SleepScore Labs Appoints “America’s Sleep Doctor” as New Member to Board of Advisors
SAN DIEGO, CA - 05/11/2017 — SleepScore Labs, the world’s leading sleep monitoring and solutions company, today announced the appointment of Michael Breus, PhD., clinical psychologist, Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, to their Scientific Advisory Board. As a world-renowned expert in clinical sleep medicine and consumer sleep behavior for 17 years, Dr. Breus will join SleepScore Labs in their mission to monitor and improve America’s quality of sleep.
Dr. Breus was brought on board to provide scientific and clinical guidance to the company’s collection of consumer sleep data, the most comprehensive data set of its kind, collected with superior medical accuracy using SleepScore by ResMed technology. SleepScore Labs seeks to ensure the best results and personalized feedback for users with clinical grade technology that is available for licensing in non-prescription sleep devices.
“We are in the middle of great social awareness recognizing the importance of sleep to overall health,” said Dr. Breus. “Sleep hygiene is moving from the clinical setting to the everyday details of people’s lives, giving consumer sleep companies like SleepScore Labs an unbelievable ability to help individuals improve their sleep and health. Consumer sleep solutions, like those that SleepScore Labs makes available, represent the frontier in consumer sleep advice.”
Dr. Breus specializes in clinical sleep disorders and has dedicated his work to raising awareness about the current sleep crisis America is facing. He has been recognized and interviewed by national morning shows, television stations, and papers which has earned him the title of “America’s Sleep Doctor.” He also appears regularly on The Dr. Oz Show, where he serves on the clinical advisory board for the show.
Aside from treating patients regularly at his practice, Dr. Breus also devotes his expertise to training other sleep doctors and consulting with major airlines, cruise lines, luxury hotel chains, mattress manufacturers, and retailers to develop the best products for optimal sleep.
“In addition to his iconic media presence as an unparalleled and internationally recognized sleep expert, Dr. Michael Breus is a clinical sleep expert. SleepScore Labs now will be advised by the voice that is facilitating our national conversation on sleep,” said Colin Lawlor, CEO of SleepScore Labs.
Dr. Breus is a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the only professional society exclusively dedicated to the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine, and is also certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM), an independent nonprofit organization that stands for the highest quality in clinical sleep medicine and sleep technology. Dr. Breus has served as the sleep expert for WebMD for 14 years and also blogs for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, WebMD, and his own page, The Sleep Doctor. His newest book, “The Power of When” serves as a guide to readers on the best times to eat, exercise, drink coffee, and more based on their sleep chronotypes, which has been met with rave reviews.
SleepScore Labs is committed to raising awareness of sleep and improving the health of millions with the most accurate sleep data available.
About SleepScore Labs
SleepScore Labs is a new company formed with Dr. Mehmet Oz, ResMed (NYSE: RMD) and Pegasus Capital Advisors to measure, monitor and ultimately help solve the world’s sleep problems. Today, over 60% of adults in America, and in the world, have problems with poor sleep due to conditions like snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, pain, and discomfort. SleepScore Labs was created to address these issues through data collected by ResMed’s S+ product, the world’s first non-contact, personalized sleep solution to measure an individual’s sleep quality and deliver personalized feedback that helps improve sleep from the very first night. As part of the new venture, SleepScore by ResMed technology will be available for licensing in new sleep products and will be used by product manufacturers to develop better sleep solutions for consumers. The technology has already been used in product research and development by several global leaders including Lighting Science Group. For more information on SleepScore Labs visit www.sleepscorelabs.com
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