Talk About Sleep Medical Advisory Team

A Medical Advisory Board is essential to any health information organization. The expertise of the board members is called upon to affirm and enhance the accuracy of information produced by the organization. Talk About Sleep's evolving medical advisory board includes well-known professionals, who together provide decades of sleep medicine experience that will enable Talk About Sleep to fulfill its mission of creating access to high quality sleep information, education and support.

Our medical advisory board members not only offer their individual expertise in sleep, but also share a vision and motivation to further expand sleep awareness through conventional and unconventional means, including the use of the Internet. The Internet represents the next industrial revolution, of which we are all a part. Our medical advisory board members are keenly aware of the needs and future challenges that this medium will present to us all. We welcome them to Talk About Sleep.

The list of Medical Advisory Board members is still evolving. The current Advisory Board members are listed below, with a brief professional biography, in alphabetical order.

Laurence I. Barsh, DMD
Laurence Barsh, DMD, practiced general dentistry in Boston, MA for 38 years. He retired from clinical practice in 1998. Dr. Barsh is a graduate of Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 1961, with an Internship in Oral Surgery at Mass. General Hospital during 1961-2. He is the author of Dental Treatment Planning for the Adult Patient, published in 1981. He also served as Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Barsh has written numerous scientific articles on dentistry and dentistry's role in the recognition and management of sleep disordered breathing. He is an international lecturer on same subject. He has served on the Executive Board of the American Sleep Apnea Association, and as Past President and Executive Board Member of the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, as well as Webmaster for the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.

He serves as Associate Editor, Sleep and Breathing, and is on the Editorial Board of Medicine on the Net. He also serves as Editor of the ADSM Report.

Dr. Barsh is currently President of Global Pick and Shovel Factory, and of Dental Portal, Inc, which offer Web site development for professionals and professional organizations and development of Distance Learning Programs for Professionals.

Jed Black, MD
Jed Black, MD, is Director of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic at Stanford University. Additionally, he is an Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University, Stanford, California. The Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Center has established a reputation as the world's leading sleep disorders medicine and basic science sleep research center.

Dr. Black received his medical degree from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. His internship in Internal Medicine, and his residency in Clinical Neurosciences Research, took place at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Black then completed his post doctoral training in Sleep Disorders Clinical Research at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

In addition to directing activities at the Stanford Sleep Clinic, Dr. Black leads a large clinical research team conducting studies in insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, and narcolepsy.

Dr. Black has authored several articles that have been published in major scientific publications such as Sleep, Neurology, and Archives of Internal Medicine.

Cynthia M. Dorsey, Ph.D.
Cynthia M. Dorsey, Ph.D. is the Clinical Director of Sleep HealthCenter at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, MA, and Director of the Sleep Research Program at McLean Hospital. She also is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Dorsey received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Northwestern University, in Chicago, Illinois. Her post-doctoral training was at McLean Hospital.

She has served as an Executive Board Member of the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA, now the American Academy of Sleep Medicine), and on committees of the ASDA, the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and the National Sleep Foundation. She has authored several articles published in scientific journals and has contributed chapters to two books on sleep. She also co-authored and edited several patient brochures for the American Sleep Disorders Association.

Dr. Dorsey's research has focused on aging and sleep, pharmacology and sleep, and the evaluation of non-pharmacologic techniques to treat insomnia, particularly in older insomniacs.

Kasey Kai-Chi Li, DDS, MD
Kasey Kai-Chi Li is the Associate Director of Sleep Surgery, Center of Excellence in Sleep Disorders Medicine, at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and is Clinical Assistant Professor in Sleep Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Li earned his DDS degree at the UCLA School of Dentistry and his MD at Harvard Medical School. He served residencies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, General Surgery, and in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as a Fellow in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA.

He has also had academic appointments at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard Medical School, University of California College of Medicine at Irvine, UCLA School of Dentistry, and Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Li has co-authored numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals; has co-authored chapters for medical textbooks, and has been a frequent lecturer on surgical issues related to the treatment of sleep apnea.

Ann E. Rogers, Ph.D., RN
Ann Rogers is Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Previously she was on the faculty at the University of Michigan. She has long been interested in sleep disorders, especially Narcolepsy, and has done extensive work in the field of sleep.

Dr. Rogers received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa, her Master's from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1986). She has been Board Certified in sleep medicine since 1988.

Dr. Rogers is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society. She served as a director of the American Narcolepsy Association from 1985-1995. She serves as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing and for the Journal Sleep. She has published a number of abstracts, articles, and book chapters; and has also made many presentations at various sleep conferences.

Dr. Rogers was the Principal Investigator of the NIH-sponsored "A Nursing Study of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Narcolepsy" (1990-1995), and is currently the Principal Investigator in another NIH study, "Management of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Narcolepsy" (1997-2002).

Kingman P. Strohl, MD
Kingman Strohl is the Director of the Center for Sleep Education and Research at Case Western Reserve University and a Professor of Medicine in the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He has wide experience in the field of sleep apnea research.

Dr. Strohl received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University and his MD from Northwestern University in 1974. He has spoken at sleep conferences all over the world and has published over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Currently he is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physiology and Co-Editor of the Journal Sleep and Breathing. He has served on the Board of Directors, and as chair of the Committee on Research for the American Sleep Disorders Association, now known as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was a founding member and served four years as Vice-Chairman of the National Sleep Foundation. He is a founding member, Past President, and current member of the Board of Directors of the American Sleep Apnea Association, the non-profit patient support group.