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Amy Bender, PhD
Dr. Bender is Director of Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra, a sleep health technology startup and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary.
She received her PhD and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. She has helped develop the only validated sleep screening tool for athletes and has implemented sleep optimization strategies for numerous Canadian Olympic and professional teams. Her current interests focus on how to help people sleep better by improving sleep disorder treatments with more precise digital sleep metrics. She was a former college basketball athlete, did an Ironman in 2009, and currently chases her 3 young kids around.
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