On Snooze Control: Navigating Sleep Challenges as We Age

Featured Speaker: Professor Ellen Lee

Sleep is the third pillar of health, as important as
eating a healthy diet and engaging in physical
exercise. Importantly, adequate and high-quality
sleep is a key part of healthy aging. This lecture will
review the scientific literature regarding how sleep
changes as we age, focusing on sleep disorders
and circadian patterns across the lifespan. It will
then discuss how sleep disturbances affect our
physical, mental and cognitive health. The talk will
include a review of different sleep interventions and
approaches to improve our sleep in order to support
healthy aging.

Presenter Biography

Ellen Lee, M.D. is a board-certified
geriatric psychiatrist, Associate Professor and
Division Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at UC San
Diego and Staff Psychiatrist at the V.A. San Diego
Healthcare System. Dr. Lee’s research focuses
on biological and psychosocial aging in persons
with schizophrenia and healthy aging populations
and examining relationships between aging,
sleep disturbances, cognition, loneliness and
metabolic health. The recipient of many awards
for her clinical research, she received her B.A.
from Harvard University and her M.D. from Case
Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Coordinator: Steve Clarey