Candidate: Director at Large Robert Stickgold is an associate professor of psy- chiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, both in biochemistry. He had post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford Medical School in neurochemistry (with Eric Shooter) and at Harvard Medical School in neurophysiology (with Stephen Kuf- fler). He has published two science fiction novels, and over 100 scientific publications, including papers in Science, Nature, Nature and Neuroscience, as well as , Sleep Medicine, and Sleep Medicine Reviews, and is the editor of an upcoming issue of Sleep Medi- cine Clinics. His work has been written up in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Seed Magazine, and he has given in- vited talks around the world, including Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and The Netherlands. He has been a guest on The Newshour with Jim Leher and NRP’s Science Friday with Ira Flato several times, extolling the importance of sleep. His current work looks at the nature and function of sleep and from a cogni- tive neuroscience perspective, with an emphasis on Robert Stickgold, PhD the role of sleep and dreams in consolidation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and integration. He has been a pioneer in establishing 330 Brookline Avenue, Feldberg 861 the importance of sleep in offline memory processing, Boston, MA 02215 and has identified a range of memory types enhanced by sleep. In addition to studying the normal function- ing of sleep, he is currently investigating alterations in sleep-dependent in patients with schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, and PTSD. His work is currently funded by NIMH and Au- tism Speaks. Dr. Stickgold has been a member of the SRS since 1992, and has been active in the Sleep and Behavior section, as well as the section, when it existed.

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