September 24, 2007 - W.C. Dement, MD, PhD to lecture at University of Michigan

One of the fathers of modern sleep medicine, William Dement, M.D., Ph.D., will address the critical need to help the public better understand sleep and sleep disorders in a special lecture during his upcoming visit to U-M.

The lecture, titled "The Supreme Importance of Public Awareness about Sleep & Sleep Disorders", will begin at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 24 in the auditorium of the BSRB (Biomedical Science Research Building), 109 Zina Pitcher Place.

Dr. Dement helped discover and characterize REM sleep and its relationship to dreams, and founded the world's first sleep disorders clinic at Stanford University. He is the Berry Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Medicine at Michigan Spring 2007 describes circadian rhythms research (here)

Medicine at Michigan Spring 2007 focuses on sleep and depression (here)

Sleep research at UM in the Spring 2007 issue of Medicine at Michigan (here)

April 16-17, 2007
Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medicine Center gave the Pfizer Lectureship in Sleep. Dr. Stickgold's presentation was entitled "Sleep, Memory, and Dreams: A Neurocognitive Approach."

April 5, 2007

Center Faculty member Theresa Lee, Ph.D. has been named the Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

September, 2006

George Mashour, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Center. Dr. Mashour is currently a lecturer in the Department of Anesthesiology. His research interests include 1) the cognitive neuroscience of general anesthesia and related unconscious processes, and 2) the role of the cervical spine and airway evaluation.

November 10, 2006
Center Leader Ronald D. Chervin, M.D., M.S. is the first recipient of a professorship in sleep medicine at the University of Michigan. This professorship in sleep medicine is among the first of such awards in the U.S.