Sleep Performance Research Center Seminar

Dr. Carol Everson, professor in the Department of Medicine, Division on Endocrinology, at Medical College of Wisconsin, will be presenting a seminar entitled, “Sleep loss and disease: Perspectives and opportunities.” The seminar will be held in SAC 245 and broadcast to Pullman in VBR 201.  

Everson has been on faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 2000, where she studies the physical health effects of sleep deprivation with a focus on neuroendocrine and immune systems. Her studies using sleep deprivation in rats have examined such topics as cell injury and repair, phagocyte migration and cellular stress, nutritional and metabolic adaptations, and abnormal bone formation.

Dr. Everson is professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her research is focused on delineating the physiological changes that result from chronic sleep disruption, which include increased cell injury and changes to metabolism and inflammatory processes. Her research has been funded primarily by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. A related, current project is to intervene in mild concussive injury with factors affecting cerebral blood flow and metabolism to determine improvement of outcomes in a rodent model, a project funded by the Department of Defense.

Everson earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under the mentorship of Allan Rechtschaffen, Ph.D., a pioneer in sleep research. After graduate school, Everson was a fellow in the NIH Intramural Research Program where she set up a basic science laboratory and completed studies on the effects of sleep loss on cerebral metabolism, metabolic balance, and thyroid function. While at the NIH, she discovered the proximal cause of death in sleep-deprived rats, which is septicemia without the characteristic signs of infection, such as fever or dramatically reduced food intake. After completing her fellowship, she joined the faculty in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine where she investigated abnormalities in bacterial control and endocrine function resulting from sleep deficiency. . Everson’s experience as a scientific peer reviewer is extensive, and she has served in leadership roles at the Medical College of Wisconsin and most recently she served on the board of directors for the Sleep Research Society.

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