UA Sarver Heart Center Presents ‘Sleeping for Peak Performance and Your Heart,’ April 12

LECTURE:    Sleeping for Peak Performance and Your Heart

When it comes to promoting healthy hearts and peak performance, it's not just a matter of getting more sleep. Rather, it's a matter of getting enough sleep, of adequate quality, at optimal times. Michael Grandner, PhD, will provide an update on research that shows the links between optimal sleep duration, quality, and timing on heart health, heart-healthy behaviors, and physical performance. These relationships encompass areas including cardiovascular function, weight gain and metabolism, inflammation and recovery, neurocognitive function and decision-making (making healthy choices), energy level and motivation and diet/nutrition. Also, learn how other factors affect your sleep health, including the amount of light you get, when you eat and exercise, how much you socialize, how you spend time in the evening winding down and what you do once you're in bed. (The presentation is part of the UA Sarver Heart Center’s 30th Anniversary Lecture Series.)

WHEN:          WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 6 P.M.

WHERE:        University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, 1501 N. Campbell, Room 5403 

SPEAKER:    Michael Grandner, PhD, is director of the Sleep and Health Research Program in the UA Department of Psychiatry as well as the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at Banner –University Medical Center, and UA assistant professor of psychiatry, medicine, psychology and nutritional sciences.

COST:            Free

To attend the lecture, please enter the UA Health Sciences campus via Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. To register online, please visit heart.arizona.edu or click on “Attend Events.” If you are unable to register online, please email heart@u.arizona.edu or call 520-626-2901. Free event parking is available in the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson Visitor Parking Garage or the UA Zone 1 lots (after 5 p.m.).