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Healthy sleep can be especially elusive for women, and the barriers that they face in maintaining good sleep health are often misunderstood or overlooked. In October 2013, SWHR convened an interdisciplinary scientific roundtable focused on understanding the role of sex and gender differences in sleep and the state of women’s sleep health research. The roundtable included 15 well-established sleep researchers and clinicians from diverse backgrounds, and SWHR summarized the expert discussions in this peer-reviewed report, Exploring Sex and Gender Differences in Sleep Health, published in July 2014 in the Journal of Women’s Health. This roundtable laid the foundation for SWHR’s Sleep Network and its resource Women & Sleep: A Guide for Better Health.
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Roseanne Armitage, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Hrayr Attarian, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Fiona Baker, PhD, Human Sleep Research Laboratory
Nancy Collop, MD, Emory University
Helene Emsellem, MD, Center-Sleep-Wake Disorders
Ronald Farkas, MD, PhD, Division of Neurology Product at the FDA
Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Yale School of Medicine
Kathryn Lee, RN, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Maurice Ohayon, MD, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine
Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
Thomas Roth, PhD, Henry Ford Hospital
Michael Twery, PhD, National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Division of Lung Diseases at the NIH
Joyce Walselben, PhD, New York University, Langone Medical Center
Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD, Northwestern University