Conflict of interest statement: C.A.C. has received consulting fees from or served as a paid member of scientific advisory boards for Bose Corporation; Boston Celtics; Boston Red Sox; Columbia River Bar Pilots; Institute of Digital Media and Child Development; Klarman Family Foundation; Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.; Samsung Electronics; Sleep Multimedia, Inc.; and Vanda Pharmaceuticals. He has also received education/research support from Cephalon, Inc., Mary Ann & Stanley Snider via Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Optum, Philips Respironics, Inc., ResMed Foundation, San Francisco Bar Pilots, Schneider, Inc., and Sysco. He has received lecture fees from the Annual Congress of the German Sleep Society (DGSM), CurtCo Media Labs LLC, Global Council on Brain Health/AARP, Harvard School of Public Health, Integritas Communications Group, Maryland Sleep Society, National Sleep Foundation, University of Michigan, and Zurich Insurance Company, Ltd. The Sleep and Health Education Program of the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine (which C.A.C. directs) has received educational grant funding from Cephalon, Inc., Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., Sanofi-Aventis, Inc., Sepracor, Inc., and Wake Up Narcolepsy. He is the incumbent of an endowed professorship provided to Harvard University by Cephalon, Inc., and holds a number of process patents in the field of sleep/circadian rhythms (e.g., photic resetting of the human circadian pacemaker). Since 1985, C.A.C. has also served as an expert on various legal and technical cases related to sleep and/or circadian rhythms, including those involving the following commercial entities: Bombardier, Inc.; Continental Airlines; FedEx; Greyhound; and United Parcel Service. He owns or owned an equity interest in Lifetrac, Inc., Somnus Therapeutics, Inc., and Vanda Pharmaceuticals. He received royalties from McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Philips Respironics, Inc. for the Actiwatch-2 and Actiwatch-Spectrum devices. His interests were reviewed and managed by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners HealthCare in accordance with their conflict of interest policies. E.B.K. has received travel reimbursement from the Sleep Technology Council, Wire In-Brain Conference, Free Health LLC, Employer Health Benefit Congress, The Society for Reproductive Investigation, and The Associated Professional Sleep Society, and has served as a consultant in cases involving transportation safety and sleep deprivation.
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