Jamie Zeitzer

Dr. Zeitzer is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Stanford University, as well as a science specialist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a world-expert on sleep and circadian rhythms. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Vassar College, PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at UCLA and Stanford University. His studies have been ongoing for more than 20 years and yielded more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts on the impact of light on human biology, translational sleep physiology and pharmacology, and the interaction of sleep and circadian rhythms in a variety of disease states, including traumatic brain injury, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, dementia, and spinal cord injury. His current work examines novel ways in which light can be manipulated to optimize its clinical and biological impact on sleep and circadian rhythms. A parallel line of research aims at using modern statistical and engineering technology to discover new ways of harmonizing objective and subjective measures of sleep quality.