Research conference highlights work of center investigators
Bradley Hospital announced the Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health hosted a Retreat Colloquium August 17-19, 2022, at Brown University.
The Retreat Colloquium featured presentations by nationally known researchers including Dr. Catherine Darley, Director of The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine; and Dr. Molly E. Zimmerman, Professor of Psychology, Fordham University; Center researchers Dr. Giulia Righi, Bradley Hospital; Dr. Selby Conrad, Roger Williams University; Dr. Anastacia Kudinova, Bradley Hospital; and Dr. Justin Parent, Bradley Hospital, as well as aspiring researchers from Brown University, Denison University, and City University of New York who participated in the eight-week intensive William C. Dement Summer Training at the Sleep and Chronobiology Lab.
A dinner and ceremony was held the evening of August 18 in honor of Thomas F. Anders, MD, in recognition and celebration of a distinguished career devoted to child and adolescent mental health, pioneering work in sleep and sleep disorders of infants and children, and his early vision that inspired the establishment of the Bradley Hospital COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. The monthly lecture series of the long-standing Providence Sleep Research Interest Group was officially rededicated as the Thomas F. Anders Seminar Series.
Bradley Hospital received a National Institute of Health institutional development award through its Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program, which supports innovative multi-year studies in themed areas that strengthen institutional biomedical research capacity. This COBRE is the first and only research center focused on pediatric sleep, circadian rhythms, and mental health.
The center is led by Mary A. Carskadon, PhD, director of chronobiology and sleep research at Bradley Hospital. Dr. Carskadon is an authority on sleep and circadian rhythms and an expert in sleep patterns, particularly in children and adolescents, whose findings have raised public health issues regarding the consequences of insufficient sleep for adolescents. The center’s leadership team includes Bradley Hospital faculty members Jennifer Freeman, PhD, Jennifer Wolff, PhD, David Barker, PhD, Christopher Houck, PhD, and Jared M. Saletin, PhD, as well as John McGeary, PhD, of Brown University.
Research conducted under this award is supported by the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Institutional Development Award project number P20GM139743-02.
The research is solely the responsibility of the investigators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.