James A. Horne, PhD, is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, UK. Psychophysiology is an area of neuroscience dealing with the interactions between body, mind, and brain. Sleep is one of the best examples of such interactions. Prof. Horne has been studying the sleep process and sleep disorders for almost 40 years. His research interests include sleep loss, sleep function, qualification and quantification of sleepiness, circadian rhythms, sleep need, driver sleepiness (accidents), and neuropsychology of the frontal lobes.
The Sleep Research Centre, a modern facility, has a worldwide reputation for its innovative research on sleep. The Driver Sleepiness Research Group within the Centre is co-recipient of the 2007 Queen's Anniversary prize for innovation in education. It was the first UK research organization to recognize the real problem of driver sleepiness, and bring it to public attention. Its research and application of sleep science has led to widely adopted guidelines for the identification of sleep-related road crashes, and to practical countermeasures, including the 'Tiredness can kill- take a break' signs on motorways, changes to the Highway Code, and the setting of legal precedents concerning driver responsibility.
Prof. Horne’s research work on sleep has been published extensively in the scientific and medical literature. He is also author of two textbooks: “Why We Sleep: The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals” and “Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep.” Prof. Horne has written about sleep in newspapers and magazines, and has spoken on the subject, especially “falling asleep at the wheel,” an area of great safety concern, on radio and TV. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research, an official journal of the European Sleep Research Society. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Biology and the British Psychological Society.
Director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Mich.
Dr. Roth’s research primarily focuses on sleep processes. His work includes research on sleep loss, sleep fragmentation, and deviation from sleep processes, including pharmacologic effects and sleep pathologies.
Dr. Roth has held numerous leadership positions within his field. He is past chairman of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board at the National Institutes of Health and past president of the United States Sleep Research Society, the American Sleep Disorders Association, and the National Sleep Foundation. He also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Sleep.
In addition to his position at Henry Ford, he is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor.
He has published more than 310 manuscripts, 12 edited volumes, 150 chapters, and 450 abstracts.
Dr. Roth received his doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1970.
Dr. Julie Ma is a board certified internist with a special interest in Women's Health. She lives with her husband and three children in the West Los Angeles area.
Dr. Ma was born at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1967. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a young child. She grew up locally and attended the public school system. She was accepted into a seven year medical school program at Bryn Mawr College. There she earned a bachelors degree in Sociology before attending the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After medical school, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University. She met and married her husband, Gary Rosenberg, who was completing his orthopaedic residency at The Cleveland Clinic. After her residency, she remained on staff at University Hospitals of Cleveland where she maintained a busy clinical practice and actively participated in the residency training program.
With the birth of her first child, Dr. Ma accepted a position at UCLA so that she could live closer to her family. She opened the Pacific Palisades office of the UCLA Medical Group in February, 1998. In April of 2001, she was joined by Dr. Richard Johnson, a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a long time Pacific Palisades resident.
Currently, Dr. Ma divides her time between the demands and joys of raising three young children and providing quality healthcare to her patients. In her spare time, she loves to read, cook and travel. She is an avid runner and enjoys yoga and pilates as her primary form of exercise.
Dr. Ma and her husband, Gary Rosenberg, a Foot and Trauma Orthopaedist, have three daughters, Naomie, Hanna, and Sofia. Naomie, a second grader and The Buckley School is a burgeoning tennis player and an active member of the Palisades Tennis Center. Hanna is starting her Kindergarten at the Buckley School and Sofia, age three, attends pre-school in Santa Monica.
James A. Horne, PhD
James A. Horne, PhD, is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, UK. Psychophysiology is an area of neuroscience dealing with the interactions between body, mind, and brain. Sleep is one of the best examples of such interactions. Prof. Horne has been studying the sleep process and sleep disorders for almost 40 years. His research interests include sleep loss, sleep function, qualification and quantification of sleepiness, circadian rhythms, sleep need, driver sleepiness (accidents), and neuropsychology of the frontal lobes.
The Sleep Research Centre, a modern facility, has a worldwide reputation for its innovative research on sleep. The Driver Sleepiness Research Group within the Centre is co-recipient of the 2007 Queen's Anniversary prize for innovation in education. It was the first UK research organization to recognize the real problem of driver sleepiness, and bring it to public attention. Its research and application of sleep science has led to widely adopted guidelines for the identification of sleep-related road crashes, and to practical countermeasures, including the 'Tiredness can kill- take a break' signs on motorways, changes to the Highway Code, and the setting of legal precedents concerning driver responsibility.
Prof. Horne’s research work on sleep has been published extensively in the scientific and medical literature. He is also author of two textbooks: “Why We Sleep: The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals” and “Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep.” Prof. Horne has written about sleep in newspapers and magazines, and has spoken on the subject, especially “falling asleep at the wheel,” an area of great safety concern, on radio and TV. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research, an official journal of the European Sleep Research Society. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Biology and the British Psychological Society.
Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep
Thomas . Roth, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Mich.
Dr. Roth’s research primarily focuses on sleep processes. His work includes research on sleep loss, sleep fragmentation, and deviation from sleep processes, including pharmacologic effects and sleep pathologies.
Dr. Roth has held numerous leadership positions within his field. He is past chairman of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board at the National Institutes of Health and past president of the United States Sleep Research Society, the American Sleep Disorders Association, and the National Sleep Foundation. He also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Sleep.
In addition to his position at Henry Ford, he is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor.
He has published more than 310 manuscripts, 12 edited volumes, 150 chapters, and 450 abstracts.
Dr. Roth received his doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1970.
Five Questions, An Interview Series
Julie M. Ma, MD
Dr. Julie Ma is a board certified internist with a special interest in Women's Health. She lives with her husband and three children in the West Los Angeles area.
Dr. Ma was born at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1967. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a young child. She grew up locally and attended the public school system. She was accepted into a seven year medical school program at Bryn Mawr College. There she earned a bachelors degree in Sociology before attending the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After medical school, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University. She met and married her husband, Gary Rosenberg, who was completing his orthopaedic residency at The Cleveland Clinic. After her residency, she remained on staff at University Hospitals of Cleveland where she maintained a busy clinical practice and actively participated in the residency training program.
With the birth of her first child, Dr. Ma accepted a position at UCLA so that she could live closer to her family. She opened the Pacific Palisades office of the UCLA Medical Group in February, 1998. In April of 2001, she was joined by Dr. Richard Johnson, a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a long time Pacific Palisades resident.
Currently, Dr. Ma divides her time between the demands and joys of raising three young children and providing quality healthcare to her patients. In her spare time, she loves to read, cook and travel. She is an avid runner and enjoys yoga and pilates as her primary form of exercise.
Dr. Ma and her husband, Gary Rosenberg, a Foot and Trauma Orthopaedist, have three daughters, Naomie, Hanna, and Sofia. Naomie, a second grader and The Buckley School is a burgeoning tennis player and an active member of the Palisades Tennis Center. Hanna is starting her Kindergarten at the Buckley School and Sofia, age three, attends pre-school in Santa Monica.
A Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Part 1