Charlene Gamaldo, M.D.

Assistant Professor, 
Departments of Neurology and Medicine
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Assistant Director,
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Sleep Disorders Center

Charlene Gamaldo is assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and in the Department of Medicine, division of Pulmonary Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. She serves as an assistant director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Sleep Disorders Center.

Dr. Gamaldo’s research interests are in the area of sleep medicine, specifically in investigating the comorbid health consequences of chronic sleep deprivation, and she is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the World Association of Sleep Medicine.

She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine. After her neurology residency at the University of North Carolina Hospital, Gamaldo became the first neurology clinical sleep research fellow at Johns Hopkins, where she served as a co-investigator on several studies evaluating the pathophysiology of restless legs syndrome.

Dr. Gamaldo's current research includes investigating the relationship between the daytime functioning and sleep disorders of HIV + patients with neuropathy. A second project is investigating the causes of inpatient sleep interruptions in a neurology/neurosurgery inpatient unit, with several potential improvements.

She will discuss Getting a Good Night's Sleep at A Woman's Journey - Palm Beach 2010 in Session II, 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.