“Smart Health” to Feature Brown Alpert Med School Sleep Expert Sharkey on Wednesday

“Smart Health” to Feature Brown Alpert Med School Sleep Expert Sharkey on Wednesday

Dr. Katherine Sharkey with The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University will join “Smart Health" on GoLocal LIVE on Wednesday, June 26 at 6 p.m. to talk about the latest in sleep research, with a particular focus on women. 

Sharkey, who is Associate Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Assistant Dean for Women in Medicine and Science, is also a physician at Brown Medicine.  Her research focus is sleep and circadian rhythms, particularly as they relate to mood regulation and women's health, and has been featured this year in the New York Times and NBC.

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On Wednesday, Smart Health will be LIVE with Sharkey at the brand new Brown Medicine Sleep Center located at Brown's multi-specialty practice at 375 Wampanoag Trail in East Providence, where Sharkey is the Medical Director. Currently, there are five other clinicians who practice sleep medicine at the location. 

Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research. By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.

"Smart Health" is a GoLocalProv.com segment featuring experts from The Warren Alpert Medical School GoLocal LIVE.

About Dr. Sharkey 

Sharkey completed her MD-PhD at Rush University in Chicago, IL where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha.  She completed a combined medicine and psychiatry residency at Rush and joined the Brown faculty in 2007.   

She is board certified in Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Psychiatry, and is Medical Director of the Brown Medicine Sleep Center and the Sleep for Science Research Laboratory of Brown University and is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.  

In addition, Sharkey is an Associate Editor of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, serves on the editorial board of Sleep Health, and recently served as a member of the Society for Women’s Health Research Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep.