Pattishall Research Lecture - Orfeu Buxton

2024 Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award Lecture

Sleep Health Across the Life Span

Orfeu M. Buxton, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Director of the Sleep, Health and Society Collaboratory
Co-funded faculty in the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Associate Director of the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

About the presenter

Orfeu Buxton directs the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory at Penn State. His research primarily addresses the causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society; the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency; the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise; and translational interventions.

His lab conducts interdisciplinary and translational human studies that address sleep health, cardiometabolic risk, cognition, disparities, and well-being across the life course including large studies such as the Work, Family and Health Network, the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Sleep Substudy, and the Einstein Aging Study.

Buxton currently serves as the second Editor in Chief of Sleep Health, focused on the social epidemiology and public health aspects of sleep.

Buxton co-founded the National Postdoctoral Association in 2003, a member-driven organization that provides a unique national voice for postdocs effective to this day.

Sleep Health Across the Life Span

The Pattishall Outstanding Research Lecture: "Sleep Health Across the Life Span" was delivered by Orfeu Buxton on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. in the Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building.

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Each year, the Pattishall Outstanding Research Lecture is presented by the recipient of the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, which recognizes a faculty member who is advancing the frontiers of knowledge.