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Colleen E. Carney, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Ryerson University and the director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory in Toronto, Canada. She was previously on faculty at Duke University Medical Center, where she was awarded the prestigious National Sleep Foundation Pickwick Fellowship and where she also established the Comorbid Insomnia Clinic. She is the president of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. She is also certified in cognitive behavior therapy by the Canadian Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and is an active writer, presenter, and workshop trainer.

Donn Posner, PhD, is currently working at the Palo Alto VA on clinical research in insomnia. Before this he served as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and as director of behavioral sleep medicine for the Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals. Dr. Posner is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is one of the first certified behavioral sleep medicine specialists recognized by that group. He is also a founding member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and was recently awarded the society’s Peter Hauri Career Distinguished Achievement Award.