Dr. Neil Stanley and Mary Pat Wallace

Sleep Disorders

Dr. Neil Stanley, U.K. Sleep Expert, and Pat Wallace, President of Chicago Luxury Beds, join Melanie to offer their "best sleep" tips and solutions for those suffering from sleep disorders.

Dr. Neil Stanley is a freelance sleep expert who has been involved in sleep research for 30 years starting his career at the Neurosciences Division of the R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine. In early 1990s he moved to the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit, part of the University of Surrey, where as Director of Sleep Research he created and ran a 24 bed Phase I sleep lab. He is past Chairman of the British Sleep Society (2000-2004) and a member of the European Sleep Research Society; the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the European Society of Sleep Technologists. From 2004 to 2008 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Assembly of National Sleep societies and through that is co-author of the Guidelines for accreditation of Sleep Medicine Centres and Sleep Medicine Education in Europe. He has published 38 peer-review papers on various aspects of sleep research and psychopharmacology and is widely quoted by the media as a sleep expert.

After 20 years in the interior furnishings industry, Mary Pat Wallace decided to follow her passion for life-changing sleep and opened the first flagship Hästens store in Chicago in 2005. Bolstered by the success of the Hästens line, Wallace soon began researching other products that supported superior rest and in 2009 launched Chicago Luxury Beds. Today, CLB is the city’s leading purveyor of the best in customized sleep solutions and a true destination for best-sleep information and education.

Mary Pat Wallace resides on the Children’s Service Board of Children’s Memorial Hospital and is actively involved with sponsorship and fundraising for Old St. Pat’s Church, University of Chicago Woman’s Board Cancer Research, and DIFFA.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

11 / 16 / 2011