Dr. Ashley Curtis is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida (USF) and Director of the Cognition, Aging, Sleep, and Health (CASH) Lab. Her research focuses on bidirectional associations between sleep and cognition in healthy and pathological aging populations, and how sex-related mechanisms (biological sex, menopausal transition) interact with other factors (pain, alcohol use, inflammation) to impact these associations.  She also investigates effects of cognitive training on cognition, sleep and associated functions. Dr. Curtis is highly published (48 manuscripts, 5 book chapters) and has received funding from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation, Sleep Research Society Foundation, TRIUMPH Initiative and USF Women’s Health Collaborative. She serves on editorial boards of: Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and Sleep Health. Dr. Curtis received her PhD in Psychology (Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science) from York University in Toronto, ON, Canada. She completed Postdoctoral Fellowships at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, ON, where she studied sex differences in risk factors of neurodegenerative disorders, and the Sleep Research Lab at the University of Missouri. Dr. Curtis was previously an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri.

Twitter: @ashleyfcurtis; @CASHlabUSF