Our Advisors

Aric A. Prather, PhD, is a sleep scientist, Professor, and the Pritzker Family Fund Endowed Chair in Health and Community in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Prather is a licensed clinical psychologist who directs the UCSF Behavioral Sleep Medicine Research program and helps lead the UCSF Insomnia Clinic, where he treats patients with insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders using cognitive behavioral therapy. Dr. Prather has published more than 130 scientific papers, and his research has been continually supported by the NIH. Dr. Prather’s work is routinely covered by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and NPR. He is also the author of The Sleep Prescription: 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest (Penguin Life), which distills empirically based strategies for improving sleep to ensure that all get the rest they deserve. 

Shelby Harris PsyD, DBSM is a clinical psychologist and sleep specialist in private practice in NY. She is board certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine and treats a wide variety of sleep, anxiety and depression issues using evidence-based, non-medication treatments. Her self-help book The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia was published in 2019 by W.W. Norton Books. Dr. Harris holds an academic appointment as Clinical Associate Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Neurology and Psychiatry. Before going into private practice she was the longstanding director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center in NYC.