Daniel J. Buysse, MD
Daniel J. Buysse, MD, received his MD 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 the 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 a past president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the largest professional organization representing sleep medicine clinicians and researchers.

Eve Van Cauter, PhD
Eve Van Cauter, PhD, is professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where she directs the research laboratory on sleep, chronobiology and neuroendocrinology. A native of Belgium, she obtained her MS in physics, MS in actuarial sciences and PhD in biophysics 1977 from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Her initial research focus was the analysis and modeling of biological rhythms, including development of computer algorithms quantifying circadian and pulsatile variations of hormones, and their relationship to sleep stages and other physiological variables. Interactions with endocrinologists at the University of Brussels led her to study the role of sleep for hormonal release, particularly hormones of the hypothalamo-pituitary axis and to conduct basic studies on the control of human rhythmicity in health and disease including mechanisms of adaptation to abrupt time shifts (jet lag) and conditions of abnormal circadian timing associated with mental illness.

In 1982, Dr. Van Cauter joined the section of endocrinology in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago. Current research in her laboratory includes the impact of decreases in sleep duration and quality on hormones and metabolism and the interaction of sleep loss with the aging process. Dr. Van Cauter has received the Robert Walleghem Prize for medical research, the Hoechst Belgium Prize for research in biological psychiatry, the Soroptimist Prize on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Belgian Soroptimist Association and the Pharmacia & Upjohn International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. She has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and on the advisory board of The Journal of Biological Rhythms, and was a member of the MacArthur Foundation research network on mind-body interactions. She is the author of over 200 publications.

Brooke Judd, MD
Brooke Judd, MD, graduated from the Chicago Medical School. She is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry and medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. In addition to specializing in sleep disorders, Dr. Judd is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and critical care 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.

Thomas A. Mellman, MD
Thomas A. Mellman, MD, received his MD from Case Western Reserve, School of Medicine. 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, Dr. 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 department of behavioral health regarding the use of psychotropic medication.

Dr. 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.

Patricia Murphy, PhD

Eric Nofzinger, MD
Eric A. Nofzinger, MD, is widely recognized for his expertise in sleep disorders medicine as both a clinician and clinical researcher. He is currently the director of the sleep neuroimaging research program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is on the board of directors of the Sleep Research Society, the chair of the sleep disorders section of that society and the vice-chair of the research committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was also the chair of the presidential task force on training and educational activities committee that defined future research training priorities for sleep research. He is a member of the scientific review board of the National Center for Research Resources, which sponsors general clinical research centers at medical schools across the US.

In addition to his clinical practice of sleep disorders medicine, Dr. Nofzinger has pioneered methods to define the brain mechanisms of human sleep disorders using functional neuroimaging methods such as positron emission tomography (PET). He published the first studies of this kind in REM and NREM sleep in healthy subjects and the first studies of this kind in insomnia and depressed patients. Dr. Nofzinger has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), private foundations, and industry to study the neuroimaging of sleep in the areas of depression, insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, schizophrenia, alcoholism, sleep deprivation and in aging. He has published extensively on the results of his sleep neuroimaging research in leading journals including The Archives of Internal Medicine, The Archives of General Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry and Brain, and in textbooks.

Dr. Nofzinger has been invited to present his work at numerous national and international meetings including the International Congress on Sleep Disorders in Paris, the International Workshop on REM Sleep in Vienna, the International Workshop on Aging in Berlin, and the World Association of Sleep Medicine meeting in Prague. He was a member of the workgroup on sleep disorders for the DSM-IV. His work has been presented at US Congressional hearings to determine funding for the National Institutes of Health.

James C. O'Brien, MD, FCCP, ABSM
James C. O'Brien, MD, FCCP, ABSM, is a medical physician who has been in private practice for over 20 years and became involved in sleep medicine 12 years ago when he began to notice that many of his patients, with undiagnosed sleep disorders, were not responding to conventional medical treatments. Surprisingly, many of his patients, when tested and treated for their sleep disorder, improved dramatically and experienced a greater than expected clinical improvement including a new awareness of well being. These early and dramatic experiences shifted his medical focus towards sleep disorders.

During his medical career, Dr. O'Brien has worked as a primary care physician, pulmonologist and sleep doctor. In addition to private practice, Dr. O'Brien is a medical director at Milton Hospital in Massachusetts, regional medical director for SleepMed, Inc., and president of TalkAboutSleep, Inc. He has spoken numerous times to primary care doctors about sleep, both in the United States and Germany and has appeared on many TV and radio programs addressing the need for sleep education. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Sleep and Breathing.

Dr. O'Brien received his MD from New York Medical College, in New York City in 1975 and completed both his internal medicine and pulmonary training in Boston, Massachusetts. He is board-certified in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine and currently pursuing his third board certification in sleep medicine. He is a fellow of the College of Chest Physicians and a diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

Sanjay Patel, MD
Sanjay R. Patel, MD, is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and on the clinical staff in the division of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center all located in Boston. His clinical interest is in sleep-disordered breathing, particularly obstructive sleep apnea. His research efforts have focused on the epidemiology of sleep disorders. In particular, his two primary interests are the health impact of sleep duration and the genetics of obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Patel is a member of several professional organizations including the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Patel received his AB in mathematics from Princeton University and his MD through the Health Sciences and Technology program run jointly by Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Harvard University as well as a fellowship in sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Rafael Pelayo, MD
Rafael Pelayo, MD, is an assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has a BS in biology from the University of Puerto Rico. He attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He completed residency training in child neurology in New York in 1993, followed by a fellowship in sleep disorders medicine at Stanford University. He is board-certified in both pediatrics and sleep medicine. He has served on the health policy committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He currently serves on the National Institutes of Health Sleep Disorders Advisory Board.

Charles F. Reynolds III, MD
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD, directs the Mental Health Intervention Research Center for the Study of Late-Life Mood Disorders at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also is the program director of several NIMH-funded research training grants. His primary research interests focus on mood and sleep disorders of later life, with a particular focus on treatment, the mechanisms of treatment response, and suicide prevention. Dr. Reynolds is the recipient of an NIMH Research Scientist Award and a MERIT award for Maintenance Therapies in Late-Life Depression.

Dr. Reynolds chaired the planning committee for the 1991 NIH consensus development conference on the diagnosis and treatment of depression in late-life and the 2001 National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA) consensus conference on unmet needs in the diagnosis and treatment of late-life mood disorders. He served on the Institute of Medicine study of the pathophysiology and prevention of adolescent and adult suicide, and he has served as chairman and member of several research review committees at the NIMH. He currently serves on the National Mental Health Advisory Council of the NIMH.

His bibliography contains close to 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and he is on the editorial board of several neuropsychiatric, gerontology and sleep journals. Dr. Reynolds received his MD from Yale.

Richard J. Ross, MD, PhD
Richard J. Ross, MD, PhD, is a professor of Professor of Psychiatry at Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

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 from 1980 to 1990. During that time he participated in research related to sleep and breathing, sleep and hormones, and insomnia. He began doing clinical work in sleep in 1990 as an assistant professor of psychology and assistant director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago where he stayed for 3 years. In 1993 he spent 18 months as a senior post-doctoral fellow in a behavioral sciences training in drug abuse research program funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. From 1993 to 1995 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. In 1996 he 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.

Arthur J. Spielman, PhD
Arthur J. Spielman, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the City College of New York. He is also an adjunct clinical professor of psychology at the Cornell University Weill Medical College and the associate director of the Sleep Disorders Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital at Cornell.

Dr. Spielman earned his PhD in clinical psychology at the City University of New York. He completed his internship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.

Dr. Spielman is a fellow in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is the author or co-author of a number of publications and a frequent lecturer. He also serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Spielman is active in public education, participating in pieces on television, radio and the Internet.

Michael Thorpy, MD
Michael Thorpy, MD, 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 a past chairman of the sleep section of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Thorpy was born in New Zealand and earned his MD from the University of Otago. 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.

David P. White, MD
David P. White, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has also served as a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Health Science Center and as an associate professor of medicine at Penn State Medical School in Hershey. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. White is the director of the clinical sleep program and serves as a sleep consultant. He is also the medical director of Sleep Health Centers, LLC in Newton, Massachusetts, and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Training Program.

Dr. White earned his BS at Washington and Lee University, and his MD at Emory University School of Medicine. He served his internship and residency, as well as clinical and research training at the University of Colorado Health Science Center.

He currently serves on the board of directors for the American Board of Sleep Medicine and on the pulmonary subspecialty board of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. White is also a member of the editorial boards of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, and he is the editor in chief of Sleep.

Gary Zammit, PhD
Gary Zammit, PhD, is the director of the Sleep Disorders Institute at Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospital.