Thomas F. Anders Seminar Series | 2025-2026 schedule

Date | Time:Presenter:Affiliation and Contact Information:Talk Title:
May 19, 2026 | 12:00 PM Eastern TimeAlicia Chung, EdD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health		NYU LangoneDevelopment and Testing of a Digital Behavioral Sleep Intervention: a UX Design Approach
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Videos

Dr. Lauren Hartstein “The developing circadian system: light and sleep in early childhood”

Dr. Fiona Baker “Sleep in women: From menstrual cycles to menopause”

Dr. Stephanie Crowley “Burning the candle at both ends: Can it impact circadian clock resetting in teens?”

Dr. Jamie M Zeitzer “Reclaiming Teen Sleep: Innovative Biocultural Strategies from the U.S. and Taiwan”

Dr. Sarah K. England “Chronodisruption – A Potential Risk for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes”

Dr. Kelton Minor “Sleep in a Warming World: An Anthropogenic Experiment”

Dr. Dean Beebe “Sleepy, surly, spacey, sedentary, sugared-up, scary on the road, somatic/sore, and a bit less smart: One investigator’s journey toward understanding the importance of adolescent sleep”

Melissa Nevarez-Brewster “Sleep in Pregnancy: A Unique and Understudied Prenatal Process with Intergenerational Consequences”

Dr. Megan Petrov “In Pursuit of Childhood Obesity Prevention: Early Pathways through Sleep, Feeding, and the Gut Microbiome”

Dr. Stephen P. Becker “Sleep in adolescents with ADHD: Recent advances and new directions”

Dr. Brandon L. Roberts “How maternal circadian disruption impacts sleep and PFC function in adult offspring”

Dr. Liat Tikotzky “Sleep in infancy and the family system”

Dr. Peter Achermann “A historical perspective on some concepts in sleep research”

Dr. Anthony Reffi “Identifying Sleep-Related Risk Factors for PTSD and Their Underlying Mechanisms”

Dr. Marie-Rachelle Narcisse “Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association between Adherence to Sleep Guidelines and Obesity among Adolescents In the United States: An Application of Time-Varying Effect Modeling”

Dr. Selena Nguyễn-Rodriguez “Influence on Sleep in Latinx Children”

Dr. Marcos G. Frank “Ontogenesis of Sleep Function and Regulation”

Dr. Dylan Jackson & Dr. Alexander Testa “Police Contact & Sleep Patterns During Adolescence & Adulthood”

Patricia A. Goodhines, MS “Cannabis and Alcohol Use for Sleep Aid in College Students”

Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge “Of plates & pillows: How nutrition and sleep work together for healthy weight”

Dr. Peijun Wen “Optimizing Lighting for Sleep and Athletic Performance in Pediatric Populations”

Dr. Lauren Asarnow “Misalignment Between Circadian Biology and Sleep/Wake Behavior as a Mediator of Depression Improvement in Adolescents with Depression and an Evening Chronotype”

Dr. Vernon Grant “Assessing Sleep in Blackfeet Families”

Dr. Xiaoyan Wu “Sleep, Circadian Disruption and Mental Health in Adolescents”

Dr. Ariel Williamson “Initial Outcomes of a Family-Centered and Health Equity-Informed Behavioral Sleep Intervention”

Dr. Bengi Baran “Sleep and Psychopathology in Youth”

Dr. Douglas Teti “Trauma History in Parents and Parent-Infant Sleep in the Early Post-Partum”

Dr. Valerie M. Crabtree “Sleep Disruption in Youth with Chronic Illness”

Dr. Jessica Hamilton “Leveraging technology to understand sleep and social media use in adolescent suicide prevention”

Dr. A.J. Schwichtenberg “The Roles of Sleep in Autism Spectrum Disorder”

Dr. Mona El-Sheikh “Sleep and Development in Youth: Sociocultural Considerations”

Dr. Michelle Garrison “Late Night Media Use and Sleep: Harm Reduction Approaches in the Context of Developing Self-Regulation From Childhood to Emerging Adulthood”

Dr. Rebecca Gómez “The effects of sleep on learning and memory in very young children”

Dr. Melissa Horger “Sleep and motor learning: Perspectives from leveraging innovative tools to promote more robust data collection”

Dr. Jessica Levenson “Advances in Developing, Testing, and Implementing Sleep Promotion Programs for Adolescents”

Dr. Ariel Neikrug “Raising the BAR: using of accelerometry data beyond sleep”

Dr. Joshua J. Gooley “Early School Start Times Are Bad for Sleep, Attendance, and Grades”

Dr. Candice A. Alfano “ How Poor Sleep Undermines the Socio-Emotional Competence of Youth: Filling in the Gaps”

Dr. Salome Kurth “Infants’ Sleep Neurophys, Beyond the Brain: Interactions with Bedtime Behavior, and the Gut Microbiome”