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Dr. Christopher Drake is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and a bioscientific staff investigator at the Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders and Research Center.  Dr. Drake earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, and his master's degree in psychology and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He completed a two-year fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Psychobiology Branch.

Dr. Drake is board certified in sleep medicine and Behavioral Sleep medicine. He serves on the editorial board of the journals SLEEP and Behavioral Sleep Medicine and is a clinical editor for the International Journal of Sleep Disorders. Dr. Drake has been section head of Sleep Disorders Research for the Sleep Research Society and an advisor to the World Health Organization on sleep. He has authored numerous publications in the field of sleep medicine and serves as a reviewer for over 20 scientific journals, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Dr. Drake is also a member of the board of directors of the National Sleep Foundation and is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to study predisposing factors to insomnia.