In 1982, Steven A Shea established one of the first clinical sleep laboratories in the UK and later obtained his PhD from the University of London. He became a Harkness Fellow at Harvard School Public Health and later served as Director of the Sleep Disorders Research Program and Acting Director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Associate Director of the Sleep Training Program at Harvard Medical School. In 2012 Dr. Shea became Director of the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU. Professor Shea has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, as President of the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, and as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nature and Science of Sleep. Professor Shea's research has been supported by US federal grants since 1992 and his team studies the effects of sleep and circadian rhythms on physiology and pathophysiology in humans, including mechanisms underlying the morning peak in adverse cardiovascular events and the poor health effects of night shift work.