''Why Grandma and Grandpa Can't Sleep: Changes in Sleep with Age''

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
6:30 p.m.
UCSD Basic Science Building, Garren Auditorium

Note: Light refreshments will be served

Brief Biosketch:
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, Research Director of the Sleep Medicine Clinic at UCSD, and Co-Director of the UCSD GCRC Gillin Laboratory of Sleep and Chronobiology. Dr. Ancoli-Israel received her Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, a Master’s Degree in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Ancoli-Israel is one of the nation's preeminent experts in the field of sleep disorders and sleep research in aging. She was the first at UCSD to be board certified in Sleep Medicine and is the only faculty member at UCSD to be board certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine. Her current interests include the longitudinal effect of sleep disorders on aging, the effect of circadian rhythms on sleep, therapeutic interventions for sleep problems in dementia, and fatigue, particularly the relationship between sleep, fatigue and circadian rhythms in cancer and other chronic illnesses.

Dr. Ancoli-Israel is Past-President of the Sleep Research Society, past-President of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, and was on the founding Executive Board of the National Sleep Foundation. She was honored in 2007 with the National Sleep Foundation Life Time Achievement Award. Dr. Ancoli-Israel has been a guest on television and radio programs including NPR's Morning Edition and Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Dr. Ancoli-Israel is published regularly in medical and psychiatric journals with close to 300 publications in the field.