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Postdoctoral Scholars
Salvatore Insana, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
I earned my B.A. in Psychology from West Virginia University (WVU). I then worked at Southwood Psychiatric Hospital as a Child Care Specialist. After two years of applied work, I returned to WVU and earned my Ph.D. in Life-Span Developmental Psychology. During my graduate training I specialized in the developmental psychobiology of sleep through research activities within the Sleep and Sleep Disorders: Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory while under the mentorship of Dr. Hawley Montgomery-Downs. In 2010 I began my postdoctoral training through the
Translational Research Training in Sleep Medicine T32 in Pittsburgh. Dr. Anne Germain is my primary mentor, and my research focus integrates early-life development, trauma, neuroscience, and sleep.
Christopher Kline, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: klinec@upmc.edu
I earned my BA in Sports Science from Malone College (Canton, Ohio; 2002) before heading to the University of South Carolina (USC) for graduate school. While in the Department of Exercise Science in USC’s Arnold School of Public Health, I worked in the Chronobiology Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Shawn Youngstedt. I earned my PhD in 2011, where my dissertation examined the impact of exercise training on the severity and health consequences of obstructive sleep apnea. I have been a T32 postdoctoral trainee since December 2010, with Dr. Martica Hall as my primary mentor. My research interests focus on the relationship between exercise and sleep, the relationship between poor sleep and cardiometabolic risk, and how behavioral sleep treatments may reduce cardiometabolic risk via improved sleep.
Eric M Davis, M.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: davisem2@upmc.edu
I received my medical degree from the University of Virginia in 2006 and completed my internship and residency training in internal medicine from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2009. My research interest is focused on the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and both right and left heart dysfunction. We are using a mouse model to study respiratory control and changes in sleep architecture in these disease processes. My primary mentors are Drs. Chris O’Donnell, Hunter Champion, and Patrick Strollo.
Heather Gunn, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: gunnh@upmc.edu
Heather Gunn (Oct 2012). Heather attended Arizona State for her undergraduate degree, University of Utah for graduate school, and completed her clinical internship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Her primary research focus is examining how the social world mitigates sleep quality by quantifying interpersonal behavior. For her dissertation, she objectively coded interpersonal responses to stress to identify specific types of behavior that were associated with subjective sleep. |
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