Greg Belenky
Director, Sleep and Research Performance Center, WSU Spokane
Education
- B.A. Psychology, Yale University, 1966
- Angier Prize for Best Undergraduate Research in Psychology
- High Honors in Psychology
- M.D. Stanford University School of Medicine, 1971
Research and Professional Experience
- Research Professor and Director, Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University Spokane, 2004-present
- Director, Division of Neuroscience, WRAIR, 2003-2004
- Division Psychiatrist, Second Infantry Division, Camp Casey, South Korea, Jun-Aug 2003
- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, USUHS, 1996-2004
- Director, Division of Neuropsychiatry, WRAIR, 1995-2003
- Chief, Mental Health Team, Medical Troop, Regimental Support Squadron, Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, Jan-Apr 1991
- Chief, Department of Behavioral Biology, Division of Neuropsychiatry, WRAIR, Washington, D.C., 1984-1995
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, USUHS, Bethesda, MD, 1980-1996
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, USUHS, Bethesda, MD, 1978-1980
- Emergency Service Psychiatrist (part-time), Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health, Annandale, VA, 1977-2004
- Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, 1976-1978
- Research Psychiatrist, Department of Medical Neurosciences, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research(WRAIR) , Washington, D.C., 1975-1984
- Resident (Psychiatry), School of Medicine, Yale University, 1972-1975
- Intern (Internal Medicine), School of Medicine, University of Utah, 1971-1972
- Research Assistant, Sleep Research Laboratory (Dr. William Dement), Stanford University School of Medicine, 1966-1968
Military Service
- Active Duty, U.S. Army; retired as a Colonel, 1975-2004
Research and Professional Experience
- Belenky, G., Balkin, T.J., Redmond, D.P., Sing, H.C., Thomas, M.L., Thorne, D.R., Wesensten, N.J., and Hursh, S.R. Sustaining performance during continuous operations: The U.S. Army's Sleep Management System. In Friedl, K., Lieberman, H., Ryan, D.H., and Bray, G.A. (Eds.) Pennington Center Functional Nutrition Series: Vol. 10, Countermeasures for Battlefield Stressors. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, (2000) pp. 197-205.
- Wesensten, N.J., Balkin, T.J., Belenky, G. Sleep sustains individual and organizational effectiveness. In WF Barko, MA Vaitkus (eds.), US Army War College Guide to Executive Health and Fitness. Carlisle, PA. Army Physical Fitness Research Institute, (2000) pp. 97-118.
- Wesensten N.J., Comperatore, C.C., Balkin T.J., Belenky, G. Jet lag and sleep deprivation. In Kelley P.W., (Ed). Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment. In: Textbook of Military Medicine. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General at TMM Publications, (2003) pp. 287-300.
- Balkin T.J., Wesensten N.J., Belenky G. A system for monitoring operational effectiveness as a function of alertness. In: Hockey, Gaillard and Burov (Eds.) Operator Functional State: The Assessment and Prediction of Human Performance Degradation in Complex Tasks. Amsterdam: IOS Press (2003) pp. 121-130.
- Belenky, G., Balkin, T.J., Wesensten, N.J. Military operational effectiveness. In Kushida,
C.A. (Ed.) Sleep Deprivation: Clinical Issues, Pharmacology, and Sleep Loss Effects. New York: Marcel Dekker (2005) pp. 289-312.
- Belenky, G. & Akerstedt, T., Occupational sleep medicine. In Kryger, M., Roth, T. and Dement, W.C. (Eds.) Principles
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