Stephen Sheldon, DO, FAAP, FAASM

Dr. Stephen Sheldon is a Professor of Pediatrics & Neurology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He is also the Director of the Sleep Medicine Center of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He is very active in pediatric sleep medicine's clinical practice and has an intense involvement in pediatric sleep medical education and research.  

Dr. Sheldon is a graduate of Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in Downers Grove, Illinois. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He also completed a visiting faculty fellowship in Medical Education at Southern Illinois University Medical School in Springfield, Illinois, and a faculty fellowship in Sleep Disorders Medicine at the University of Chicago. He is board certified in Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and in Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. 

Dr. Sheldon has served the profession in many capacities, including as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) in primary care pediatrics. He has also served on many boards within the profession.

Dr. Sheldon is the author of Pediatric Differential Diagnosis (Raven Press 1979), Pediatric Sleep Medicine (WB Saunders 1992), Evaluating Sleep in Infants and Children (Lippincott-Raven 1995), Atlas of Sleep Medicine in Infants and Children (Futura Publishers 2000), and Differential Diagnosis in Sleep Medicine (Futura Publisher). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the premier textbook for the medical profession on diagnosing and managing all sleep problems in infants and children, entitled Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine 1st and 2nd Editions (Elsevier-WB Saunders, 2005 and 2014) and is Editor-in-Chief of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, in preparation).  Dr. Sheldon is also Co-Editor with Dr. Anna Fishbein of the textbook Allergy and Sleep: Basic Principles and Clinical Practice, Springer Publishers, 2020.

Dr. Sheldon discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.