Helene A. Emsellem, M.D.
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Helene A. Emsellem, M.D.
Helene A. Emsellem, M.D. is the Medical Director at The Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is also a nationally known sleep expert and a National Sleep Foundation volunteer.
Dr. Emsellem has actively promoted sleep disorders awareness and the need for sleep education locally and nationally, acting as a go-to media resource for the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) and a spokesperson for the recent Sleep in America Polls sponsored by the NSF. She is the author of Snooze.or Lose!, a book to help teens understand the importance of sleep, and to empower them to own and improve their sleep-wake habits and schedules.
After graduating from the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine she completed a rotating internship that included Psychiatry, Internal Medicine and Neurology. She completed her Neurology residency training at GWU and sub-specialty training in Epileptology and Clinical Neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins University. She then returned to GWU in an academic career track in the Department of Neurology.
In addition to appearing on radio and television shows, sharing her expertise through various publications and direct presentations, teaching and seeing patients, Dr. Emsellem has been the principal investigator in numerous national studies of investigational agents for the treatment of sleep disorders.
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