Don’t miss national sleep expert, Dr. Judith Owens, speaking at the Wilson School in Natick!
Tues, May 5 at 7 PM
The Natick Public Schools and the Natick School Committee are very pleased to announce an incredible opportunity for both Natick staff and parents. Dr. Judith Owens, Director of Sleep Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, will be in Natick next week on Tuesday, May 5th to speak with staff in the afternoon and with parents during an evening session starting at 7pm at Wilson Middle School. Dr. Owens will share her expertise on adolescent sleep cycles and raise awareness about ensuing health problems that occur when adolescents experience chronic sleep deficiency.
This event is for parents of all ages. Adolescent phase delay can begin as early as twelve years old. Please come learn more about what constitutes appropriate sleep and how it optimally sustains your children to be healthy – socially, emotionally, and academically. This is an amazing opportunity to have a national sleep expert work with our community to create awareness around one of the most influential and controllable variables that affects student health, developmentally appropriate sleep needs.
Please make time next Tuesday evening, May 5th at 7:00 at Wilson Middle School to join us for a discussion about adolescent sleep and how fundamentally it affects your childrens’ well-being.
Dr. Owens Profile
Dr. Judith Owens is Director of Sleep Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston Massachusetts and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (pending). She is an internationally-recognized authority on pediatric sleep and the author of over 150 original research and review articles in peer-review journals, chapters, and books on the topic. Her particular research interests are in the neurobehavioral and health consequences of sleep problems in children, pharmacologic treatment of pediatric sleep disorders, sleep health education, and cultural and psychosocial issues impacting on sleep. As a recipient of a 5-year NIH grant in sleep education, the Sleep Academic Award, she developed educational materials for the Brown Medical School, as well as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Dr. Owens has served two terms as the Chair of the AASM Section on Childhood Sleep Disorders and Development, and received the AASM Excellence in Education Award in 2006 and the AASM Mark. O. Hatfield Public Policy Advocacy Award in 2012. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is Chief Medical Officer of the American Sleep Apnea Association; she is also on the Governing Council of the World Association of Sleep Medicine. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is on the Editorial Boards of Sleep Medicine Reviews, Sleep Health and the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Sincerely,
The Natick Public Schools Administration and the Natick School Committee
