Jeffrey S. Durmer, MD, PhD, D.ABSM
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Jeffrey Durmer is a co-founder and one of the principals of Fusion Sleep.
Dr. Durmer is one of the nations leading expert in Sleep Medicine. He is Board Certified
in both Sleep Medicine and Neurology by the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM)
and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABP&N). In addition he holds
a PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pensylvania.
As the Chief Medical Officer, he is responsible for all patient care and medical decision making at the Fusion Sleep Center. Dr. Durmer evaluates patients
in the Fusion Sleep Clinic and Laboratory and directs therapy of patients referred
to the Center.
Dr. Durmer has performed basic neuroscientific research on neural systems involved
in arousal, alerting and sleep regulation in animals and humans over the past decade.
His current investigations include phenotype analysis of Restless Legs Syndrome
in children and adults with co-morbid conditions such as ADHD, iron deficiency and
other neurological disorders. He directs clinical and translational research projects
at Fusion Sleep focused on interventions for RLS, sleep disorders associated with
Parkinson's disease, sleep apnea and insomnia. In addition, he collaborates with
researchers from many different fields of neurology, circadian biology, oncology
and pediatrics.
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Autobiography
Before training in internal medicine, neurology and sleep medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, my first love was (and still is) learning and teaching
the science of the brain. As an undergraduate I could not chose between psychology
and biology as majors, so I decided to study both. Things have not changed, and
I am still fascinated by the intersection of the mind and brain as a topic for scientific
inquiry and medical practice.
During my PhD training in neuroscience at Penn, I
realized that some of the most profound scientific questions are relevant to our
everyday medical problems. For instance; why do we sleep and what does sleep do?
These two rather simple questions have been argued over by scientists for hundreds
of years.
Recently we have begun to understand the importance of sleep for good
health as well as the basic brain mechanisms that regulate this quiescent state
which occupies 1/3 of our life span.
Following my medical training, I embarked on
a journey of scientific discovery working with many world-renown neuroscientists
at the University of Pennsylvania and Emory University. As an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Neurology, Director of the Emory Sleep Laboratory and Director
of the Pediatric and Adolescent Sleep Clinic at Emory for the past 3 years, I led
a team dedicated to patients of all ages with sleep and wake problems. Our scientific
work, funded by the National Institutes of Health and multiple foundations grants,
produced exciting results related to Restless Legs Syndrome, Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder and iron deficiency.
At Fusion Sleep, my role as Chief Medical Officer
is to provide you with the latest diagnostic and therapeutic developments in the
field of sleep medicine. Using my years of clinical and research experience I strive
to bring the science of sleep to the bedside. In doing so, I intend to offer you
the highest quality of care available as well as a chance to experience the future
of sleep medicine as it is discovered.
Sincerely yours,
Jeffrey Scott Durmer, MD, PhD
Diplomate American Board of Sleep Medicine