About the contributor

• Susan M. Harding

Susan M. Harding

Susan M. Harding, M.D., F.C.C.P., D.-A.B.S.M., is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine where she serves as Medical Director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center. She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Florida College of Medicine, and did her residency and fellowship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a past awardee of the NIH-NHLBI Sleep Academic Award and the NIH Physician-Scientist Award. Dr Harding serves on the American Board of Sleep Medicine and in leadership capacities within the American College of Chest Physicians. She is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Chest Physician. Her research interests include nocturnal asthma; pulmonary manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux; and cardiovascular co-morbidities of sleep apnea.