- Assessment and Diagnosis
- Circadian Rhythm Disorders
- Comorbid Conditions
- Dreaming and Parasomnias
- Insomnia
- Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders
- Nonpharmacologic Treatment
- Pharmacotherapy
- Public Policy and Health
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Scientific Perspectives
- Sleep Deprivation
- Sleep Physiology
- Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders
- Sleepiness
- Special Patient Populations
Continuing Education Activities
Professor and Chair
Department of Family Medicine
Boston University
Chief
Division of Family Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
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.
Continuing Education Activities
Editor-in-Chief, SLEEPClinician™
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Director
Sleep Disorders and Research Center
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
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