PEOPLE

Principal Investigators

 
Janet Mullington, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 
 
Monika Haack, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School  
 
 
Huan Yang, PhD
Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School  
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

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Larissa C. Engert, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
 
 
Michael R. Goldstein, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
 
 
Alicia Stokes, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

 

 

Research Associates

Miloslava Kozmova, PhD
Research Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, UMass Boston
 
 
Jennifer Scott-Sutherland, MS
Research Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 
Igor Gourvitch, RPSGT
Sleep Technologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 
 

Research Assistants

Rammy Dang 
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Oscar Yang
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 
 

Undergraduate Students

Michael Vazquez
Michael Vazquez 
Co-op Research Student, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
 
Surya Daniel
Research Student, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
 
Paola Birriel
Research Student, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Simmons University, Boston, MA
 
 

Collaborators

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Wolfgang Junger, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Aristidis Veves, MD, DSc
Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Ina Djonlagic, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 

Boston Children's Hospital

Navil Sethna, MC, ChB
Clinical Director of PPRC; Senior Associate in Pain Medicine; Senior Associate in Preoporative Anesthesia
Associate Professor of Anasethesia, Harvard Medical School
 
 

Boston University School of Medicine

Hans K Meier-Ewert, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
 
 

Stanford University Medical Center

Norah Simpson, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center
 
 
 

Alumni

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Jaime Devine, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Luciana Besedovsky, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Xiaoming Feng, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 

Research Associates

Christine Connors, MPH
Research Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Richard Flynn, RPGST
Sleep Technologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 

Research Assistants

Emily Peachthong
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Bryan Chatterton
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Victoria Molina
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Kathryn Henrikson
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Alisha Wilkins
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Scott Lamm
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Anna Iversen 
Research Assistant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
 

Northeastern Co-op Research Students

Spring 2022
Ava Tang, Research Project: "Effect of sleep restriction and recovery sleep on number and portion of monocyte subsets in healthy humans"
 
Fall 2021
Olivia Buraks, Research Project: "The importance of tumor necrosis factor alpha in human infection and sleep"
 
Spring 2021
Annika Eske, Research Project: "The effects of glucocorticoids on COX-1 and COX-2 expression in human monocytes during sleep restriction and recovery"
 
Fall 2020
Taylor Reed, Research Project: "Effect of omega-3 intake on inflammatory marker expression in healthy humans"
 
Fall 2019 
Scott Carney 
Amanda Collison 
Michael Quinn  
 
Spring 2019 
Hannah Beall
Ellie Diederich 
Annabelle Neuman 
 
Fall 2018
Francesca Giorgianni
Jorja Kahn
Kyle Thieringer, Independent Project: "Polysomnography Analysis of Experimentally Induced Insomnia Symptoms"
Tiffany Tseng
 
Spring 2018
Jack Buttell 
Arlen Gaba, Independent Project: "Increased Heart Rate Variability and Lowered Blood Pressure During Autonomic Testing in Hypertensive Participants receiving Sleep Hygiene and Sleep Extension Interventions"
Elijah Rumbaut, Independent Project: "Changes in Pain Tolerance After a Repeated Pain Challenge in Insomnia" 
 
Hunter Coury
Emma Jaffe
Rebecca Jones
Keeyon Olia
Margot Valme
Dylan Vance
Rebecca Chan
Michael Karski
Brian Nan
Kianna Ripich
Claire Rutz
Caitlin Sullivan
Michael Ciulla
 
 

Simmons University Fieldwork Students

Ruby Kennedy
Carolyn McLaughlin
Hannah Alaimo
Erin Wright
Rasha Nadheer
Rudra Patel