Michael Grandner PhD

Upenn University of Pennsylvania

(Postgraduate). I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Allan Pack, along with Dr. Phil Gehrman. Most of my time is spent conducting research. I also see sleep disorders patients at the Philadelphia VA hospital. See other information on this website to get an idea of what I am doing here at Penn.

UCSD University of California, San Diego

(Ph.D., 2007). I completed my graduate training at the San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. While most of the coursework was completed at SDSU, the majority of my research and clinical activities took place at UCSD. At UCSD, I completed the following courses: Psychopathology, Meditation and Medicine, and Attention. I also completed clinical practica on the locked inpatient unit at the UCSD medical center (third year) and sleep medicine clinics at the UCSD medical center and San Diego VA hospital (4th year). I worked as a research assistant for Dr. Sonia Ancoli-Israel at the J. Christian Gillin Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory at UCSD and collaborated with Dr. Sean Drummond at the Laboratory for Sleep and Behavioral Neuroscience at UCSD. The vast majority of my research training was under Dr. Daniel Kripke, along with Dr. Shawn Youngstedt, Dr. Jeffrey Elliott, Dr. Richard Loving, Dr. In-Young Yoon, and collaborator Dr. Roger Cole at the Circadian Pacemaker Laboratory at UCSD, where Dr. Kripke served as my graduate advisor and dissertation committee chair.

SDSU San Diego State University

(M.S., 2005). Immediately after completing my undergraduate degree, I began my graduate training at the San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. As of this writing, this is the #1 rated of all research-based Ph.D. programs in Clinical Psychology in the nation, and I am very thankful for the superb training I have received. Upon completing the paperwork for my Master's Thesis in 2004, I received my Master's Degree in January of 2005. As a graduate student, I took the following classes at SDSU: Semester 1: Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Part 1), Seminar in Clinical Interventions (Part 1), and Seminar in Psychological Assessment; Semester 2: Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Part 2), Seminar in Clinical Interventions (Part 2), and Seminar in Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment; Semester 3: Multivariate Statistics, History and Ethics, and Cultural Psychology; Semester 4: Physiological Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology; Semester 5: Seminar in Behavioral Medicine Research; Semester 6: Seminar in Behavioral Medicine Interventions and Teaching in Psychology. During my second year, I completed the clinical practicum located at the SDSU psychology clinic. Also, as part of the program, I successfully passed the three comprehensive examinations: Research Methods and Statistics, Clinical Interventions and Behavioral Medicine.

University of Rochester

(B.A., 2001). I began my undergraduate career at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. My studies focused primarily in psychology, but I took the time to explore some of my interests in philosophy and neuroscience . During my third and fourth year, I worked in the Sleep and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory under Dr. Donna Giles and Dr. Michael Perlis. I guaduated Cum Laude with High Honors for Research in Psychology. My overall GPA was 3.53 (last two years 3.82). In my major, my GPA was 3.51 (last two years 3.80). As an undergraduate, I took the foolowing classes: Semester 1: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Psychology, Music Theory, and Modern Art; Semester 2: Ethics, Writing and Thinking, Psychology of Women, and Abnormal Psychology; Semester 3: Photography, Neural Foundations of Behavior, Social Psychology, and Metaphysics; Semester 4: Foundations of Cognitive Science, Psychology of Human Sexuality, and Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine; Semester 5: Psychology of Personality, Introduction to Statistical Methods in Psychology, Research Methods of Psychology, and Independent Study: Sleep Research; Semester 6: Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Medicine, Honors Seminar and Independent Study: Sleep Research; Semester 7: Digital Interpretations, Learning and Memory, Neuropsychology, Honors Research:REM Sleep Latency in Depression, and Independent Study: Genetics and Sleep; Semester 8: Biopsychology, Honors Research: REM Sleep Latency in Depression, and Independent Study: Genetics and Sleep.