• Behavioral sleep medicine broadly
• Improving the measurement of sleep - both subjectively and objectively - and relating sleep changes to biomarker (e.g., inflammatory, genetic, cardiovascular) changes.
• Specific interests in the epidemiology and treatment of insomnia comorbid with other conditions and consequences of shiftwork.
  • Examining sleep and mental health disparities, as well as developing culturally responsive insomnia and other behavioral sleep medicine interventions.
• More recently focused on documenting and improving the sleep of military, first responder, healthcare workers and Pac-12 athletes.
• Ongoing observation studies:
  • Suicide Risk and Sleep in Treatment
  • Mental Health in Pac-12 Athletes
  • Daily Associations Between Sleep and Mental Health in Pac-12 Athletes
• Ongoing treatment studies:
  • An Efficient Treatment for Posttraumatic Injury for Firefighters
  • Web-Based Provider Training for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares (CBTn)
  • Tele-CBTi in middle-aged and older adults, with inflammatory and cognitive aging outcomes.

Updated: 07/08/22