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Alon Avidan, M.D., M.P.H.
Contact Information:
Fax Number:
310-825-6956
Work Phone Number:
310-794-1195
310-825-0703
Mailing Address:
Practice Location Neurological Ambulatory Services 300 Medical Plaza, Suite B-200 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UNITED STATES
710 Westwood Blvd., Room 1-169 CA 90095 UNITED STATES
Director,
Neurology Clinic
Sleep Disorders Center
Sleep Disorders Laboratory
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Professor,
Neurology
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Member,
General Neurology Program
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A Short Biography:
Alon Y. Avidan MD, MPH
Dr. Avidan is currently Professor of Neurology at UCLA where he serves as Director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center and Director of the UCLA Neurology Clinic. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UCLA and then attended Medical School at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences where he also obtained a Master of Public Health. He subsequently completed his neurology Residency at the Georgetown University Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident. After residency, he completed a Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Awards and Honors:
Georgetown University
Loma Linda Medical Center
Sleep Medicine-Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Detailed Biography:
Alon Y. Avidan MD, MPH
Dr. Avidan is Professor of Neurology at UCLA where he serves as Director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center, Director of the UCLA Neurology Residency program and Medical Director of the Neurology Clinic. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UCLA and then attended Medical School at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences where he also obtained a Master of Public Health. He subsequently completed his neurology Residency at the Georgetown University Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident. After residency, he completed a Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
In 1999, Dr. Avidan joined the University of Michigan where he was Assistant Professor,
Director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic and chair of resident education in the Department of Neurology. He moved to UCLA in July of 2006.
His clinical interests include management of insomnia, sleep disordered breathing, restless legs syndrome, circadian rhythm disorders, geriatric sleep medicine and hypersomnia.
Publications:
Owens Judith A, Avidan Alon, Baldwin DeWitt, Landrigan Christopher
Improving sleep hygiene.
Archives of internal medicine,
2008; 168(11):
1229-30; author reply 1230.
Avidan, Alon Y. Zee, Phyllis C.
Handbook of sleep medicine,
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2006;
xii, 244 p..
Clemons William Eric, Kakkar Rahul, Kirsch Douglas, Teodorescu Mihaela, Hoban Timothy F, Avidan Alon Y
Case studies in sleep medicine.
Seminars in neurology,
2005; 25(1):
130-46.
Papp Klara K, Stoller Eleanor P, Sage Paulette, Aikens James E, Owens Judith, Avidan Alon, Phillips Barbara, Rosen Raymond, Strohl Kingman P
The effects of sleep loss and fatigue on resident-physicians: a
multi-institutional, mixed-method study.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges,
2004; 79(5):
394-406.
Avidan Alon Y, Chervin Ronald D
ESS dot com.
Sleep medicine,
2002; 3(5):
405-10.
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