COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
FOR INSOMNIA
(CBT-I )

The Hyatt Regency Crystal City
at Reagan National Airport
Arlington, VA

October 3 -5, 2008

FACULTY

Michael Perlis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Neurosciences
Director, UR Sleep & Neurophysiology Laboratory

Dr. Perlis' areas of expertise include sleep in psychiatric disorders, neurocognitive phenomena in insomnia, the mechanisms of action of sedative hypnotics and the development of alternative treatments for insomnia. His clinical expertise is in the area of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and he is the principle author of the first text book in this field (Treating Sleep Disorders: The Principles and Practice of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Wiley & Sons) and is the Senior author of a textbook on The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Insomnia.

He has authored or co-authored a variety of papers and chapters on the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders and published more than 55 empirical or theoreetical papers on sleep related topics. He is also on the editorial boards of SLEEP and Journal_of_Sleep Research.

In addition to his academic endeavors, he has served as Assistant Director of Training for the SRS (1996-2000) and as the founding editor of the SRS & AASM Training Opportunities in Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Manual. Dr. Perlis was a founding member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Presidential Committee on Behavioral Sleep Medicine, the section chair for Behavioral Sleep Medicine (2003-2004), and is the coordinator of the Early Career Faculty Development Group (aka the Junior Faculty in Sleep Research Interest Group).