Peretz Lavie, Ph.D.
Co-founder, Sleep HealthCenters.  Vice President, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and former Dean, Technion, Faculty of Medicine. Director, Sleep Disorders Centers, Ltd. Editor, Journal of Sleep Research, 2008.





Prof Peretz Lavie obtained his PhD in the University of Florida in 1973 and completed a post-doctoral training with Prof Daniel Kripke in the University of California, San Diego.

In 1975 he joined the Faculty of Medicine in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, where he established an active sleep research laboratory and a Sleep Medicine Center.

Over the years he served as the head of the Behavioral Biology Department and the Dean of the faculty of Medicine (1993-1999). Currently, he is the Technion Vice President for Development and External Affairs and holds the Andre Ballard chair in Biological Psychiatry.

He has conducted research in a wide range of sleep related subjects such as the 24-h pattern of arousal, effects of sleep deprivation on performance, sleep of traumatized patients, dreaming, epidemiology and cardiovascular morbidity in sleep apnea and much more. One of his special fields of interests is the history of sciences, particularly of sleep and biological rhythms research.

Prof Lavie published more than 330 papers in peer-reviewed Journals and 8 books and presented numerous papers in scientific meetings around the world. His book “The Enchanted World of Sleep” published by Yale University Press in 1996 was translated into 15 languages.

He was the chairman of the ESRS scientific committee and has served on the editorial boards of all the leading Journals in the field. He is the winner of the 1995 Technion Herschel Rich prize for innovative technologies, 2001 Alkales prize for best medical scientist, 2004 University of Pisa Sleep Award, and the 2006 EMET prize, the highest Israeli scientific award.

Prof Lavie will start his tenure as the Chief editor of JSR in January 2008. 

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