Dr. Sean Drummond

Biography

Sean Drummond is a Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Monash University School of Psychological Sciences, where he has been since December 2014. He began his research career as an undergraduate research assistant in the Sleep Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona under the guidance of Richard Bootzin, PhD and Michael Perlis, PhD. Following his graduation, he worked with Sarah Mosko, PhD at UC Irvine Medical Center on mother-infant co-sleeping. Dr. Drummond completed his Doctoral Studies at the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and undertook his Pre-doctoral Internship at the Tucson VA Hospital. He subsequently became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and served on the UCSD Department of Psychiatry faculty from 2002 to 2014, while also working as a Staff Psychologist for the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Drummond's research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience related to sleep, particularly sleep deprivation, treatment of insomnia, and the interaction between sleep and psychiatric disorders, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and mood disorders. He employs methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and EEG in his investigations. His clinical expertise includes treating behavioral sleep disorders, chronic insomnia, and related mood disorders. Dr. Drummond has received funding from several prestigious organizations, including the National Health Medical Research Council and the National Institutes of Health.

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