Howard Roffwarg, MD

Professor and Director, Division of Sleep Disorders Medicine Nathaniel Kleitman Prize for Distinguished Service Award, American Sleep Disorders Association - 1981 (first recipient of award)

• MD, 1958, College of Physician and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY
• Medical Intern, 1958-1959, Stanford University Hospital, San Francisco, CA
• Resident in Psychiatry, 1959-1962, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York
• Research Associate, 1961, 1962, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Laboratory of Drs. William Dement and Charles Fisher
• Director, Sleep EEG Laboratory 1962-1966, New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Director, Sleep Research Lab, 1966-1977, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Career Research Scientist NIMH, Professor with tenure (1976), Coordinator then Co-Director, Post-Doc Fellowship Program, Department of Psychiatry
• Director, Sleep Study Unit, 1977-1992, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Sleep/Wake Disorders Center (1982-1985, Consulting 1985-1992) Retired Sept. 1992
• Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Sleep Medicine, 1995 to present, Director, Sleep Neurophysiology Laboratory, University of Mississippi Medical Center