Dr. Adam Spira received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from West Virginia University.  Dr. Spira completed his clinical internship with a geropsychology focus at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, where he subsequently conducted research on sleep and aging as a postdoctoral fellow.  Dr. Spira then completed a fellowship in interdisciplinary aging research in the Division of Geriatrics and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, where he studied the association between sleep disturbance and adverse health outcomes in older adults.

Dr. Spira is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  His research is focused on cognitive, functional, and psychiatric outcomes of poor sleep in late life.