Dr. Aric Prather

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.