Wendy M. Troxel, PhD, RAND Corporation; University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:30 – 1:30pm

"The Social Nature of Sleep: From Couples to Communities to Policy."

**About the Speaker** Wendy Troxel is a senior behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. Troxel's research focuses on understanding the links between close relationships and sleep, and how this relationship may influence couples' health and functioning. She has published two seminal review papers on this topic and is recognized as the leading authority on sleep within the context of couples.

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