Lectures & Seminars
Sleep Grand Rounds
The Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine hosts a monthly research seminar program each academic year. The series features presentations on basic and clinical sleep research from Bay Area scientists as well as visiting researchers from around the world. Topics vary from epidemiology to Metagenomics. If you would like to present to our group, contact Anna.
NEW TIME and LOCATION*
Sleep Grand Rounds will now be held one Friday a Month and the time will alternate between 8am-9am and 12pm-1pm. Presentations will begin propmptly and last approximately one hour. Here is information about visitor parking.
Upcoming Schedule*
Friday, April 01, 2016 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Ventrolateral Medulla, Breathing and Sleep
Patrice Guyenet – Professor of Pharmacology, University of Virginia
Medical Center, Alway Building, Ground Floor-Room M106, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California
Friday, May 06, 2016 from 8:00am - 9:00am
TBA
Susan Redline – Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 120
*NOTE: Please check the website weekly as there may be changes (such as location , cancellation, etc.)
Grand Rounds - Previous Lectures from Academic Year (2015 – 2016)
Friday, October 9 2015 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Max Herkowitz – Chairman of the Board, National Sleep Foundation
Sleep Health
Medical Center, Alway Building, Ground Floor-Room M114, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California
Friday, November 20, 2015 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Sleep-wake state generation by executive GABAergic/glutamatergic systems and their modulation by cholinergic, aminergic and peptidergic systems
Barbara Jones, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Medical Center, Alway Building, Ground Floor-Room M106, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California
Friday, December 04, 2015 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Regulation of Cortical Arousal, Behavioral Wake and Sleep: New Insights from Preclinical Models
Patrick Fuller – Assistant Professor Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Medical Center, Alway Building, Ground Floor-Room M106, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California
Friday, January 29, 2016 from 8:00am - 9:00am
Sleep and Neurology
Cliff Saper – Head of Department of Neurology, Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 130
Friday, February 05, 2016 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Genes and Neural Circuits Underlying Sleep Regulation in Drosophila
Kyunghee Koh – Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Jefferson College of Biomedical Sciences
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LK120
Friday, March 04, 2016 from 8:00am - 9:00am
Sleep and Clocks: Window to Health
Phylis Zee – Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg University
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LK101/102
Grand Rounds - Previous Lectures from Academic Year (2014 – 2015)
Friday, September 12, 2014 from 9:00am – 10:00am
Estimating sub-population treatment responses: Application to SMART DOCS
Tyson H. Holmes, Ph.D., Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Department Of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 130
Friday, September 26, 2014 from 9:00am – 10:00am
CBT for Insomnia Comorbid with Depression
Rachel Manber, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University Medical Center
Alway Room M114
Friday, October 10, 2014
No Sleep Grand Rounds
Friday, October 24, 2014 from 9:00am- 10:00am
Pediatric Sleep Update
Rafael Pelayo, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Alway Building, Room M114
Friday, November 7, 2014 from 9:00am-10:00am
Development of Narcolepsy Therapeutics Using Models of Hypocretin Neuron Ablation
Sarah Wurts Black, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Center for Neuroscience, Biosciences Division, SRI International
Alway Building, Room M114
Grand Rounds - Previous Lectures from Academic Year (2013 – 2014)
Friday, September 6, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Immunological Findings in H1N1 Vaccine Associated Narcolepsy
Professor Outi Vaarala, MD, PhD, Head of Immune Response Unit, Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Haartmaninkatu 8
Helsinki, Finland
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 130
Friday, September 20, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
The Role of Inflammation and Anti-Inflammatory Treatments in Pediatric OSAS
Aviv Goldbart, MD, MSc.
Ben-Gurion University,Beer-Sheva,Israel
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 130
Video of Lecture
Friday, September 27, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Insights into the Pathogenesis, Genetics, and Management of Sleep Apnea with Novel Upper Airway Imaging Techniques
Richard J. Schwab, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division Co-Director, Penn Sleep Center University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Monday, October 7, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Restless Legs Syndrome / Periodic Limb Movement Disorder
Mark Buchfuhrer, MD,
Director of SomnoMedix/SleepMed Sleep Center in Cypress
Consulting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine
C-205 Conference Room, SMOC, 450 Broadway Street, Pavilion B, 2nd Floor, Redwood City
Friday, October 11, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Complex Associations between Sleep, Stress & the Immune System
Aric A. Prather, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room 130
Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Sleep Spindles: Crowdsourcing their Detection and Genetics
Simon Warby, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sleep Disorders Research, Stanford University
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, November 1, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition of Nocturnal Polysomnography Based Sleep Studies
Hyatt Moore, PhD, Research Associate, Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, November 15, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
The Histamine System in the Brain
Helmut Haas and Olga Sergeeva, Department of Neurophysiology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, November 22, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Update on Narcolepsy in Sweden, Post-Pandemrix Vaccination Imaging Research of the Kleine Levin Hypersomnic Syndrome
Anne-Marie Landtblom, MD, Professor of Neurology, Linköping University, Sweden
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC102
Friday, December 6, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Applying Dimensionality Reduction Techniques in Computerized Analyses of Human Polysomnograms
Jacqueline A. Fairley, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Emory University
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC102
Friday, December 13, 2013 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Millisecond Light Stimulation as Efficacious Phototherapy for Circadian Sleep Disorders
Jamie Zeitzer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC102
Friday, January 17, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Towards an EEG Biomarker for Huntington’s Disease: Insights from Genetic Mouse Models
Simon Fisher, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Center for Neuroscience, Biosciences Division, SRI International
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, January 24, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Autoimmune Basis of Narcolepsy
Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Center For Sleep Sciences
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, February 7, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
PTSD, Sleep, and Exercise: Interrelationships and Treatment
Lisa S. Talbot, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Fellowship Program in Mental Illness Research and Treatment, San Francisco VA Medical Center
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, February 14, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Risk of Narcolepsy Following Adjuvanted Influenza Pandemic Vaccine Administration
Philippe De Wals, MD, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
***Friday, February 28, 2014 from 10:30am – 11:30pm
Legal Aspects in Sleep Medicine
Daniel B. Brown, Esq. The Daniel Brown Law Group, LLC, Atlanta Office
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC120
Friday, February 28, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Opiod Associated Sleep Apnea: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Treatment
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Monday, March 17, 2014 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Persistent Wake Deficits in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Are Mitigated by Dietary Therapy
Miranda M. Lim, MD, PhD
Staff Physician and Assistant Professor, Sleep Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, and Department of Neurology
Portland VA Medical Center and Oregon Heath & Science University
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC101/102
Friday, April 4, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Effects of Sleep Restriction on Peripheral and Hepatic Insulin Sensitivity
Madhu N. Rao, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology-San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
The video for this lecture can be viewed here. You will need a Stanford University SUNet ID to access the website.
Friday, April 11, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Cortical Nnos/NK1 Neurons As An Anatomical Link To Homeostatic Sleep Regulation
Lars Dittrich, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Neuroscience, SRI International
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Friday, April 25, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Its Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Claudia Trenkwalder, MD, Professor, Neurology, Movement Disorders, University Medical Center Goettingen, Elena-Klinik, Kassel, Germany
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
*****CANCELLED Friday, May 16, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm CANCELLED*****
Sleep Treatments for Military Personnel and Veterans: Updates and Future Directions
Anne Germain, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Pittsburgh
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC120
Friday, May 23, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Stress-induced Analgesia, Neuroprotection and Social Memory: Role of Hypocretin/Orexin Neurons
Xinmin Simon Xie, MD, PhD, AfaSci Research Laboratory, Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC130
Thursday, May 29, 2014 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm
"An Interview With William C. Dement: Intimate Details"
William C. Dement, MD, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Seminar Room LKSC120
Grand Rounds - Previous Academic Years
Videos of available past lectures have been archived by quarter
When possible, a video of a talk can be accessed the day after the presentation on this website or here. You will need a Stanford University SUNet ID to access the website. There is no CME credit offered for watching video recordings of Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds.
Available presentations from January to March 2012 can be viewed here. Lecutres from August to December 2012 can be viewed here.
Available presentations from 2011 can be viewed here.
Spring 2014
Winter 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Below is a list of speakers and lecture titles for the previous academic years.
Sleep Grand Rounds 2012-13 (PDF)
Sleep Grand Rounds 2011-12 (PDF)
Sleep Grand Rounds 2010-11 (PDF)