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Department of Psychiatry : Education : Continuing Medical Education : Update Speakers : 2008 Update Speakersprint icon
2008 Update Speakers

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        Christopher L. Drake, Ph.D.

       Sleep Disorders in Pregnancy and Across the Lifecycle
     
BIO

Christopher Drake, Ph.D., is Bioscientific Staff Investigator at the Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders and Research Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Drake earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, and his Master’s degree in Psychology and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He completed a 2 year fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Psychobiology Branch.

Dr. Drake is board certified in sleep medicine and Behavioral Sleep medicine. He serves on the editorial board of the journals SLEEP and Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is a clinical editor for the International Journal of Sleep Disorders. Dr. Drake has been Section Head of Sleep Disorders Research for the Sleep Research Society and an advisor to the World Health Organization on sleep. He has authored numerous publications in the field of sleep medicine and serves as a reviewer for over 20 scientific journals, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Dr. Drake is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation and is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to study predisposing factors to insomnia.

   
OBJECTIVES                                                                                                                                                               
       At the completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
         1. Describe pregnancy-related changes that contribute to sleep disturbance.
 2. Explain sleep changes from adolescence throughout adulthood in women.
 3. Identify the evidence-based treatment approaches to insomnia and other sleep-related disorders
      in women.
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