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^○Sonia Ancoli-Israel (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus and Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center of Circadian Biology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ancoli-Israel’s expertise is in the field of sleep disorders and circadian rhythms particularly in normal aging and neurogenerative disease. Her research has included studies on the longitudinal effect of sleep disorders on aging, therapeutic interventions for sleep problems in dementia, and in the relationship between sleep, fatigue and circadian rhythms in cancer. Dr. Ancoli-Israel is Past-President of the Sleep Research Society (SRS), Past-President of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms and was on the founding Executive Board of the National Sleep Foundation. She was honored with the National Sleep Foundation Life Time Achievement Award, the SRS Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award, the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine Distinguished Career Award, the SRS Distinguished Scientist Award and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award. Dr. Ancoli-Israel is published regularly in medical and psychiatric journals with over 500 publications in the field.