APS Twitter Space Event—Sleep Loss and Heart Risks Linked to Daylight Saving Time

October 19, 2022
1 p.m. EDT
#APSSleepSpace

Listen to the Recoded Twitter Space Event

Join our first APS Twitter Space event featuring Jason Carter, PhD, and Ian Greenlund, PhD. APS Media Relations Specialist Mario Boone will host a discussion about the potential harm to sleep and heart health that would come from permanently switching to daylight saving time.

Read “Taking to ‘heart’ the proposed legislation for permanent daylight saving time” published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

To set a reminder or join the discussion, visit @APSPhysiology on Twitter from your smart phone and use #APSSleepSpace to ask questions.

Moderator

Mario Boone is the American Physiological Society’s media relations specialist. He is a former TV news reporter and spent more than a dozen years working in news markets nationwide, including Texas, Florida and Connecticut. Boone studied broadcast journalism at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. In addition to reporting, he served as a senior media relations manager of a large university and the public relations coordinator at the largest community food bank in Georgia.

Speakers

Ian M. Greenlund, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biological sciences from Michigan Technological University and his PhD in psychology and physiological neuroscience at Montana State University. His research interests include autonomic nervous system regulation, neurovascular control of blood pressure, sleep disorders and hypertension, and cardiovascular disease related to alcohol use disorder. Greenlund studies sleep enhancement and blood pressure regulation, and also focuses on sleep disorders and hypertension in racially underrepresented populations.

Jason R. Carter, PhD, is dean of the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He previously served as vice president for research, economic development and graduate education at Montana State University. Carter is an active researcher, focusing on neural control of the cardiovascular system and the role of sleep in cardiovascular disease. He is a past associate editor for the American Journal of Physiology–Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; and is an associate editor for the American Journal of Physiology–Heart and Circulatory Physiology. View Carter’s full bio.