Paediatric Sleep Association - Executive Committee

Oliviero Bruni	Oliviero Bruni received his M.D. in 1982 from the " La Sapienza" University of Rome (Italy) where he also received the specialization in Child Neuropsychiatry in 1986. He is chief of the Pediatric Sleep Centre of the Department of Developmental Medicine and Psychiatry of the Sapienza University of Rome ( Italy ). Dr. Bruni has been involved in sleep research and clinical care in children for over 15 years, and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, in addition to several book chapters and abstracts. He is President of the International Pediatric Sleep Association, member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine and of the Italian Sleep Research Society, and Field Editor (Pediatrics) of the journal Sleep Medicine. Dr. Bruni has been secretary of the European Pediatric Sleep Club of the European Sleep Research Society and has been also involved, as Pediatric Sleep Advisor of the World Health Organization, for the development of Night Noise Guidelines and ICF. In 2009 he has been elected as Chair of the Childhood Sleep Disorders and Development Section of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. His specific areas of interest are the different aspects of sleep disorders in children, the application of computer analysis in human sleep electroencephalogram and of the Cyclic Alternating Pattern, the analysis of sleep patterns in cognitive deficits ranging from mental retardation to specific learning disabilities like dyslexia, focusing on the relationships between sleep and cognition in learning impaired children; more recently, has been involved in the study of sleep neurophysiology of periodic limb movements and narcolepsy in children. Dr Bruni has supervised several graduate – doctoral, postgraduate students for their theses and participated as teacher and invited lecturer in several national and international congresses. Dr. Bruni has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals in addition to books and chapter of books.
Patricia Franco
Ronald Chervin	Ronald D. Chervin, M.D., M.S. is Professor of Neurology and the Michael S. Aldrich Collegiate Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Michigan. Dr. Chervin earned his medical degree at Stanford University, trained in neurology at Cornell University / The New York Hospital, completed a fellowship in sleep medicine at Stanford, and obtained a master's of science in clinical research design and biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Since 2000, Dr. Chervin has directed the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Center, a multidisciplinary academic program with diverse services for patients of all ages, active training programs, and well established investigative teams. Dr. Chervin's research has addressed a wide range of issues, including obstructive sleep apnea, sleepiness, sleep questionnaires, sleep laboratory techniques, and neurobehavioral consequences of sleep disorders, particularly in children. Dr. Chervin collaborates with engineers on new signal analysis algorithms and hardware to improve assessment and treatment of sleep apnea. He serves on the board of the International Pediatric Sleep Association, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the NIH Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board. He also assists as a Deputy Editor for Sleep, and on the editorial boards for Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and Sleep Medicine.
Christian Guilleminault	Christian Guilleminault obtained his MD at the Faculte de Medecine in Paris (France) in 1962, and had is Doctorate in medicine in 1968 at the same place. He did his neurology training mostly at the hospital de La Salepetriere in Paris, and after finishing neurology, his psychiatry training in Geneva Switzerland and Paris France. He was board certified in neurology and board certified in psychiatry in France in 1970. He obtained a Diplome d’Etude Approfondies from the Paris University Faculty of Sciences (Histology and Histo-Chemistry) in 1968. He received a Doctorate in Biology/Neurosciences from the Universite of Grenoble in 1999; He had the Academic Diploma “Habilitation a Diriger la Recherche” from the Universite de Montpellier medical school in 1998. He was nominated « Maitre de Recherche » (tenure) in L’Institut National de la Sante et Recherche Medical (INSERM) in Paris (France) in 1977. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; in 1980. Professor with tenure of neurology in psychiatry, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and (by courtesy) Neurology, Stanford university school of medicine in 1985 He is currently professor in the department of psychiatry and behavior sciences and by courtesy, in the department of neurology, Stanford university medical school, Stanford CA. He has been Guest Professor at the University of Marburg (Germany) with a Humbolt grant in 1987-1988. Professor without tenure, ecole de medicine de Montpellier (France) 1994-96. He has published 590 peer-reviewed articles, 220 chapters in books in the field of Sleep Medicine and 510 notes and abstracts.
Leila Kheirandish-Gozal	Dr. Leila Kheirandish-Gozal is currently the director of clinical sleep research in the Section of Pediatric Sleep Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her current research activities explore changes in the systemic vasculature that may reflect morbid consequences of sleep disorders in children as well as the presence of rare gene variants that may shed light into mechanistic determinants of sleep apnea in children. Dr Kheirandish-Gozal has extensively published over 90 articles in prestigious peer reviewed journals, and has acquired extramural funds from industry through investigatorinitiated projects as well as from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has been an invited speaker at multiple national and international meetings, and has collaborations with other investigators around the world. She is an associate editor for Frontiers in Chronobioneurology and Sleep Medicine, and a member of the editorial board for the journals of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), Sleep Medicine, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and The Scientific World Journal. She is also a program committee member of the Assembly on Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology of the American Thoracic Society as well as vice –chair for steering committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr Kheirandish-Gozal was named the Professional Woman of the Year by National Association of Professional Women in 2011 and is the recipient of Order of Extraordinary Merit from the Peruvian Medical Association
Avi Sadeh	Prof. Avi Sadeh is a Professor of Psychology, Director of the Child Clinical Psychology Program, and the Director of the Children's Sleep Laboratory at the Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Sadeh completed his B.A and M.A. studies at the Department of Psychology, Haifa University, and then completed his D.Sc degree at the School of Medicine, the Technion, Haifa. Prof. Sadeh completed a post-doctoral training at Brown University, Providence, RI. Prof. Sadeh is a clinical psychologist, with more than 20 years of experience in treating, infants, children and families. In addition to teaching and training dozens of graduate students in clinical child psychology, Prof. Sadeh is an established scientist in the field of sleep and its disorders in children. Prof. Sadeh is the author of "Sleeping Like a Baby", published by Yale University Press. He has published over 100 scientific papers on sleep disorders in infants and children, on the links between sleep and child development including neurobehavioral functioning and ADHD, on parenting and infant sleep, and on the treatment of childhood sleep problems.
Steve Wong
Patricio Peirano	Patricio Peirano, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine at the University of Chile. Dr. Peirano received his medical degree from the University of Chile in 1980. He completed his training in neurophysiology and sleep medicine at Port-Royal (1980-1985) and Pitié-Salpêtrìere (1986-1990) Paris University Hospitals, and at Sleep Laboratories from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). In 1989, he obtained his Doctoral degree in Behavioral Neurobiology and Psychopathology from the University of Paris. In 1990 he joined the Institute of Nutrition (INTA) of the University of Chile and founded the Sleep and Functional Neurobiology Laboratory. His main areas of interest in research are the interaction between sleep and nutritional aspects and sleep development in the human being. He served as founding member and member of the board of the Latin American Federation of Sleep Societies and the Chilean Sleep Medicine Society. Currently, he is member of the board of the International Pediatric Sleep Association. He has contributed over 100 scientific publications on various aspects of human neurophysiology and sleep medicine.
Magda Lahorgue Nunes	Magda Lahorgue Nunes MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil. Obtained her MD degree in 1982 at PUCRS School of Medicine and did her training in Pediatrics and Neurology, both at the São Lucas Hospital, the University Hospital of PUCRS School of Medicine. In 1994 concluded a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Campinas in São Paulo – SP. She received a post doctoral training in Neuroscience (1998) in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine – New York, under the orientation of Prof. Solomon L Moshe. Recipient of the Bernard J. D'Souza Award of the Child Neurology Society (USA) in 1999. Board certified in Pediatrics, Neurology, Pediatric Neurology and Sleep Medicine. She is an active member of many international and Brazilian medical societies and former president of Brazilian League against Epilepsy. Belongs to the editorial board of Clinical Neurophysiology, Jornal de Pediatria and Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology. Has published 112 papers in scientific journals and 49 book chapters. Has edited three books (Neurological examination-2002, Atlas of neonatal EEG-2003 and Sleep and Behavior in childhood and adolescence- 2009). Her main areas of interest in research are epilepsy in childhood, sleep ontogenesis and bioeletrogenesis, models for epilepsy and malnutrition in developing brain. She is in charge of Child Neurology Department of Sao Lucas Hospital and Dean of Post Graduation Program (PhD) of Medicine and Health Sciences of PUCRS.
Rosemary Horne	Associate Professor Rosemary Horne is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Senior Research Fellow and heads the Infant and Child Health theme within the Ritchie Centre at Melbourne’s Monash University. Her research interests focus on sleep in infants and children. Rosemary has published more than100 research and review scientific articles. She has an international reputation in her field and is a board member and Chair of the Physiology working group of the International Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Deaths, a Director of the International Paediatric Sleep Association, an executive member of the World Sleep Federation and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine.

IPSA Executive Committee