Carol Landis, DNSc, RN, FAAN Professor Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Box 357266 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7266 Email Address: calandis@u.washington.edu

Dr. Landis's program of research focuses on sleep and health consequences of sleep loss. She has pursued these interests from a basic-science perspective in the field of neuroscience in focused areas of sleep & sleep deprivation, pain, and neuroimmune interactions. She has conducted original investigations and published first-time observations of altered sleep patterns in an animal model of arthritis, sleep deprivation effects on thermoregulation, pain, wound healing, immune function, and descriptive studies of neuroendocrine and EEG biomarkers of nonrestorative sleep in women with fibromyalgia. Dr. Landis is the Director for the Biobehavioral Laboratories in the Center for Women's Health and Gender Reseach. She is a former member of the Research Advisory Board for the Center for Sleep Disorders research at NHBLI. She currently serves as co-director for the NINR funded institutional Biobehavioral Training Grant for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows.

Current Projects

• Biobehavioral Nursing Research Training Program (Principal Investigator)
• Center for Research on the Management of Sleep Disturbances (Co-Investigator)
• Center for Women's Health & Gender Research (Key Personnel)
• Menopausal Symptoms Initiative- Finding Lasting Answers to Sweats and Hot Flashes   (Co-Investigator)

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