Biography

Katie Sharkey, MD, PhD is a sleep medicine physician and associate professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Associate Dean for Gender Equity at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She earned her MD-PhD and completed a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency at Rush University in Chicago, IL. Dr. Sharkey joined the Brown faculty in 2007. She is a recognized expert on sleep and circadian rhythms, particularly as they relate to mood regulation and women's health. Her current research, funded by NIMH and NIGMS, is focused on implementing interventions that address mood and sleep dysregulation in expectant and new parents. Sharkey also studies how perinatal sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances affect lactation and breastfeeding. Dr. Sharkey is an Associate Editor of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and Frontiers in Sleep and serves on the editorial board of Sleep Health. Sharkey also represents the American Medical Women’s Association on the WEL Program Steering Committee, led by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a member of the WHAM Collaborative, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating and investing in women’s health research

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