The goal of this program is to accelerate the translation of best scientific research around normal and pathological states of sleep. The mission of the Institute of Personalized Sleep Health (IPSH) is to ensure that optimal sleep—a fundamental necessity for health and well-being—can be achieved by everyone. The IPSH is the research arm of the Beth Israel Sleep Disorders Center with a special focus on utilizing novel sleep research tools to improve sleep health in the clinic. The Institute aims to enhance clinical and translational research by fostering innovation, discovery, education, and collaborative networks among disciplines relevant to sleep science. Within the Sleep Disorders Center, the Institute utilizes a personalized "accelerated bench-to-bedside" approach to optimize sleep health. This Institute aims to provide personalized care for disorders of breathing control during sleep and stimulate the development of innovative technology, especially wearable devices, that allow for personalization of sleep health. Further, this Institute expands the concept of measuring and enabling "optimal sleep health," large scale data analytics, and genetic foundations of rare sleep disorders to meet its goal of achieving precision sleep medicine.
Director: Robert Thomas, MD