Moving up

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson welcomes Michael Grandner as assistant professor of psychiatry and director of its new Sleep and Health Research Program.

Grandner is a sleep researcher who studies how sleep and sleep-related behaviors are related to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, neurocognitive functioning, mental health and longevity. He is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences for two research studies.

Grandner earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical and social sciences in psychology from the University of Rochester, and a doctorate from the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego. He completed a Behavioral Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and is board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine. He was a research associate in medicine and then instructor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed a master’s degree in translational research.

Grandner has published more than 75 articles and chapters on issues relating to sleep and health.