Madeleine Grigg-damberger MD

Madeleine Grigg-Damberger, MD, is a Professor of Neurology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is the Medical Director of Pediatric Sleep Medicine Services at the University Hospital Sleep Disorders Center and Associate Director of the University of New Mexico Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory and Associate Program Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Training Program.

She received her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1978, did an internal medicine internship at Cook County (1978-1979), residency training in neurology at Boston University (1979-1982), and a post-doctoral fellowship in EEG, Clinical Epilepsy, and Evoked Potentials, at the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Seizure Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (1982-1983).

She is boarded in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Sleep Medicine, and Epilepsy. She helped develop the ABMS Sleep Medicine examination and served on task forces and committees to establish the AASM criteria for recording and scoring polysomnography in adults, children, and infants. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. She writes peer-reviewed journal invited reviews on a wide range of topics related to sleep medicine. She is often invited to organize and lecture at national (and even international) courses in sleep medicine, neurology, child neurology, and clinical neurophysiology. She has received numerous teaching awards, most recently the 2020 AASM Excellence in Education Award.