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Whether your goal is to reduce burnout and increase the well-being of your employees, optimize performance of your team, or just feel more equipped to sleep better yourself…
We’ll bring the sheep.
You can count on it.
Improve your sleep. Optimize your performance. Elevate your function.
Why book a speaking engagement with the Sleep Doctors?
Improve sleep.
Explore how sleep works, why it doesn’t always work for some individuals, and how to address concerns about “clinically bad sleep”.
Optimize performance.
Learn more about the role sleep plays in cognitive performance and how you can leverage better sleep to achieve more.
Elevate function.
Whether your goal is to increase productivity, improve athletic performance, or simply feel better each morning, the CfSC team will explain how it all starts with sleep.
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The Fundamentals of Sleep
Target Audiences: Groups, organizations, corporations, academic centers, hospitals, athletic teams
Learn more about the science of sleep. We’ll discuss how sleep is measured and what we know about the importance of sleep. The goal of this presentation is to provide a general overview of sleep, its functions, and why it is important to prioritize sleep to optimize physical and mental health.
Sleep and Mental Health
Target Audiences: Groups, organizations, corporations, academic centers, VAs, hospitals
Get an introduction to the bidirectional relationship between good sleep and good mental health, and how regularly missing out on sleep can do more than increase your coffee bill. The goal of this presentation is to describe the importance of sleep in maintaining mental health and how sleep changes in a variety of psychiatric disorders.
Sleeping for Productivity
Target Audiences: Organizations, corporations, academic centers, nonprofits, hospitals
What is one of the quickest ways to improve the happiness and performance of your workers? Make room for sleep in your workplace culture! The goal of this presentation is to learn more about how and why good sleep is important for productivity and receive recommendations aiming to improve the quality of life of your employees and reduce burnout and turnover.
Using Sleep to Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes
Target Audiences: Athletic teams
Learn more about the importance of sleep and how sleep can be used to optimize physical and athletic performance. The goal of this event is to give an overview of what we know about the importance of sleep in physical fitness and athletic performance and to make recommendations as needed.
Sleep and Travel: Working with Jet Lag
Target Audience: Organizations, corporations, academic centers, nonprofits, hospitals
Whether it’s for work or pleasure, jet lag can take the wind out of the sails of even our most enjoyable and important trips. Learn about the basics of circadian rhythms and what you can do to mitigate the impact of jet lag the next time you or your team travels across time zones.
The Role of Sleep in Memory Formation / Emotion Regulation
Target Audience: Academic centers, groups, organizations, corporations, VAs, hospitals
Take a deeper dive in the area of sleep research that has been the bread and butter of the Center for Sleep and Cognition for the last 20+ years. The goal of this talk is to present the field’s latest understanding of how sleep affects our memory and/or emotion processing, including cutting-edge research being conducted at the CfSC in Boston.
How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Changed our Sleep
Target Audience: Academic centers, groups, organizations, corporations, VAs, hospitals
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate throughout both societies and our individual lives, and its impact on our sleep is no different. Goal of this presentation is to describe the key findings from our Boston College COVID-19 Sleep and Well-Being Study, how our sleep patterns evolved due to the pandemic, and recommendations for how we might maintain some of the surprising improvements we saw into the future.
Other Sleep-Related Topics
Target Audience: Any
Interested in another aspect of sleep science? The CfSC is happy to discuss other potential topics or services that we might be able to provide for you or your group that falls under our breadth of expertise. Feel free to reach out today with details of what you would like to learn more about!
Past Audiences
About Dr. Tony Cunningham
Tony is the Director for the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and is a Teaching Fellow and Instructor of multiple courses on sleep at the Harvard University undergraduate campus. Tony received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, completed his clinical internship at the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System, and recently received his license to practice psychology in the state of Massachusetts. In choosing to pursue clinical training within cognitive neuroscience labs, Tony's background has prepared him to carve a niche in the field of sleep and behavioral sleep medicine at the intersection between cognitive neuroscience and clinical practice. Tony’s expertise and past experiences have prepared him to relay pivotal clinical and scientific information to individuals and groups alike, with the ultimate goal of optimizing your performance and making a happier, healthier you.
Find Tony’s CV here.
Get in touch.
While Dr. Cunningham and the CfSC team have multiple prepared presentations, we are excited and enthusiastic to shape our speaking and consulting events to best fit the needs of you or your organization. Send us a message today describing your interest and we will follow up to confirm all necessary details and to discuss availability and pricing.