Kristen Knutson

Kristen Knutson is a biomedical anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the relationship between sleep and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, including high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how day-to-day sleep patterns, including how much someone sleeps, how well he/she sleeps and when he/she sleeps, are associated with health and disease. She sleeps 8 hours per night, when her toddler allows.