2017 NSC Congress & Expo

Charles Czeisler
Chief, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders Departments of Medicine and Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital


Charles A. Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.P.S. is Director of the Sleep Health Institute and Chief of the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine and director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Czeisler has more than 40 years of experience in the field of basic and applied research on circadian disorders. Dr. Czeisler’s research is focused sleep, circadian rhythms, health and performance in humans. Of particular concern to Dr. Czeisler is the epidemic of sleep deficiency in our society with its wide-ranging implications for health, wellness, and the economy. For more than a decade, Dr. Czeisler served as team leader of the Human Performance Factors, Sleep and Chronobiology Team of NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute, which is responsible for developing sleep-wake schedule guidelines and related countermeasures for use by NASA astronauts and mission control personnel during space exploration. He led the sleep experiment in which Senator John Glenn participated during the STS-95 space shuttle mission in 1998. Last year, he and his colleagues at BWH received the NASA’s Johnsons Space Center Director’s Innovation Award in Houston, for designing a new solid state lighting system that is being installed on the International Space Station this year to improve the sleep of astronauts. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation and is Past President of the Sleep Research Society. Dr. Czeisler, who has over 300 publications, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and was elected as an inaugural Fellow of the American Physiological Society.

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