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​Speakers and Panelists

Sam Abed, JD
Director
​Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services ​for Washington DC


Tim Ammon
​
Zonar Systems

Mark Bedell, EdD
Superintendent
Anne Arundel County Public Schools (MD)

Mary Carskadon, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University

Charles Czeisler, MD, PhD
Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, MD
Department of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh

​Ann Gallagher, PMP,
President Start School Later Board of Directors, Conference Chairperson

Amy Goldman
Immediate Past President School Board Radnor Township School District (PA)

Frank Golom, PhD
Dean College of Arts and Science
Loyola University Maryland

Afra Hersi, PhD
Dean of the School of Education
Loyola University Maryland

​Dylan Jackson, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Lisa L. Lewis, MS
Author, The Sleep-Deprived Teen:
Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive


Lisa Meltzer, PhD
Nyxeos Consulting
National Jewish Health

April Fleming Miller, OD
Maryland House of Delegates, District 4

Maria-Rachelle Narcisse, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University

 

​Phyllis Payne, MPH
Implementation Director
Start School Later

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Rafael Pelayo, MD
​Stanford University

Zorianna Petrosyan
University of Vermont student
​and former leader, SSL Falmouth MA (student chapter)


Tom Platt
Center for Effective School Operations

Tatia Prieto, EdD, MBA, PMP
Prismatic Services, Inc.

Jared Saletin, PhD
Alpert Medical School of Brown University and E.P. Bradley Hospital

Terra Ziporyn Snider, PhD
Executive Director and Co-Founder
Start School Later

Gary Snyder, EdD
​Virginia Tech
Fmr Principal, Princeton High School (NJ)


Deborah Steinbaum, MD
New Jersey Chapter
American Academy of Pediatrics


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Laura Sterni, MD
Johns Hopkins Pediatric Sleep Center

John Temple
Florida State Representative, District 52 

Joanna Tobin, PhD
Immediate Past President School Board
Anne Arundel County Public Schools (MD)

Wendy Troxel, PhD
RAND Corporation

Lisa VanBuskirk, PE, CDR USCGR (Ret),
Start School Later Maryland


Kyla Wahlstrom, PhD
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College of Education and
​Human Development
University of Minnesota Twin Cities


Rachel Widome, PhD, MHSD
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota Twin Cities


Amy R. Wolfson, PhD
​Professor of Psychology
Loyola University Maryland
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        • Sleep 101 - College
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      • Sign Our Petition
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