Joe Winer, Ph.D.
Investigator
Dr. Winer is a Scientist at the Sutter Health Research Institute. His research combines sleep assessment and disease biomarkers to explore how tracking sleep and other factors can provide information about brain health, cognitive trajectories, and neurodegenerative processes.
Disrupted sleep is common as we get older, but what role does sleep health play in the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. By studying this association in healthy aging and across the spectrum of clinical impairment, Dr. Winer's research seeks to determine how sleep could serve as a treatment target to lower disease risk and slow cognitive decline.
Dr. Winer leads sleep and physical activity data collection and analysis across several ongoing studies with the goal of discovering digital biomarkers of age and disease-related sleep dysfunction.
Dr. Winer received his PhD in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His training focused on sleep neurobiology as well as neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.