Lourdes Delrosso MD, PhD, MS

Lourdes DelRosso, MD, PhD, MS, is a sleep physician and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco – Fresno. Dr. DelRosso has spent her entire professional career expanding the boundaries of global sleep health. She has been involved in Haiti as part of the 2010 earthquake relief program and is also the director of a 2020 World Sleep Day initiative to improve children’s sleep in a community in Haiti. In 2013, Dr. DelRosso traveled to the Dominican Republic with the Global Outreach team of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to train community health workers. In California, she has trained community health workers in early intervention programs for children younger than 5 years of age.

Dr. DelRosso has also been active in global sleep initiatives, such as the 2019 Latin American Symposium on Diversity and Inclusion, the 2020 Symposium on Global Sleep Medicine, and in recent years as the co-chair of the World Sleep Day committee. Her commitment to global sleep health, and to the World Sleep Academy in particular, is profound.