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Jennifer L. Martin, PhD, serves as president of the board of directors for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and is board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM). She is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Martin has expertise in insomnia and geriatrics. She completed her clinical internship at Brown University and her post-doctoral fellowship in geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Martin received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, San Diego, as part of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program.

Dr Liz Coulthard is Associate Professor in Dementia Neurology in the Bristol Medical School and a specialist in cognitive neurology applied to dementia. Her research goal is to identify and to treat early cognitive deficits in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease with the aim of improving quality of life and slowing disease progression. Her current research sees her investigating the use of dopamine in enhancing older people鈥檚 sleep and memory. She is also a champion of how proper sleep patterns can bring about significant physical and mental health gains. In 2021, the work of Dr Coulthard and her team was recognised by sleep technology and app design company Dreem, which provided them with specialist sleep measuring devices for their work on the understanding of sleep, circadian rhythms and dopamine in neurodegenerative disease. After her training as a doctor, Dr Coulthard was appointed as a consultant and has founded a dedicated research group: the ReMemBr group (Research into Memory, the Brain and Dementia), a vibrant and expanding multidisciplinary clinical research group within which clinicians and researchers work side by side.

Education
1996 - BA - St John鈥檚 College, Oxford, 
1999 - M.B.B.S, Royal Free and University College Hospitals Medical School, 
2008 - PhD, University of London

Accomplishments
1999 - Merit Award in Clinical Pharmacology, 
2008 - First runner up prize, Queen Square Symposium poster competition, 
2015 - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians UK

Dr. Sara C. Mednick is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book, Take a Nap! Change your life. (Workman). She is passionate about understanding how the brain works through her research into sleep and cognition. Dr. Mednick鈥檚 seven-bedroom sleep lab at UCI works literally around-the-clock to discover methods for boosting cognition through a range of different interventions including napping, brain stimulation with electricity, sound and light, as well as pharmacological interventions. Additionally, her lab is interested in how sleep changes throughout the menstrual cycle and lifespan. Her science has been continuously federally funded (National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense Office of Naval Research, DARPA). Dr. Mednick was awarded the Office Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2015. Her research findings have been published in such leading scientific journals as Nature Neuroscience and The Proceedings from the National Academy of Science, and covered by all major media outlets. She received a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in Drama/Dance. After college, her experience working in the psychiatry department at Bellevue Hospital in New York, inspired her to study the brain and how to make humans smarter through better sleep. She received a PhD in Psychology from Harvard University, and then completed a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego. She resides in San Diego, CA.

Clinical psychologist Melynda Casement earned a PhD in clinical psychology and biopsychology from the University of Michigan. She previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Casement uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and laboratory experiments to study sleep and mental illness. As the director of the Oregon Sleep Lab at the University of Oregon, she is currently leading two studies looking at the relationship between sleep and adolescent and young adult mental health and alcohol use. The studies are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH126109) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01-AA029125).  

Casement has clinical expertise in the assessment and treatment of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, and nightmares. She is a licensed psychologist and contributes to clinical supervision of psychology doctoral students. She also teaches classes on psychopathology, sleep, and cognitive-behavioral intervention.

Randall Brooks is an experienced Extension specialist whose current research focus in logger and wildland firefighter health, safety and performance.
He is willing to speak about firefighter health and safety, sleep, fatigue and body composition changes on the fire line.

The shortest day of the year, December 21, is almost upon us. And daylight saving time may soon be a thing . What does this mean for our bodies and our health?
Rockefeller scientist , a chronobiology, aging, and sleep scientist who studies the basic function and regulation of circadian rhythms and sleep, is available to discuss:  

The role of sunlight in controlling our circadian clocks—internal biological mechanisms that regulate the timing of daily rhythms in physiology and behavior.


How every cell in our bodies has a circadian rhythm, not just the ones that are related to sleep, and how disruptions to these biological clocks are associated with impaired learning and memory, weakened resistance to infection, and chronic diseases from diabetes to depression.

Dr. Axelrod is a research associate in Nobel laureate ’s lab, who  in 2017 for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. You can see Dr. Axelrod .