I am a physician-scientist and neurologist with board certification in Sleep Medicine. In addition to my faculty appointments at OHSU, I also hold a joint appointment at the VA Portland Health Care System. I served as Co-Director and Associate Director of the Oregon Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, one of several NIH NIA P30-funded centers nationwide. I am also Associate Co-Director of VA's Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment (MIRT) for VA's VISN20 Northwest Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC).

My research program, Sleep & Health Applied Research Program (SHARP), focuses on how sleep modulates neuropathological and behavioral outcomes in neurological disorders across the lifespan, including autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury (TBI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and aging/neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. My laboratory is known for its bidirectional, translational research spanning from preclinical rodent to human and epidemiological studies. My methodological expertise is in designing and conducting sleep studies (including nuanced sleep phenotyping, sleep manipulations, and sleep interventions), analysis of overnight EEG/EMG recordings during sleep, implementing non-obtrusive long-term wearables (e.g., actigraphy, mattress sensors), and performing quantitative EEG methodology including machine learning across both non-human animals and humans. 

Over the years, our group has published peer-reviewed manuscripts in high-impact journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Science Translational Medicine, Science Advances, and JAMA Neurology. We are supported by federal and non-federal sources, including VA (BLRD, CSRD, RRD), NIH (NIA, NIMH, NCCIH, NHLBI, NCATS, NIGMS), DoD, NSF, American Sleep Medicine Foundation, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hartford Center for Gerontological Excellence, Oregon Roybal Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH), Parkinson’s Center of Oregon, Brain & Behavior Foundation (NARSAD), Oregon Medical Research Foundation, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Collins Medical Trust, and Portland VA Research Foundation.