Speaker
Professor Colin Espie
Professor of Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN), University of Oxford
Biography
I am Professor of Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN), University of Oxford where I founded the Experimental & Clinical Sleep Medicine research programme in the Sleep & Circadian Research Institute (SCNi) and I am Clinical Director of the Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine. I am a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow in the University Department of Psychiatry.
My expertise is in the clinical and laboratory assessment and treatment of sleep disorders, particularly using Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutics (CBTx), and in studies of the aetiology and maintenance of insomnia disorder. I am interested in the relationships between sleep and mental health and sleep and metabolic health. I have published over 300 scientific papers and written or edited numerous books. I co-founded Big Health/ Sleepio to make evidence based digital CBT scalable. I am actively involved with the Digital Therapeutics Alliance and I serve as co-chair of the DTA’s Clinical Guidelines group.
I serve on the European Sleep Research Society Sleep Medicine and Sleep Education committees, and co-chair the ESRS CBT Academy. I am Deputy Editor for the Journal of Sleep Research; and serve on the Editorial Board of Sleep Medicine Reviews. I was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the BABCP in 2015, and was awarded the Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award by the Sleep Research Society in 2017.