Dr. Meir Kryger, an Elsevier Author and a Yale University professor of medicine, took some time to answer questions from the Winnipeg Free Press on the importance of getting quality sleep.  According to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health, 10 to 15 percent of adults have chronic insomnia. Another root of sleep deprivation: People simply don’t make sleep a priority, says Kryger who, during his three decades in Winnipeg, treated 15,000 Manitobans with sleep disorders, many of them life-threatening.

Dr. Kryger is a sleep specialist who founded Winnipeg’s cutting-edge St. Boniface General Hospital Sleep Disorders Clinic in the early 1990s. He is also the author of several sleep medicine textbooks, including Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine which is used by sleep doctors around the world. Learn more about Dr. Kryger and his textbook by visiting Dr. Kryger’s Elsevier Authors page.

Read more about Dr. Kryger’s insights on sleep at the Winnipeg Free Press.