep disorders on chronic nightmare sufferers. He is also co-author of Conquering Bad Dreams and Nightmares.

Dr. Krakow graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He was residency trained and board certified in internal medicine and also has ten years of clinical work in emergency medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society and is the former medical director of University Hospital Sleep Disorders Center.

Andrew Krystal, MD, MS
Andrew Krystal, MD, MS, is an associate professor with tenure in the department of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. There he directs the sleep research laboratory, the insomnia clinic, the quantitative EEG laboratory, and the therapeutic brain stimulation research program. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his BS and MS in biomedical engineering. He earned his doctorate in medicine from Duke University. He subsequently completed psychiatry residency training at Duke along with fellowships in clinical neurophysiology and clinical research methodology. His primary areas of clinical work are in sleep disorders, EEG, and mood disorders. His primary research is related to the pathophysiology and treatment of sleep disorders and mood disorders.

Kasey Li, MD
Kasey Li, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Sleep Medicine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the UCLA School of Dentistry. He is also an attending surgeon at the Stanford University Medical Center and at Irvine Medical Center at the University of California.

Dr. Li earned his BS in Microbiology, his DDS at UCLA, and his MD at Harvard Medical School. He completed his residencies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his residency in Otolaryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School. He was a fellow in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the UCI Medical Center in Orange, California.

Dr. Li currently serves on the board of directors for the Sleep Education and Research Foundation in Palo Alto, California. He is also on the Oral Appliance Task Force, Standards of Practice Committee; the Surgical Modifications Task Force, Standards of Practice Committee, and the Surgical Sub-Section of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

He is also a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), where he serves on the Standards of Practice Committees for the Oral Appliance Task Force and the Surgical Modifications Task Force. He also serves on the Surgical Sub-Section of AASM.

Dr. Li is a journal reviewer and discussant for Otolaryngology, The Laryngoscope, Sleep, The Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Chest, and The Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology. He is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and presentations and lectures.

Joseph Lieberman, MD
Joseph A. Lieberman III, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Family Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Associate Editor of the Delaware Medical Journal. He received his BS from Georgetown University, his MD from Jefferson Medical College, and his MPH from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Rutgers University. He also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

Dr. Lieberman began his medical career in the United States Air Force followed by ten years of private practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1977 where he eventually became a Professor of Family Medicine and Chairman of the Department. In 1991 he was named Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Christiana Care Health Services, (formerly Medical Center of Delaware) a position that he held until January 2002.

A frequent contributor to the medical literature, Dr. Lieberman is co-author of the popular textbook, The Fifteen Minute Hour: Practical Therapeutic Interventions in Primary Care, now in its third edition. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Consultant, and the Editorial Review panels of several journals including The Journal of the American Medical Association, American Family Physician, Annuals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Patient Care.

Dr. Lieberman is also involved in numerous professional organizations. He is active in the New Castle County and Delaware State Medical Societies as well as the American Medical Association, where he is a member of the House of Delegates. A Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, he has served that organization in a variety of capacities including the Presidencies of both the New Jersey and Delaware Academies of Family Physicians. In addition to his organized medical activities, he also serves the State of Delaware as a member of the Delaware Health Care Commission, the Delaware Health Fund Advisory Committee and the Delaware Institute for Medical Education and Research.

Thomas A. Mellman, M.D.
Thomas A. Mellman, M.D., received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve, School of Medicine in 1982. After three years of postgraduate training in Psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he began a three year clinical research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health where he was the Unit Administrator for the Affective and Anxiety Disorders Program. After the fellowship at NIMH, he joined the faculty of the University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences where he worked for eleven years, during which time he progressed from Assistant to Full Professor. While in Miami, Mellman led the development of a VAMC and University based clinical-research program focused on anxiety disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He also led the research development for the Sleep Disorders Program and assumed a leadership role in providing research experiences for psychiatric residents. During the past year he joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Psychiatry where he continues to do research focused on PTSD and sleep. He additionally has oversight of psychopharmacology research for the Department and provides consultation to the State of New Hampshire's Department of Behavioral Health regarding the use of psychotropic medication.

Mellman has been the principal investigator on four federal grants, including being the recipient of a Mid-career Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research. Much of his funded research and many of his publications pertain to the role of sleep disturbance in the pathogenesis and treatment of PTSD. He contributed to the recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, 4th Edition, Text Revision and the recently published International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Treatment Guidelines. He is a member of the National Institute of mental Health, Interventions, Initial Review Group.

Emmanuel Mignot, MD
Emmanuel Mignot, MD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Center for Narcolepsy, is internationally recognized as having discovered the cause of narcolepsy. He is also known for his discovery of a polymorphism of the "clock" gene that appears to alter individuals' internal biorhythms and for the finding of a gene variant that predisposes to sleep apnea.

Dr. Mignot is a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Ulm, Paris. He earned his MD and PhD from Paris V and VI University in France. He practiced medicine in France for several years before serving as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Center and later as a visiting assistant professor at Stanford. He joined the Stanford faculty as acting assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and was named director of the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy in 1993. He was named professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in 2001.

Dr. Mignot has received numerous research grants and honors, including National Sleep Foundation and National Institute of Health Research Awards, the Narcolepsy Network professional service award, the Drs. C. and F. Demuth 11th Award for Young Investigators in the Neurosciences, the WC Dement Academic Achievement Award in sleep disorders medicine, the CINP and ACNP awards in neuropharmacology and the Jacobaeus prize.

He is the co-author of more than 100 original scientific publications, and he serves on the editorial board of scientific journals in the field of sleep disorders research. Dr. Mignot is an active member of several professional and governmental organizations and currently chairs the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research Advisory board of the National institutes of Health. Dr. Mignot has experience in clinical and basic research in the area of sleep disorders medicine. He is board-certified in sleep disorders medicine.

Ellen Hirschman Miller, MD
Ellen Hirschman Miller, MD, is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the associate medical director of the Franklin Hospital Medical Center in New York. Additionally, she is vice president of academic affairs at the Franklin Hospital Division of the North Shore LIJ Health System. She also has a private practice in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in Hewlett, NY.

Dr. Miller received her medical degree from New Jersey Medical School in 1980 and completed her post-graduate work at Beth Israel Medical Center and Columbia University. She is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, as well as member of the Steering and Scientific Committee for the World Foundation for Medical Studies in Female Health.

Dr. Miller has conducted extensive research in the areas of endocrinology and women's health, and has authored articles that have been published in numerous medical journals.

Jodi Mindell, PhD
Jodi Mindell, PhD, is a professor of psychology at St. Joseph's University and of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In addition to teaching and research, she is the associate director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she treats children of all ages and their parents. Dr. Mindell has written over 25 papers on pediatric sleep disorders and presented over 100 papers at national conferences. The majority of her research, spanning the past 18 years, focuses on the assessment and treatment of common sleep problems in children, as well as sleep problems related to pregnancy and parenting. She is a member of the board of directors of the National Sleep Foundation, a foundation established to educate the public about sleep and sleep disorders, and has been on the board of directors of the Sleep Research Society. Dr. Mindell is the chair of the pediatric task force of the National Sleep Foundation, and oversaw the development of the parenting brochure Sleep, Your Baby and You, which is being distributed to millions of parents. She chaired the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep in America 2004 poll which focused on sleep in children ages 10 and under, as well as their parents/caregivers.

Dr. Mindell is the author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep (HarperCollins, 1997), a selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month-Club, and co-author of A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003). Given that Dr. Mindell is known in professional circles as having the most successful technique to treat young children with sleep problems, she is frequently quoted in national publications including New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Parents, Child, Parenting and Redbook. She has also made over 100 television and radio appearances discussing children's sleep disorders, including the Today Show, Good Morning America and CBS This Morning.

Dr. Mindell received her MS and PhD from the State University of New York at Albany and conducted her internship training at Brown University Medical School.

David N. Neubauer, MD
David N. Neubauer, MD, is the associate director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also the medical director of the psychiatry mobile treatment program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Dr. Neubauer earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology, and a bachelor's degree in biology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He also pursued further graduate study in anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He went on to earn his MD at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and then completed his residency in psychiatry at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Neubauer is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Research Society, and the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms. He is a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He is on the editorial board of the journal SLEEP. He is a frequent guest lecturer and the author of journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts. He also writes a consumer-oriented mental health blog for the Yahoo! Health website.

Dr. Neubauer is the author of the 2004 insomnia and 2007 sleep disorders chapters in Conn's Current Therapy, and a book, Understanding Sleeplessness: Perspectives on Insomnia, published in 2003 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Thomas C. Neylan, MD
Thomas C. Neylan, MD, is the medical director of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) program at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is an assistant professor, in residence in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Neylan has several research projects examining the biology of sleep and arousal disturbances in subjects with PTSD.

Dr. Neylan has first-authored multiple articles in prominent psychiatric journals including The Archives of General Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Traumatic Stress, and Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Neylan has received several awards for his lectures on PTSD and sleep disorders to the medical students and psychiatry residents at the University of California San Francisco. He has presented his research at national meetings such as the American Psychiatric Association, the American Sleep Disorders Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. Neylan serves on the National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Adult Psychopathology and Disorders of Aging Study Section.

Rafael Pelayo, MD
Rafael Pelayo, MD is Assistant Professor at Stanford University's Sleep Disorders Clinic.

Joe Newsom Rawlings, M.D.
Joe Newsom Rawlings, MD, received his Bachelors degree from Emory University in 1976 and completed an MBA at Georgia State University in 1979. He received his MD from Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine in 1990. An internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans was followed by residency training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Rawlings later completed a Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School through McLean Hospital.

Dr. Rawlings established Regional Mental Health Services in Sandersville, Georgia in 1994 to offer mental health care to residents of rural central Georgia. He served as its Medical Director until 2000. He was involved for several years with the Georgia Department of Corrections, serving as Chief Psychiatrist at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Georgia. Later he served as a Medical Director for the PASARR program in Georgia, overseeing the mental health care of Georgia nursing home Medicaid recipients. Currently, Dr. Rawlings is in private practice in long term care consultation in Georgia while remaining involved in teaching through the Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Rawlings is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry, and he is an active member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the American Medical Director's Association.

Saul A. Rothenberg, PhD
Saul A. Rothenberg, PhD, received his undergraduate and graduate education at New York University. He was the director of the sleep research laboratory at the General Clinical Research Center of New York University Medical Center. During that time he participated in research related to sleep and breathing, sleep and hormones, and insomnia. He began doing clinical work in sleep as an assistant professor of psychology and assistant director of the sleep disorders center at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. He then worked a senior post-doctoral fellow in a behavioral sciences training in drug abuse research program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He worked as a consultant to the Montefiore Medical Center Sleep-Wake Disorder Center and joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University as a clinical instructor of neurology.

Dr. Rothenberg established two practices specializing in the diagnosis and behavioral treatment of sleep disorders in children, adolescents, and adults at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York and at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. He continues to lecture on sleep disorders to professional and lay audiences and participate in sleep research.

Richard Simon, MD
Richard Simon, MD, is a physician in internal medicine and sleep medicine at St. Mary Physician Group of St. Mary Medical Center. He is also the medical director of the Kathryn Severyns Dement Sleep Disorders Center at St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla, Washington.

From 1996 to the present, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the American Sleep Apnea Association. In 1997, he was part of the Working Group on Insomnia for the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

In 1998, Dr. Simon was involved in sleep council curriculum development at John's Hopkins University School of Medicine's CME program on "Management of Insomnia in the Primary Care Setting." He is widely published on the subjects of insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, and diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

Dr. Simon was a leading force in the Primary Care Physician Project, which helped to identify and treat citizens in Walla Walla with serious sleep disorders, winning recognition for Walla Walla as the "Healthy Sleep Capital of the Nation" in 1999. He worked with William C. Dement, MD, PhD, to educate every primary care physician in the Walla Walla area about sleep and sleep disorders, which led to a significant increase in the number of people being treated.

Carlyle T. Smith, PhD
Carlyle T. Smith, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Psychology at Carleton University, Queens University and Brock University. He is a recent recipient of the Distinguished Research Scientist Award at Trent University.

Dr. Smith earned his BS at the University of Manitoba and his MA at the University of Waterloo. His PhD is in Biopsychology, also from the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the Canadian Sleep Society, the Sleep Research Society, the Canadian Psychological Association and the Association for the Study of Dreams, and he is a registered clinician with the Ontario Board of Examiners.

Dr. Smith is the author or co-author of over 100 publications, including Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity, distributed by Oxford University Press in June 2003, and eight other chapters and invited articles.

Michael Thorpy, MD
Dr. Michael Thorpy, board-certified in sleep disorders medicine, is Director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at the Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York and is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Thorpy served on the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) Board of Directors and founded and directed the NSF's National Narcolepsy Registry, which was located at Montefiore Medical Center. He is past Chairman of the Sleep Section of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Thorpy was born in New Zealand and earned his medical degree from the University of Otago in 1973. He has published extensively on narcolepsy, insomnia, and sleep disorders. His seven books include "The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders". He has published more than 50 articles, including peer-reviewed publications in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine.

In 1993, Dr. Thorpy was awarded one of the sleep field's highest honors: The Nathaniel Kleitman Award from the American Sleep Disorders Association.

Dr. Thorpy is frequently quoted in the media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Good Housekeeping and has given close to 100 television and radio interviews.

James K. Walsh, PhD
James K. Walsh, PhD, is president of the National Sleep Foundation. He has been a member of the Foundation's Board of Directors since 1998. Dr. Walsh founded the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri in 1993 and currently holds the positions of executive director and senior scientist. He is also a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and adjunct professor of psychology at St. Louis University. In 1981, he founded the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis, where he served as director until 1993.

Dr. Walsh has been a significant contributor to development of the sleep medicine and research field. Currently, his primary research interests include pharmacological treatment of insomnia, consequences of insomnia, countermeasures for shift work, and the relation of sleep loss to behavior and cognitive function. Since 1975, he has published more than 100 articles and book chapters dealing with sleep and disorders. He co-authored the text Sleep: A Scientific Perspective. He has presented numerous invited lectures around the country, in Europe, and contracts.

Dr. Walsh has presented numerous invited lectures around the country, in Europe, and in Asia, and has been principal investigator for more than 70 research grants and contracts.

He served as a reviewer for several professional journals, and as a special advisor to the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research from 1988 to 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he was a member of the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board for the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and was chair of the Center's education subcommittee.

Dr. Walsh served as a member of the American Sleep Disorders Association (now called the American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Board of Directors from 1982 to 1993, and was ASDA's president in 1991-92. He was honored with ASDA's Nathaniel Kleitman Award in 1995 for distinguished service to the field of sleep medicine and the Senator Mark Hatfield Award in 1998 for public policy efforts. He also was awarded the Lewis University Alumni Achievement Award in Psychology in 1994.

Dr. Walsh earned his undergraduate degree from Lewis University near Joliet, Illinois, and his master's degree and doctorate in experimental psychology from St. Louis University in 1978.

John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Dr. John W. Winkelman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Williams College before obtaining his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychobiology. He went on to receive an M.D. from Harvard Medical School while serving as Lecturer on Psychology at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he finished a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in neurology (Sleep Disorders Medicine) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Presently, he is Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Sleep Health Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His particular areas of research are Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, parasomnias, and the overlap of psychiatric illnesses and sleep disturbances. He serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation.

Kin Yuen, MD
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Gary Zammit, PhD
Gary Zammit, PhD, received his BA and MA from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and received his PhD from the University of Toledo. He completed his clinical internship and fellowship at the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College in White Plains, New York, with emphasis on clinical research. Dr. Zammit currently is a clinical associate professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Zammit is the founder of several healthcare corporations, including the Sleep Disorders Institute at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital in 1990, Pharmasys International, LLC, and Clinilabs, Inc. Dr. Zammit has authored more than 80 original publications and two books, and has served as a reviewer or editor for prestigious medical journals.

Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD
Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD is an associate professor of neurology and neurobiology and physiology at the Northwestern University School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Zee's research is to study the effects of aging on sleep and circadian rhythms. As a Brookdale National Fellow, she conducted studies, which demonstrate that non-pharmacological interventions such as structured bright light/dark cycles, activity and socialization programs can substantially improve nocturnal sleep and daytime performance of the elderly in assisted living environments. In addition, her laboratory is studying the genetic control of sleep and circulation rhythms. Dr. Zee received her PhD in 1980 and her MD degree in 1983 from the Chicago Medical School. After completing her residency training in neurology at Northwestern University, she became a National Institutes of Health-sponsored post-doctoral fellow in neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern University. In 1989, she joined the faculty of the department of neurology at Northwestern University, where she is the director of the sleep disorders program.