Northwestern University
Neurology
710 N. lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
USA 60611
Email: p-zee@northwestern.edu
Biographical Sketch: Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Physiology, and Director of the Sleep Disorders Center and the sleep medicine fellowship training program, at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where she is also the associate director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology. Dr. Zee’s research has focused on the effects of age on sleep and circadian rhythms, genetic regulation of circadian sleep disorders, and behavioral interventions to improve sleep and performance. Current research projects include studies to examine the ability of exercise to improve sleep and health in older people with insomnia, phenotypic characterization and genetic analysis of circadian rhythm sleep disorders, relationship between sleep, metabolic and cardiovascular risk and the effects of age on the neural response to sleep loss. Dr. Zee has published over 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written over a dozen book chapters. Dr. Zee is very active on committees and panels both locally and nationally, and has been a reviewer for over 20 journals and is an Associate Editor for the journal SLEEP. She is on the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society and is the Chair of the NIH Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board.