Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board

Esra Tasali, M.D. (2025)
Professor of Medicine Director, Sleep Center
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Josiane Broussard, Ph.D. (2026)
Assistant Professor
Department of Health and Exercise Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado

Jeffery Durmer, M.D., Ph.D. (2025)
Board of Directors, Restless Leg Syndrome Foundation

Erik Herzog, Ph.D. (2025)
Associate Director of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Dayna A. Johnson, Ph.D. (2025)
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Ebony Lay (2024)
Patient advocate for Project Sleep
Kansas City, Kansas

Shaun M. Purcell, Ph.D. (2025)
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Alberto Ramos, M.D. (2025)
Research Director of the Sleep Disorders Program 
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology 
Miller School of Medicine,  University of Miami, 
Miami, Florida

Tom Scammell, M.D. (2024)
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical Faculty Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Alexandra Wharton (2024)
Member of the Board of Directors for the Circadian Sleep Disorders Network
Austin, Texas

Marishka Brown, Ph.D.
Director, National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in the Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
Director 
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 
Bethesda, MD

Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director 
National Institute of Mental Health 
Bethesda, MD

Janet He, Ph.D.
Program Director in the Division of Neuroscience 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 

Karen C. Lee, M.D., M.P.H.
Program Director for Behavioral Pediatrics and Health Promotion
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development
Bethesda, MD

Miroslaw Mackiewicz, Ph. D.
Program Director in the Division of Neuroscience 
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 

Assistant Secretary for Health
Shahla Jilani, M.D.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, D.C.
 

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
Donald Shell, M.D., M.A.
Acting Director, Health Services Policy and Oversight 
Director, Disease Prevention
Disease Management and Population Health Policy & Oversight
Defense Health Headquarters
Falls Church, Virginia

Veteran's Affairs

Marishka Brown, Ph.D.
Director, National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in the Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Bethesda, MD