Judith Anne Owens, M.D., MPH

Dr. Judith Owens is Director of Sleep Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (pending). She is an internationally-recognized authority on pediatric sleep, and the author of more than 150 original research and review articles in peer-review journals, chapters, and books on the topic. Her particular research interests focus on the neurobehavioral and health consequences of sleep problems in children, pharmacologic treatment of pediatric sleep disorders, sleep health education, and cultural and psychosocial issues impacting on sleep.

Dr. Owens received the AASM Excellence in Education Award in 2006 and the AASM Mark. O. Hatfield Public Policy Advocacy Award in 2012. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine; she is also on the Governing Council of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and is the Editor-in-Chief of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Previously, Dr. Owens was the Director of Sleep Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC (2010-15) and Director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic and the Learning, Attention, and Behavior Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown and a Master’s in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Minnesota. She completed pediatric residency training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and fellowships in Behavioral Pediatrics at Minneapolis Children’s Medical Center and in Child Psychiatry at Brown University. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine.