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Gender Differences in Sleep

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October 24, 2013 - October 25, 2013

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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.

Details

Start:
October 24, 2013
End:
October 25, 2013
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Website:
http://swhr.com/science/networks/sleep/

Organizer

SWHR

Objectives

  • Identify the underlying nature of sex and gender differences in sleep research
  • Identify basic and clinical research along with a focus on specific challenges facing women with sleep-related problems and effective therapies
  • Identify research gaps in the areas of epidemiology, sleep regulation, sleep quality, diagnosis and treatment

Roundtable Participants

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