teachers also serve important
research roles

Spokane medical faculty members such as Weihang Chai carry on important research, from exploring cell biology questions to discovering why we sleep. Here's a partial list of WSU Spokane medical research faculty members.

Gregory Belenky, M.D., Research Professor; Director, Sleep and Performance Research Center (Web site)

Weihang Chai, Ph.D,. Assistant Professor (Web site)

Kenn Daratha, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Web site)

Levente Kapás, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Web site)

James Krueger, Ph.D., Regents Professor (Web site)

Matthew Layton, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Web site)

Ken Roberts, Ph.D., WWAMI Spokane Program Director (Web site)

Éva Szentirmai, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Web site)

Hans Van Dongen, Ph.D., Research Professor; Assistant Director, Sleep and Performance Research Center (Web site)

Jonathan Wisor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Web site)

WSU Spokane's Sleep Performance and Research Center is one of the nation's leading laboratories studying issues that relate to sleep and employee performance at the workplace.

WSU Spokane is the university's official health sciences campus. Here's a more complete list of WSU Spokane research programs.

spokane medical students also do
research projects.

Those are usually done during the summer between the first and second years. Students must complete an Independent Investigative Inquiry (or Triple-I) or they can elect to go overseas to satisfy their research requirement.

Faculty members talk about their research:

Dr. Matt Layton talks about exporting mental health treatment to rural areas.

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Dr. Levente Kapás talks about why he studies sleep.