Chief Medical Officer Board Certified Sleep Medicine Physician
Dr. Jeffrey Durmer is a co-founder and serves as Chief Medical Officer. He is responsible for all patient care and medical decision making in the Fusion Sleep Medicine Program. Dr. Durmer directs the Sleep Medicine Fellowship, the Sleep4Safety Medical Program, the Fusion Sleep Center, the Fusion Sleep clinical research program, and he evaluates patients in the Fusion Sleep Clinic.
Dr. Durmer is one of the nation's leading experts in Sleep Medicine. He is board certified in Sleep Medicine by both the American Board of Sleep Medicine (D.ABSM) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (D.ABIM), and in Neurology by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (D.ABP&N). In addition he holds a PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Durmer sits on the Medical Advisory Board for the Restless Legs Foundation and the Healthy Trucking Association of America and holds an appointment of adjunct Professor at Georgia State University, Department of Allied Health Sciences. Dr. Durmer directed the Emory University Sleep Laboratory and Egleston Children's Hospital Sleep Medicine program prior to his current role as the Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of Fusion Sleep. Dr. Durmer has performed basic neuroscientific research on neural systems involved in arousal, alerting and sleep regulation in animals and humans over the past two decades. His work in phenotype analysis of Restless Legs Syndrome in children and adults with co-morbid conditions such as ADHD, iron deficiency and other neurological disorders resulted in the development of the first pediatric RLS standardized clinical interview tool for clinical research. He also directs clinical and translational research projects at Fusion Sleep focused on interventions for RLS, sleep disorders associated with Parkinson's disease, sleep apnea and insomnia. In addition, he collaborates with researchers from many different fields of neurology, circadian biology, oncology and pediatrics.
Member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Healthy Trucking of America Association (HTAA)
Clinical science consultant and investigator with multiple pharmaceutical companies.
Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA
Past Assistant Professor, Emory University, Atlanta GA (2003 - 2006)
Past Director of the Emory Sleep Laboratory and the Pediatric & Adolescent Sleep Medicine Program.
Grants & Publications
RLS Foundation funding to study genotype- phenotype relationships of RLS, ADHD, and iron deficiency.
Authored an extensive list of papers and book chapters.
Received multiple training grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Education
Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.
M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Adult & Pediatric Neurology and sleep fellowship training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Board Certified in Neurology & Psychiatry (ABP&N)
Board Certified in Adult and Pediatric Sleep Medicine (ABSM)
Papers
Durmer JS and Chervin R. Pediatric Sleep Medicine. AAN Continuum Series (in preparation) Durmer JS: Monitoring PLM in Children. Sleep Review, 6(4):49-51, 2005
Durmer JS and Dinges DW.: Neurocognitive consequences of sleep deprivation. Seminars in Neurology, 25:(1) 117-129, 2005.
Durmer JS and Rosenquist AC.: Ibotenic acid lesions in the pedunculopontine region result in recovery of visual orienting in the hemianopic cat. Neuroscience, 106:(4) 765-781, 2001.
Rosenquist AC, Ciaramitaro VM, Durmer JS, Wallace SF, Todd WE.: Ibotenic acid lesions of the superior colliculus produce longer lasting deficits in visual orienting behavior than aspiration lesions in the cat. Progress in Brain Research, 112:117-130, 1996.
Book Chapters
Durmer JS. Restless Legs Syndrome, in Ferri's Clinical Advisor. FF Ferri, Ed. Elsevier Mosby, Philadelphia, PA., 2004-2006.
Durmer JS, and Solomon D. Dizziness and vertigo in the older adult, in Clinical Neurology of the Older Adult. JS Sirven and BL Malamut, Eds. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA., 2002
Abstracts
2004 Associated Professional Sleep Societies, 18:251 Ambulatory measurement of periodic leg movements in children with and without restless legs symptoms. Durmer JS, Bliwise DL, Rye DB.
1996 Society for Neuroscience, 26:252.6 Small volume retrograde tracer injections into the superior colliculus of the cat reveal an anatomical substrate for recovery of visual orientation response in the hemianopic cat. Durmer JS & Rosenquist AC.
1995 Society for Neuroscience, 25:265.14 Visual orienting responses in the hemianopic visual field of the cortically blind cat can be restored by site-specific GABA-ergic disinhibition of the superior colliculus. Ciaramitaro V, Durmer JS, Todd WE, & Rosenquist AC.
1994 Society for Neuroscience, 24:485.16 Ibotenic acid lesions of the pedunculopontine nucleus restore visual orienting responses in the previously hemianopic visual field of the cortically blind cat. Durmer JS, Ciaramitaro V, Todd WE, & Rosenquist AC.
1994 Society for Neuroscience, 24:485.14 GABAa mediated disinhibition of the superior colliculus restores visual orienting responses in the previously hemianopic visual field of the cortically blind cat. Ciaramitaro V, Durmer JS, Todd WE, & Rosenquist AC.
Invited Manuscripts
2005 RLS Foundation Medical Bulletin / Children and RLS (See www.rls.org).
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I am grateful to be able to participate in this study because the information you learn from my doing this will help many other drivers as we move forward.
