Center Leadership Team
Center Director
Michael C.K. Khoo, Ph.D.
Dean’s Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pediatrics
Viterbi School of Engineering
DRB-140, MC-1111
Tel: (213) 740-0347
E-mail: khoo@usc.edu
Co-PIs
Richard J. Castriotta, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine & Medical Director
Sleep Disorders Center, Keck School of Medicine
E-mail: Richard.Castriotta@med.usc.edu
Sally Davidson Ward, M.D.
Chief of Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, CHLA
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine
E-mail: sward@chla.usc.edu
Mara Mather, Ph.D.
Professor of Gerontology, Psychology and Biomedical Engineering
Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
email: mara.mather@usc.edu
Krishna Nayak, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and
Radiology
Viterbi School of Engineering
E-mail: knayak@usc.edu
Hans Oh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Email: hansoh@usc.edu
Stacey Schepens Niemiec, Ph.D., OTR/L, DipACLM
Associate Professor of Research
Mrs. T.H. Chan Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
E-mail: schepens@chan.usc.edu
External Advisory Board
Susan Redline, M.D., M.P.H.
Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders – BLI 438
221 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115.
Gari Clifford, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Professor of Biomedical Informatics (Emory) and Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Emory University School of Medicine
Woodruff Memorial Research Building
101 Woodruff Circle, 4th Floor East
Atlanta, GA 30322
Karen D. Lincoln, Ph.D., MSW, FGSA
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
Director, Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research
Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Eric Kezirian, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Head and Neck Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles