About
Clinical psychologist, professor at the University of Utah, and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Lab.
I’m a clinical psychologist who specializes in sleep. Most of my patients come to the University of Utah Sleep Wake Center because they can’t fall asleep or stay asleep. The treatment I use most is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), which works better than sleeping pills over the long run and doesn’t involve medication. I also see people with circadian rhythm disorders, nightmares and sleepwalking, and people who are having a hard time with CPAP or with the sleepiness that comes with narcolepsy.
My research looks at how the amount and timing of sleep affect blood pressure, blood sugar and weight, and at what helps people change their sleep and stick with it. The National Institutes of Health and several private foundations have funded the work. I’ve published about 100 papers, which you can find on Google Scholar, and I was named to the Stanford/Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
I also direct the university’s training program in behavioral sleep medicine, because there are far more people with insomnia than there are clinicians trained to treat it without drugs.
I did my PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Utah, my residency at Rush University Medical Center, and a fellowship and MPH at Northwestern. I was on the faculty at Northwestern and then Rush before moving back to Utah.