Dr. Buysse received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, and completed residency training in psychiatry and a post-doctoral clinical research training fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. His fellowship also included clinical training in sleep medicine. He has received board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Buysse has been on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1988, where he holds the title of Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He is Program Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center, a satellite of the University of Pittsburgh General Clinical Research Center. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 40 invited publications on clinical sleep research topics, and is a frequent lecturer on topics pertaining to insomnia and sleep in depression.
Dr. Buysse's research interests focus on insomnia, sleep in aging, and sleep in psychiatric disorders, particularly sleep in depression. This work includes publications relating to the assessment, diagnostic reliability, and pharmacologic treatment of insomnia; circadian aspects of age-related sleep changes; and sleep correlates of treatment outcome in depression. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Dr. Buysse practices clinical sleep medicine, focusing on the interface between sleep and psychiatric disorders. His particular clinical interest is the assessment and treatment of insomnia. Dr. Buysse is the Medical Director of the Sleep Evaluation Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Co-Director of a sleep medicine fellowship training program. Dr. Buysse is immediate Past President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the largest professional organization representing sleep medicine clinicians and researchers.
