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Kristen Knutson, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kristen Knutson has a PhD in biomedical anthropology from the University at Albany, SUNY and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Section of Endocrinology at the University of Chicago. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Preventive Medicine and in the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago. Her research focuses on the association between sleep, circadian rhythms and health, including cardiometabolic and cognitive function. She primarily focuses on these associations out in the “real world” (outside the laboratory) by examining habitual sleep patterns and biomarkers of health. In addition, her research examines whether sleep and circadian health partially mediate socioeconomic or racial and ethnic disparities in chronic diseases because her prior work has demonstrated there are socioeconomic and racial and ethnic sleep health disparities that parallel other health disparities. She has examined sleep and health in a variety of populations, including large observational studies in the U.S. as well as in international locations such as Haiti and Brazil. She also co-led a project to examine determinants of racial and ethnic sleep disparities and whether these sleep disparities partially mediate disparities in cognitive decline in a diverse sample of older adults in Chicago. Her overarching goal is to understand the role of sleep and circadian health in overall health and well-being, and, ultimately, to determine how to improve sleep and circadian health in diverse groups.

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